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Bathala

March 01, 2023

This article is about the Philippine deity. For the Maldivian island, see Bathala (island).

In the indigenous religion of the ancient Tagalogs, Bathala Maykapal was the transcendent Supreme Being, the originator and ruler of the universe. He is commonly known and referred to in the modern era as Bathala, a term or title which, in earlier times, also applied to lesser beings such as personal tutelary spirits, omen birds, comets, and other heavenly bodies which the early Tagalog people believed predicted events. It was after the arrival of the Spanish missionaries in the Philippines in the 16th century that Bathala Maykapal came to be identified with the Christian God, hence its synonymy with Diyos. Over the course of the 19th century, the term Bathala was totally replaced by Panginoon (Lord) and Diyos (God). It was no longer used until it was popularized again by Filipinos who learned from chronicles that the Tagalogs' indigenous God was called Bathala.[1]

Bathala Maykapal
The Supreme Being and Creator of the Universe
An illustration depicting Bathala, a Diwata and the bird Sarim
AbodeKaluwalhatian
SymbolTigmamanukin
AdherentsPre-Hispanic Tagalogs
Equivalents
Greek equivalentPhanes
Hinduism equivalentPrajapati
Yoruba equivalentOlodumare
Chinese equivalentShangdi
Israelite equivalentYHWH

Etymology

Main article: Batara Guru

Most scholars believed that Bathala (Chirino 1595–1602), Badhala (Plasencia 1589), Batala (Loarca 1582), or Bachtala (Boxer Codex 1590) was derived from the Sanskrit word bhattara or bhattaraka[2] (noble lord) which appeared as the sixteenth-century title batara in the southern Philippines and Borneo. In the Indonesian language, batara means "god"; its feminine counterpart is batari. In Malay, betara means "holy", and was applied to the greater Hindu gods in Java. Betara was also assumed by the ruler of Majapahit.[3]

Dr. Pardo de Taverra, a linguist, states that bhattala could have come from avatara, avatar; that is, the descent of a god on earth in a visible form, such as the ten avatars of Vishnu.[4] According to John Crawfurd, the Malay word Batara is derived from avatara both in "sense and orthography", and is a prefix to connote any deity.[5]

According to Jose Rizal's former mentor Rev. Pablo Pastells, S.J., who reprinted in 1900 the early work of his fellow Jesuit, Fr. Pedro Chirino, Labor Evangelica, which was first published in 1663 from an anonymous document dated April 20, 1572, the name of Bathala can be ascertained "by resolving the word into its primary elements, Bata and Ala = 'Son God, or Son of God.'" This is why the first missionaries did not deprive the natives of this name when they instructed them about the existence of God and the mysteries of the Trinity, the incarnation, and redemption, as states an anonymous but very circumstantial relation written in Manila, on April 20, 1572.[6][7]

Other possible origins of the term Bathala or Batala are the Malay word Berhala ("idol")[8] and the Arabic expression ‘Allah-ta’ala ("God, be exalted"), which is the origin of Bathala’s other name Anatala.[9]

Mentions during Spanish colonial era

The name of the supreme being of the Tagalogs was given as Batala in "Relacion de las Yslas Filipinas" (1582) by Miguel de Loarca, Bathala mei capal in "Relación de las Islas Filipinas" (1595–1602) by Pedro Chirino, Badhala in "Relacion de las Costumbres de Los Tagalos" (1589) by Juan de Plasencia, Bachtala napal nanca calgna salahat (Bathala na kumapal at nangangalaga sa lahat – God the creator and preserver of all things), Mulayri, Molaiari, Molayare, and Dioata in the Boxer Codex (1590), Anatala and Ang Maygawa in "Carta sobre la idolatria de los naturales de la provincia de Zambales, y de los del pueblo de Santo Tomas y otros circunvecinos" (1686-1688) by Felipe Pardo, O.P., and Bathala mei Capal and Diuata in "The history of Sumatra: containing an account of the government, laws, customs and manners of the native inhabitants, with a description of the natural productions, and a relation of the ancient political state of that island." (1784) by William Marsden. The true name of this deity, however, is actually unknown, and the ancient Tagalogs usually referred to and addressed him under several titles and epithets.[10]

Jose Rizal, in his letter to his friend Ferdinand Blumentritt (17 April 1890), wrote that the word Bathala was an error of Chirino or some missionary older than or ahead of him who had been copied by subsequent historians, because, according to him, the majority of the historians of the Philippines were mere copyists. He believed that the phrase Bathala Maykapal that was adopted by other historians after Chirino was nothing more than the phrase Bahala ang Maykapal wrongly written; that is, equivalent to Alla or Alah of the Muslims or to the Malayan Tuan Alla punia Kraja. This is because Bahala ang May Kapal means "God will take care", a meaning given also in a dictionary to the phrase Bathala May Kapal. The fact that the phrase Bathala May Kapal was so often encountered made Rizal presume that it may only have been a copy, and that another source where the word Bathala was used without the denomination May Kapal could not be found. Rizal believed that the Tagalogs never pronounced the name of their God, just as they did not pronounce the names of their parents, especially before strangers whom they considered their greatest enemies. He believed that they only called him Maykapal, a designation still used and understood by most Tagalogs today. He also pointed out that there was no trace at all of the name Bathalà among the Tagalogs in the local towns despite the fact that they used words such as Tikbalang, Asuang, Anito, Nuno, Tiyanak, etc. and retained many pagan usages, traditions, legends, and stories. He believed that the old missionaries did not take much interest in getting to know the religion of the Tagalogs. On account of their religious zeal, the missionaries considered the Tagalogs' religion unworthy and diabolical, and as a result, they never undertook a thorough investigation of it.[11]

For Isabelo de los Reyes, the name of the Tagalog supreme god was Maykapal or Lumikha, and hence they called their sacred images likha and not Badhala, since the latter was not a specific name, but a common treatment of deities, ominous beings, and other fabulous beings that they feared. Thus, there was Badhala Maykapal (Lord Maker), Badhala Katutubo (Conborn Lord Anito), and Badhala Tigmamanok, or Blue Bird, which actually referred to the kásay-kásay (Kingfisher). Their names were Badhala, like comets, not because they were gods, but because they were ominous. The word was pronounced Badhala and not Bathala, as an enlightened Tagalog elder told de los Reyes, and this was confirmed by Fr. Noceda in his old Dictionario Tagalog (1754). Also, according to Fr. Noceda, the term Bathala, or Badhala, was only used among Tagalogs who had connections with Malay Hindus or Mohammedans, i.e. those from Manila to the South.[specify] Moreover, the Tagalogs did not remember the word Bathala, Bátala, or Badhala until it was popularized again by Filipinos when they learned from lightly written chronicles that the indigenous Tagalog God was called Bathala.[12]

Other names, titles and epithets

1. Mulayari (Boxer Codex: Mulayri [42r], Molaiari [59r], Molayare [62r]) – In the transcription and translation of the Boxer Codex (1590) by George Bryan Souza and Jeffrey Scott Turley (2015), the word May-ari ("Owner" or "Owner of Property") is used instead of the original spelling Mulayri. The footnote explains: "Q&G, 419, gloss this Tagalog term as "an indirect appellation of God"".[13] According to the author Jean-Paul G. Potet (Ancient Beliefs and Customs of the Tagalogs, 2018) "Its compounds are mula "origin" and yari "power", therefore it means "Source of Power". The absence of linker between the two components, as in Malay, points at the Bruneian period for the time when it was coined".[14] The word yari also means "made, finished or complete, etc."[15] Thus, the meaning of Mulayari is also similar to that of Mulajadi ("Beginning of Becoming"),[16] which is the name of the creator deity of the Batak people of Indonesia.[17] The Tagalog and Malay word mula is derived from Sanskrit mula, meaning "root",[18] while the Malay word jadi and its Tagalog equivalent yari[15] are descended from the Sanskrit word jati (birth),[19][20] and both words can mean "finished" or completed regarding something made or created (becoming/being).[21] Another possible origin of the name Mulayari is the Malayalam word mulayari which means "bamboo seed".[22] The name Mulayari was not entered by Spanish lexicographers in the old Tagalog dictionaries.

2. Diwata (Dioata,[23] Diuata[24][25][26]) - Derived from Sanskrit deva and devata, which mean “deity”.[27][28] Like Mulayari, Spanish lexicographers did not enter this name in early Tagalog dictionaries.[29] In Richard E. Elkin's Manobo-English Dictionary (1968), diwata specifically refers to the highest supreme being.[30] In Bla'an mythology, Diwata is one of the four primordial beings. According to some Bla'ans, Diwata and Melu (the Creator) were brothers, and because Diwata was older than Melu, Christian Bible translators chose Diwata to refer to the Christian God.[31] Among the Tagbanwa people, Diwata is another name for the supreme deity Mangindusa.[32] In the Kaharingan religion of Borneo, the supreme god Hatala (represented as a hornbill Tingang) gave his reflection on the primeval waters the name Jata (represented as a watersnake Tambon). In unity, they were known as Jatatala which was considered a male deity as a whole. However, Jata represented the Underworld, the Earth, and the feminine aspect of God, while Hatala represented the Upperworld, the Sun, and the masculine aspect of God. The name "Jata" is derived from the Sanskrit deva and devata [Wilken (1912, vol. III)]. "Jata" as a collective designation refers to a category of spirits inhabiting the Underworld.[33][34][35][36] With the ancient Visayans, diwata was the equivalent of the Tagalog anito (ancestral spirit).[37] According to Rev. Pablo Pastells, S.J., the interpretation of the word Bathala as 'Son of God' is confirmed by the Visayan word Diuata: "we always find here the same idea signified in the words Diwa and uata differing only in their transposition.... In closing, we may note that Dewa in Malay, Déwa in Javanese, Sunda, Makasar, and Day[ak?], Deva in Maguindanao, and Djebata in Bornean, signify 'the supreme God,’ or 'Divinity."[6] In the Tagalog language, diwa means "spirit, thought, idea, central point, sense".[38][39][40] According to Demetrio, Cordero-Fernando, and Nakpil Zialcita, the Tagalogs and Kapampangans of Luzon used the word "anito" instead of the word "diwata", which was more predominant in the Visayan regions. This indicated that those peoples of Luzon were less influenced by the Hindu and Buddhist beliefs of the Madjapahit empire than the Visayans were.[41] In modern Tagalog, diwata means fairy or nymph. It refers particularly to feminine nature spirits of extraordinary beauty, like Maria Makiling.[42][43]

3. Maykapal (Meicapal, Meycapal) – "Owner of what has been shaped". The title or epithet Maykapal is derived from the word kapal, the basic meaning of which is "to shape earth, clay, or wax into balls". Its doublet kipil expresses the same meaning about food: "to make rice balls and eat them". This title is related to Bathala's other title Maylupa, meaning "Owner of the Earth/Land".[10]

4. Maygawa (Meigaua, Meygawa) – "Owner of the Work".[44]

5. Maylupa (Meilupa, Meylupa) – “Owner of the Earth/Land". Under this title, Bathala is symbolically represented by a crow/raven (uwak), one of the birds associated with the omen of death.[45] Fr. Francisco Colin (1663) compared Maylupa with ancient European deities such as Ceres (an agricultural deity) and Pan (a pastoral deity), which indicates that devotees of Bathala under this title were farmers and herders.[46]

6. Magpalaylay – "the One Fond of Incantations" (‘’laylay’’ meaning “incantation”).[10] The word laylay can also mean reverence, hence the term kalaylayan (your reverence), which early Tagalog men with children used to address their fathers.[47]

7. Lumikha – "Creator". In the Old Tagalog language, the word likha also referred to the statuettes of the anitos. In modern Tagalog, including Filipino, it mainly refers to and means "creation". The word likha was derived from the Sanskrit word lekha, which means "drawing, picture or writing".[48][49] In the ancient Tagalogs’ creation myth, the first man and woman sprang forth from a bamboo, which was the most common writing material of pre-Hispanic Filipinos.[50]

8. Anatala – A corruption of the Arabic expression ‘Allah-ta’ala which means "God, be exalted". It probably reached Tagalog through Malay or Maranao, where the Arabic expression is read "Alataala".[9] Because the expression ended in "-a", Spanish inquisitors thought that it referred to a female deity of the Tagalogs, the superior goddess of all their deities, thus making this name a synonym of Bathala.[51] The name of the Bornean deity Hatala, Mahatala, or Lahatala is also a corruption of the same Arabic expression [Wilken (1912, vol. III)].[52] However, according to Blumentritt, Mahatala or Mahatara is the contraction of Mahabatara, which means "the Great Lord".[53] Pedro A. Paterno (1892) also referred to Anatala as Anak-Hala, which, according to him, means "Son of God".[54]

9. Nuno (Nono) – "Grandparent" or "Ancient One", similar to Laon of the Visayans and Gugurang of the Bicolanos. This is the name used to refer to Bathala by the initiates (antiñgeros) of Anting-anting, a post-colonial esoteric belief system of the Tagalogs.[55] The antiñgeros also refer to Nuno as Infinito Dios (Infinite God). The term nuno was also used by the ancient Tagalogs to refer to the spirits of their ancestors (i.e. anito), nature spirits (e.g. nuno sa punso),[56] and the crocodile/cayman/alligator (buwaya).[57]

Tagalismo

See also: Indigenous religious beliefs of the Tagalog people

Ancient Tagalog idea of god

Excerpts from the Boxer Codex (1590):

The Moors [i.e. the Tagalogs from Manila] of the Philippines have that the world, earth, and sky, and all other things that are in them, were created and made by only one god, whom they calls in their language Bachtala, napal nanca, calgna salahat, which means "God, creator and preserver of all things", and by another name they call him Mulayri. They said that this god of theirs was in the atmosphere before there was heaven or earth or anything else, that he was ab eterno (from eternity) and not made or created by anybody from anything, and that he alone made and created all that we have mentioned simply by his own volition because he wanted to make something so beautiful as the heaven and earth, and that he made and created one man and one woman out of the earth, from whom have come and descended all the men and their generations that are in the world.

these people feared and revered a god, maker of all things, who some call him Bathala, others Molaiari, others Dioata and, although they confess this god as the maker of all things, they do not even know nor do they know when or how he did or what for, and that his dwelling place is in heaven.

