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It is death." In many ethnic groups in the Philippines, water represents a cosmological cycle of both life and death. Water plays a vital role in Ilocano folklore: from the Ilocano god of the rivers and sea, Apo Litao, to cosmological beliefs involving the water and sea. Apo Litao is the Ilocano god of the sea and rivers.
The indigenous religious beliefs of the Tagalog people (sometimes referred to as Anitism, [1][2] or, less accurately, using the general term animism) were well documented by Spanish missionaries, [3] mostly in the form of epistolary accounts (relaciones) and entries in various dictionaries compiled by missionary friars.
The following is a list of gods, goddesses, deities, and many other divine, semi-divine, and important figures from classical Philippine mythology and indigenous Philippine folk religions collectively referred to as Anito, whose expansive stories span from a hundred years ago to presumably thousands of years from modern times.
Indigenous Philippine folk religions are the distinct native religions of various ethnic groups in the Philippines, where most follow belief systems in line with animism. Generally, these Indigenous folk religions are referred to as Anito or Anitism or the more modern and less ethnocentric Dayawism, where a set of local worship traditions are ...
Bacobaco – a great "sea turtle" who bored into the top of Pinatubo, creating a crater and emitting flames, rocks, mud, ashes, smoke and noise. If Bacobaco comes out of the volcano, horrible things will happen. [42] [43] Batak crab (Batak) – a titanic crab. Floods are said to be caused when the crab goes in and out of a hole in the sea. [44]
Bicolano people. The Bicolano people (Bikol: Mga Bikolnon) are the fourth-largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group. [2] Their native region is commonly referred to as Bicolandia, which comprises the entirety of the Bicol Peninsula and neighboring minor islands, all in the southeast portion of Luzon. Males from the region are often referred to as ...
In the indigenous religion of the ancient Tagalogs, Bathalà/Maykapál was the transcendent Supreme God, [1] the originator and ruler of the universe. He is commonly known and referred to in the modern era as Bathalà, a term or title which, in earlier times, also applied to lesser beings such as personal tutelary spirits, omen birds, comets, and other heavenly bodies which the early Tagalog ...
The Tagabanwa tribe has four major deities. The first, the lord of the heavens, was called Mangindusa or Nagabacaban, who sits up in the sky and lets his feet dangle below, above the earth. The god of the sea was named Polo and was deemed a benevolent spirit. His help was invoked in times of illness.