HARA HUMAMAY by Kring Demetrio
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Art Details
| Title: | HARA HUMAMAY |
| Date Created: | Jan 2020 |
| Copyright: | © Kring Demetrio |
| Genre: | Unpublished Art |
| Mediums: | Graphite, Colored Pencil, Charcoal, Photoshop |
| Views: | 199 |
| Posted: | 12/10/2021 |
About the Artist
Kring Demetrio
Member Since March 2018
Projects:
Bluebeard' s Bride (2017) - Interior
Spell Bound (2022)
Description
Illustration of Hara Humamay dancing the sinulog. Decades before the arrival of Magellan at Mactan in 1521, the natives of Sugbo honored their pagan and animistic gods through dancing the Sinulog with their wooden idols. 'Sinulog' is a Sugbuanon word that means the current of the river and its dance resembles the backward and forward current of then Sugbo's Pahina River. When Christianity was introduced to the natives, the Spanish colonizers gifted a wooden image of the child Jesus to Hara Humamay, wife of Rajah Humabon. Between the defeat of Magellan and the arrival of Legaspi, the natives would honor the strange statue through the Sinulog as well as their own native pagan idols.
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