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Relation of The Worship of The Tagalogs

The Tagalogs worshipped various gods and spirits. They held festivals called "pandot" in large houses to worship gods like Badhala, the sun, moon, stars, and natural phenomena. They also worshipped idols and had patron gods of love, farming, and animals like crocodiles. When burying the dead, chiefs were placed in small houses while others were buried upright in deep holes. They believed in an afterlife called "Maca" but also a place of punishment called "Casanaan". Their burials involved mourning rituals and sacrifices.

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Relation of The Worship of The Tagalogs

The Tagalogs worshipped various gods and spirits. They held festivals called "pandot" in large houses to worship gods like Badhala, the sun, moon, stars, and natural phenomena. They also worshipped idols and had patron gods of love, farming, and animals like crocodiles. When burying the dead, chiefs were placed in small houses while others were buried upright in deep holes. They believed in an afterlife called "Maca" but also a place of punishment called "Casanaan". Their burials involved mourning rituals and sacrifices.

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Relation of the Worship of the Tagalogs, their Gods, and their Burials and
Superstitions
simbahan – a temple or place of adoration
pandot (worship) – a festival which they celebrated in the large house of a chief
sibi – a temporary shed on each side of the house with a roof
sorihile – small lamps placed on the posts of the house
nagaanitos – people (from whole barangay or family) who joined and united in the
worship
Badhala – they especially worship
– It seems to signify “all powerful” or “maker of all things”
Sun – they worshiped it on account of its beauty which is almost universally
respected and honored by heathens
Moon – they worshiped it too especially when it was new, at which time they held
great rejoicings
Tala – “morning star”
– some of them (people) also adored the stars
Mapolon – the change of seasons
Balatic – Greater Bear
licha – people’s idols which were images with different shapes
Dian masalanta – the patron of lovers and of generation
Lacapati and Idianale – the patrons of the cultivated lands and of husbandry
buaya – crocodiles or water-lizards which they paid reverence to from fear of being
harmed by them
– they offer these animals a portion of what they carried in their boats (e.g.
boats) by throwing it into the water
 The Aetas or Negrillos (Negritos) had a different form of burial. They dug a
deep, perpendicular hole, and placed the deceased within it, leaving him
upright with head or crown unburried, on top of which they put half a cocoa-
nut which has to serve him as a shield.
Maca – another life, just as paradise or village of rest
Casanaan – a place of punishment, grief and affliction.
– place of anguish
Sitan – demons
Catolonan; sonat – sort of bishop, ministers or missionaries
Vibit – ghost
Tigbalaang – phantoms
Patianac – another deception, if women died in childbirth, she and the child suffered
punishment and that night, she could be heard lamenting.
Their manner of burying the dead:
 The deceased was buried beside his/her house. If he were a chief, he was
placed beneath a little house.
 Before interring, they mourned him (dato) for 4 days and laid him on a boat
which served his coffin and accompanied by a guard (slave).
Various animals were also placed beneath the boat. It was the slave's care to see
that they were fed.
 If the deceased was a warrior, a living slave was tied beneath his body until in
this wretched way he died.
 The grief was also accompanied by drinking and eating.

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