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✨️ I'm coming to the Bay Area and Las Vegas in November! Interested in doing a cultural heritage photoshoot and are in the NYC, San Francisco, or Las Vegas area? Then DM or contact me via my website!

https://thepinayphotographer.mypixieset.com/contact/

I also do travel and have future plans next year for Texas, Chicago, Toronto, and Oregon! So if interested, send an inquiry! Would love to work with you in celebrating and honoring your heritage and ancestors through cultural portraits.

📸 I am also available for graduation and senior portraits, engagements, weddings, events, debuts, dance and theater performances, cosplay, fashion, and family portraits.

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Hi folks! So, besides writing about pre-colonial history, culture, and beliefs in the Philippines, especially on my Instagram nowadays, I'm also a photographer based in NYC.

One of my main themes as a photographer is doing cultural heritage photo sessions! This latest one was with a friend of mine during my recent trip to Detroit. She is of Karay-a descent and the focus here was to honor her ancestors by dressing up in pre-colonial clothing in the Bisayas. She also had a top woven by the Panay Bukidnon, who speak Karay-a.

Are you interested in honoring your culture and ancestors by doing a photoshoot wearing traditional and pre-colonial attire?

➡️ Then send an inquiry on my website! I also do travel.

thepinayphotographer.mypixieset.com

I also work with others who are not of Filipino descent in helping them honor their own ancestors and heritage. So if you or anyone you know would be interested, send this to them or tag them!

You can also follow me on Instagram @ thepinayphotographer

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✨️ The End of Summer Sale ends today! Get 30% off your entire order on Filipino candles, books, and jewelry.

There are just a few more copies of books available! I will be doing another large pre-order for books again in early October for the holidays coming up.

For those who placed pre-orders in July, they books are arriving this month!

➡️ Also! Stay tuned for an announcement on a gift box coming soon for Undas, Kalag-Kalag, and Araw ng mga Patay!

Shop at hirayabotanicals.com

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✨️➡️ End of summer sale is here! From now until September 7, get 30% off your entire order!

I am currently clearing out the shop to make way for new items for the fall and winter. I'm also preparing for my themed gift boxes again! First one will be for spooky season and themed around creatures from Filipino mythology.🇵🇭

Discount applies automatically at checkout!

Visit hirayabotanicals.com to shop!

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✨️ LAST DAY TO PRE-ORDER BOOKS IS TODAY!!!✨️

If you're interested in pre-ordering any of the pre-order books, the deadline is today! Afterward, I will be taking a break from pre-order books to focus on restocking some candles, handmade jewelry, my long awaited pag-anito anointing oil, and some herbal salves & medicine.

I am also working on doing themed pre-order boxes again! I'll be working on a Halloween/Undas themed box for October! Pre-orders for that box will start at the end of August. Expect some candles inspired by various creatures in the Philippines from the aswang to the tikbalang. I'm pretty excited about this box. 💀🖤

➡️ Head on over to hirayabotanicals.com to pre-order books or snag a copy of a book already in stock. Browse through several jewelry pieces straight from the Philippines and handmade candles dedicated to the deities or inspired by Filipino food.

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✨️ Myths from Bikol! What were some of the creation stories? Do you know about the deity that causes the rain and lightning?

To read more on these myths and more, I definitely recommend picking up the book. "Philippine Folk Literature: The Myths" by Damiana L. Eugenio. Other books in the series include Anthology, The Epics, The Legends, The Folklore, The Proverbs, and The Riddles.

📚➡️ Grab a copy of The Myths and a few other books in the Philippine Folk Literature series in my shop, hirayabotanicals.com !

If you are from the Philippines, you can get a copy of the book through UP Press through their storefronts on Shopee, Lazada, or contacting UP Press directly.

✨️ Did you know of these myths? What are some myths you do know of?

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✨️ New round of books to Pre-Order is now available! Pre-order period is from July 16-30 (not 28)!!

Listed here is just a few books up for pre-order. The rest are the current stock of books currently on hand. Those that I have only 1 copy of, once sold out they will also be added as a part of the list.

➡️ Note: If you order a pre-order book together with a nonpre-order item in the same order, it will ship when the pre-order book arrives. Shipping and processing time for pre-orders is around 1-2 months.

VISIT hirayabotanicals.com to order.

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✨️📚 Come join the Filipino Book & Study Club! We will soon be having our first Book Discussion via Zoom!

✨️Date: Friday, August 2, 2024

Time: 7:30pm Eastern | 4:30pm Pacific✨️

We will be discussing July's assigned readings, first chapter of "Barangay: Sixteenth-Century Philippine Culture and Society" by William Henry Scott and the first 4 chapters of "History of the Bisayan People in the Philippine Islands", an English translation of the original 1668 Spanish text by Francisco Alcina, translated by Kobak and Gutierrez.

It is free to join and participate in the Filipino Book & Study Club! Besides the monthly book discussions via Zoom and on Discord, I will also be posting content and links to articles, etc on Discord.

