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Mount Apo – the tallest and largest mountain in the Philippines and an expansive sacred mountain for the Manobos, Bagobo, Ubos, Atas, Kalagan and Tagacaolo peoples; the mountain is often referred as "grandfather" or "elder"; [36] some ethnic peoples there offer sacrifices to the deity, Mandarangan, for good health and victories in war; [37 ...
Buklog is a cultural tradition from the Philippines in the form of a thanksgiving ritual practiced by the Subanen people who live on the Zamboanga Peninsula, the southern part of the Philippines. This ritual system is carried out as a form of gratitude to the spirits for positive life experiences, such as abundant harvests, recovery from an ...
Cañao or Kanyaw is a festival or a ceremony of the indigenous mountain people of Northern Luzon in the Philippines. It is a socio-religious ritual [1] where chickens, pigs and/or carabaos are butchered as a sacrifice and feasted on. [2] This is usually a thanksgiving to their god Kabunyan.
Pag-anito (also mag-anito or anitohan) refers to a séance, often accompanied by other rituals or celebrations, in which a shaman (Visayan: babaylan, Tagalog: katalonan) acts as a medium to communicate directly with the spirits. When a nature spirit or deity is specifically involved, the ritual is called pagdiwata (also magdiwata or diwatahan).
Atáng is an indigenous ritual for the dead or spirits in the Northern Philippines. [1] It is thought to be a part of the cultural and religious contexts of the Ilocano people. In general, the atáng is known as a food offering intended for the dead and to drive away evil and malevolent spirits. [2]
Some of the rituals observed by the mananambal include: Pangalap - the aforementioned yearly search for concoction ingredients; Halad - ritual offering of food and drink to honor the spirits of the dead; Palínà - ritual fumigation; called tu-ob in the islands of Panay and Negros; Pangadlip - the chopping or slicing of pangalap ingredients
It has a long historical tradition and is considered an obligatory rite of passage for males; [1] those who have not undergone the ritual are ridiculed and labeled supót by their peers. [2] Circumcision is not considered a religious rite in the Philippines, as some four-fifths of Filipinos profess Roman Catholicism, which does not
Between 2015 and 2017, UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage Courier of Asia and the Pacific featured the darangen epic chant, [12] punnuk tugging ritual, [13] and at least three kinds of traditional healing practices in the Philippines, including the manghihilot and albularyo healing practices and belief of buhay na tubig (living water) of the ...