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Mount Apo is the highest mountain peak in the Philippines, with an elevation of 2,954 meters (9,692 ft) above sea level. A large solfataric , dormant stratovolcano , it is part of the Apo-Talomo Mountain Range of Mindanao island.
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 ...
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 ...
The lake is a crater lake, a basin formed on an old volcanic cone that was later filled with water.It was erroneously reported as a circular rift lake, as this area is not a rift zone but a volcanic area evident by the presence of nearby volcanic peaks like Musuan Peak (7 kilometres or 4.3 miles to the E), Mount Kalatungan (20 kilometres or 12 miles to the NW), Mount Dagumbaan (10 kilometres ...
The Apo–Talomo Range (also known as Mount Talomo) or Talomo Mountain Range in the provinces of Davao del Sur and Cotabato on the island of Mindanao contains the Philippines' highest peak: Mount Apo, at (9,692 ft (2,954 m)). [4] Mount Talomo (8,773 ft (2,674 m)) is one of the top 15 highest mountains in the Philippines. In terms of climbing ...
A Maryland woman will spend up to 50 years in prison after the badly decaying bodies of her niece and nephew were found in her trunk, where she had kept them for months. On August 13, 2024, Nicole ...
Laon (meaning "the ancient one"), [note 1] [1] was a pre-colonial female supreme creator deity in the animist anito beliefs of the Visayan peoples in the Philippines.She is associated with creation, agriculture, the sky, and divine justice.
A major winter storm left behind heavy snow and bitter cold as it began to push off the Atlantic Coast on Thursday, leading to flight delays, snarled traffic and shuttered schools.. The system had ...