The Diwata

Dayang Masalanta: Goddess of love, childbirth, and…destruction?
May 23, 2020

“They had another idol called Dian masalanta, who was the patron of lovers and of generation.”  – Juan de Plasencia’s Relation of the Worship of the Tagalogs, Their Gods, and Their Burials and Superstition (1589) So there was a question […]

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  • Ligaya Caballes is a cultural bearer, writer, researcher, and photographer, who has educated the Filipino community and diaspora on the history, culture, and folklore of the Philippines for over 10 years. She is a Filipina based in New York, who follows and practices the Animistic and Polytheistic beliefs of her Tagalog and Bisayan ancestors. She is of Mindoreño Tagalog and Akeanon descent. ⁣⁣She is also a traditional Filipino hand tapped tattoo apprentice with Katao School. 





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