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The Concept of Time According to Pre-Colonial Filipinos

Time for our ancestors was defined by nature itself. Everything that surrounded them – from chirping bird, movement of stars and the growth of plants – was sufficient enough to give signs and timing on when they will conduct specific activities and celebrate events. It made the early Filipino sensitive to the language of nature and how they could respond to it. This natural process can seem confusing to some modern Filipinos and is therefor usually brushed off as unreliable. The moment colonization began, time has never been the same for us as the Gregorian calendar system was integrated in the Philippines on October 5, 1582. Since then Spanish terms like “Ano” (Year), “Linggo or Domingo” (Week) replaced our native time markers. The introduction of clocks (horasan and later coined as orasan) and watches widen our units of time with hours, minutes and seconds. Ultimately this led to the vanishing of our own system of time as we immersed ourselves in the European methods of time.