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My son’s rice biryani is absolutely delicious!

My son’s rice biryani is absolutely delicious!

Me after visiting church after church after church

Me after visiting church after church after church: I want these as bathroom tiles.

Sayang ang miles Chinese billionaire art collecto

Sayang ang miles

Chinese billionaire art collector Liu Yiqian bought this nude by Modigliani for $170.4 million in November 2015.
According to the book The Last Leonardo, “He paid with his American Express credit card, whose points system meant that he earned himself and his family free travel for the rest of their lives through that one purchase.” The book said Mr. Liu was “almost certainly” the losing bidder who tapped out at $370 million, of the Salvator Mundi, the painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci that ultimately sold for $450.3 million.

On the Modigliani, The Guardian author Jonathan Jones described it as a “hymn to lust” painted when the artist was “high on hashish, wrecked by absinthe, and desperately poor.” Jones writes beautifully of Nu couché. “What he sees is his lover in her majesty, become Venus or some Tahitian fantasy. Her eyes are portals of forgetting. Modigliani is a religious artist and his religion is desire. This is a beautiful act of defiance.” -- The Last Leonardo by Ben Lewis is a great read.

Binukot This mural on the street near the Iloilo

Binukot
This mural on the street near the Iloilo river depicts a binukot, a “kept” woman. It is a practice by the Panay Bukidnon people where a well-off family picks a young child and isolates her from the world. They typically choose a good looking, fair-skinned child who shows intelligence, I was told at the National Museum Iloilo City and by a journalist contact here in Iloilo.
The Binukot is not allowed to perform manual work and is kept away from people and even the sun. She also serves as the vessel of community traditions and folklore as she is made to learn the epic poems of the community like the Sugidanon, which takes days to recite.

A binukot is unmarried. Once she marries, she becomes nabukot.
Many binukots died during World War II when the people in the mountain communities fled invading Japanese soldiers. The binukots couldn’t run away because of the imposed frailty.

A gauntlet of thermometers greets you as soon as y

A gauntlet of thermometers greets you as soon as you arrive at the Iloilo airport,

Slut-shamed saint I lingered at this beautiful pa

Slut-shamed saint

I lingered at this beautiful painting by Jan van Scorel when we visited the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It is an image of Mary Magdalene, identified, according to the museum card, “by her jar of ointment, which she used to anoint Jesus’ feet.” Van Scorel, according to the museum, “painted her as a seductive, luxuriously dressed courtesan, a reference to her reputed past as a prostitute.” She is shown wearing a bodice with pearls and her hair half undone.

Her depiction as a repentant whore, however, was a conflation of the identities of Mary of Magdala and a repentant prostitute, described in the gospels as “a woman in that town who lived a sinful life.” She brought an alabaster jar of perfume and anointed Jesus’ feet with it.

The error was traced to Pope Gregory the Great in his Easter homily in 591. For centuries after, she was portrayed as a repentant prostitute “Art history made her become a prostitute, which is something that is not present in the Gospels,” Vatican culture minister Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi told the Catholic news website Crux.

Like many, I was taught in religion classes in school that she was a licentious woman who turned her back on a life of sin to follow Jesus.

She was not.

Mary Magdalene was an important supporter and key disciple of Jesus. Several historical accounts portray her as a woman of financial means who supported Jesus’ ministry. Her frequent mentions in all four Gospels also highlight her importance to the earthly mission of Jesus.

It was only in the 20th century that the Catholic church corrected the misidentification of Mary Magdalene. The Eastern Orthodox Church, on the other side of the great divide, never identified her as a repentant prostitute.

Mary Magdalene, dubbed “apostle to the apostles” because it was her whom Christ asked to announce to the others his resurrection, is considered a saint by most Christian churches.

In 2016, Pope Francis elevated her July 22 observance into a Feast Day.

That action establishes “the absolute equality of Mary Magdalene to the apostles,” Women Church World editor Lucetta Scarrafia told Crux.

#WomensMonth

Princess Zoe, according to BBC presenter Simon Seb

Princess Zoe, according to BBC presenter Simon Sebag Montefiore, was “a plain old spinster who, crowned Empress in the autumn of her life, discovered the joys of sex, which she embraced with unabashed and brazen enthusiasm.”⁣
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⁣This mosaic of Zoe (she’s shown on the right) can be found at the Hagia Sophia. The image is a screenshot from Montefiore’s 3-part series on Byzantium on BBC⁣
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⁣She was married 3 times and each time she had a new husband, they had to erase the name and face of the figure on the left to replace it with the name and face of the new boy toy.⁣
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⁣She was already 50 when she married Romanos III Argyros, who “exhausted himself taking aphrodisiacs to keep up with her.” Zoe took in a young servant, Michael, as lover and married him after having Romanos murdered.⁣
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⁣“He also died of exhaustion,” Montefiore said.⁣
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⁣She then married Constantine Monomachos (the figure on the left), who was still deeply in love with his mistress Skleraina. No problem, said Zoe. They lived in the Imperial Palace in “a very Byzantine menage a trois,” said Montefiore.⁣
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⁣(It’s Women’s Month so I’ll be sharing stories of interesting women I’ve come across.)

