Fan Art Foreshadowed the Fate of the Bathala Lore Pre-Encantadia 2016

What kind of adoyaneva-more-ing is this?

Authored by Greg Aditaca San

Look at all the boundaries of this painting:

Amazing, isn’t it? Darkly resplendent. A mesmerizing digital portrait of Solenn Heussaff as Cassiopea ominously laying to break the Inang Brilyante using the Kabilan and whose background is a gathering of five god-like personas.

Does it tell you anything else?

Sure.

In the beginning we were told there were three gods who created the world of Encantadia — Emre, Arde, and Ether.

But as the bathala lore progressed, we were enlightened that a total of five Celestia, the Enchanta term for angels (or demigods according to Suzette Doctolero), reside in the realm — the first three plus Keros and Haliya.

Photo collage credit to Encantadik Matthew Miranda

We were also introduced to the idea that a bunggaitan — the most powerful Encantado or Encantada — can ascend to godhood or goddesshood through the method of Ezjin. And at the conclusion of the series, Cassiopea successfully passed this test and became a bathaluman.

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Back to the portrait, it is a five-year-old concept art by Encantadik and digital illustrator Denver Balbaboco that he posted online on May 22, 2016. It predated the pilot episode of ‘Encantadia’ which was July 18 of the same year. That’s where yet another amazing about the fan art is — his creation seems to have foreshadowed the fate of Enca’s bathala mythos:

• There are not just 3 Celestia in Encantadia, there are 5!
• Cassiopea, a primeval Diwata having possessed two god-powered objects, will someday be in line with these gods and goddesses.

Not only the artist has the skill, it looks like he has the sixth sense, too!

Or maybe I am just overinterpreting. Maybe the artist intended the five beings in the background as one supergod and four monarchs of Encantadian kingdoms, since familiar sigils are fixed on the sculptures’ plinths. You didn’t see them? Didn’t I tell you to look at all the boundaries? Anyway . . .

For more of the artist’s digitally-made paintings, visit and follow Denver Balbaboco Art.

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