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1922: a shaman of the Itneg people renewing an offering to the spirit of a warrior's shield [1] A performer depicting a shaman in a recent Babaylan Festival of Bago, Negros Occidental Filipino shamans , commonly known as babaylan (also balian or katalonan , among many other names), were shamans of the various ethnic groups of the pre-colonial ...
The babaylan (shaman) called for the people to converge at the seashore, carrying food offering of all kinds. The babaylan took the chickens and roosters brought for the ceremony, and hung them by their legs on tree branches, killing them by beating with a stick.
1922: a shaman of the Itneg people renewing an offering to the spirit of a warrior's kalasag shield A performer depicting a shaman in a recent Babaylan Festival of Bago, Negros Occidental. Babaylans (also balian or katalonan, among many other indigenous names) were shamans of the various ethnic groups of the pre-colonial Philippine islands.
During the pre-Hispanic period, babaylan were shamans and spiritual leaders and mananambal were medicine men. At the onset of the colonial era, the suppression of the babaylans and the native Filipino religion gave rise to the albularyo .
However, major pag-anito rituals required the services of the community shaman (Visayan babaylan or baylan; Tagalog katalonan or manganito). [1] [note 22] These shamans were believed to have been "chosen" by a specific diwata who become their spirit guides.
A Hiligaynon woman depicting a babaylan (Visayan shaman) during a festival. According to Spanish records, majority of pre-colonial shamans were women, while the other portion was composed of feminized men. Both of which were treated by the natives with high respect, equal to the datu (domain ruler). Due to Spanish colonization, many of the ...
According to sociologist and anthropologist Marianita "Girlie" C. Villariba a babaylan is a woman mystic who is "a specialist in the fields of culture, religion, medicine and all kinds of theoretical knowledge about the phenomenon of nature." In ancient Filipino society, the babaylans are believed to be a woman who had been possessed by a ...
An Itneg shaman offering pigs to anito spirits, 1922 A performer depicting a babaylan (shaman) Indigenous Philippine folk religions, also referred collectively as Anitism, [84] [85] meaning ancestral religions, [86] [87] are the original faiths of the diverse ethnic groups of the Philippines. Much of the texts of the religions are stored ...