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Simbahan Pandot: Relation of The Worship of The Tagalogs, Their Gods and Their Burials and Superstitions

The document summarizes Tagalog religious practices and superstitions in the Philippines. It describes their worship sites like temples and sheds used for festivals lasting 4 days. They worshipped gods like Badhala, the sun, moon, and stars. Lesser gods and spirits governed things like love, farming, and water. They made offerings of food and drink to idols and held divination ceremonies. When young girls had their first periods, they were blindfolded for 4 days and purified in water rituals to ensure fertility and good marriages.

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Simbahan Pandot: Relation of The Worship of The Tagalogs, Their Gods and Their Burials and Superstitions

The document summarizes Tagalog religious practices and superstitions in the Philippines. It describes their worship sites like temples and sheds used for festivals lasting 4 days. They worshipped gods like Badhala, the sun, moon, and stars. Lesser gods and spirits governed things like love, farming, and water. They made offerings of food and drink to idols and held divination ceremonies. When young girls had their first periods, they were blindfolded for 4 days and purified in water rituals to ensure fertility and good marriages.

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Relation of the Worship of the Tagalogs, their Gods and their Burials and Superstitions

Simbahan – temple or place of adoration


Pandot – worship, festival that is celebrated in the large house of a chief
- lasted in 4 days
Sibi – purpose of sheltering to assemble people, a temporary shed on each side of a house with
a roof
- protect people from the wet
Sorihile – on the posts of the house they set small lamps
- while in the center of the house they place large lamp, adorned w leaves of the white palm
Nagaanitos – whole brgy, family, united and joined the worship.
Idols
Badhala – they worshipped
- all powers/maker of all things
Sun – account on its beauty/universally respected and honored by heathens
Moon – esp when its new, great rejoicings, adoring it and bidding it welcome
Stars – morning start which they called Tala
Mapalon/Balatic – Greater Bear
Lic-cha – images w diff shapes
Little trifle – adored as did the romans
Dian masalanta – patron of lovers and generation
Lacapati/Idianale – patrons of the cultivated lands and husbandry
Buaya – paid reverence to water-lizards
- crocodiles fear of being harmed by them
Tigmamanuguin – met on the way a serpent or rat or a bird
- singing in the tree
- sneezed return once to their house considering the incident as augury some evil might befall to
them if they should continue their journey esp when above-mentioned bird sang
- 2 diff forms of son: good and evil omen
Divination – weapons were to be useful and lucky for their possessor whenever occasion should
offer
Winter and summer distinguished as sun-time and water- time
Manner of offering sacrifice – proclaim a feast
- offer to the devil what they had to eat
- done in front of the idol
- anoint w fragrant perfumes such as mask, civet or gum of the storax-tree and odoriferous
woods
- praise it in poetic songs sung by priest, male or female called catolonan.
Some of their idolatries accustomed to place a good piece of cloth, doubled over the idol/over
the cloth a chain or large gold ring thus worshipping the devil w/o any sight of him
Devil – liable to enter into the body of the catolonan assuming her shape and appearance w full
of arrogance of he being the cause of it and seemed to shoot flames from her eyes, hair stood
on end, fearful sight and uttered words of arrogance and superiority.
- some regions devil incarnated himself and took on the form of his minister, tied to a tree by his
companions to prevent devil in his infernal fury from destroying him.

Objects of sacrifice – goats, fowls and swine which were flayed and decapitated and laid before
the idol

- Another ceremony is by cooking a jar of rice until the water was evaporated after they broke
the jar, rice was left as an intact mass which was set before the idol were placed a few buyos
which is a small fruit wrapped in leaf w some lime a food generally eaten in these regions as
well as fried food and fruits.
- Reasons for offering is to whatever personal matters might be, recovery by a sick person,
prosperous voyage of those embarking on the sea, good harvest in the sowed lands, a
propitious result in wars, successful delivery in childbirth and happy outcome in marriage life.
- Festivities lasted for 30 days

Young girls who had their monthly courses their eyes were blindfolded for four days/nights,
family and relatives are invited to partake food and drink.
- The catolonan took the young girl to the water, bathed and washed her head, removed the
bandage from her eyes.
- Old men said that they did this in order that girls might bear a children/have fortune of finding
husbands to their taste, would not leave them widows in their youth.

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