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People Who've Clinically Died Reveal What They Saw Moments After Their "Death"
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
Terrifying Photo of a Huge Bat Gives Social Media Users Nightmares
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
Witches in the Philippines, or Spanish Propaganda?
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
Categories : Culture, Mythology & folklore
Death Beliefs and Practices Among the Sulod of Central Panay
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
Categories : Culture, Mythology & folklore
THE BUKIDNON TRINITY: Creation of the Universe
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
Categories : Culture, Mythology & folklore
Engkanto & Anitos: Could Science Be Close to Proving They're Real?
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
Mebuyan, Mother of the Underworld: BAGOBO BELIEFS
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
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
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