Those who are also patrons on the Apo Laki and Mayari Tiers on my Patreon will also receive monthly study guides written by me to go together with the monthly assigned reading material.

Outside of the book discussions, I am also hosting monthly classes on various topics. Only those in the Mayari Tier will be able to join and have access to those classes, the recordings, and presentation slides.

However, if you simply want to join the Filipino Book & Study Club, you are more than welcome to for free!

➡️ Link to the Discord Server for the Filipino Book & Study Club:

https://discord.com/invite/n7JayNcRPr

✨️ Link to my Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/thepinaywriter

I look forward to seeing you in the first Book Discussion!

If you have any questions, feel free to ask! Also tag someone who you think will be interested in joining!

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✨️REMINDER that my first class of the year will be this Friday, July 19 @ 7:30pm Eastern Time | 4:30pm Pacific Time.

Get ready to learn and discuss who some of the deities in the Philippines are, who the babaylan were and their roles, and learn about the traditional tattooing culture.

Because of the 3 topics we will be discussing, I won't be going into too much detail for each topics, as we would be talking for hours. Friday's class will be focused on introducing you to these topics and exploring them. A more detailed class on each topic will be set at a future date.

For those of you already on the Mayari Tier on my Patreon, I will be sending another announcement on there with further details and the link to the Zoom meeting.

➡️ If you would like to join the class on Friday and every monthly class, you can by joining me on Patreon with the Mayari Tier. If you aren't able to join, recordings of each class will also be available to you. :)

✨️VISIT: PATREON.COM/THEPINAYWRITER to register!✨️

Look forward to seeing you there!

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✨️ The last remaining boxes of books from the Philippines are coming within the next few days! For those who pre-ordered books, I've already started shipping out the first few batches and some of you should be receiving them today! I've also sent an email to those of you whose books are in the remaining boxes arriving from the Philippines to give a status update on your pre-order.

The inventory listed here includes the remaining books left after pre-order which are currently here or in the boxes arriving from the Philippines within the next few days. As mentioned before, I did get a few extra copies of some books and added them into the inventory on the shop.

➡️ Visit hirayabotanicals.com to order!

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✨️ Who were the Bisayan deities? Let's discuss a few of them! There are a lot more deities that were not mentioned here, but you can read all about these different deities on my blog post, "The Bisayan Deities: Who were the Gods & Goddesses?" on my blog, thepinaywriter.com !

I will also be briefly discussing these deities in my first class of the year on July 19 via Zoom! To be able to participate, you must be in the Mayari Tier on my Patreon. During this first class we will also be discussing the babaylan and traditional tattooing. Classes are held monthly along with monthly book discussions for the Filipino Book & Reading Club! ✨️📚 Visit my Patreon at patreon.com/thepinaywriter for more info!

➡️ Do you know any of these deities? Who is your favorite?

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New books, jewelry, and figures available! Check out the shop at hirayabotanicals.com . Free shipping for all orders over $150 in the U.S. and $200 in Canada.

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✨️ After months of planning, the Filipino Book and Study Club is now up and running! 🇵🇭📚

Starting in July, we will be discussing 2 books, Barangay by William Henry Scott and History of the Bisayans Volume 1, the English translation of Francisco Alcina's works in 1668 by Kobak.

I will also be hosting my first class in awhile! We will be discussing various deities from the Philippines, the babaylan, and traditional tattooing. It will be held on Friday, July 19. Time will be announced in the coming weeks once we get closer.

Scanned pdfs chapters of Barangay and History of the Bisayans will be available on my Patreon later this week to those in the Mayari Tier on my Patreon. I will also be posting a study guide for you all based on July's chapter readings. These study guides and scanned pdfs of books will be available to both the Apo Laki and Mayari Tiers.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask! And if you know someone who would be interested in joining the Filipino Book & Study Club, share this post to them or tag them.

I look forward to having the first class of this year we you all!

➡️ LINK TO MY PATREON

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✨️ New up on the shop! Hand-crafted jewelry straight from the Philippines and 3 copies of the newly published English translation of the oldest Bikolano dictionary, "Vocabulario de la Lengua Bicol" by Marcos de Lisboa. Once these 3 available copies are sold out, I will be taking pre-orders for more copies.

Also, a few more books have been added to the shop! Most are restock of some books including "Song of the Babaylan" which has been highly requested and I currently have 6 copies of.

For all those who bought pre-ordered books from late May to early June, the books are currently in the process of being shipped from the Philippines this week and should all arrive via DHL by early next week. Shipping will start to take place in the first week of July.

➡️ Visit hirayabotanicals.com to shop handcrafted candles dedicated to the deities in various mythologies from the Philippines, jewelry, and books.

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✨️Do you know any of these beliefs and folklore from Leyte? If your family is from Leyte or Samar, what are some folklore, beliefs, and practices that have been shared with you? 🌿

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Repost from my IG @ thepinaywriter.

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