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Utenablogging: Why Anthy Keeps Vanishing From Her Clothes

She enters the gondola as a schoolgirl, but she vanishes and the clothes fall to the ground, and the roses grow through her clothes because Anthy is not that carefree, smiling person. She’s not there. The roses are the beautiful illusion of the rose bride that fill her place.

Her rose bride outfit falls away from the couch to reveal her disheveled and naked when Nanami sees Akio abusing her. The noble rose bride Utena fights for is not the real Anthy. She’s not there, either.

And her princess dress falls empty to the ground after she betrays Utena, because she’s not there, either.

The Anthy caught up in swords is Anthy’s “witch” self-identity, created by self-loathing and punished eternally for the crime of stealing the Prince from the world by being his victim. She is nearly naked except for the swords, which she wears as her final empty costume, and she is the last illusion to vanish. She’s not even there.

the real Anthy has been in the coffin, naked and without illusions or costumes, all this time, and Utena has never seen her before.

She’s not an innocent and carefree schoolgirl. Empty costume.

She’s not a mystical rose bride to be fought over. Empty costume.

She’s not a betraying princess. Empty costume.

She’s not a witch who deserves to be punished. The swords are another empty costume.

She’s just a scared girl in the dark, finally choosing to come out into the light after someone took the time to meet her as herself instead of one of her many costumes.

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More than a millennium before Ferdinand Magellan landed in the archipelago that he called Filipinas, the islands were filled with thriving communities, ruled by their respective datu (rulers). They have sophisticated pottery and artifacts developed from trading with the surrounding civilizations in this part of the world. There was no extensive documentation on these cultures because of the lack of a permanent source of writing material, but one thing is certain—they are exceptional goldsmiths. 

One day in April 1981, a local named Edilberto Morales working with heavy machinery for an irrigation project in the province of Surigao del Sur found what turned out to be 22 pounds of gold artifacts. Morales quietly took home his stash on a rice sack and covered them with bananas. He wasn't sure what to do with the artifacts, so he entrusted them to the local priest. As words of the discovery got out, buyers and looters flocked to the village. Before long, the treasure was gone.

Fortunately, most of them made their way to the few buyers who could afford to buy them—the Central Bank and prominent people in the capital.

The items dated back to the 10th through the 13th centuries. The most prominent artifact is a sash made of  3,860 grams of gold. This piece was likely worn by an important datu during key rituals. The sash is made of tightly braided gold wires and beads woven to assemble a four-cornered halter with a slit on one end, perhaps to hold a ceremonial weapon.

It was likely made for ceremonial purposes, but no one can be sure. Similar golden regalia have been used by the Brahmin caste in India.