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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]
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 ...
Maria Makiling is the guardian spirit of the mountain, responsible for protecting its bounty and thus, is also a benefactor for the townspeople who depend on the mountain's resources. In addition to being a guardian of the Mount Makiling, some legends also identify Laguna de Bay - and the fish caught from it - as part of her domain. [3] [1] Magayon
Mount Makiling: Disappearances of men in the mountain have sometimes been attributed to the mountain's guardian deity, Maria Makiling, who is said to have taken them as her husband. [153] Sampiruhan, Calamba: This barangay was the location of a massacre in World War II in which 70 people were brutally killed by the Japanese. The site of the ...
Maria Cacao is the diwata or mountain goddess associated with Mount Lantoy in Argao, Cebu, Philippines. The Maria Cacao legend is a prominent example of the mountain goddess motif in Philippine mythology; other prominent examples being Maria Makiling of Los Baños and Maria Sinukuan of Mount Arayat .
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.
Variety's Owen Gleiberman wrote that Jolie "seizes our attention, playing Maria as woman of wiles who is imperious, mysterious, fusing the life force of a genius diva with the downbeat emotional ...
Apúng Sinukuan (Maria Sinukuan), Kapampangan mountain goddess associated with Mount Arayat; Dayang Masalanta (Maria Makiling), Tagalog mountain goddess associated with Mount Makiling; Mayari goddess of the moon; Kan-Laon, Visayan god of time associated with the volcano Kanlaon; Tala, Tagalog goddess of the morning and evening star