Every time the chiefs eat, they put a little of everything they eat or drink in small plates on the table as an offering to the anitos and the Molayare or Batala, creator of all things.

Excerpt from Relacion de las Yslas Filipinas by Miguel de Loarca (1582):

According to the religion formerly observed by these Moros, they worshiped a deity called among them Batala, which properly means "God." They said that they adored this Batala because he was the Lord of all, and had created human beings and villages. They said that this Batala had many agents under him, whom he sent to this world to produce, in behalf of men, what is yielded here. These beings were called anitos, and each anito had a special office. Some of them were for the fields, and some for those who journey by sea; some for those who went to war, and some for diseases.[58]

Because there were many Bornean people in Manila when the Spaniards first arrived, the Spaniards called the people of Manila Moro, the Spanish name for the Muslims of the Maghreb, Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, and Malta. It was something that the friars who arrived later on repudiated, as the religion of the people of Manila was so different from what they recognized as Islamic that they could not possibly identify it as Islam, all the more so as pigs (often called "unclean animals" by Spanish chroniclers, possibly crypto-Jews) were listed among the chief holocausts to their deities, and, other than the rooster (manok na kalakyan), no other animal was listed. There was no feast without at least one pig being killed and roasted. This pig was always a holocaust, and consuming its flesh as a group was certainly regarded as a form of communion wth the deity to whom it had been sacrificed. The water buffalo (anwang), which is the greatest holocaust among Malays, was never used as such by the Tagalogs. Despite all of this, the Spaniards continued to call the people of Manila Moros for a very long time, as it served as a reason or justification for the Spaniards to seize and enslave them.[59][60][61] The English translation of the Boxer Codex (1590) by Souza and Turley renders "Bachtala, napalnanca, calgna salahat" as "Bathala na may kapangyarihan sa lahat" which is translated into English as "God who has power over everything". The exact translation of "God, creator and preserver of all things" in Tagalog is "Bathala na kumapal at nangangalaga sa lahat".[62]

Bathala and the Anitos

The chief deity of the Tagalas is called Bathala mei Capal, and also Diuata; and their principal idolatry consists in adoring those of their ancestors who signalised themselves for courage or abilities; calling them Humalagar, i.e. manes.

— William Marsden, The History of Sumatra (1784)

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Anitería (literally meaning worship of anitos) was the term coined by some Spanish chroniclers to denote the Tagalogs' religion, as they observed that, despite the people's belief and respect to the omnipotent Bathala, they also offered sacrifices to ancestral spirits called anitos. Miguel de Loarca (Relacion de las Yslas Filipinas, 1582) asked Tagalogs why holocausts were offered to anitos and not to Bathala. The Tagalogs answered that Bathala was a great lord, and no one could speak to him directly because he lived in heaven (Kaluwálhatian), so he sent down the anitos to provide for them.[63]

They placed their ancestors, the invocation of whom was the first thing in all their work and dangers, among these anitos.

— Francisco Colin, et al. [The Philippine Islands (1493-1898)][64]

The function of the anitos, therefore, was similar to that of liminal deities in polytheistic religions who serve as intermediaries between mortals and the divine, such as Agni (Hindu) and Janus (Roman) who hold the access to divine realms, hence the reason why they are invoked first and are the first to receive offerings, regardless of the deity that one wants to pray to.[65][66] The anitos—just like the loa of Haitian Vodou[67]—are not considered gods and goddesses but merely messengers, intermediaries, and advocates (abogado) of the people to the Supreme Being. This is similar in concept to Neoplatonism wherein spiritual beings called daimones carry divine things to mortals and mortal things to the Divine: requests and sacrifices from below and commandments and answers from above.[68][69]

They are the assistants, the ministers of Batala, who sends them on earth to help men. These helpers are called: Anitos. The nature of the Anito is such that he comes on earth, deals with men and speaks in his behalf to Batala.

— Miguel de Loarca (1582)

Some chroniclers, such as the anonymous author of Boxer Codex, do not call these agents of Bathala anitos, but instead have referred to them as dioses, rendered in translation by Quirino and Garcia as "gods".[70] The American-Filipino historian William Henry Scott supports the opinion of these chroniclers (some of whom might be Crypto-Jews[71]) that the ancient Tagalogs worshipped the anitos as gods and goddesses (aniteria), arguing that "in actual prayers, they were petitioned directly, not as intermediaries". Scott cites the example of a farmer's prayer to the anito named Lakapati, where a child would be held over a field, and the farmer would pray: "Lakapati, pakanin mo yaring alipin mo; huwag mong gutumin [Lakapati feed this thy slave; let him not hunger]".[72] However, Scott—who himself was an appointed lay missionary in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America[73]—may be using the Protestant definition or idea of intercession and worship in contrast to that of the Catholic explorers and missionaries, who described the role of the anitos as an advocate (abogado) or intercessor. Most chronicles (and isolated descriptions by explorers and missionaries) present one supreme deity analogous to the Christian God, evoking the impression that the Tagalog religion was monotheistic. Only a few sources include the names of other deities.[74] Also, the missionaries who described the Tagalog religion in the early modern period did emphasize (with only a few exceptions) that the Tagalogs believed in one supreme god as the creator of all things. Their intention was mainly to find an equivalent for the Christian god in order to help them explain Catholic doctrines. Mostly, the titles of their chapters on the Tagalog religion suggest that they intended to portray the religion as a "false religion" or "superstition",[75] despite their constant wondering whether or not the "new peoples" they claimed to have discovered already had some knowledge of the Gospel.[76]

Although Bathala can only be reached through the agency of the anitos, he is not a distant deity too mighty to be bothered with the concerns of mortal men. The early Tagalogs believed that, on the birth of every child, the god Bathala appointed a lesser spirit, whom they also called Bathala, as guardian or Bathala Catotobo (Katutubo),[77] identified by Father Noceda as a guardian angel. The god Bathala also guided people through omens and prophetic dreams. The souls of those who perished by the sword, were devoured by crocodiles, or killed by lightning immediately would ascend to Kaluwálhatian (glory) by means of the rainbow (balangaw).[78]

Rituals and ceremonies

Bathala is the subject of sacred songs such as Diona and Tulingdao, wherein performers invoke him to prevent flood, drought, and pests and to grant them plentiful harvest and a beautiful field.[79] The people of Indang and Alfonso, Cavite conducted[when?] Sanghiyang rituals as an offering to Bathala for a bountiful harvest, healing, a recovery from illness, or deliverance from death. The ritual is believed to have started from Naic long before the arrival of the Spaniards and the friars led to the suppression of its observance. This ritual is always done in preparation for other rituals such as "Sayaw sa Apoy" (Fire Dancing), "Basang-Gilagid" (House Blessing), Ancestral Offering, or Mediumistic Healing. It is also performed before searching for a lost item, such as jewelry and other valuables. After it, the Magsasanghiyang dialogues with the Superpower[definition needed] through her Timbangan (pendulum).

Some[who?] believed[timeframe?] that the term Sanghiyang is coined from two Tagalog words: isa (one), and hiyang (compatible), together meaning "compatible whole" ("nagkakaisang kabuuan").[80][81] It is more likely, however, that said ritual is related to the sacred Balinese dance ceremony Sanghyang, which is also the title for a deified spirit and means "The Revered One" or "Holiness".[82] Hyang, or personified as Sang Hyang, (Kawi, Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese) is an unseen spiritual entity that has supernatural power in ancient Nusantara mythology. This spirit can be either divine or ancestral. In modern Nusantara, this term tends to be associated with gods, which are each known as a dewata or God. Currently, the term is widely associated with Indonesian Dharmism which developed in ancient Java and Bali more than a millennium ago. However, the term actually has an older origin: it has its root in indigenous animistic and dynamistic beliefs of the Austronesian people inhabiting the Nusantara archipelago. The Hyang concept is indigenously developed in the archipelago and is not considered to have originated from Indian dharmic religions.[83]

Sacred animals and omens

The early Tagalogs believed that Bathala revealed his will through omens by sending the bird tigmamanukin (tigmamanuquin) to which they also attributed the name Bathala. Plasencia (1589), Chirino (1604), and Colin (1663) described this bird as blue in color and as large as a thrush or turtledove. Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson identified this bird as the Philippine fairy-bluebird (Irena cyanogastra). Although the Boxer Codex described it as "reddish blue and black", Antonio de Morga spoke of the bird as "yellow colored", which was the color of beauty for the early Tagalogs and had religious significance to them.[84] According to Morga, the bird tigmamanukin—as described by Chirino and Colin—could be either inexistent or extinct, since there is no known blue bird of the same size as a thrush; however, there is a similar yellow (though not completely so) bird called kuliawan (golden oriole).[85] The name Bathala was also attributed to comets and other heavenly bodies which the Tagalog people believed predicted events.[86]

Other animals that were observed for omens include the balatiti or balantikis, uwak (crow/raven), kuwago (owl), bahaw (mountain owl), butiki (lizard), malimakan snail, and the tigmamanok (white-collared kingfisher, also known as salaksak among the Ilocanos).[87] These birds, crocodiles and lizards were so sacred to the ancient Tagalogs that killing one was considered taboo.[88] When a crocodile died, they anointed it with sesame oil, enshrouded it in a mat and buried it. This is also reported about the tuko (gecko), a venomous lizard. San Buenaventura questioned the Tagalogs for tolerating monitor lizards (bayawak), saurians fond of eggs and chicken and therefore dangerous to poultry: "Ano’t di ninyo siluin itong bayawak?" (How is it that you haven't noosed this monitor lizard?)[89] The while-collared kingfishers (tigmamanok) were considered very sacred because they were permitted to pick a crocodile's teeth without harm. According to Chirino (1595–1602) and Colin (1663), the ancient Tagalogs held the crocodiles in the greatest veneration, and when they saw one in the water, they cried out in all subjection "Nono" (Nuno), meaning "grandfather". They asked it pleasantly and tenderly not to harm them and, for that purpose, offered it a portion of the fish they carried in their boat by throwing it into the water. Also, the river of Manila (now called Pasig River) once had a large rock (Buayang Bato/Stone Crocodile) that served as an idol for many years. The ancient Tagalogs left offerings to it whenever they passed by until the fathers of St. Augustine broke it into small bits and set up a cross in its place. Soon, a small shrine or chapel, with an image of St. Nicolas of Tolentino, was constructed in that location.[90][91]

Creation myth

From The History of Sumatra (1784) by William Marsden:

Their notions of the creation of the world, and formation of mankind, had something ridiculously extravagant. They believed that the world at first consisted only of sky and water, and between these two, a glede; which, weary with flying about, and finding no place to rest, set the water at variance with the sky, which, in order to keep it in bounds, and that it should not get uppermost, loaded the water with a number of islands, in which the glede might settle and leave them at peace. Mankind they said, sprang out of a large cane with two joints, that, floating about in the water, was at length thrown by the waves against the feet of the glede, as it stood on shore, which opened it with its bill, and the man came out of one joint, and the woman out of the other. These were soon after married by consent of their god, Bathala Meycapal, which caused the first trembling of the earth; and from thence are descended the different nations of the world.[92][25][93]

