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- 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 was mostly ****ociated to females, but male babaylans also existed. Early historical accounts record the existence of male babaylans who wore...
- among Visayans). Pag-anito is séance, a ritual where a shaman (called babaylan in Visayan or katalonan in Tagalog) serves as a medium to talk to dead...
- held in high regard and performed the role of spiritual leaders known as babaylan, katalonan, and other shamans in the indigenous Philippine folk religions...
- calendar system for ancient Filipinos and were part of the rituals of the babaylan priestess. It is usually depicted with a characteristic looped tail and...
- datu, the babaylan could take charge of the whole community. The role of the babaylan was mostly ****ociated with women, but male babaylans also existed...
- handed down through generations guided by spiritual leaders or shamans, (babaylan, katalonan, mumbaki, baglan, machanitu, walian, mangubat, bahasa,...),...
- Crocodile's Belly: Philippine Babaylan Studies and the Struggle for Indigenous Memory. Santa Rosa, California: Center for Babaylan Studies. pp. 136–140. ISBN 978-1492775317...
- and allegiance to the Spanish after around fifty years. Together with a babaylan named Pagali and his children, he built a temple for a diwata, and he incited...
- era. The other one was the Tamblot uprising in 1621 led by Tamblot, a babaylan or native priest from Bohol which was basically a religious conflict. The...