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    Anito, also spelled anitu, refers to ancestor spirits, nature spirits, and deities in the Indigenous Philippine folk religions from the precolonial age...
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  • Anito: Defend a Land Enraged is a role-playing video game based on Filipino mythology and folklore developed by Anino Entertainment, an independent video...
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    referred to as Anito or Anitism or the more modern and less ethnocentric Dayawism, where a set of local worship traditions are devoted to the anito or diwata...
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    existence, and life's mysteries. Myths include narratives of heroes, deities (anito, diwata), and mythological creatures. These myths were transmitted through...
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    Austronesian languages include the Micronesian aniti, Lio language nitu, Yami anito, Taivoan alid, Seediq and Atayal utux, Bunun hanitu or hanidu, Polynesian...
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    with the spirits and deities (anito or diwata) and the spirit world. Their primary role were as mediums during pag-anito séance rituals. There were also...
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    towns despite the fact that they used words such as Tikbalang, Asuang, Anito, Nunò, Tiyanak, etc. and retained many pagan usages, traditions, legends...
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    Philippines, spirit houses are dedicated to ceremonies or offerings involving the anito spirits. They are also referred to as shrines. They are known magdantang...
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  • mythology Tengriism (indigenous Mongol & Turkic belief) Philippine mythology Anito Gabâ Kulam Semitic mythology and Arabian mythology Jewish mythology Shamanism...
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    "Tagalism"). It is also referred to by some as anitism, after the Tagalog term "anito" meaning "god" or "deity". Many Tagalog religious rites and beliefs persist...
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    mythology and indigenous Philippine folk religions collectively referred to as Anito, whose expansive stories span from a hundred years ago to presumably thousands...
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  • the Polynesian aitu, Micronesian aniti, Bunun hanitu, Filipino and Tao anito, and Malaysian and Indonesian hantu or antu. In popular culture, Atua is...
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    Capoquian Dr. Timoteo "Tim" T. Capoquian Clarita "Cayet" P. Gomba Elementary Anito Elementary School Bangon Elementary School Bato Elementary School Bonificio...
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    ("old man" or "grandparent" "ancestor"), is a dwarf-like nature spirit (anito) in Philippine mythology. It is believed to live in an anthill or termite...
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  • an anito, which the Tagalogs from Laguna still remembered, named Bulactala. The meaning of the name is "Flower of Tala" which suggest that this anito is...
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    religions (Buddhism and Hinduism), and indigenous Philippine folk religions (Anito or Anitism) are also present. The country is secular and its constitution...
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  • cognates of aitu include the Micronesian aniti, Bunun hanitu, Filipino and Tao anito, and Malaysian and Indonesian hantu or antu. Kupua Nuku-mai-tore Polynesian...
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    is sacred to many pilgrims and is widely believed to be the home of an anito named Maria Makiling. It is one of the most known bundok dambanas in Calabarzon...
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  • mountain people believe in the existence of supernatural beings that they call Anito which have power over man. With the use of prayers and material offerings...
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  • ceremonies attending to the birth of a child. Patupaiarehe Menehune Taotao Mona Anito An entry in Encyclopedia Mythica translates Nuku-mai-tore as "People of...
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    another form of psychopomp work. In Filipino culture, ancestral spirits (anito) function as psychopomps. When the dying call out to specific dead persons...
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    Mythological creatures Folk religions Tagalog beliefs Religion in pre-colonial Philippines Shrines and sacred grounds Anito Philippines portal v t e...
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    Mythological creatures Folk religions Tagalog beliefs Religion in pre-colonial Philippines Shrines and sacred grounds Anito Philippines portal v t e...
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  • indigenous peoples alongside more mainstream Christian and Islamic faiths. Anito is a collective name for the pre-Hispanic belief system in the Philippines...
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  • Austronesian cultures, cognates of hanitu include the Filipino and Tao anito, Malaysian and Indonesian hantu or antu, Polynesian aitu and aitu, and Micronesian...
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    Sometimes incorrectly depicted as the male counterpart of the Sirena. Anito - Ancestral spirits Galura – In Higaonon myth a gigantic bird that holds...
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    Mythological creatures Folk religions Tagalog beliefs Religion in pre-colonial Philippines Shrines and sacred grounds Anito Philippines portal v t e...
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    Mythological creatures Folk religions Tagalog beliefs Religion in pre-colonial Philippines Shrines and sacred grounds Anito Philippines portal v t e...
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    festivity is claimed to be originally a native animist celebration of the anito (ancestor spirits), to which Spanish missionaries gradually added a Christian...
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    Mythological creatures Folk religions Tagalog beliefs Religion in pre-colonial Philippines Shrines and sacred grounds Anito Philippines portal v t e...
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