Many Filipino epics narrate how souls go to the next life, aboard boats, and pass through the rivers and seas. The reverse side of the P1,000 bill features the Banaue Rice Terraces, Manunggul Jar ...

The journey of the soul to the afterlife was closely associated by early Filipinos to maritime culture as represented by the “ship-of-the-dead” burial container called Manunggul Jar. I saw the ...