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Lisu t'kayo were pure white and were associated with the pith of forest trees. Mamili was the "king of snakes", a number of which were buso. Mantianak were the ghosts of women who died during childbirth. They haunt their husbands, who are held responsible for the conditions of their death, hovering outside their husband's homes and making ...
Davao Gulf is a gulf situated in the southeastern portion of Mindanao in the Philippines. [1] It has an area of 5,200 km 2 (2,000 sq mi) or about 520,000 hectares. [2] Davao Gulf cuts into the island of Mindanao from the Philippine Sea. [3]
Klata (also known as Clata, Giangan, Bagobo, Jangan) is an Austronesian language of the southern Philippines. It is spoken on the eastern slopes of Mount Apo in Davao del Sur Province , as well as in Davao City ( Ethnologue ) in an area stretching from Catalunan to Calinan.
Chapter II, Section 3h of the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997 defines "indigenous peoples" (IPs) and "indigenous cultural communities" (ICCs) as: . A group of people or homogenous societies identified by self-ascription and ascription by others, who have continuously lived as organized community on communally bounded and defined territory, and who have, under claims of ownership since ...
The Ilongot (or Ibilao) are a tribe who inhabit the southern Sierra Madre and Caraballo Mountains, on the east side of Luzon in the Philippines, primarily in the provinces of Nueva Vizcaya and Nueva Ecija and along the mountain border between the provinces of Quirino and Aurora. [68] An alternative name of this tribe and its language is ...
Datu Bulon, a 19-year old bagani of the Bagobo people in the St. Louis World's Fair (1904) Bagani were datu, they had absolute rule over their particular settlements, ranking even higher than the baylan (female shamans). But their actions are still subject to the opinions of the public as well as to the advisory council (itself composed of ...
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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.