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The San religion is the traditional religion and mythology of the San people. It is poorly attested due to their interactions with Christianity. It is poorly attested due to their interactions with Christianity.
The origin of a person's soul have been told through narratives concerning the Indigenous Philippine folk religions, where each ethnic religion has its unique concept on soul origin, soul composition, retaining and caring for the soul, and other matters, such as the eventual passage of the soul after the person's life is relinquished.
ǀKaggen is a trickster who is able to shape shift into the form of any animal. [6] He is most frequently represented as a praying mantis but also takes the form of a bull eland, a louse, a snake, and a caterpillar.
The San refer to themselves as their individual nations, such as ǃKung (also spelled ǃXuun, including the Juǀʼhoansi), ǀXam, Nǁnǂe (part of the ǂKhomani), Kxoe (Khwe and ǁAni), Haiǁom, Ncoakhoe, Tshuwau, Gǁana and Gǀui (ǀGwi), etc. [14] [15] [8] [16] [17] Representatives of San peoples in 2003 stated their preference for the use of ...
DuBois, Constance Goddard. 1904. "Mission-Indian Religion: A Myth in the Making". Southern Workman 33:353-356. (Accounts of a "footprint" in rock.) DuBois, Constance Goddard. 1905. "The Mythology of the Diegueños: Mission Indians of San Diego County, California, as Proving Their Status to be Higher than is Generally Believed".
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. Among the mythical creatures of Philippine mythology are: Abat and Awok (Waray) – two similar races that segment like the Manananggal. They can fly with their head and hands. [60]
Maximón (/ ˌ m æ ʃ ɪ ˈ m oʊ n,-ˈ m ɒ n /), also called San Simón, is a Maya deity, narco-saint, and folk saint, represented in various forms by the Maya peoples of several towns in the Guatemalan Highlands. Oral tradition of his creation and purpose in these communities is complex, diverse, and born of the ancient Maya traditions ...
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