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    The document summarizes the pagan religious practices of early Filipinos, including their worship of various nature-based idols and spirits called "anitos". It describes sacrificial rituals performed by shamans called "catalonans" or "babaylans" to determine health, success in war, and more. These rituals often involved slaughtering animals and interpreting their entrails. The document also notes that some Spanish missionaries worked to end these practices and replace them with Catholicism.

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    The document summarizes the pagan religious practices of early Filipinos, including their worship of various nature-based idols and spirits called "anitos". It describes sacrificial rituals performed by shamans called "catalonans" or "babaylans" to determine health, success in war, and more. These rituals often involved slaughtering animals and interpreting their entrails. The document also notes that some Spanish missionaries worked to end these practices and replace them with Catholicism.

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    The document summarizes the pagan religious practices of early Filipinos, including their worship of various nature-based idols and spirits called "anitos". It describes sacrificial rituals performed by shamans called "catalonans" or "babaylans" to determine health, success in war, and more. These rituals often involved slaughtering animals and interpreting their entrails. The document also notes that some Spanish missionaries worked to end these practices and replace them with Catholicism.

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    History of The Philippine Province of The Society of Jesus

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    Carlou Abarsolo
    The document summarizes the pagan religious practices of early Filipinos, including their worship of various nature-based idols and spirits called "anitos". It describes sacrificial rituals performed by shamans called "catalonans" or "babaylans" to determine health, success in war, and more. These rituals often involved slaughtering animals and interpreting their entrails. The document also notes that some Spanish missionaries worked to end these practices and replace them with Catholicism.

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    History of the

    Philippine
    Province of the
    Society of Jesus
    THE PAGAN FALSE RELIGION,
    IDOLATRIES, AND SACRIFICES OF THE
    FILIPINOS
    THE IDOLS TO WHICH THE FILIPINOS
    ATTRIBUTE DIVERSITY
    “Bathalang Maykapal” - God the Creator, or Maker; imagined him
    to be enveloped and hidden in clouds, as he was for them with the
    black cloud of paganism

    “Bathala” - given by the Tagalogs to a bluebird as big as the thrush

    “Maylupa” - lord of the soil

    “Nono” - what they would call the crocodile when they saw him in
    the water; grandfather
    THE IDOLS TO WHICH THE FILIPINOS
    ATTRIBUTE DIVERSITY
    - They prayed to him not to cause them harm and offered
    something from what they brought in the boat, which they
    threw in the water
    - A catalonan who was intimate with one of them in the Manila
    river, she treated it like a domestic pet
    - According to Aristotle, these beasts can be tamed like the
    others who eat flesh and Strabo affirms that there were tame
    geese in Egypt adored more in the Philippines that were being
    fed by the priests with their own hands
    THE IDOLS TO WHICH THE FILIPINOS
    ATTRIBUTE DIVERSITY
    - The very stones, crags, and headlands of seashores and rivers
    they adored, going as far as to offer something which they left
    on the rock or crag itself when passing by
    - Form of an idolatrous practice, for they are condemned by one
    of the ancient councils, ancient saints, and God himself
    - River of Manila; a rock which for many years was idolized by
    unfortunate people; it scandalized and gave occasion to
    serious evils until the Augustinian Fathers who lived close by
    in their holy zeal broke it into pieces, and in its place put up a
    cross
    THE IDOLS TO WHICH THE FILIPINOS
    ATTRIBUTE DIVERSITY

    “Punta de las Flechas” - arrow point; Mindanao island between


    Canela and the river, a sharp point protrudes above a dangerous
    coast -- arrows were shot to aim on the rock itself; 4,000 arrows

    “Diwata” - Visayan; “anito” - Tagalogs


    THE IDOLS TO WHICH THE FILIPINOS
    ATTRIBUTE DIVERSITY
    Anito for the fields - when crossing without risk

    Anito for the crops - recommended they be fertile

    Anito for the water - asked for rain for their crops

    Anito for the sea - fishing and navigation

    Anito for the palm trees - protection from rats and birds

    Anito for infants - offered at birth


    THE IDOLS TO WHICH THE FILIPINOS
    ATTRIBUTE DIVERSITY

    - Included among their gods were those who died by the knife,
    devoured by the crocodile, or killed by lightning, whose souls
    were said to climb to heaven by the rainbow
    VISAYAS, APRIL 1560
    Where the dead proceeds

    - Old to young, a special life


    - Trees: roots are chains; panicas
    - Sand: unhusked rice
    - Sea of milk: children ; Linugao: old
    - Become very tiny ants
    VISAYAS, APRIL 1560
    Where the dead proceeds

    - Sea of blood, whose shore are rosebushes - “Colored”


    - Islands are so thick with bones: firewoods; skulls for pots
    - Race: descends from bamboo; Monkey from the second
    bamboo/node
    - The animals developed and appeared as the bamboo grew.
    VISAYAS, APRIL 1560
    Causes of Deaths

    - Laon: the greatest of the gods


    - Entertained by a fish
    - Shaking the tree of the delicious fruit: small and big fruits fell
    Definition of Terms

    - Isines: pieces of cotton cloth


    - Panicas: golden earrings
    - Linugao: rice with milk or oil
    - Tacorongas: flowers similar to colored marshmallow plants
    The Ones who Agreed with the Catholic
    Truth (Darkened by falsehood v.)

