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Unica Hija (transl. only daughter) is a Philippine television drama science fiction series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mark Sicat dela Cruz, it stars Kate Valdez in the title role. It premiered on November 7, 2022 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up.
Philippine historians regard López Jaena, along with Marcelo H. del Pilar and José Rizal, as the triumvirate of Filipino propagandists. Of these three ilustrados , López Jaena was the first to arrive in Spain and may have begun the Propaganda Movement , which advocated the reform of the then-Spanish colony of the Philippines and which ...
Some of the original meanings in "Filipinas" have been lost in translation; for example, "hija del sol de oriente" (Daughter of the orient (eastern) sun) in the original Spanish version became "child of the sun returning" in the Philippine Hymn and "perlas ng silanganan" (pearl of the orient) in the present (official) version. [12]
Firsthand accounts generally accepted by Philippine historiographers, although with corrections for hispanocentric bias subject to scholarly peer review. [11] The veracity of "quasi-historical" (meaning not physically original) genealogical documents also remains subject to scholarly peer review. [10]
The Our Lady of Guidance (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de Guía) is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with a 16th-century Marian image depicted as the Immaculate Conception and widely venerated by Filipinos.
The Flood Story (Bukidnon) [38]: 125–126 – A big crab that crawled into the sea created the flood that drowned everyone except those who made a raft and survived upon it. Origin [38]: 133–134 – A boy and a girl were the only ones left on Mount Apo. They were weak because of a drought.
The following is a list of gods, goddesses, deities, and many other divine, semi-divine, and important figures from classical Philippine mythology and indigenous Philippine folk religions collectively referred to as Diwatas whose expansive stories span from a hundred years ago to presumably thousands of years from modern times.
The present name of the Philippines was bestowed by the Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos [1] [2] or one of his captains Bernardo de la Torre [3] [4] in 1543, during an expedition intended to establish greater Spanish control at the western end of the division of the world established between Spain and Portugal by the treaties of Tordesillas and Zaragoza.