We all know that most Filipinos are christians .

Does "pamahiin" still being observed?

I was cleaning up a bit in the garden late afternoon and an old woman told me to stop cos it's late already and lent season is being observed this holy week.

Personally, it is upon my conviction to do what I think I might do. Sometimes I feel backwards when I do what the old folks say.

How about you? Do you believe in "pamahiin"?

What are the other "pamahiin" we got in Filipino culture?

I try to be aware of the time to come tomorrow, I shopped for three days this morning. Honestly, to me this is the final normal day before I need to think of crucifixion. I don't know lent, but respect Easter as a time for reflection and possible rebirth.

You won't see me on the Internet tomorrow Miss Dette, nor will I be cleaning the garden. It is a tine to clean the inner garden. The garden of the mind. See you on Saturday.

Mmmm.. might be stuck here in AF the rest of the week.Not going anywhere.

See yah around then..

some of the pamahiin are pre-hispanic or influenced by other cultures

i don't believe in it anymore although when i was a kid, i observed it due to parent's and elder's advice.
yeah, i think it's a cultural thing passed on...
they say, you won't lose a thing if you do it anyway, so they follow it regardless.


i think it's our pamahiin to like not sweep the floor at night for it's like you are throwing away luck.
i did it just to test my elders, i mean, i feel like nothing has changed. we still are lucky with stuffs... so, it made me really believe that it's not true.

Looking back on them now I can see that I dident follow a few cause I wanted to be a rebellious kid but I feel they have significance, culturally. Its like our imprint, fingerprint. Defines who we are in a way when we are out there in the world. We bring those Pamahiins with us cause thats "utos nang matatanda". They know a little something about this world that we forgot before we were old enough to even remember and when they tell us we keep it going. We tell our kids. They keep it going. In a way we keep our elders going. We keep going.

One that sticks out in my mind right now for me is :
Huwag kang mag mano sa bata. Tatanda nang maaga
Dont mano to a child or some one younger than you, they will grow old too fast.
I remember cause I contested it one time in front of my friends dad who was like 60 or something and he let out a yell that startled us. We were playing kalog or tex or something at the time and I dident even think he was paying attention.

When I was in Carmona(I think they call it GMA now)growing up we had one about butterflies and moths getting in to the house. I think a moth was bad luck and a butterfly was good luck or something about how big they were. Or maybe it was the moth with the skull was the bad one but all the other ones signified how much luck was going to come into the house hold according to the size.
If it landed on you it was extra lucky. "Dinapuan ka nang gracia!"