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The word simbahan means a place to worship which is constructed at a large house of the chief where

people of the tribe go to celebrate festivals (aka pandot or worship)

nagaanitos - worship; (anito - soul or spirit of ancestors)

sibi - a temporary shed, made on each side of the chief’s house, for the assembled people.

Bathala - one of their many idols, whom they specially worshipped.

They worshipped the sun, the moon, and some, even the stars or a particular dead man with special
capability that fought bravely or protected them in their time of need

sun - almost universally respected and honored because of its beauty;

moon - they would rejoice, especially when new

stars - they did not name them except for the morning star, which they called Tala

Catolonan

Priest from a people of rank o


Officiates the offering sacrifice for a feast and the food to be eaten being offered to the devil

Mangagauay
They pretend to heal the sick in order to deceive others

Manyisalat
They can cast remedies to couples for them to abandon one another

Mancocolam
Can emit fire from himself which cannot be extinguished

Hocloban
Much more powerful than a mangagauay in which they can kill anyone without the use of any medicine.
They can also heal those who are ill.

Silagan
They would tear out and eat the liver of those they saw were wearing white
Magtatangal
They would go out at night without their heads and put it back into their bodies before the sun rise

Osuang
Tribesmen reported that they saw the “osuang” who can fly and murdered a man and ate his flesh.

Mangagayoma
They would seduce their partners with charms and other accessories so they can deceive them.

Sonat
This devil helped people to die. They can also know if the soul they helped to die can either be saved or
not.

Pangatahojan
They can predict the future.

Bayoguin
These are men who are in the nature of a woman.

In burying the dead, the corpse would be placed beside its house and be mourned at for 4 days.
It will then be laid on a boat which serves as a coffin which is guarded by a slave.
The grief of the relatives of the deceased is followed by eating and drinking.

In all the villages, or in other parts of the Filipinas Islands, there are no temples
consecrated to the performing of sacrifices, the adoration of their idols, or the general
practice of idolatry.  It is true that they have the name simbahan, which means a temple or
place of adoration; but this is because, formerly, when they wished to celebrate a festival,
which they called pandot, or “worship,” they celebrated it in the large house of a chief. 
There they constructed, for the purpose of sheltering the assembled people, a temporary
shed on each side of the house, with a roof, called sibi, to protect the people from the wet
when it rained.  They so constructed the house that it might contain many people—dividing
it, after the fashion of ships, into three compartments.  On the posts of the house they set
small lamps, called sorihile; in the center of the house they placed one large lamp, adorned
with leaves of the white palm, wrought into many designs.  They also brought together
many drums, large and small, which they beat successively while the feast lasted, which
was usually four days.  During this time the whole barangay, or family, united and joined in
the worship which they call nagaanitos.  The house, for the above-mentioned period of time,
was called a temple.

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