From Philippine Folktales (1916) by Mabel Cook Cole:

When the world first began there was no land, but only the sea and the sky, and between them was a kite (a bird something like a hawk). One day the bird which had nowhere to light grew tired of flying about, so she stirred up the sea until it threw its waters against the sky. The sky, in order to restrain the sea, showered upon it many islands until it could no longer rise, but ran back and forth. Then the sky ordered the kite to light on one of the islands to build her nest, and to leave the sea and the sky in peace. Now at this time the land breeze and the sea breeze were married, and they had a child which was a bamboo. One day when this bamboo was floating about on the water, it struck the feet of the kite which was on the beach. The bird, angry that anything should strike it, pecked at the bamboo, and out of one section came a man and from the other a woman. Then the earthquake called on all the birds and fish to see what should be done with these two, and it was decided that they should marry. Many children were born to the couple, and from them came all the different races of people. After a while the parents grew very tired of having so many idle and useless children around, and they wished to be rid of them, but they knew of no place to send them to. Time went on and the children became so numerous that the parents enjoyed no peace. One day, in desperation, the father seized a stick and began beating them on all sides. This so frightened the children that they fled in different directions, seeking hidden rooms in the house—some concealed themselves in the walls, some ran outside, while others hid in the fireplace, and several fled to the sea. Now it happened that those who went into the hidden rooms of the house later became the chiefs of the islands; and those who concealed themselves in the walls became slaves. Those who ran outside were free men; and those who hid in the fireplace became negroes; while those who fled to the sea were gone many years, and when their children came back they were the white people.[94]

These creation myths refer to what is known by theologians as a "second creation". This conception presupposes a pre-existing matter or substratum out of which the Earth was made. In Philippine mythologies, struggle between two hostile forces is a common theme in the formation of the earth; hence, the existence of the Land Breeze. It is always subsequently followed by the creation or appearance of the first man and woman in contrast to the animals that precede them.[95] According to Andres San Nicolas (1624), the Sambal people, an ethnic group closely related to the Tagalogs, particularly those in Tanay, Rizal, "did not doubt the fact of there having been in its time a creation of man, but they believed that the first one had emerged from a bamboo joint and his wife out of another, under very ridiculous and stupid circumstances."[96] According to William Marsden (1784), the ancient Tagalogs believed that the first man and woman were produced from a bamboo pole which burst in the island of Sumatra, an they quarreled about their marriage.[24] A paper by Catalina Villaruz, written in about 1920 and now in the H. Otley Beyer manuscript collection, reports that the Southern Luzon Tagalogs believed that the first man started his life inside a bamboo pole. He grew, the bamboo cracked, and out he came. The same story is told of the first woman, and once out of the cane they looked at each other, fell in love, and married. A Tagalog euphemism for a child born out of wedlock is "putok sa buho" ("one who burst out of a bamboo") – an evident carryover from the times when the myth was held as gospel of truth.[97] According to Nick Joaquin [Alamanac for Manileño (1979)] "The man wooed the woman but the woman was shy, illusive, and stubbornly coy. Becoming impatient, God [i.e. Bathala] started violent earthquake, which flung the woman into the man’s arm. Only thus were they married and the earth populated".[98]

Francisco Colin identified the "earthquake" in the creation myth as a god.[99] Based on the version of the creation myth provided by William Marsden (1784), the ancient Tagalogs viewed the "earthquake" as a manifestation of Bathala Maykapal. However, Pedro Chirino in his writings did not speak of the "earthquake", nor did he believe that it was considered as God, as, according to the Tagalogs and the Mandayas of Mindanao who informed him, the "earthquake" was nothing more than the effect of the movement of a huge animal in the entrails of the earth. According to some, this animal was an alligator; to others, a boar which scratched his body against the trunk of the earth. This is[timeframe?] also the belief of the mountain people of Palawan and Camarines.[100][101] San Buenaventura[further explanation needed] (1663:76) threatened his congregation with the manunungab na buwaya sa impierno (the devouring crocodile of hell).[102] Some documented curses in old Tagalog include Kainin ka nang buaya! (May a crocodile eat you!) and Lamunin ka nang lindol! (May the earthquake swallow you up!).[103] The low-frequency vibrations produced by male crocodiles just before bellowing, which could vibrate the ground and result in water appearing to "dance", is more likely where the ancient Tagalogs got the idea of the origin of earthquakes. In modern Tagalog mythology, earthquakes are caused by a messianic figure named Bernardo Carpio, the King of the Tagalogs, who was trapped between the boulders in the mountains of Montalban.[104] In contrast to the gigantic subterranean crocodile, the ancient Tagalogs also believed in the existence of a gigantic celestial bird which made its nest in the clouds.[105] It is not clear, however, whether this bird is associated with the primordial kite/glede that initiated the series of events which led to the creation of the world and humankind. According to Colin, the Tagalogs believed that the first man and woman sprang from a bamboo pole pecked by a bird they called Tigmamanokin to which they applied the name of their god Bathala.[106]

Connection to Dian Masalanta

According to Father San Agustin, the Tirurays[further explanation needed] worshipped Linog, meaning "earthquake", who, as the god of marriage, advised the first man and woman to mate and populate the earth.[107] Bathala Meycapal, therefore, is identified[by whom?] with the Tiruray's god of marriage, linking him to another Tagalog deity named Dian Masalanta. Dian Masalanta is an idol who was mentioned by Juan de Plasencia in "Relacion de las Costumbres de Los Tagalos" (1589) as the patron of lovers and procreation. Dian Masalanta is also correlated by some scholars to an unnamed Tagalog deity, referred to by the contemporary of Plasencia as Alpriapo.[108][109] This deity is often misidentified as the goddess of childbirth by modern writers, despite the fact that Plasencia used the masculine patron instead of the feminine patrona (patroness). The true anito of childbirth is actually La Campinay (Lakang Pinay or Lakampinay) [Pardo inquisition report (1686-1688)],[110] who is said to be "the first midwife in the world" [Boxer Codex (1590)].[111]

The meaning of the name Dian Masalanta is not provided[where?], but according to Jean-Paul G. Potet (Ancient Beliefs and Customs of the Tagalogs, 2018), the meaning could be "the blind deity" [dian "deity", ma – "adj. prefic" + salanta "blindness"].[108] However, the name could also mean "the blinding light" (Sun?) assuming that the original spelling of the name in Tagalog was Diyang Masalanta, from Sanskrit Dia or Diya meaning "lamp or light"/[112] In the Malay language, Dian means candle.[113] Dia is also the name of the supreme god of the early Visayans according to Blumentritt, which some scholars believed was derived from Sanskrit Dyu "bright shining sky", one of the first names ever given to god, which developed into the Dewas and Diwatas of all the Malayan nations.[114] Masalanta (devastating) comes from the root word salanta, which is listeded in the "Noceda and Sanlucar Vocabulario de la lengua Tagala (1754)" and the "San Buenaventura dictionary (1613)" as meaning "poor, needy, crippled, and blind". Generally, the words magsalanta and nasalanta, which mean "is destroyed/devastated", are used to refer to a calamity, such as a typhoon, flood, or earthquake.[115]

Professor of Anthropology Fay-Cooper Cole identified the Mandayan supreme gods—the father and son Mansilatan (The Creator) and Batla/Badla (The Preserver/Protector)—with the Tagalog deities Dian Masalanta and Bathala/Badhala, respectively. He also noted that Todlai, the god of marriage of the Bagobo people, is[timeframe?] sometimes addressed as Maniládan.[116][117] Mansilatan, the father of Batla, is the source of the omnipotent virtue called Busao, which takes possession of the Baylans (Priestesses) and the Baganis (Warriors) while they are in a trance, making them strong and valiant above other men.[118] In other ethnolinguistic groups of the Philippines, the term Busao refers to demons, monsters, and/or the spirit or god of calamity.[119][120] In the Mandayan language, the prefix man indicates paternity, being or dominion, while the word silatan means 'east', the direction of the rising sun.[6][121]

Among the ancient Tagalogs, there existed a doctrine—which, according to Chirino (1601-1604), was sown by the Devil—that a woman who did not have a lover, whether married or single, could not be saved. They said that this man, in the other world, would hasten to offer the woman his hand at the passage of a very perilous stream which had no other bridge than a very narrow beam, which was traversed to reach the repose that they call Kaluwálhatian i.e. Bathala's abode. Hence, virginity was not recognized or esteemed among them; rather, they considered it a misfortune and a humiliation.[122] This doctrine explains why most religious ministers (catalonas) among the ancient Tagalogs were women. Some minority tribes in the Philippines who still have some priestesses serving them, such as the Mandayas, offer an explanation. They assert that, as opposed to men, women are more appealing and persuasive toward gods and evil spirits, who are mostly males.[123] Other places in the afterlife besides Kaluwálhatian include Maca or "kasanáan ng tuwa" ("a thousand joys"), where good souls temporarily stay pending reincarnation, and "kasanáan ng hírap" ("a thousand pains"), where bad souls go.[124] Whether or not Dian Masalanta is identified with Bathala Meycapal is impossible to know, as the former has only been mentioned—and rather briefly—in "Relacion de las Costumbres de Los Tagalos" (1589) by Juan de Plasencia.

Whether or not Bathala is a solar deity

Another possible name for Bathala, although unconfirmed, is Hari, which is the old Tagalog name for the sun ('king’ in modern Tagalog), hence the Tagalog words tanghali (noon) and halimaw (lion or tiger, an animal associated with the sun in Vedic religion).[125][126] The ancient Tagalogs believed that the rainbow (balangaw) was either Bathala's bridge (balaghari)[127] or loincloth (bahaghari).[128] The rainbow was regarded as a divine sign, and it was considered blasphemy to point one's finger at it.[129] The Tagalogs today still use the expression harinawa, which means "God willing" or "may God wills it".[130] In an article written by Lorenz Lasco in Dalumat Ejournal, he cited that, in Philippine mythologies, the sky-world's own anito (deity) is the Sun which is symbolized by a bird. However, there is no evidence or documentations directly referring to or describing Bathala as a solar deity. The Hiligaynon anthropologist F. Landa Jocano mentioned Apolaki as the solar and war god of the ancient Tagalogs,[131] who is actually the supreme god of the ancient Pangasinans, alternatively addressed by them as Anagaoley or Ama-Gaoley (Supreme Father).[132] According to Jean-Paul G. Potet (Ancient Beliefs and Customs of the Tagalogs, 2018), no sun deity allegedly worshipped or venerated by the ancient Tagalogs was mentioned in Spanish chronicles.[129]

Christianity

The ancient Indian [Indio i.e. the Tagalogs] name for God was Bathala, to whom they attributed the creation of the world. Remnants of the old idolatry remain among the people, and the names of some of the idols are preserved. A few phrases are still retained, especially in the remoter parts, as for example, "Magpabathala ca" (Let the will of Bathala be done), and the priest have been generally willing to recognize the name as not objectionable in substitution for Dios. The Tagal word adopted for Idolatry is Pagaanito, but to the worship of images they give the term Anito.

— Sir John Bowring, A Visit to the Philippine Islands in 1858, 1859

During the conversion of the Tagalogs to Christianity, the katalonan (shamans) were condemned by Spaniard missionaries as witches and were forced to convert.[133] Ancestral and nature spirits were demonised, sometimes conflated with Biblical demons.[134] The dictionary of Fray Domingo de los Santos gives Bathala as the Tagalog name for God the Creator in contrast with idols, to which the dictionary gives the collective names anito and lic-ha, or statues.[135] The friars believed that the anitos were demons who led the Tagalogs away from the worship of God, but Bathala was the exception to this as he was similar to the Christian concept of the Creator. The people learned to incorporate Catholic elements into some of their traditional rituals such as the Sanghiyang wherein the majority of the spirits invoked are presumed Christian saints. As noted by Alejandro Roces, "In Alfonso, Cavite, there is a Barrio called Marahan where there lives an exclusive sect that perform a cultic ritual known as Sanghiyang. This ritual used to be a pagan rite of ancestral worship but was later imbued with Christian connotations and biblical justification". Presently, Sanghiyang is being practiced not only as a form of ancestral worship but also as preparation for mediumistic healing and as a preliminary rite for a more colorful ritual called "Sayaw sa Apoy" (Dance on Fire).[80] In the course of the 19th century, the term Bathala fell out of use, as it was replaced by Panginoon (Lord) and Diyos (God).

but now they never say: Bathalang Maykapal, Bathalang San Jose; if not Panginoong Diyos, Panginoong San Jose, and the Panginoon means "Lord", like Apo.

