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People Who've Clinically Died Reveal What They Saw Moments After Their "Death"

Something everyone faces in life, regardless of class, culture, or creed, is death. And despite its inevitability, the experience of death and what happens after still remains unknown to us. Because of this, many people are curious about the experiences of those who've clinically died and been brought back.

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Published at 2023-06-20 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Mythology & folklore, People, Religion

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A Cultural Hideaway in Bongabon (Nueva Ecija)

The progressive, little town of Bongabon in Nueva Ecija lies at the foothills of the mighty Sierra Madre ranges. And tucked away in its suburbs, amid lush foliage, is Giron Botanique, a complex which includes a small museum, art gallery, botanical garden and nursery.

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Published at 2021-03-23 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Arts, Culture, Mythology & folklore, Religion

Tags: Bongabon, fashion

The Beautiful History and Symbolism of Philippine Tattoo Culture

But art is not limited to paint brushes and pens. Known for their innate resourcefulness, our forefathers used their own bodies as a “living canvass” to express themselves by means of the painful, yet intricate, art of tattooing.

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Published at 2020-09-22 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Arts, Culture, Mythology & folklore

Tags: culture

Legends of Mount Makiling

The slopes of Mount Makiling are shaped to resemble a woman reclining, hence the air of mysticism that surrounds the mountain. Folklore about the beautiful siren and guardian of the forest, Maria Makiling had been told to generations.

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Published at 2020-09-19 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Mythology & folklore

Tags: Maliking

Terrifying Photo of a Huge Bat Gives Social Media Users Nightmares

The photograph shows a giant golden-crowned flying fox, a large bat native to the Philippines, which can have a wingspan of up to 5ft5in but is only around one foot in height Although the flying mammals can have wing-span of up to 5ft5in, slightly above the average height of women in the UK, the bats only grow to a height of around a foot.

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Published at 2020-07-09 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Environment, Mythology & folklore, People

Tags: gold

Gayang: Igorot Folklore Goes to the Comic Book

Move over Darna, Captain Barbell and Dyesebel – no disrespect to your creator, the legendary Mars Ravelo. Here come Lampong, Pili, Inlablabbuut and others. The latter have come alive in a new comic book collaboration by young artists from the Cordilleras.

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Published at 2019-07-18 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Arts, Culture, Mythology & folklore

Tags: Books, Folklore, Igorot, creatures, story, students

The Biblical Basis of Our Faith to Santo Niño

Who is the Santo Niño? Is he really miraculous? Does it have Biblical basis? Why do Catholics believe in him? Why do the faithful give importance of his image? Is it not against the Ten Commandments as provided for by the book of exodus?

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Published at 2019-01-18 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Arts, Communities, Mythology & folklore, Religion

Tags: Catholicism, Santo Niño

Witches in the Philippines, or Spanish Propaganda?

Due to Plasencia’s Catholic mindset and the Spanish vengeance to cleanse the lands of “heathens”, early Filipino’s were trained, forced, and convinced to associate some of these beings with the devil. The Spanish were successful in eliminating the belief in deities and de-powering the spiritual leaders, but they were no match for superstitions. Legazpi stated his mission soon after he arrived on the Islands.

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Published at 2019-01-09 by Puerto Parrot

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Death Beliefs and Practices Among the Sulod of Central Panay

The Suludnon, also known as the Tumandok, Panay-Bukidnon, or Panayanon Sulud, are an indigenous Visayan group of people who reside in the Capiz-Lambunao mountainous area of Panay in the Visayan islands of the Philippines. They are the only culturally indigenous group of Visayan language-speakers in the Western Visayas.

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Published at 2019-01-09 by Puerto Parrot

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THE BUKIDNON TRINITY: Creation of the Universe

THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE of the Trinity holds that God is one God, but three coeternal consubstantial persons or hypostases —the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit—as “one God in three Divine Persons”.The trinity doctrine is not unique to, nor original with, Christianity. It has deep Pagan roots, dating back to at least two centuries BC, and has been prominent in many Eastern religions ever since.

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Published at 2019-01-09 by Puerto Parrot

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Engkanto & Anitos: Could Science Be Close to Proving They're Real?

Engkanto are environmental spirits. They are often associated with the spirits of ancestors in the Philippines. They are also characterized as spirit sorts like sirens, dark beings, diwata, and more. Belief in their existence has existed for centuries, and continues, with some, to this day. Anito is used to refer to spirits, deceased ancestors, nature-spirits nymphs and diwatas. Ancient Filipinos kept statues to represent these spirits, ask guidance and magical protection.

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Published at 2019-01-09 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Mythology & folklore

Tags: Engkanto, Spirits

Psychopomps (Death Guides) of the Philippines

Psychopomp is a word that is derived from Greek psukhe ‘soul’, pompe ‘procession’ and pempein ‘send’. In world mythologies they are described as guides for the souls of the dead, which are usually accompanied to some sort of afterlife.

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Published at 2019-01-09 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Mythology & folklore

Tags: soul

Mebuyan, Mother of the Underworld: BAGOBO BELIEFS

There is a special place in the Bagobo underworld for children who died at their mothers’ breasts. They are nourished by the goddess Mebuyan whose entire body is delicious with milk glands. When they no longer need nursing and can shift for themselves, they go trooping to another district underground to join people who died later in life of disease or any form of sickness.

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Published at 2019-01-09 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Mythology & folklore

Tags: Bagobo

Ancient Visayan Deities in Philippine Mythology

The stories of ancient Philippine mythology include deities, creation stories, mythical creatures, and beliefs. Ancient Philippine mythology varies among the many indigenous tribes of the Philippines. Some groups during the pre-Spanish conquest era believed in a single Supreme Being who created the world and everything in it, while others chose to worship a multitude of tree and forest deities (diwatas).

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Published at 2019-01-09 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Mythology & folklore

Tags: Mythology, creatures

VISAYAN Origin Myth: Creation of the Sun and Moon

“The Visayan still holds to many of the old superstitions, not because he has reasoned them out for himself, but because his ancestors believed them and transmitted them to him in such stories as these. [The Creation Story is] A very old explanatory tale. In a slightly varying form it is found in other parts of the Islands.” – Mabel Cook Cole, 1916

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Published at 2019-01-09 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Mythology & folklore

Tags: Visayas