There seems no doubt that it was a sacred place, and the monitor a sacred beast, a tutelary creature to which some divinity attached. I wonder if he is accorded offerings of food. In any case ...

A couple lived in the mountains of Dume who were grilling charcoal. Although it was a poor life, Hyun-bo (Choi Woon-bong) was happy whenever he saw his wife (Hyun Soon-young). Her wife had a small ...

The festival is annually held on March 20-24 of the lunar calendar to worship the village’s tutelary god of the Hoang Family. Legend has it that one day while the daughter of King Ly Thai Tong ...

Politics shaped people’s way of life, their values and the social order in which they evolved. The ancient city-state was a tutelary community that enshrined a definition of the good life, a pantheon ...

This column has attacked surveys that put Noynoy in the lead. The simple lesson of the story is that Filipinos are so bereft they would rather elect a clueless President in the midst of daunting ...

By giving people what they wanted it would infantilise them. People would live under “an immense tutelary power”: …absolute, detailed, regular, far-seeing, and mild. It would resemble ...

Through thousands of years in the history until today, each communal house usually has three main features. Firstly, it is the worshiping place of the Tutelary God of a village, the guardian of the ...