— De los Reyes' study (1909:113)[136]

Bathalismo

Bathalismo is a religious movement in the Philippines whose mythology is partly borrowed from Christianity. Bathala is a name in this movement, hence its case markers in Tagalog are si, ni, and kay. In classical Tagalog, Bathala, being a title, not a name, has the markers of common nouns – ang/ng/sa – e.g. ngunit ang Bathala’y dapat nating sundin (but God we must obey). The same rule applies to Diyos – ang Diyos/ng Diyos/sa Diyos. Regarding the word “Bathala” in Baybayin, with the characters written from top to bottom, Pedro Paterno (1915 in Pambid 2000:108) considers that the “ba” character stands for ‘’babae’’ (woman/female), the “la” character for lalaki (man/male), and the “ha” character for the rays of spiritual light beaming from heaven, or the Holy Spirit of God. According to him, this was the concept of the Holy Trinity before the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines.[137] Paterno was a self-styled renaissance man. He was educated in philosophy and theology, and he held a doctorate in law. He also wrote several books on Filipino ethnology, including La antigua civilización tagalog, the book in which he first imagined the Bathala-baybayin connection which some people today misconstrue as a proven part of ancient Filipino spirituality. Jose Rizal, no less, wrote the following in a letter to his friend, the ethnologist Ferdinand Blumentritt:

In regard to the work of my countryman P.A. Paterno on Bathalà, I tell you, pay no attention to it; P.A. Paterno is like this: [here Rizal drew a line with a series of loops]. I can find no word for it, but only a sign like this: [more loops].[138]

Anting-anting

In Anting-anting—the post-colonial esoteric belief system and traditional occult practices of the Tagalogs—Bathala, also known as the Infinito Dios or Nuno, is identified with the magical power (bertud or galing) that resides in amulets and talismans.

It can be said that the Infinito Dios or Nuno (native Bathala of the Tagalogs) is the genius or galing of Filipinos who entered the stone or anting-anting, that even though they were not able to blossom and won because of poverty and lack of power

— Nenita Pambid, "Anting-Anting: O Kung Bakit Nagtatago sa Loob ng Bato si Bathala"[55]

In this belief system, the Nuno or Infinito Dios is the highest God and the oldest being, from whom everything else has emanated. One such emanation is the Santisima Trinidad (Holy Trinity), to whom the Infinito Dios gave the authority to create the world and its inhabitants. Maria (who should not be confused with the Virgin Mary)[139] or the Infinita Dios (i.e. the female aspect of the Divine) is said to be the first emanation of the Infinito Dios, who sprang forth from his mind (Holy Wisdom/Divine Logos?). The sum of all these powers are the Cinco Vocales, i.e. the five vowels of the Filipino alphabet: AEIOU. 'A' for the Infinito Dios/Nuno, 'E' for the Infinita Dios/Maria, 'I' for God the Father, 'O' for God the Son, and 'U' for God the Holy Spirit. The Cinco Vocales, also known as the fragmentation (basag) of the supreme deity, are said to be the secret names of God who gives power. The antiñgeros (initiates of anting-anting) have simplified the complexity of one god in five personas. For them, the Cinco Vocales rank as the highest deity because they are the complete composition of the five highest gods (Kadeusan). The Infinito Dios/Nuno, the Infinita Dios/Maria, and the Santisima Trinidad all share in the equality of their divinity. No one of them is more or less than any of the others. The Infinito Dios is also referred to as Animasola (Lonely Soul), Waksim (his name as a water deity), and Atardar (reflecting his warrior or protective aspect).[140] On the other hand, the Infinita Dios is also referred to as Gumamela Celis (Flower of Heaven), Rosa Mundi (Flower of the World), and Dios Ina (God the Mother); she is also identified with the concept of Inang Pilipinas (Mother Philippines) or Inang Bayan (Motherland) celebrated in the writings of the revolutionary Andres Bonifacio (Tapunan ng Lingap; Katapusang Hibik ng Pilipinas).[139] Although it is widely believed that this esoteric belief system preceded Spanish colonization and Catholicism, the Tagalog term antíng-antíng (talisman) was not recorded by lexicographers until the second half of the 19th century. The same can be said of its synonyms: agímat, búti, dúpil, and galíng (Laktaw 1914:236: dúpil).[141]

The theogony of the Infinito Dios

In the beginning, there was a bright light that covered the entire universe. This light was called the Infinito Dios. There is considered to be no God other than the Infinito Dios. He was the Animasola (Lonely Soul), a winged eye wrapped in a shawl, forever changing his form while floating in space. Soon, the Infinito Dios decided to create the world. He pulled away the light in order to give way to the darkness. His light receded until it became a small ball of light. The ball of light suddenly had a gash on its lower portion that became a mouth. On top of the mouth, a line appeared that became a nose. On top of the nose emerged two holes that became eyes. From these eyes came forth bursts of flame. Parallel to the eyes, on the sides of the ball of light, two holes appeared that became ears. In short, the Infinito Dios, once a ball of light, became a figure resembling a man's head.

Before the Infinito Dios created the universe, he decided to have someone help him in his task of creation. While thinking, five shining letters sprang forth from his mind that became the five petals of a beautiful flower (mayuming bulaklak). This flower was called the Gumamela Celis (Flower of Heaven) or Rosa Mundi (Flower of the Earth). The five letters were none other than the beautiful name M-A-R-I-A, which in the Syrian language is Miriam, which means the highest. The original name of Maria before God created the universe was Bulaklak (Flower).

The Infinito Dios decided to create other beings to assist him in his task of creation. While thinking, the Infinito Dios suddenly began perspirating on his right side. When he wiped off the perspiration, the droplets became sixteen spirits. Two of these spirits became Uph Madac and Abo Natac, the two elders who would reside in the two corners of the Earth and would become the guardians of the Sun and the Moon. The next six spirits became the beings who would reside outside the Earth. They did not want to receive any blessings from the Infinito Dios. They were named Elim, Borim, Morim, Bicairim, Persalutim, and Mitim. The next seven spirits became the unbaptized Archangels named Amaley, Alpacor, Amacor, Apalco, Alco, Araco, and Azarague. The last spirit was called Luxbel, a spirit whose name means light of heaven. He was named Becca, the being who would later rebel against the Infinito Dios. His other name was Lucifer.

Meanwhile, the Infinito Dios decided to create even more beings. While thinking, he suddenly began perspiring on his left side. Wiping the perspiration off, the droplets became eight spirit beings. Five of them became beings who would go to Jesus Christ while he was nailed to the cross to ask for his blessing; however, Jesus would expire before he could give his blessing to these five spirits. The five spirits never received their blessings and therefore retained their original names of Istac, Inatac, Islalao, Tartaraw, and Sarapao. The last three spirit beings became known as the Tres Personas, or the Santisima Trinidad. The Infinito Dios gave them the task to create the world and its inhabitants. On each of the eyes of the Tres Personas could be seen the letter M, the initial of each of their names: Magub, Mariagub, and Magugab.[142]

The Infinito Dios and Bulaklak

Before the name Maria was used, God only called the first fruit of his thought Bulaklak (Flower). The first thing God prepared for the beginning of his creation was Impierno (Hell) or Averni, which was below and in the abyss. He said to Bulaklak: "I will leave you for a while—guard my Ark of the Covenant and do not dare to open it. If you do not obey my command, you will go down to the land that I will create and will suffer to gather the scattered and lost virtudes.' Once God had said that, he went down to the abyss to prepare a sad home for his chosen Archangels, who would be created and rebel against him. When God left, Bulaklak opened the said Ark of the Covenant in the desire to know the truth and fulfillment of God's words. When the Ark was opened, three letters "B" with wings suddenly appeared and flew away. The three letters mentioned were BAM, BAU, and BIM also known as the Tres Virtudes, which were very miraculous and wonderful. Bulaklak immediately closed the box, but the three "B"'s had been released already, and she could not find them. When God returned from the abyss, he said to Bulaklak: "Now, what I said to you will be fulfilled—that you will descend to the earth and will suffer."

God had already made a plan for and the forms of his works and creations: water, fire, earth, heaven, trees and plants, Sun, Moon, stars, and, above all, the holy spirits that would help him in his works and creations. God showed them to his consultant Bulaklak. She said that the spiritual creations were perfect, but the material things should be changed. This was because, in God's plan, the huge and tall trees were to bear large fruits, and the small and low trees were to bear tiny fruits. Bulaklak said that if those trees were to be placed on the ground, people and animals would seek shelter under the huge and tall trees when exposed to the heat of the sun, and if the large fruits of the trees were ripe and could no longer cling to the stalk and withstand the fall, they may cause injury or death to said people and animals.

God changed his plan in accordance with Bulaklak’s advice. The huge and tall trees would be the ones to bear tiny fruits, while the small and low trees would be the ones to bear large fruits. When everything was ready, God thought to create his helpers, but he was suddenly sweaty, and when he shed the sweat away on his right and left sides, the sixteen droplets of sweat on his right side became sixteen spirits, while the eight droplets of sweat on his left side became eight other spirits. From these twenty-four, he drew three to carry out his plan of creation. These were the so-called three powerful Avelator, Avetemet, and Avetillo. These were the Tres Personas, or the Santisima Trinidad, who would speak from the beginning of creation.[143]

The Nuno and the Santisima Trinidad

The Nuno or Infinito Dios, the first and most powerful deity of all, created twenty-four holy spirits, and among them he chose three who would come to be known under the names Tres Persona Solo Dios, the Sagrada Familia, and the Santisima Trinidad. The Three were the helpers and executioners of the creative plans made by the Nuno and by Maria, or Gumamela Celis. When the Tres Persona – God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit – talked about the things they created, suddenly the Nuno joined in and hid from the Three. The Three thought that they were the first and had the right to plan creations. They were not aware that everything was planned before they were created. The Tres Persona were deeply confused by the mysterious voice they heard and what they saw: a winged eye, a light, and an old man. As the Three chased the mysterious voice, they exchanged oraciones or words of power until they reached Heaven's gate. In this phase, the Tres Persona would be called the Sagrada Familia.

The Tres Persona did not know that they came from one God, the Nuno, that God the Father was the son of the Nuno, and that God the Son was the Nuno's grandchild. Because they did not know this, they desired to seize and baptize whom they thought was the god of the heathens in order to be saved. The chase ended when the Nuno entered the mount Bood. After a battle and an exchange of oraciones, with persuasion the Nuno agreed to be baptized, but would do so by his own power. The Nuno took out his finger from the rock of the mount Bood to be baptized, as depicted in the anting-anting of the Infinito Dios. However, it is said that, for some mysterious reason, the Nuno was not really baptized.[144]

The twenty-four Ancianos

The twenty-four Ancianos are the holy spirits created by the Infinito Dios (from his sweat) as helpers in his works; they are identified by the antiñgeros with the Twenty-Four Elders mentioned in Revelation 11:16. The twenty-four Ancianos have been given by the Infinito Dios roles and names which wield magical powers. One of the duties of the twenty-four Ancianos is to keep track of the hours of each day: the first of them is to keep track of the time at 1 o’clock in the morning and so on in succession until the end of exactly 24 hours according to their respective numbers. They are also the observers of everything that people do or work on earth, be it right or wrong, so man's sins are not safe from the Lord because of it.

The first two elders (nuno) reside in the two corners of the Earth and are the guardians of the Sun and the Moon:

1. Uph Madac – The first spirit of the twenty-four Ancianos, responsible for guarding the first hour after midnight. She designed the Sun in accordance with a task given to her by the Infinito Dios. She made many designs and presented them to her companions and to the Lord, and they all agreed on the shape and appearance of the sun that would give light to the world from then until now and into the future.

2. Abo Natac – The second spirit, who designed the Moon, which gives us light during the night. He did so many times, and these designs were presented to his companions and to the Infinito Dios, and they agreed on the shape of the moon that is present today.

The following six spirits do not have any other office. What they do is just wander out into the world and be God's watchmen:

3. Elim – The watchman from 3:00 AM to 3:59 AM

4. Borim – The watchman from 4:00 AM to 4:59 AM

5. Morim – The watchman from 5:00 AM to 5:59 AM

6. Bicairim – The watchman from 6:00 AM to 6:59 AM

7. Persalutim – The watchman from 7:00 AM to 7:59 AM

8. Mitim – The watchman from 8:00 AM to 8:59 AM

The Siete Arkanghelis:

9. Amaley – The president and first minister of the archangel warriors. He is San Miguel Arkanghel; on his shoulders rests the fight against the wicked to have security on Earth and in heaven. San Miguel is assigned as the watchman from 9:00 AM to 9:59 AM each day; he is also the watchman on the first day of each week, which is Sunday, so he is called upon on this day to prevent any disastrous events that may occur. He is also the spirit messenger and messenger of the Infinito Dios throughout the heavens.