Machuca tiles salvaged from the Loon church.

Machuca tiles salvaged from the Loon church.

Bought 3 cans for New Year’s Eve but slept throu

Bought 3 cans for New Year’s Eve but slept through it. Opening first can now on eve of our departure back to Cebu. Cheers!

A pity the lighthouse is being repaired while we'r

A pity the lighthouse is being repaired while we're here. #kaohsiung #cijinisland

At the Skywalk Park. A nice place but I'm still on

At the Skywalk Park. A nice place but I'm still on the fence whether it was worth the long trip - 14 MRT stations, 1 bus ride, and a cab heading up (because we couldn't wait for the the coaster).

Mi Box S: cheap Android TV box for Netflix, playin

Mi Box S: cheap Android TV box for Netflix, playing movie files stored in a USB drive, Spotify, and various other streaming services. It also has Google Assistant. Story on MyCebu.ph soon. #AndroidTV #xiaomi

Humabon drank tuba using a reusable straw. How’s

Humabon drank tuba using a reusable straw. How’s that for sustainability?

PINTADOS. This is a statue of Humabon at Plaza Hamabar across the Archdiocesan Museum of Cebu. It portrays the leader of Cebu during Ferdinand Magellan’s arrival. He is covered in tattoos as Visayans were at that time. The patterns are also based on what historians said were used at that time.
Humabon, along with hundreds of Cebuanos, was baptized as Carlos. After Magellan’s death in Mactan, he invited Spaniards to a feast and then massacred those who attended.

Chronicler Antonio Pigafetta, who escaped the massacre because he did not attend the banquet, wrote about Humabon: “When we had come to the town, we found the king of Zzubu at his palace, seated on the ground on a mat of palms, with many people. He was quite naked, except for a linen cloth covering his private parts, and round his head a very loose cloth, embroidered with silk. Round his neck he had a very heavy and rich chain, and in his ears two gold rings hung with precious stones. He was a short man, and fat, and had his face painted with fire in diverse patterns. He ate on the ground from another palm mat, and then he was eating turtle eggs on two porcelain dishes, and he had four jars full of palm wine, which he drank with reed pipes.” #RoadTo2021 #DigitalTourism

Found in a carenderia in downtown Cebu City. Johnn

Found in a carenderia in downtown Cebu City. Johnny Walker Black Mukhasim Talaga!

Marlen won a Hydro Flask in the Cebu Holdings medi

Marlen won a Hydro Flask in the Cebu Holdings media party.

Morning briefing. Hey Google, remind me to write a

Morning briefing. Hey Google, remind me to write about this.

Always with a Hydro Flask.

Always with a Hydro Flask.

Love these pairs of running socks sold at HMR for

Love these pairs of running socks sold at HMR for P50 to P69 each.

Papal roots of secularization. Tom Holland traces

Papal roots of secularization. Tom Holland traces the roots of Western secularization in his book Forge of Christendom to the events in Canossa when Emperor Henry IV humiliated himself before Pope Gregory VII in 1077. The emperor had previously made church appointments without the pope’s clearance and even called for Gregory’s abdication. The Pope excommunicated him.

This image shows the emperor and his wife waiting for three days at Cannosa to get an audience with the Pope and seek his forgiveness. “To be sure, Gregory today may not enjoy the fame of a Luther, a Lenin, a Mao – but that reflects not his failure but rather the sheer scale of his achievement. It is the incomplete revolutions which are remembered; the fate of those that succeed is to end up being taken for granted. Gregory himself did not live to witness his ultimate victory – but the cause for which he fought was destined to establish itself as perhaps the defining characteristic of Western civilization. That the world can be divided into church and state, and that these twin realms should exist distinct from each other: here are presumptions that the eleventh century made “fundamental to European society and culture, for the first time and permanently.” What had previously been merely an ideal would end up a given.” Get the book. It’s a great read!

#christianity #RoadTo2021

Went out to buy fried peanuts while waiting for Le

Went out to buy fried peanuts while waiting for Lennon but couldn’t find any. Somehow I ended up in a Japanese thrift shop and ended up buying these saucers. Must be the subliminal push of the cliche, isang platitong mani.

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