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    The indigenous religions of the Philippines prior to colonization were animistic in nature. Each of the 175 ethnic groups practiced their own form of indigenous religion, which involved belief in spirits that inhabited the natural world and influenced human events. Central beliefs included the existence of a supreme creator god as well as lower gods, ancestors spirits, and nature spirits. Rituals centered around offerings to honor spirits of the dead and healings performed by shamans using herbal concoctions and incantations.

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    The indigenous religions of the Philippines prior to colonization were animistic in nature. Each of the 175 ethnic groups practiced their own form of indigenous religion, which involved belief in spirits that inhabited the natural world and influenced human events. Central beliefs included the existence of a supreme creator god as well as lower gods, ancestors spirits, and nature spirits. Rituals centered around offerings to honor spirits of the dead and healings performed by shamans using herbal concoctions and incantations.

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    The indigenous religions of the Philippines prior to colonization were animistic in nature. Each of the 175 ethnic groups practiced their own form of indigenous religion, which involved belief in spirits that inhabited the natural world and influenced human events. Central beliefs included the existence of a supreme creator god as well as lower gods, ancestors spirits, and nature spirits. Rituals centered around offerings to honor spirits of the dead and healings performed by shamans using herbal concoctions and incantations.

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    PHILIPPINE INDIGENOUS

    RELIGION
    WHAT IS PHILIPPINES INDIGENOUS
    RELIGION
     These are various terms have been used to refer to the religion
    beliefs of the 175 ethnolinguistic group of the Philippines,
    where each had their own form of indiginous government prior
    to colonization from islam and Spain. They are characterized
    as being animistic, an have been collectively referred to as
    animitism or bathalism or the more ,modern and less tagalog-
    centric Dayawism.
     These religions have similarities to Shinto religion of Japan

     Present ethnic religion to the philippines are animism- was


    widely practiced in the pre-colonial Philippines.
     What is animism- the term animism encompasses a collection
    of beliefs and cultural mores anchored more or less in the idea
    that the world is inhabited by spirits and supernatural entities.
    BELIEFS/ RELIGIOUS WORLD VIEW
     Filipinos believed in the existence of parallel spirit world, which was invisible but had an
    influence on the visible world.
     Filipinos believed that there were spirits(anito) everywhere- ranging from the high creator Gods to
    minor spirits that lived in the environment such as trees or rokcs or creeks.
     Filipinos believed that events in the human world were influenced by the actions and interventions
    of these spirit beings.
     Anito- is a collective name for the pre-hispanic belief system in the Philippines. It is also used to
    refer to spirits, including the household ddeities, deceased ancestors, nature spirits, nymphs, and
    diwatas.
     Anito were the ancestor spirits(umalagad), or nature spirits and deities(diwata) in the indigenous
    animistic religions of precolonial Philipines.
     Paganito- refers to a séance, often accompanied by the rituals or celebrations, in which a shaman
    (visayan, babaylan, in tagalog, katalonan) acts as a medium to communicate directly with the
    spirits.
     Pagdiwata- a ritual when a deity is involved.

     in existence of a high god, creator god, or sky god, there is the supreme god was known as
    Bathala(tagalog) but in visayan is called Manama, and in cordillera peoples (Kabuniyan)
     Lower gods such as the nature spirits, guardian spirits and deified ancestors or tribal heroes.

     Folk healers- these are the old woman/man that believed for having a power oh healing different
    illnesses, using of shamans and various kinds of leaves
    RITUALS
     Pangalap- the aforementioned yearly search for concoction
    ingredients.
     Halad- ritual offering of food and drink to honor the spirits
    of the dead.
     Palina- ritual fumigation; called tu-ob in the islands of
    Panay and Negros
     Pangadilip- the chopping or slicing of pangalap ingredients.

     Pagpagong- burning or reducing the ingredients into


    charcoal or ashes.
     Making of minasa- concoctions made from the pangalap
    ingredients
     Rubbing with lana- medicinal oil concocted from coconut.
    DOCTRINES
     Belief in traditional magic systems and ecstatic rituals
     The use of shrines and amulets

     Veneration of saints or jinn, as in the gnawa cult.

     Incorporation of animistic beliefs.

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