10. Alpacor – Made secretary of the whole universe by the Siete Arkanghelis, he is San Gabriel, who is the recorder of all the hidden wonders in the galaxy and the whole universe. San Gabriel is the watchman from 10:00 AM to 10:59 AM each day. He is also the watchman every Monday; therefore, people call upon him on this day to be saved from disasters.

11. Amacor – The prince of angelic justice and the giver of heavenly grace, for which he is also the Butler of the Infinite God. This angel is well known by the name San Rafael. He is the watchman from 11:00 AM to 11:59 AM each day and each Tuesday. He is the one to be called upon on Tuesdays for salvation from calamities.

12. Apalco – The angel who was made Justicia mayor in heaven. Chief Ruler of heavenly things and recommender to God of punishments to be inflicted, he is also the giver of wisdom to be used by the soul and earthly body of man. This angel is identified as San Uriel, who is assigned to watch at 12:00 noon, and he is also the watchman on Wednesdays, so he must be called on this day to be saved from a disaster.

13. Alco – The spirit that offers or prays to God for every good work of man, he is also the receiver and informer of human needs regarding God. This angel is San Seatiel, who is the watchman on Thursdays and at the time of the first hour of the afternoon of each day, so he is to be called upon at these times.

14. Araco – The spirit who was made the keeper of treasures and graces. He holds the key to giving the riches and glory of God. This angel is San Judiel, the benefactor and giver of God's mercy. He is also the assigned watchman on Fridays and from 2:00 PM to 2:59 PM each day, so he is to be called upon at these times.

15. Azarague – The guardian spirit of heaven and Earth and the helper and protector of all spirits under the Infinito Dios. He is San Baraquiel, the watchman at 3:00 PM of each day, and is also assigned as the watchman every Saturday, so he is the one to be called on this day. San Baraquiel is the last of the Seven Archangels, who are known as the seven warriors of God the Father.

The Rebel:

16. Luxbel – The youngest (bunso) of the 16 spirits first created by the Infinito Dios. His name means "Light of Heaven" because he is considered the closest to God. When God began his creation, he was baptized with the name Becca, but he disobeyed the Infinito Dios, so God renamed him Luxquer or Lucifer. The history of Luxbel can be found in a book entitled Diez Mundos (Ten Planets). In this book exist various types of illicit wisdom, such as hexes (kulam), glamour (malik mata), philters (gayuma) and much more. All are discouraged from having a copy of this book because it is considered the cause of the unforgivable sin against the Lord.

The following five spirits were not baptized and did not accept the Infinito Dios's calling. When the Lord Jesus Christ was hanging on the cross, they came to be baptized, but it did not turn out because at that time, the Lord Jesus breathed his last. They are:

17. Istac – The watchman from 5:00 PM to 5:59 PM.

18. Inatac – The watchman from 6:00 PM to 6:59 PM.

19. Islalao – The watchman from 7:00 PM to 7:59 PM.

20. Tartarao – The watchman from 8:00 PM to 8:59 PM.

21. Sarapao – The watchman from 9:00 PM to 9:59 PM.

The last three spirits are the Santisima Trinidad:

22. Magugab – Presents himself as Dios Ama (God the Father), who some say is the first person of the Santisima Trinidad. But as Dios Ama, he is not the Infinito Dios, but only given the right and duty to identify himself as God the Father. He was given the design of the world and all its contents, such as the various types of flying creatures in the air and those crawling on the ground, including man. He is the watchman from 9:00 PM to 9:59 PM.

23. Mariagub – The second person of the Santisima Trinidad, he has the fullness of Dios Anak (God the Son) and the power to fulfill all the mysteries wrought by the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the spirit who incarnates in order to save those who receive him and believe in him. This spirit, in every age, enters the bodies of the people commanded by God, who, in this context, is called the "Lamb of God". He is the watchman from 10:00 PM to 10:59 PM.

24. Magub – The third person of the Santisima Trinidad, as the Espiritu Santo (Holy Spirit), he acts to accomplish whatever must happen in the present. Through his power, the promises of the Infinito Dios to the people are formed and fulfilled. He is the watchman from 11:00 PM to 12:00 midnight.[145]

The term "Bathala" in other cultures

In ancient Bicol, bathala was a minor divinity, represented by a small image which Bicolanos always carried for good luck; according to the Bicol grammar of Mark of Lisbon (1628, 61), "they say it was an anito that brought good luck to one it accompanied". Thus, if a man was never hit by objects thrown at him, he was said to be batalaan[definition needed].[146] According to Ferdinand Blumentritt, the ancient Bicolano bathala was a kind of guardian angel.[53] Its counterpart in the Tagalog culture, according to Isabelo de los Reyes, was the badhala katutubo.[147]

According to Andrés de San Nicolás (1664, 420), Bathala mey kapal was also among the deities of the Sambal people, whose false genealogies and fabulous deeds they celebrated in certain tunes and verses like hymns, which William Henry Scott wrote may have been due to the influence of the Tagalogs on the Sambal's culture and beliefs.[148]

Diccionario Pampango del P. Beiv gaño, 1860 defines batala as "a bird to whom the Pampangos have their omens".[149]

According to Ferdinand Blumentritt (1895), the term "bathala" among the ancient Visayans referred to the images of diwatas (gods).[53]

Ancient Visayan invocation to Bathala

1. Bathala, origin of the first creatures,
Lives in the high mountains;
In your two hands
Resides the generator-
Maniliw, who is a witch.
Tall like the trunk
Of the coconut;
Solid like rock;
Voracious like fire;
Fierce, more than the mad perverse dog.
From your breast
The generator Lulid
Went forth.

It is he
Who does what he likes;
Who darkens
More than the night-
Like the stalk of the Palay;
And Sometimes
As if by means of rays of light,
Shoots the witches like an arrow.
Your living among the pygmies.
Destroy, oh, those bad characters
Of the generator Kamakala.

2. Bathala, thou art, oh, little bird, Adarna!
Oh thou, who art nestled in that encumbered home-
The abode of hawks and eagles,
Descend, we pray thee, to earth,
With all thy multicolored feathers
And thy silken, feathery tail-
Descend! Descend!-to earth.
Oh, thou bright-winged, little bird!
Celestial gift arth thou, prepared for the earth-
Our life's source, our mother devoted.
Verily, thou hast suffered pains in those confines
Of mountains craggy and precipitous-
Searching for lakes of emerald, now vanished.
Ferocious animals
Art thine, mother
Oh, venerable Mount Kanlaon-
The ruler of the people of the mountain.[150]

Note: The bird Adarna is the eponymous character of a 16th-century Filipino tale in verse, "Corrido and Life Lived by the Three Princes, children of King Fernando and Queen Valeriana in the Kingdom of Berbania", which is believed by some researchers to have been based on similar European stories. The tale is also known as "The Adarna Bird".[151]

Original Visayan invocation


Bathala, pinunuan sang mga
una nga mga inanak,
Dito mag estar sa mga layog
Sa anang alima na tagsa
Si amay Maniliw nga tamaw
nga,
Malayog anay sang puno ka
niug,
Mabakod angay sa bantiling,
Kag masupong angay sa
kalayo,
Mabangis labi a madal nga
Bany-aga nga ayam.
Sa amang kilid lumsit.
Si ama Lulid Amo;
Siya ang mag sumunod
Kon tunay sa boot niya,
Nga mag bulit labing
Kagab-ihon mapilong…[152]

Tagalog translation


Bathalang pinagmulan ng
mga unang nilikha,
Nakatira ka sa mga bundok
Sa kamay mo nakalagay
Si Maniliw, na mangkukulam
Matayog kang parang puno
ng niyog;
Matigas na parang bato,
Masiklab na parang apoy,
Mabangis na higit sa
Asong nahihibang.
Sa dibdib mo lumabas
Ang manlilikhang Lulid Amo;
Siya ang nakagagawa
At nagbibigay dilim
Na higit sa gabi…[152]

