@ancient_wise_archives: Read b4 comment— BCE ONLY —-The Philippines in the BCE era was a network of animist, ancestor-worshipping societies with no formal centralized religion, but complex cosmologies and sacred rituals. The pagan label absolutely applies in the academic sense—it refers to the non-Christian, indigenous, spiritual lifeways of these early island cultures 🗿🏝️🇵🇭🦴🔥🪵🌊🤍 As early as 700,000 BCE, hominin activity (like Homo luzonensis) has been found, but little is known religiously.🥲 By 5000–3000 BCE, Negrito populations (like the Aeta, Agta, and Ati) were established across the islands. They practiced nature-based animism with spirit rituals, ancestor veneration, and shamanic leadership.🛕🌴🎋 The Austronesians arrived via Taiwan and brought seafaring, agriculture, language, and animistic religious systems. These early Filipinos believed in anito (spirits of ancestors or nature), and diwata (gods/goddesses or spirit guardians of places like rivers, forests, and mountains).🗻🧠🗿💥👑⚖️ Babaylan (shamans, often women or gender-fluid individuals) mediated between the spirit world and humans.✍🏽✍🏽✍🏽 Rituals included offerings, chants, animal sacrifice, and healing ceremonies to appease or communicate with spirits.🦋😿🐐🐍🐟🐠🐓 Gods: ☑️Bathala / Laon – Supreme creator deity (possibly worshiped BCE on Luzon and Visayas) ☑️ Lakapati – Androgynous deity of fertility ☑️ Amihan – Spirit of the wind (a common natural force in mythology) ancestors of the Visayan people, worshipped Laon, possibly had early communal ritual centers #ancienthistory #ancienthumans #ancientpeople #philippinehistory #aetatribe #austronesian #philippinemythology #ancientpolynesian #ancienttribe #laon #filipinohistory #ancientfilipino #archeologytok #diwata #mythologytiktok #lakapati

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