About

My 1st exposure to Baybayin was in 1993 during my junior year in high school in the US. I remember finding a pamphlet about the Katipunan and the revolution. In this pamphlet, there were photos of all the revolution flags. It tripped me out that we had a KKK flag (during that time I was studying Black Nationalism concepts). The 3 symbols that were engraved in my brain were 1) The black pirate looking flag with a skull, 2) The sun with 8 rays and 3) A strange looking capital “I”. When I learned that it represented “K” in our very own indigenous alphabet, I made it my personal goal to read and write Baybayin. Even though I’ve been studying the script for a while, I’m learning new styles as I practice writing. Since I got a couple Baybayin tattoos from Aleks Figueroa, a few people have asked me to tell them more about it and help them translate. I guess you can call that the light bulb moment. I decided to start this site to create be a hub for anything Baybayin related. - Christian