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This article is about the Philippine deity For the Maldivian island see Bathala island In the indigenous religion of the ancient Tagalogs Bathala Maykapal was the transcendent Supreme Being the originator and ruler of the universe He is commonly known and referred to in the modern era as Bathala a term or title which in earlier times also applied to lesser beings such as personal tutelary spirits omen birds comets and other heavenly bodies which the early Tagalog people believed predicted events It was after the arrival of the Spanish missionaries in the Philippines in the 16th century that Bathala Maykapal came to be identified with the Christian God hence its synonymy with Diyos Over the course of the 19th century the term Bathala was totally replaced by Panginoon Lord and Diyos God It was no longer used until it was popularized again by Filipinos who learned from chronicles that the Tagalogs indigenous God was called Bathala 1 Bathala MaykapalThe Supreme Being and Creator of the UniverseAn illustration depicting Bathala a Diwata and the bird SarimAbodeKaluwalhatianSymbolTigmamanukinAdherentsPre Hispanic TagalogsEquivalentsGreek equivalentPhanesHinduism equivalentPrajapatiYoruba equivalentOlodumareChinese equivalentShangdiIsraelite equivalentYHWH Contents 1 Etymology 2 Mentions during Spanish colonial era 3 Other names titles and epithets 4 Tagalismo 4 1 Ancient Tagalog idea of god 4 2 Bathala and the Anitos 4 3 Rituals and ceremonies 4 4 Sacred animals and omens 4 5 Creation myth 4 6 Connection to Dian Masalanta 4 7 Whether or not Bathala is a solar deity 5 Christianity 6 Bathalismo 7 Anting anting 7 1 The theogony of the Infinito Dios 7 2 The Infinito Dios and Bulaklak 7 3 The Nuno and the Santisima Trinidad 7 4 The twenty four Ancianos 8 The term Bathala in other cultures 8 1 Ancient Visayan invocation to Bathala 8 2 Original Visayan invocation 8 3 Tagalog translation 9 ReferencesEtymology EditMain article Batara Guru Most scholars believed that Bathala Chirino 1595 1602 Badhala Plasencia 1589 Batala Loarca 1582 or Bachtala Boxer Codex 1590 was derived from the Sanskrit word bhattara or bhattaraka 2 noble lord which appeared as the sixteenth century title batara in the southern Philippines and Borneo In the Indonesian language batara means god its feminine counterpart is batari In Malay betara means holy and was applied to the greater Hindu gods in Java Betara was also assumed by the ruler of Majapahit 3 Dr Pardo de Taverra a linguist states that bhattala could have come from avatara avatar that is the descent of a god on earth in a visible form such as the ten avatars of Vishnu 4 According to John Crawfurd the Malay word Batara is derived from avatara both in sense and orthography and is a prefix to connote any deity 5 According to Jose Rizal s former mentor Rev Pablo Pastells S J who reprinted in 1900 the early work of his fellow Jesuit Fr Pedro Chirino Labor Evangelica which was first published in 1663 from an anonymous document dated April 20 1572 the name of Bathala can be ascertained by resolving the word into its primary elements Bata and Ala Son God or Son of God This is why the first missionaries did not deprive the natives of this name when they instructed them about the existence of God and the mysteries of the Trinity the incarnation and redemption as states an anonymous but very circumstantial relation written in Manila on April 20 1572 6 7 Other possible origins of the term Bathala or Batala are the Malay word Berhala idol 8 and the Arabic expression Allah ta ala God be exalted which is the origin of Bathala s other name Anatala 9 Mentions during Spanish colonial era EditThe name of the supreme being of the Tagalogs was given as Batala in Relacion de las Yslas Filipinas 1582 by Miguel de Loarca Bathala mei capal in Relacion de las Islas Filipinas 1595 1602 by Pedro Chirino Badhala in Relacion de las Costumbres de Los Tagalos 1589 by Juan de Plasencia Bachtala napal nanca calgna salahat Bathala na kumapal at nangangalaga sa lahat God the creator and preserver of all things Mulayri Molaiari Molayare and Dioata in the Boxer Codex 1590 Anatala and Ang Maygawa in Carta sobre la idolatria de los naturales de la provincia de Zambales y de los del pueblo de Santo Tomas y otros circunvecinos 1686 1688 by Felipe Pardo O P and Bathala mei Capal and Diuata in The history of Sumatra containing an account of the government laws customs and manners of the native inhabitants with a description of the natural productions and a relation of the ancient political state of that island 1784 by William Marsden The true name of this deity however is actually unknown and the ancient Tagalogs usually referred to and addressed him under several titles and epithets 10 Jose Rizal in his letter to his friend Ferdinand Blumentritt 17 April 1890 wrote that the word Bathala was an error of Chirino or some missionary older than or ahead of him who had been copied by subsequent historians because according to him the majority of the historians of the Philippines were mere copyists He believed that the phrase Bathala Maykapal that was adopted by other historians after Chirino was nothing more than the phrase Bahala ang Maykapal wrongly written that is equivalent to Alla or Alah of the Muslims or to the Malayan Tuan Alla punia Kraja This is because Bahala ang May Kapal means God will take care a meaning given also in a dictionary to the phraseBathala May Kapal The fact that the phrase Bathala May Kapal was so often encountered made Rizal presume that it may only have been a copy and that another source where the word Bathala was used without the denomination May Kapal could not be found Rizal believed that the Tagalogs never pronounced the name of their God just as they did not pronounce the names of their parents especially before strangers whom they considered their greatest enemies He believed that they only called him Maykapal a designation still used and understood by most Tagalogs today He also pointed out that there was no trace at all of the name Bathala among the Tagalogs in the local towns despite the fact that they used words such as Tikbalang Asuang Anito Nuno Tiyanak etc and retained many pagan usages traditions legends and stories He believed that the old missionaries did not take much interest in getting to know the religion of the Tagalogs On account of their religious zeal the missionaries considered the Tagalogs religion unworthy and diabolical and as a result they never undertook a thorough investigation of it 11 For Isabelo de los Reyes the name of the Tagalog supreme god was Maykapal or Lumikha and hence they called their sacred images likha and not Badhala since the latter was not a specific name but a common treatment of deities ominous beings and other fabulous beings that they feared Thus there was Badhala Maykapal Lord Maker Badhala Katutubo Conborn Lord Anito and Badhala Tigmamanok or Blue Bird which actually referred to the kasay kasay Kingfisher Their names were Badhala like comets not because they were gods but because they were ominous The word was pronounced Badhala and not Bathala as an enlightened Tagalog elder told de los Reyes and this was confirmed by Fr Noceda in his old Dictionario Tagalog 1754 Also according to Fr Noceda the term Bathala or Badhala was only used among Tagalogs who had connections with Malay Hindus or Mohammedans i e those from Manila to the South specify Moreover the Tagalogs did not remember the word Bathala Batala or Badhala until it was popularized again by Filipinos when they learned from lightly written chronicles that the indigenous Tagalog God was called Bathala 12 Other names titles and epithets Edit1 Mulayari Boxer Codex Mulayri 42r Molaiari 59r Molayare 62r In the transcription and translation of the Boxer Codex 1590 by George Bryan Souza and Jeffrey Scott Turley 2015 the word May ari Owner or Owner of Property is used instead of the original spelling Mulayri The footnote explains Q amp G 419 gloss this Tagalog term as an indirect appellation of God 13 According to the author Jean Paul G Potet Ancient Beliefs and Customs of the Tagalogs 2018 Its compounds are mula origin and yari power therefore it means Source of Power The absence of linker between the two components as in Malay points at the Bruneian period for the time when it was coined 14 The word yari also means made finished or complete etc 15 Thus the meaning of Mulayari is also similar to that of Mulajadi Beginning of Becoming 16 which is the name of the creator deity of the Batak people of Indonesia 17 The Tagalog and Malay word mula is derived from Sanskrit mula meaning root 18 while the Malay word jadi and its Tagalog equivalent yari 15 are descended from the Sanskrit word jati birth 19 20 and both words can mean finished or completed regarding something made or created becoming being 21 Another possible origin of the name Mulayari is the Malayalam word mulayari which means bamboo seed 22 The name Mulayari was not entered by Spanish lexicographers in the old Tagalog dictionaries 2 Diwata Dioata 23 Diuata 24 25 26 Derived from Sanskrit deva and devata which mean deity 27 28 Like Mulayari Spanish lexicographers did not enter this name in early Tagalog dictionaries 29 In Richard E Elkin s Manobo English Dictionary 1968 diwata specifically refers to the highest supreme being 30 In Bla an mythology Diwata is one of the four primordial beings According to some Bla ans Diwata and Melu the Creator were brothers and because Diwata was older than Melu Christian Bible translators chose Diwata to refer to the Christian God 31 Among the Tagbanwa people Diwata is another name for the supreme deity Mangindusa 32 In the Kaharingan religion of Borneo the supreme god Hatala represented as a hornbill Tingang gave his reflection on the primeval waters the name Jata represented as a watersnake Tambon In unity they were known as Jatatala which was considered a male deity as a whole However Jata represented the Underworld the Earth and the feminine aspect of God while Hatala represented the Upperworld the Sun and the masculine aspect of God The name Jata is derived from the Sanskrit deva and devata Wilken 1912 vol III Jata as a collective designation refers to a category of spirits inhabiting the Underworld 33 34 35 36 With the ancient Visayans diwata was the equivalent of the Tagalog anito ancestral spirit 37 According to Rev Pablo Pastells S J the interpretation of the word Bathala as Son of God is confirmed by the Visayan word Diuata we always find here the same idea signified in the words Diwa and uata differing only in their transposition In closing we may note that Dewa in Malay Dewa in Javanese Sunda Makasar and Day ak Deva in Maguindanao and Djebata in Bornean signify the supreme God or Divinity 6 In the Tagalog language diwa means spirit thought idea central point sense 38 39 40 According to Demetrio Cordero Fernando and Nakpil Zialcita the Tagalogs and Kapampangans of Luzon used the word anito instead of the word diwata which was more predominant in the Visayan regions This indicated that those peoples of Luzon were less influenced by the Hindu and Buddhist beliefs of the Madjapahit empire than the Visayans were 41 In modern Tagalog diwata means fairy or nymph It refers particularly to feminine nature spirits of extraordinary beauty like Maria Makiling 42 43 3 Maykapal Meicapal Meycapal Owner of what has been shaped The title or epithet Maykapal is derived from the word kapal the basic meaning of which is to shape earth clay or wax into balls Its doublet kipil expresses the same meaning about food to make rice balls and eat them This title is related to Bathala s other title Maylupa meaning Owner of the Earth Land 10 4 Maygawa Meigaua Meygawa Owner of the Work 44 5 Maylupa Meilupa Meylupa Owner of the Earth Land Under this title Bathala is symbolically represented by a crow raven uwak one of the birds associated with the omen of death 45 Fr Francisco Colin 1663 compared Maylupa with ancient European deities such as Ceres an agricultural deity and Pan a pastoral deity which indicates that devotees of Bathala under this title were farmers and herders 46 6 Magpalaylay the One Fond of Incantations laylay meaning incantation 10 The word laylay can also mean reverence hence the term kalaylayan your reverence which early Tagalog men with children used to address their fathers 47 7 Lumikha Creator In the Old Tagalog language the word likha also referred to the statuettes of the anitos In modern Tagalog including Filipino it mainly refers to and means creation The word likha was derived from the Sanskrit word lekha which means drawing picture or writing 48 49 In the ancient Tagalogs creation myth the first man and woman sprang forth from a bamboo which was the most common writing material of pre Hispanic Filipinos 50 8 Anatala A corruption of the Arabic expression Allah ta ala which means God be exalted It probably reached Tagalog through Malay or Maranao where the Arabic expression is read Alataala 9 Because the expression ended in a Spanish inquisitors thought that it referred to a female deity of the Tagalogs the superior goddess of all their deities thus making this name a synonym of Bathala 51 The name of the Bornean deity Hatala Mahatala or Lahatala is also a corruption of the same Arabic expression Wilken 1912 vol III 52 However according to Blumentritt Mahatala or Mahatara is the contraction of Mahabatara which means the Great Lord 53 Pedro A Paterno 1892 also referred to Anatala as Anak Hala which according to him means Son of God 54 9 Nuno Nono Grandparent or Ancient One similar to Laon of the Visayans and Gugurang of the Bicolanos This is the name used to refer to Bathala by the initiates antingeros of Anting anting a post colonial esoteric belief system of the Tagalogs 55 The antingeros also refer to Nuno as Infinito Dios Infinite God The term nuno was also used by the ancient Tagalogs to refer to the spirits of their ancestors i e anito nature spirits e g nuno sa punso 56 and the crocodile cayman alligator buwaya 57 Tagalismo EditSee also Indigenous religious beliefs of the Tagalog people Ancient Tagalog idea of god Edit Excerpts from the Boxer Codex 1590 The Moors i e the Tagalogs from Manila of the Philippines have that the world earth and sky and all other things that are in them were created and made by only one god whom they calls in their language Bachtala napal nanca calgna salahat which means God creator and preserver of all things and by another name they call him Mulayri They said that this god of theirs was in the atmosphere before there was heaven or earth or anything else that he was ab eterno from eternity and not made or created by anybody from anything and that he alone made and created all that we have mentioned simply by his own volition because he wanted to make something so beautiful as the heaven and earth and that he made and created one man and one woman out of the earth from whom have come and descended all the men and their generations that are in the world these people feared and revered a god maker of all things who some call him Bathala others Molaiari others Dioata and although they confess this god as the maker of all things they do not even know nor do they know when or how he did or what for and that his dwelling place is in heaven Every time the chiefs eat they put a little of everything they eat or drink in small plates on the table as an offering to the anitos and the Molayare or Batala creator of all things Excerpt from Relacion de las Yslas Filipinas by Miguel de Loarca 1582 According to the religion formerly observed by these Moros they worshiped a deity called among them Batala which properly means God They said that they adored this Batala because he was the Lord of all and had created human beings and villages They said that this Batala had many agents under him whom he sent to this world to produce in behalf of men what is yielded here These beings were called anitos and each anito had a special office Some of them were for the fields and some for those who journey by sea some for those who went to war and some for diseases 58 Because there were many Bornean people in Manila when the Spaniards first arrived the Spaniards called the people of Manila Moro the Spanish name for the Muslims of the Maghreb Iberian Peninsula Sicily and Malta It was something that the friars who arrived later on repudiated as the religion of the people of Manila was so different from what they recognized as Islamic that they could not possibly identify it as Islam all the more so as pigs often called unclean animals by Spanish chroniclers possibly crypto Jews were listed among the chief holocausts to their deities and other than the rooster manok na kalakyan no other animal was listed There was no feast without at least one pig being killed and roasted This pig was always a