    - St. Justin Martyr


    - Clement of Alexandria
    - Tertullian
    - Eusebius of Caesarea
    - The Mexicans and the Peruvians
    - Fr. Jose de Acosta of our Society
    The Ones who Agreed with the Catholic
    Truth (Darkened by falsehood v.)

    - Their errors became predispositions towards the faith, for


    others are blocks.
    - No special temples, no public days for general festivities
    common among the ordinary people.
    - Tanay: smaller houses resembling a BAMBOO tower.
    - A short bridge made out of BAMBOO - to pass from the main
    house to the smaller ones.
    - Covering of the mystery of the infamous outhouse: clothes and
    other handicrafts
    - Dedicated to the anitos, however they do not sacrifice there.
    - Will only serve as one of their valued possessions.
    - Other Visayans: a bad small bamboo outhouse at the entrance
    of their villages, a place for sacrifice
    MINDANAO

    - Outside of houses: Bamboo galleries


    - Badly sculpted idols of spongy pole
    - Earthen pot with some embers and a little smoke: suspected to
    have been for the sacrifice
    The Ministers of Their Sacrifices

    - Tagalogs: Catalonan; Visayans: Babaylan


    - Ones with greater shrewdness yielded to the devil, deceive the
    blinded people
    - Cheat: claiming that they could cure people with a reed, then
    spitting three pebbles which were claimed to be the cause of
    sickness
    - The flames of a candle: sparks, ashes, and flames - seeing
    spirits
    - Barbarians: people are easily fooled
    Simple Filipinos and Sickness

    - Some who have a special link with the devil


    - Devil: assists and provides with a very special help
    - Speaks through their idols or anitos
    - Uttering things: frighten and scare those present
    Island of Bohol, 1616

    - Poor women used to deceive the sick people to earn


    - Leaf/reed: cause of sickness
    - Carried in hidden, claiming they removed it from the body
    - People no longer respected them.
    The Barbarity of Their Sacrifices

    - Their honor: neither from respect nor reverence


    - Sacrifices: not offered out of devotion or religion
    - Curiosity if one would benefit by regaining one’s health
    - If the catalonan did not ask for it, people will not remember to
    offer it.
    The Barbarity of Their Sacrifices

    - Sickness begins to weaken: asks for a sacrifice from the


    catalonan
    - To determine if the sickness was deadly or not
    - Leaders: build a house for the sacrifice, big and spacious
    - People and materials: house is quickly finished
    The Barbarity of Their Sacrifices

    - Patient: moved into the house


    - Catalonan, along with a slave (to be sacrificed)
    - Sea turtles/mollusks - should be gigantic, big as shields, had
    the best eggs
    - No altar or any place for offering, just beside the patient
    The Barbarity of Their Sacrifices

    - Bed: banig - a mat of palms, distributed on the floor


    - Many number of guests small tables without a tablecloth but
    with different dishes
    - Hog’s blood: used to anoint the patient and those who are
    present
    - First dish
    The Barbarity of Their Sacrifices

    - Mouth full of the meat: examines the entrails before everyone


    - Devil will then take hold of her
    - Declared the patient would live or die.
    - Live: continued eating and chanting the epic stories, dancing
    until they collapse
    The Barbarity of Their Sacrifices

    - Death: mitigated its prospect by praising the sick - now


    chosen by the anito to be one of them
    - Good qualities, now entrusting themselves to him
    - Thousand other lies and flatteries
    - Consider the dying as an anito - food and drink
    Feast of the Great god

    - For war and journeys, to know the result


    - Ahab, the King of Israel: False prophets
    - Also for pure boasting and vanity
    - Honor without knowing
    Feast of the Great god

    - Village and invited guests


    - Catalonan: orders the best dressed girl to perform the duty of
    dancing and piercing the hog with a lance
    - Cut into pieces and distributed like consecrated bread
    - Drinking accompanied by music and dancing
    Marriage

    - Solemnized with a sacrifice


    - Dowry, catalonan, and hogs
    - Spouses: seated in their room with the presence of a pair of old women who acted as
    sponsors
    - Galatian ceremony

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