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  2. List of Philippine mythological figures - Wikipedia

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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 Diwatas whose expansive stories span from a hundred years ago to presumably thousands of years from modern times.

  3. List of Philippine mythological creatures - Wikipedia

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    A host of mythological creatures occur in the mythologies from the Philippines. Philippine mythological creatures are the mythological beasts, monsters, and enchanted beings of more than 140 ethnic groups in the Philippines. Each ethnic people has their own unique set of belief systems, which includes the belief in various mythological creatures.

  4. Philippine mythology - Wikipedia

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    Anito, or anitu In Philippine mythology, refers to ancestor spirits, [69] spirits of the dead, evil spirits and the wooden idols that represent or house them [70].Pag-anito is when the shamans communicate to with the spirits of the dead and ancestral spirits, and even evil spirit [69] [71] Diwatas In Philippine mythology refers to fairies ...

  5. Witchcraft in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    In legends the mambabarang keeps his swarm of carnivorous beetles in a bottle or a section of bamboo, carefully feeding them ginger root. When the practitioner decides to employ his dark art, he performs a prayer ritual wherein he whispers instructions and identifies the victim to the beetles.

  6. Souls in Filipino cultures - Wikipedia

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    In many cases among various Filipino ethnic groups, spirits of the dead are traditionally venerated and deified in accordance to ancient belief systems originating from the indigenous Philippine folk religions. [9] Popular urban legends about Filipino ghosts usually include the theme of either a white lady, a phantom hitchhiker, or a headless ...

  7. Maria Sinukuan - Wikipedia

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    Apúng Sinukuan is the Kapampangan sun god of war and death who lived on Mount Arayat.During the colonial period, the Spanish rebranded him into Maria Sinukuan, the diwata or mountain goddess associated with Mount Arayat in Pampanga, Philippines, and later became a prominent example of the mountain goddess motif in Philippine mythology; other prominent examples being Maria Makiling of Los ...

  8. Maria Makiling - Wikipedia

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    The name "Mariang Makiling" is the Spanish-Tagalog contraction of "Maria ng Makiling" (Maria of Makiling). The term is a Hispanicized evolution of an alternate name for the Diwata, "Dayang Makiling"-"dayang" being an Austronesian word meaning "princess" or "noble lady". [6]

  9. Engkanto - Wikipedia

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    Engkanto have many similarities to humans in that they age, appear to have male and female sexes, can suffer from illness and indeed even die. They are an object of mythology for many Filipinos, often told by adults as stories and shown on media. They have different appearances.