holocaust and consuming its flesh as a group was certainly regarded as a form of communion wth the deity to whom it had been sacrificed The water buffalo anwang which is the greatest holocaust among Malays was never used as such by the Tagalogs Despite all of this the Spaniards continued to call the people of Manila Moros for a very long time as it served as a reason or justification for the Spaniards to seize and enslave them 59 60 61 The English translation of the Boxer Codex 1590 by Souza and Turley renders Bachtala napalnanca calgna salahat as Bathala na may kapangyarihan sa lahat which is translated into English as God who has power over everything The exact translation of God creator and preserver of all things in Tagalog is Bathala na kumapal at nangangalaga sa lahat 62 Bathala and the Anitos Edit The chief deity of the Tagalas is called Bathala mei Capal and also Diuata and their principal idolatry consists in adoring those of their ancestors who signalised themselves for courage or abilities calling them Humalagar i e manes William Marsden The History of Sumatra 1784 25 26 Aniteria literally meaning worship of anitos was the term coined by some Spanish chroniclers to denote the Tagalogs religion as they observed that despite the people s belief and respect to the omnipotent Bathala they also offered sacrifices to ancestral spirits called anitos Miguel de Loarca Relacion de las Yslas Filipinas 1582 asked Tagalogs why holocausts were offered to anitos and not to Bathala The Tagalogs answered that Bathala was a great lord and no one could speak to him directly because he lived in heaven Kaluwalhatian so he sent down the anitos to provide for them 63 They placed their ancestors the invocation of whom was the first thing in all their work and dangers among these anitos Francisco Colin et al The Philippine Islands 1493 1898 64 The function of the anitos therefore was similar to that of liminal deities in polytheistic religions who serve as intermediaries between mortals and the divine such as Agni Hindu and Janus Roman who hold the access to divine realms hence the reason why they are invoked first and are the first to receive offerings regardless of the deity that one wants to pray to 65 66 The anitos just like the loa of Haitian Vodou 67 are not considered gods and goddesses but merely messengers intermediaries and advocates abogado of the people to the Supreme Being This is similar in concept to Neoplatonism wherein spiritual beings called daimones carry divine things to mortals and mortal things to the Divine requests and sacrifices from below and commandments and answers from above 68 69 They are the assistants the ministers of Batala who sends them on earth to help men These helpers are called Anitos The nature of the Anito is such that he comes on earth deals with men and speaks in his behalf to Batala Miguel de Loarca 1582 Some chroniclers such as the anonymous author of Boxer Codex do not call these agents of Bathala anitos but instead have referred to them as dioses rendered in translation by Quirino and Garcia as gods 70 The American Filipino historian William Henry Scott supports the opinion of these chroniclers some of whom might be Crypto Jews 71 that the ancient Tagalogs worshipped the anitos as gods and goddesses aniteria arguing that in actual prayers they were petitioned directly not as intermediaries Scott cites the example of a farmer s prayer to the anito named Lakapati where a child would be held over a field and the farmer would pray Lakapati pakanin mo yaring alipin mo huwag mong gutumin Lakapati feed this thy slave let him not hunger 72 However Scott who himself was an appointed lay missionary in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America 73 may be using the Protestant definition or idea of intercession and worship in contrast to that of the Catholic explorers and missionaries who described the role of the anitos as an advocate abogado or intercessor Most chronicles and isolated descriptions by explorers and missionaries present one supreme deity analogous to the Christian God evoking the impression that the Tagalog religion was monotheistic Only a few sources include the names of other deities 74 Also the missionaries who described the Tagalog religion in the early modern period did emphasize with only a few exceptions that the Tagalogs believed in one supreme god as the creator of all things Their intention was mainly to find an equivalent for the Christian god in order to help them explain Catholic doctrines Mostly the titles of their chapters on the Tagalog religion suggest that they intended to portray the religion as a false religion or superstition 75 despite their constant wondering whether or not the new peoples they claimed to have discovered already had some knowledge of the Gospel 76 Although Bathala can only be reached through the agency of the anitos he is not a distant deity too mighty to be bothered with the concerns of mortal men The early Tagalogs believed that on the birth of every child the god Bathala appointed a lesser spirit whom they also called Bathala as guardian or Bathala Catotobo Katutubo 77 identified by Father Noceda as a guardian angel The god Bathala also guided people through omens and prophetic dreams The souls of those who perished by the sword were devoured by crocodiles or killed by lightning immediately would ascend to Kaluwalhatian glory by means of the rainbow balangaw 78 Rituals and ceremonies Edit Bathala is the subject of sacred songs such as Diona and Tulingdao wherein performers invoke him to prevent flood drought and pests and to grant them plentiful harvest and a beautiful field 79 The people of Indang and Alfonso Cavite conducted when Sanghiyang rituals as an offering to Bathala for a bountiful harvest healing a recovery from illness or deliverance from death The ritual is believed to have started from Naic long before the arrival of the Spaniards and the friars led to the suppression of its observance This ritual is always done in preparation for other rituals such as Sayaw sa Apoy Fire Dancing Basang Gilagid House Blessing Ancestral Offering or Mediumistic Healing It is also performed before searching for a lost item such as jewelry and other valuables After it the Magsasanghiyang dialogues with the Superpower definition needed through her Timbangan pendulum Some who believed timeframe that the term Sanghiyang is coined from two Tagalog words isa one and hiyang compatible together meaning compatible whole nagkakaisang kabuuan 80 81 It is more likely however that said ritual is related to the sacred Balinese dance ceremony Sanghyang which is also the title for a deified spirit and means The Revered One or Holiness 82 Hyang or personified as Sang Hyang Kawi Javanese Sundanese and Balinese is an unseen spiritual entity that has supernatural power in ancient Nusantara mythology This spirit can be either divine or ancestral In modern Nusantara this term tends to be associated with gods which are each known as a dewata or God Currently the term is widely associated with Indonesian Dharmism which developed in ancient Java and Bali more than a millennium ago However the term actually has an older origin it has its root in indigenous animistic and dynamistic beliefs of the Austronesian people inhabiting the Nusantara archipelago The Hyang concept is indigenously developed in the archipelago and is not considered to have originated from Indian dharmic religions 83 Sacred animals and omens Edit The early Tagalogs believed that Bathala revealed his will through omens by sending the bird tigmamanukin tigmamanuquin to which they also attributed the name Bathala Plasencia 1589 Chirino 1604 and Colin 1663 described this bird as blue in color and as large as a thrush or turtledove Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson identified this bird as the Philippine fairy bluebird Irena cyanogastra Although the Boxer Codex described it as reddish blue and black Antonio de Morga spoke of the bird as yellow colored which was the color of beauty for the early Tagalogs and had religious significance to them 84 According to Morga the bird tigmamanukin as described by Chirino and Colin could be either inexistent or extinct since there is no known blue bird of the same size as a thrush however there is a similar yellow though not completely so bird called kuliawan golden oriole 85 The name Bathala was also attributed to comets and other heavenly bodies which the Tagalog people believed predicted events 86 Other animals that were observed for omens include the balatiti or balantikis uwak crow raven kuwago owl bahaw mountain owl butiki lizard malimakan snail and the tigmamanok white collared kingfisher also known as salaksak among the Ilocanos 87 These birds crocodiles and lizards were so sacred to the ancient Tagalogs that killing one was considered taboo 88 When a crocodile died they anointed it with sesame oil enshrouded it in a mat and buried it This is also reported about the tuko gecko a venomous lizard San Buenaventura questioned the Tagalogs for tolerating monitor lizards bayawak saurians fond of eggs and chicken and therefore dangerous to poultry Ano t di ninyo siluin itong bayawak How is it that you haven t noosed this monitor lizard 89 The while collared kingfishers tigmamanok were considered very sacred because they were permitted to pick a crocodile s teeth without harm According to Chirino 1595 1602 and Colin 1663 the ancient Tagalogs held the crocodiles in the greatest veneration and when they saw one in the water they cried out in all subjection Nono Nuno meaning grandfather They asked it pleasantly and tenderly not to harm them and for that purpose offered it a portion of the fish they carried in their boat by throwing it into the water Also the river of Manila now called Pasig River once had a large rock Buayang Bato Stone Crocodile that served as an idol for many years The ancient Tagalogs left offerings to it whenever they passed by until the fathers of St Augustine broke it into small bits and set up a cross in its place Soon a small shrine or chapel with an image of St Nicolas of Tolentino was constructed in that location 90 91 Creation myth Edit From The History of Sumatra 1784 by William Marsden Their notions of the creation of the world and formation of mankind had something ridiculously extravagant They believed that the world at first consisted only of sky and water and between these two a glede which weary with flying about and finding no place to rest set the water at variance with the sky which in order to keep it in bounds and that it should not get uppermost loaded the water with a number of islands in which the glede might settle and leave them at peace Mankind they said sprang out of a large cane with two joints that floating about in the water was at length thrown by the waves against the feet of the glede as it stood on shore which opened it with its bill and the man came out of one joint and the woman out of the other These were soon after married by consent of their god Bathala Meycapal which caused the first trembling of the earth and from thence are descended the different nations of the world 92 25 93 From Philippine Folktales 1916 by Mabel Cook Cole When the world first began there was no land but only the sea and the sky and between them was a kite a bird something like a hawk One day the bird which had nowhere to light grew tired of flying about so she stirred up the sea until it threw its waters against the sky The sky in order to restrain the sea showered upon it many islands until it could no longer rise but ran back and forth Then the sky ordered the kite to light on one of the islands to build her nest and to leave the sea and the sky in peace Now at this time the land breeze and the sea breeze were married and they had a child which was a bamboo One day when this bamboo was floating about on the water it struck the feet of the kite which was on the beach The bird angry that anything should strike it pecked at the bamboo and out of one section came a man and from the other a woman Then the earthquake called on all the birds and fish to see what should be done with these two and it was decided that they should marry Many children were born to the couple and from them came all the different races of people After a while the parents grew very tired of having so many idle and useless children around and they wished to be rid of them but they knew of no place to send them to Time went on and the children became so numerous that the parents enjoyed no peace One day in desperation the father seized a stick and began beating them on all sides This so frightened the children that they fled in different directions seeking hidden rooms in the house some concealed themselves in the walls some ran outside while others hid in the fireplace and several fled to the sea Now it happened that those who went into the hidden rooms of the house later became the chiefs of the islands and those who concealed themselves in the walls became slaves Those who ran outside were free men and those who hid in the fireplace became negroes while those who fled to the sea were gone many years and when their children came back they were the white people 94 These creation myths refer to what is known by theologians as a second creation This conception presupposes a pre existing matter or substratum out of which the Earth was made In Philippine mythologies struggle between two hostile forces is a common theme in the formation of the earth hence the existence of the Land Breeze It is always subsequently followed by the creation or appearance of the first man and woman in contrast to the animals that precede them 95 According to Andres San Nicolas 1624 the Sambal people an ethnic group closely related to the Tagalogs particularly those in Tanay Rizal did not doubt the fact of there having been in its time a creation of man but they believed that the first one had emerged from a bamboo joint and his wife out of another under very ridiculous and stupid circumstances 96 According to William Marsden 1784 the ancient Tagalogs believed that the first man and woman were produced from a bamboo pole which burst in the island of Sumatra an they quarreled about their marriage 24 A paper by Catalina Villaruz written in about 1920 and now in the H Otley Beyer manuscript collection reports that the Southern Luzon Tagalogs believed that the first man started his life inside a bamboo pole He grew the bamboo cracked and out he came The same story is told of the first woman and once out of the cane they looked at each other fell in love and married A Tagalog euphemism for a child born out of wedlock is putok sa buho one who burst out of a bamboo an evident carryover from the times when the myth was held as gospel of truth 97 According to Nick Joaquin Alamanac for Manileno 1979 The man wooed the woman but the woman was shy illusive and stubbornly coy Becoming impatient God i e Bathala started violent earthquake which flung the woman into the man s arm Only thus were they married and the earth populated 98 Francisco Colin identified the earthquake in the creation myth as a god 99 Based on the version of the creation myth provided by William Marsden 1784 the ancient Tagalogs viewed the earthquake as a manifestation of Bathala Maykapal However Pedro Chirino in his writings did not speak of the earthquake nor did he believe that it was considered as God as according to the Tagalogs and the Mandayas of Mindanao who informed him the earthquake was nothing more than the effect of the movement of a huge animal in the entrails of the earth According to some this animal was an alligator to others a boar which scratched his body against the trunk of the earth This is timeframe also the belief of the mountain people of Palawan and Camarines 100 101 San Buenaventura further explanation needed 1663 76 threatened his congregation with the manunungab na buwaya sa impierno the devouring crocodile of hell 102 Some documented curses in old Tagalog include Kainin ka nang buaya May a crocodile eat you and Lamunin ka nang lindol May the earthquake swallow you up 103 The low frequency vibrations produced by male crocodiles just before bellowing which could vibrate the ground and result in water appearing to dance is more likely where the ancient Tagalogs got the idea of the origin of earthquakes In modern Tagalog mythology earthquakes are caused by a messianic figure named Bernardo Carpio the King of the Tagalogs who was trapped between the boulders in the mountains of Montalban 104 In contrast to the gigantic subterranean crocodile the ancient Tagalogs also believed in the existence of a gigantic celestial bird which made its nest in the clouds 105 It is not clear however whether this bird is associated with the primordial kite glede that initiated the series of events which led to the creation of the