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  2. Traditional games in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Dickie Aguado, executive director of Philippine NGO Magna Kultura Foundation (Arts and Culture), says that traditional Filipino games are "very much alive in the Philippines". In many urban and rural areas, a majority of Filipino children play outdoor street games, as most of them have little access to technology.

  3. List of Philippine mythological creatures - Wikipedia

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    A host of mythological creatures occur in the mythologies from the Philippines. Philippine mythological creatures are the mythological beasts, monsters, and enchanted beings of more than 140 ethnic groups in the Philippines. Each ethnic people has their own unique set of belief systems, which includes the belief in various mythological creatures.

  4. Philippine mythology - Wikipedia

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    The critically endangered Philippine eagle is regarded by numerous ethnic groups in the Philippines as sacred. In Bagobo Tagabawa mythology, a hero chieftain named Banog, who founded four domains, was said to have been named after the local name for the raptor.

  5. Aswang - Wikipedia

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    Tiktik The Aswang Chronicles is a 2012 Filipino action comedy horror adventure film written and directed by Erik Matti. [32] Kubot The Aswang Chronicles 2 is a 2014 Filipino comedy horror adventure film co-written and directed by Erik Matti. [33] The aswang are also featured in the following Western films:

  6. Bakunawa - Wikipedia

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    The Bakunawa, also called the Philippine moon-eating dragon, the Philippine moon dragon, moon dragon, or the moon-eating dragon, is a serpent, that looks like a Dragon in Philippine mythology. It is believed to be the cause of eclipses , earthquakes , rains, and wind. [ 1 ]

  7. Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The Philippines, [f] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [g] is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. In the western Pacific Ocean , it consists of 7,641 islands , with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon , Visayas , and ...

  8. List of festivals in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    There are more than 42,000 known major and minor festivals in the Philippines, the majority of which are in the barangay (village) level. Due to the thousands of town, city, provincial, national, and village fiestas in the country, the Philippines has traditionally been known as the Capital of the World's Festivities.

  9. Tinikling - Wikipedia

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    The Buff-banded rail (Gallirallus philippensis), one of the birds locally known in the Philippines as tikling, which were the inspiration for the movements of the dance. The name tinikling is a reference to birds locally known as tikling, which can be any of a number of rail species, but more specifically refers to the slaty-breasted rail (Gallirallus striatus), the buff-banded rail ...