Filipino Miku 🇵🇭 By Ayshiun

My local version of Aurora (Sleeping Beauty)

maria makiling. one of the more interesting figures of philippine mythology that i found when doing research. all of it is pretty interesting, though!! :)

time: ~3 h 30 mins

🇵🇭 Filipino Miku (and friends) from Dagupan City 🐟🌊

Akin to an eagle

inspired by the Kalinga (a Philippine tribe) cultural video posted up by pinoy-culture. (video)

how Kalinga women are tough, proud, and dance like a soaring eagle who looks down on earth.

[image described in captions]

Maria Makiling is a diwata or lambana (faerie or forest nymph) in Philippine mythology associated with Mount Makiling, Philippines. She is said to be the benefactor of the townspeople who depend on the mountain, as she is responsible for its bounties. It is said that the mountain resembles the profile of a woman, an image of Maria herself.

She is often depicted as one of three characters: a fierce protector of the forest surrounding the mountains, a provider known to give ginger that turns into gold to poor villagers, and a spurned lover afraid to love a mortal once more. Even today there are still reported sightings of her presence, from lost hikers, disappearances attributed to her presences, and students who go to the university at the foot of the mountain, University of the Philippines in Los Baños.

Translations (Filipino to English):

they are maria makiling

part, n./adj.: this is a part of my love, that I can never wholly receive anything from you - whether it be answers, time, or shelter - and that’s okay. [source of original text]

Here’s my updated Pinoy inspired Cinderella and this time with her Doña Victorina-ish step mom. this will be a new addition for my disney series prints this year’s APCC. See you there!!!

Nat Lamina 🎨🖌@lasarasu

Maria Makiling, 2023, oil on canvas, 24" × 36".

"Maria Makiling in Philippine mythology is a diwata (fairy) associated with Mount Makiling in Laguna, Philippines. She is the most widely known diwata in Philippine mythology and was venerated in pre-colonial Philippines as a goddess known as Dayang Masalanta who was invoked to stop deluges, storms, and earthquakes."

“Ang Munting Sirena” (late post)

now is the little mermaid’s turn. trying to simplify everything as possible and not putting any tattoos or any Filipino ethnic charms just to show she’s a Filipino mermaid. Their culture is unknown.and yes, she still has her mermaid hair when she transformed into human. 

filipiniana but make it moth 

Cinderella in Filipiniana costume. (late post)