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    The document summarizes religious beliefs and practices in pre-colonial Philippines. It describes how Filipinos worshipped idols made of images kept in private homes and offered food and aromas. Some worshipped the sun, moon, and yellow birds. Others worshipped crocodiles when seeing them. There were no temples - each family had their own idols without fixed rituals. Old men and women called "catalonas" performed idolatrous ceremonies and were seen as witches who used deception. Filipinos believed in an afterlife of reward or punishment and buried their dead in homes, keeping bones in chests out of respect.

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    The document summarizes religious beliefs and practices in pre-colonial Philippines. It describes how Filipinos worshipped idols made of images kept in private homes and offered food and aromas. Some worshipped the sun, moon, and yellow birds. Others worshipped crocodiles when seeing them. There were no temples - each family had their own idols without fixed rituals. Old men and women called "catalonas" performed idolatrous ceremonies and were seen as witches who used deception. Filipinos believed in an afterlife of reward or punishment and buried their dead in homes, keeping bones in chests out of respect.

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    The document summarizes religious beliefs and practices in pre-colonial Philippines. It describes how Filipinos worshipped idols made of images kept in private homes and offered food and aromas. Some worshipped the sun, moon, and yellow birds. Others worshipped crocodiles when seeing them. There were no temples - each family had their own idols without fixed rituals. Old men and women called "catalonas" performed idolatrous ceremonies and were seen as witches who used deception. Filipinos believed in an afterlife of reward or punishment and buried their dead in homes, keeping bones in chests out of respect.

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    Ab RELIGION
    Relacion de las
    Islas Filipinas
    Antonio De Morga

    as
    The Filipinos did not have any
    knowledge of the true God, they

    Ab
    did not try to discover through
    reasoning, or have any
    conviction.

    THEIR IDOLS
    Karaniwan nilang sinasamba
    ginawa mula sa mga imahe sa mga
    nasabing nitong porma. Itinago nila
    ito sa mga yungib at pribadong
    bahay, kung saan inaalok nila ang
    mga pabango at amoy, at pagkain at
    THEY WORSHIP prutas, tinawag silang mga anito.
    SUN AND MOON?

    Da
    Some of them worshiped the

    as
    sun and the moon, and
    celebrated feasts, and
    drunken consolation with
    those bodies. Some worship
    a yellow-colored bird that THEY WORSHIP
    lives in their woods, called CROCODILE?
    batala.
    Others worship crocodiles
    when they see it, kneel and
    clasp their hands, because
    of the damage they receive
    from reptiles; they believe
    HOW THEY that by making crocodiles
    they will be peaceful and will
    WORSHIP?

    s
    There are no temples be left behind.
    throughout the islands, or

    Da
    houses commonly used for idol
    worship; but every man
    possesses and makes in his
    house his own anitos, without
    any fixed ritual or ceremony. THE CATALONAS
    They did not have a priest to
    attend religious services,
    except for a few old men and
    women called catalonas.

    WITCHES IN PRE-
    COLONIAL AGES?
    The catalonas had experience
    with witchcraft and sorcery, which

    s
    deceived other people. The latter
    informed these magicians of their
    desires and needs, and the
    catalonas told them innumerable WHO TREAT FILIPINO
    exaggerations and lies.
    IN PRE-COLONIAL
    AGES?
    The catalonas offered
    prayers and performed other
    idolatrous ceremonies for
    the sick; and they believed in
    signs and superstitions
    HOW DID FILIPINOS
    SURVIVE IN PRE-
    COLONIAL AGES?
    They were kept by the devil for
    many years. They never sacrificed
    people as they do in other
    kingdoms. They believe that there HOW THEY BURIED
    is a future life in which those who
    have been brave and performs THERE LOVE ONE’S?
    brave deeds will be rewarded; They buried their dead in their
    while the evildoers will be own homes, and hid their bodies
    punished. and bones for a long time in the
    chests. They respect the skulls of
    the dead as if they were alive and
    present.

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