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    The document summarizes religious beliefs and practices of ancient Tagalog people in the Philippines. It describes the highest deity Bathala who created all things and dwelt in the sky. It also mentions practices related to worshipping the sun, moon, stars, Pleiades constellation, seasonal changes, and various other nature-related deities and spirits. Figures called lic-ha were made in worship and offerings like food were made to placate powerful spirits and nature entities like crocodiles.

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    The document summarizes religious beliefs and practices of ancient Tagalog people in the Philippines. It describes the highest deity Bathala who created all things and dwelt in the sky. It also mentions practices related to worshipping the sun, moon, stars, Pleiades constellation, seasonal changes, and various other nature-related deities and spirits. Figures called lic-ha were made in worship and offerings like food were made to placate powerful spirits and nature entities like crocodiles.

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    The document summarizes religious beliefs and practices of ancient Tagalog people in the Philippines. It describes the highest deity Bathala who created all things and dwelt in the sky. It also mentions practices related to worshipping the sun, moon, stars, Pleiades constellation, seasonal changes, and various other nature-related deities and spirits. Figures called lic-ha were made in worship and offerings like food were made to placate powerful spirits and nature entities like crocodiles.

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    HISTORY

    YOUR
    The highest ranking deity of the ancient Sun – because of its beauty, it’s almost universally The Pleiades – in Greek mythology, the 7 Balatic – a constellation outside the zodiac that
    Tagalogs. The “all powerful” or “maker of all respected & honored by the heathens. daughters of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid rotates around the North Star.
    things.” Said to be the creator of all things - sky, Moon – especially when it was new, people had Pleione: Maia, Electra, Taygete, Celaeno, Alcyone, Lic-ha – images with different shapes. Some
    earth and all the vegetation around us. He dwelt great rejoicings, adoring it and bidding it welcome. Sterope, and Merope. They form a constellation. small badly-made figures of gold, stone, ivory,
    in the highest realm of the eternal space called Stars – the Spaniards and other nations know the Mapolon – also known as worship of change of or wood; called them Lic-hà or Laràuan, which
    kawalhatian or sky. planets, but of the morning star, they called Tala. seasons means a “figure”/ “image” among them (anitos).

    SUN, MOON, THE PLEIADES BALATIC &


    BATHALA STARS & MAPOLON LIC-HA

    DIAN LACAPATI &


    KATALONAN BUAYA
    MASALANTA IDIANALE
    The goddess of love, childbirth, peace, and the These idols were patrons of the cultivated lands They paid reverence to water-lizards called by
    They had spiritual prowess to contact the deities protector of lovers among the ancient Tagalogs. She and of animal husbandry. The people beseeched
    and anitos. The term apparently springs from them buaya or crocodiles, for fear of being
    is the youngest of all deities. Her name means the idols to grant them favors by offering sacrifices
    the Tagalog word "katalo", which means "in harmed by them. They were even in the bait of
    "destruction is there", and she is prayed to stop (cloth, animals or gold), anointing them with
    good terms with," such that the Catalonan are storms, deluges, and earthquakes. Some say she is perfumes. The animals, after being offered, were
    offering these animals a portion of what they
    those "in good terms with the Anito spirits". an earlier incarnation of Maria Makiling, diwata of then eaten by the guests along with rice that was carried in their boats, by throwing it into the
    Mt. Makiling. ceremonially cooked, fried food and fruits. water, or placing it upon the bank.

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