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A different bird with the same name is present in Kapampangan mythology, where it is the winged assistant of the god Aring Sinukuan. It is represented by a giant eagle and believed to be the bringer of storms. [58] Garuda - golden-winged birds in Buddhist texts [59] race of creatures called garuda who dwell beneath the sea. These beings are ...
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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as ...
The more than 140 cities in the Philippines as of 2022 have taken their names from a variety of languages both indigenous (Austronesian) and foreign (mostly Spanish).The majority of Philippine cities derive their names from the major regional languages where they are spoken including Tagalog (), Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Bicolano, Kapampangan and Pangasinense.
The Vital Statistics division of the Philippines Statistics Authority released lists of the most popular baby names in the Philippines in 2021. 10 most popular Filipino boy names with meanings ...
Phaic Tăn: A fictional country in Indochina, featured in the parody travel book of the same name. Rook Islands: An archipelago located somewhere near Indonesia featured in the video game Far Cry 3. Sarkhan: A country analogous to Vietnam in the novel The Ugly American. It is the location of a war between the United States and Communist insurgents.
As horses weren't native to the Philippines in the pre-Spanish era, the earliest written records about the tikbalang did not specify horse or animal morphology.. Documents from Spanish friars such as Juan de Plasencia's Customs of the Tagalogs (1589) describe the tikbalang as ghosts and spirits of the forests, associated with the terms multo and bibit.
Filipino mythologies from different ethnic groups have similarities such as: The Bicolano people [23] and the Visayan myths use different names for their deities, but the activities in their creation myths are similar; [24] Deities named Mayari [25] /Malayari [26] /Apûng Malyari, [27] are prevalent in Tagalog, [25] Kapampangan, [27] and Sambal ...