Binukot, also spelled Binokot, is a pre-colonial Visayan tradition from the Philippines that secludes a young woman with the expectation that seclusion...

are also known for their traditional practices on the mysticism of the binukot and nabukot. Currently, the Sulud/Panay Bukidnon faces several challenges...

the fabric of oral tradition". Caballero is married to Lucia (who is a binukot, a title similar to a princess in Panay-Bukidnon tradition) and has three...

(binibini, dayang dayang) who were sequestered from the world were called Binukot or Binocot (“set apart”). A special type of royal, these individuals were...

Buyong Humadapnon was captured by the magical binukot Sinangkating Bulawan, the also powerful female binukot, Nagmalitong Yawa, cast her magic and transformed...

Buyong Humadapnon was captured by the magical binukot Sinangkating Bulawan, the also powerful female binukot, Nagmalitong Yawa, cast her magic and transitioned...

(baro), with clearly seen tattooed legs and face. He is accompanied by a binukot or local princess with golden bangles. Depicted in Historia de las Islas...

Nagburuhisan, and Alayaw. Magos first inquired into the phenomenon of the binukot from a socio-political perspective when she studied extensively the ma-aram...

aphrodisiac. In the Philippines from pre-colonial times, selected youths called binukot are special type of princes and princesses that were kept in seclusion...

(tattooed), c. 1590 Boxer Codex Visayan uripon (slaves), c. 1590 Boxer Codex Binukot from Visayas, c. 1590 Boxer Codex Datu – The Tagalog maginoo, the Kapampangan...

clothes and headscarves (likely Muslims from Maynila in the 1500s) A Native Binukot Lady (Possibly Visayan) Visayan kadatuan (royal) couple Visayan kadatuan...

Panay-Bukidnon in Barangay Tacayan. The community is home to Feliza, a binukot who has expertise in chanting the suguidanon, one of the most significant...

from the rest of the community. The princesses were known as binokot or binukot (literally "the veiled ones" or "the wrapped ones"), due to the fact that...

the reign of Rajah Mangubat and as the daughter Datu Bugna, she is a "binukot" - a hidden princess and can't step on ground. Born with a twin snake,...

it is now by ranting and rebuking it repeatedly Bugbung Humasanun – a binukot (well-kept maiden) from Bohol who tasked her suitor, Datu Sumanga, to make...

tunic, with clearly seen tattooed legs and face. He is accompanied by a binukot or local princess with golden bangles. Depicted in Historia de las Islas...

illustrating members of the ancient Visayan kadatuan or tumao class from Panay: [1] couple from the nobility, [2] a royal couple, and [3] a native binukot....

An illustration from Historia de las Islas e Indios de Bisayas (1668) by Francisco Ignacio Alcina depicting a Visayan datu and a binukot noblewoman....

illustration by Francisco Ignacio Alcina depicting a Visayan datu and a binukot noblewoman with a veil (alampay) and a salakot Tagalog couple from the...

cloistered like nuns or as amongst Muslims, the term used to refer to them were binúkot (SB 1613:279; N&S 1860:266) and kinalî (N&S 1860:266; Pang. 1972:287)....

birds in the courting of Nagmaliyung Yawa Nagmalitung Yawa: a powerful binukot who rescued her husband by transforming herself into a man named Buyung...

established Selurong. First Lady or First Gentleman of the Philippines Binukot - Filipino cultural practice that secludes a young person (usually a young...

prestige. These well-guarded and protected highborn women were called Binukot, the Datus of pure descent (four generations) were called "Potli nga Datu"...

succumbed to mental illness, and why Amaya got flayed of her status as a binukot - and so he stripped Lamitan of her status as a Dian. She was sentenced...

heartache. Nita is sheltered and pampered as she grows. She is considered the binukot, the untouched princess, of her rich and powerful family. Her fate starts...

Gemma, the chieftain of their tribe and her grandmother, Lola Gamak, a binukot and chanter of the tribe. Since 2006, the late-January Hirinugyaw-Suguidanonay...

Insilada, "Panubok sa Pula Nga Pulos" Third Prize: Alain Russ Dimzon, "Binukot" First Prize: Danilo B. Antalan, "Dagiti Sala Ti Panawen" Second Prize:...