Philippines Religion

In the religious concept of the Filipino people before the Spanish arrived, they can distinguish various systems ranging from the idea animist and ancestor worship, to the belief in a supreme deity accompanied by minor deities, and today still remain in the Indian populations where civilization has not fully arrived(Peter, 63).

Despite its primitiveness retain a fairly accurate idea of ??the existence of a first principle that worship and offer sacrifice while they worship the spirits of their ancestors. They have several traditions concerning the origin of the world, men and its people. The bamboo and the Balita (or ballet) are the main ones. At one time there were only very distant sky and sea, the hawk, king of heaven, earth and rocks thrown, and thus formed the islands. The sap of the earth gave rise to the bamboo, and a lump of sugar cane was born the first human couple: silaque (man) and sibabae (female), the offspring of this couple gave birth to the population of the islands. Then divided into two classes, the highest culturally came to live inside the islands (ites), the rest moved to other poorer and worse off. Balit cup, it is considered the abode of spirits. Admit the existence of Noah's flood and make offerings to monstrous beings: magtatangal, tigbalang, patianac and Osuang, all characters are demonic and are responsible for many diseases and abortions. They have temples. Religious ceremonies are carried out by individuals of both sexes(Gretchen, 13).

Religious system of the Filipino peoples. Among the races that stand out characters Indonesian Apayao, the Ibanags, the gaddanes, Ilongots, the Kalingas and Tinguianes, Luzon Island, the natives of southern Mindoro, the primitives of the Visayas, the Tagbanuas of Palawan; the Mandayas, atays, Kalamianos, Bagobos, Manobo, titurais and baganis of Mindanao. The religious character of these towns where it has been best studied in Mindanao because they have preserved more purely to the present. The Mandayas have an animistic system, wood carvings made of bay, they call manaugs, both male and female, representing spirits. The ceremonies revolve around these carvings, are responsible priestesses who are called bailanes. Support the dualism of two deities good Badla Mansilatan and father and son, and two evil principles, and Malimbog Pundaugnon, husband and wife. Worship an internal force, Busa, who comes from Mansilatan and is responsible to provide value and expertise to the warriors. They attribute the disease ...