world and humankind According to Colin the Tagalogs believed that the first man and woman sprang from a bamboo pole pecked by a bird they called Tigmamanokin to which they applied the name of their god Bathala 106 Connection to Dian Masalanta Edit According to Father San Agustin the Tirurays further explanation needed worshipped Linog meaning earthquake who as the god of marriage advised the first man and woman to mate and populate the earth 107 Bathala Meycapal therefore is identified by whom with the Tiruray s god of marriage linking him to another Tagalog deity named Dian Masalanta Dian Masalanta is an idol who was mentioned by Juan de Plasencia in Relacion de las Costumbres de Los Tagalos 1589 as the patron of lovers and procreation Dian Masalanta is also correlated by some scholars to an unnamed Tagalog deity referred to by the contemporary of Plasencia as Alpriapo 108 109 This deity is often misidentified as the goddess of childbirth by modern writers despite the fact that Plasencia used the masculine patron instead of the feminine patrona patroness The true anito of childbirth is actually La Campinay Lakang Pinay or Lakampinay Pardo inquisition report 1686 1688 110 who is said to be the first midwife in the world Boxer Codex 1590 111 The meaning of the name Dian Masalanta is not provided where but according to Jean Paul G Potet Ancient Beliefs and Customs of the Tagalogs 2018 the meaning could be the blind deity dian deity ma adj prefic salanta blindness 108 However the name could also mean the blinding light Sun assuming that the original spelling of the name in Tagalog was Diyang Masalanta from Sanskrit Dia or Diya meaning lamp or light 112 In the Malay language Dian means candle 113 Dia is also the name of the supreme god of the early Visayans according to Blumentritt which some scholars believed was derived from Sanskrit Dyu bright shining sky one of the first names ever given to god which developed into the Dewas and Diwatas of all the Malayan nations 114 Masalanta devastating comes from the root word salanta which is listeded in the Noceda and Sanlucar Vocabulario de la lengua Tagala 1754 and the San Buenaventura dictionary 1613 as meaning poor needy crippled and blind Generally the words magsalanta and nasalanta which mean is destroyed devastated are used to refer to a calamity such as a typhoon flood or earthquake 115 Professor of Anthropology Fay Cooper Cole identified the Mandayan supreme gods the father and son Mansilatan The Creator and Batla Badla The Preserver Protector with the Tagalog deities Dian Masalanta and Bathala Badhala respectively He also noted that Todlai the god of marriage of the Bagobo people is timeframe sometimes addressed as Maniladan 116 117 Mansilatan the father of Batla is the source of the omnipotent virtue called Busao which takes possession of the Baylans Priestesses and the Baganis Warriors while they are in a trance making them strong and valiant above other men 118 In other ethnolinguistic groups of the Philippines the term Busao refers to demons monsters and or the spirit or god of calamity 119 120 In the Mandayan language the prefix man indicates paternity being or dominion while the word silatan means east the direction of the rising sun 6 121 Among the ancient Tagalogs there existed a doctrine which according to Chirino 1601 1604 was sown by the Devil that a woman who did not have a lover whether married or single could not be saved They said that this man in the other world would hasten to offer the woman his hand at the passage of a very perilous stream which had no other bridge than a very narrow beam which was traversed to reach the repose that they call Kaluwalhatian i e Bathala s abode Hence virginity was not recognized or esteemed among them rather they considered it a misfortune and a humiliation 122 This doctrine explains why most religious ministers catalonas among the ancient Tagalogs were women Some minority tribes in the Philippines who still have some priestesses serving them such as the Mandayas offer an explanation They assert that as opposed to men women are more appealing and persuasive toward gods and evil spirits who are mostly males 123 Other places in the afterlife besides Kaluwalhatian include Maca or kasanaan ng tuwa a thousand joys where good souls temporarily stay pending reincarnation and kasanaan ng hirap a thousand pains where bad souls go 124 Whether or not Dian Masalanta is identified with Bathala Meycapal is impossible to know as the former has only been mentioned and rather briefly in Relacion de las Costumbres de Los Tagalos 1589 by Juan de Plasencia Whether or not Bathala is a solar deity Edit Another possible name for Bathala although unconfirmed is Hari which is the old Tagalog name for the sun king in modern Tagalog hence the Tagalog words tanghali noon and halimaw lion or tiger an animal associated with the sun in Vedic religion 125 126 The ancient Tagalogs believed that the rainbow balangaw was either Bathala s bridge balaghari 127 or loincloth bahaghari 128 The rainbow was regarded as a divine sign and it was considered blasphemy to point one s finger at it 129 The Tagalogs today still use the expression harinawa which means God willing or may God wills it 130 In an article written by Lorenz Lasco in Dalumat Ejournal he cited that in Philippine mythologies the sky world s own anito deity is the Sun which is symbolized by a bird However there is no evidence or documentations directly referring to or describing Bathala as a solar deity The Hiligaynon anthropologist F Landa Jocano mentioned Apolaki as the solar and war god of the ancient Tagalogs 131 who is actually the supreme god of the ancient Pangasinans alternatively addressed by them as Anagaoley or Ama Gaoley Supreme Father 132 According to Jean Paul G Potet Ancient Beliefs and Customs of the Tagalogs 2018 no sun deity allegedly worshipped or venerated by the ancient Tagalogs was mentioned in Spanish chronicles 129 Christianity EditThe ancient Indian Indio i e the Tagalogs name for God was Bathala to whom they attributed the creation of the world Remnants of the old idolatry remain among the people and the names of some of the idols are preserved A few phrases are still retained especially in the remoter parts as for example Magpabathala ca Let the will of Bathala be done and the priest have been generally willing to recognize the name as not objectionable in substitution for Dios The Tagal word adopted for Idolatry is Pagaanito but to the worship of images they give the term Anito Sir John Bowring A Visit to the Philippine Islands in 1858 1859 During the conversion of the Tagalogs to Christianity the katalonan shamans were condemned by Spaniard missionaries as witches and were forced to convert 133 Ancestral and nature spirits were demonised sometimes conflated with Biblical demons 134 The dictionary of Fray Domingo de los Santos gives Bathala as the Tagalog name for God the Creator in contrast with idols to which the dictionary gives the collective names anito and lic ha or statues 135 The friars believed that the anitos were demons who led the Tagalogs away from the worship of God but Bathala was the exception to this as he was similar to the Christian concept of the Creator The people learned to incorporate Catholic elements into some of their traditional rituals such as the Sanghiyang wherein the majority of the spirits invoked are presumed Christian saints As noted by Alejandro Roces In Alfonso Cavite there is a Barrio called Marahan where there lives an exclusive sect that perform a cultic ritual known as Sanghiyang This ritual used to be a pagan rite of ancestral worship but was later imbued with Christian connotations and biblical justification Presently Sanghiyang is being practiced not only as a form of ancestral worship but also as preparation for mediumistic healing and as a preliminary rite for a more colorful ritual called Sayaw sa Apoy Dance on Fire 80 In the course of the 19th century the term Bathala fell out of use as it was replaced by Panginoon Lord and Diyos God but now they never say Bathalang Maykapal Bathalang San Jose if not Panginoong Diyos Panginoong San Jose and the Panginoon means Lord like Apo De los Reyes study 1909 113 136 Bathalismo EditBathalismo is a religious movement in the Philippines whose mythology is partly borrowed from Christianity Bathala is a name in this movement hence its case markers in Tagalog are si ni and kay In classical Tagalog Bathala being a title not a name has the markers of common nouns ang ng sa e g ngunit ang Bathala y dapat nating sundin but God we must obey The same rule applies to Diyos ang Diyos ng Diyos sa Diyos Regarding the word Bathala in Baybayin with the characters written from top to bottom Pedro Paterno 1915 in Pambid 2000 108 considers that the ba character stands for babae woman female the la character for lalaki man male and the ha character for the rays of spiritual light beaming from heaven or the Holy Spirit of God According to him this was the concept of the Holy Trinity before the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines 137 Paterno was a self styled renaissance man He was educated in philosophy and theology and he held a doctorate in law He also wrote several books on Filipino ethnology including La antigua civilizacion tagalog the book in which he first imagined the Bathala baybayin connection which some people today misconstrue as a proven part of ancient Filipino spirituality Jose Rizal no less wrote the following in a letter to his friend the ethnologist Ferdinand Blumentritt In regard to the work of my countryman P A Paterno on Bathala I tell you pay no attention to it P A Paterno is like this here Rizal drew a line with a series of loops I can find no word for it but only a sign like this more loops 138 Anting anting EditThis section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia s quality standards The specific problem is Poor writing syntax unnatural grammar unclear vocab Please help improve this section if you can May 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message In Anting anting the post colonial esoteric belief system and traditional occult practices of the Tagalogs Bathala also known as the Infinito Dios or Nuno is identified with the magical power bertud or galing that resides in amulets and talismans It can be said that the Infinito Dios or Nuno native Bathala of the Tagalogs is the genius or galing of Filipinos who entered the stone or anting anting that even though they were not able to blossom and won because of poverty and lack of power Nenita Pambid Anting Anting O Kung Bakit Nagtatago sa Loob ng Bato si Bathala 55 In this belief system the Nuno or Infinito Dios is the highest God and the oldest being from whom everything else has emanated One such emanation is the Santisima Trinidad Holy Trinity to whom the Infinito Dios gave the authority to create the world and its inhabitants Maria who should not be confused with the Virgin Mary 139 or the Infinita Dios i e the female aspect of the Divine is said to be the first emanation of the Infinito Dios who sprang forth from his mind Holy Wisdom Divine Logos The sum of all these powers are the Cinco Vocales i e the five vowels of the Filipino alphabet AEIOU A for the Infinito Dios Nuno E for the Infinita Dios Maria I for God the Father O for God the Son and U for God the Holy Spirit The Cinco Vocales also known as the fragmentation basag of the supreme deity are said to be the secret names of God who gives power The antingeros initiates of anting anting have simplified the complexity of one god in five personas For them the Cinco Vocales rank as the highest deity because they are the complete composition of the five highest gods Kadeusan The Infinito Dios Nuno the Infinita Dios Maria and the Santisima Trinidad all share in the equality of their divinity No one of them is more or less than any of the others The Infinito Dios is also referred to as Animasola Lonely Soul Waksim his name as a water deity and Atardar reflecting his warrior or protective aspect 140 On the other hand the Infinita Dios is also referred to as Gumamela Celis Flower of Heaven Rosa Mundi Flower of the World and Dios Ina God the Mother she is also identified with the concept of Inang Pilipinas Mother Philippines or Inang Bayan Motherland celebrated in the writings of the revolutionary Andres Bonifacio Tapunan ng Lingap Katapusang Hibik ng Pilipinas 139 Although it is widely believed that this esoteric belief system preceded Spanish colonization and Catholicism the Tagalog term anting anting talisman was not recorded by lexicographers until the second half of the 19th century The same can be said of its synonyms agimat buti dupil and galing Laktaw 1914 236 dupil 141 The theogony of the Infinito Dios Edit In the beginning there was a bright light that covered the entire universe This light was called the Infinito Dios There is considered to be no God other than the Infinito Dios He was the Animasola Lonely Soul a winged eye wrapped in a shawl forever changing his form while floating in space Soon the Infinito Dios decided to create the world He pulled away the light in order to give way to the darkness His light receded until it became a small ball of light The ball of light suddenly had a gash on its lower portion that became a mouth On top of the mouth a line appeared that became a nose On top of the nose emerged two holes that became eyes From these eyes came forth bursts of flame Parallel to the eyes on the sides of the ball of light two holes appeared that became ears In short the Infinito Dios once a ball of light became a figure resembling a man s head Before the Infinito Dios created the universe he decided to have someone help him in his task of creation While thinking five shining letters sprang forth from his mind that became the five petals of a beautiful flower mayuming bulaklak This flower was called the Gumamela Celis Flower of Heaven or Rosa Mundi Flower of the Earth The five letters were none other than the beautiful name M A R I A which in the Syrian language is Miriam which means the highest The original name of Maria before God created the universe was Bulaklak Flower The Infinito Dios decided to create other beings to assist him in his task of creation While thinking the Infinito Dios suddenly began perspirating on his right side When he wiped off the perspiration the droplets became sixteen spirits Two of these spirits became Uph Madac and Abo Natac the two elders who would reside in the two corners of the Earth and would become the guardians of the Sun and the Moon The next six spirits became the beings who would reside outside the Earth They did not want to receive any blessings from the Infinito Dios They were named Elim Borim Morim Bicairim Persalutim and Mitim The next seven spirits became the unbaptized Archangels named Amaley Alpacor Amacor Apalco Alco Araco and Azarague The last spirit was called Luxbel a spirit whose name means light of heaven He was named Becca the being who would later rebel against the Infinito Dios His other name was Lucifer Meanwhile the Infinito Dios decided to create even more beings While thinking he suddenly began perspiring on his left side Wiping the perspiration off the droplets became eight spirit beings Five of them became beings who would go to Jesus Christ while he was nailed to the cross to ask for his blessing however Jesus would expire before he could give his blessing to these five spirits The five spirits never received their blessings and therefore retained their original names of Istac Inatac Islalao Tartaraw and Sarapao The last three spirit beings became known as the Tres Personas or the Santisima Trinidad The Infinito Dios gave them the task to create the world and its inhabitants On each of the eyes of the Tres Personas could be seen the letter M the initial of each of their names Magub Mariagub and Magugab 142 The Infinito Dios and Bulaklak Edit Before the name Maria was used God only called the first fruit of his thought Bulaklak Flower The first thing God prepared for the beginning of his creation was Impierno Hell or Averni which was below and in the abyss He said to Bulaklak I will leave you for a while guard my Ark of the Covenant and do not dare to open it If you do not obey my command you will go down to the land that I will create and will suffer to gather the scattered and lost virtudes Once God had said that he went down to the abyss to prepare a sad home for his chosen Archangels who would be created and rebel against him When God left Bulaklak opened the said Ark of the Covenant in the desire to know the truth and fulfillment of God s words When the Ark was opened three letters B with wings suddenly appeared and flew away The three letters mentioned were BAM BAU and BIM also known as the Tres Virtudes which were very miraculous and wonderful Bulaklak immediately closed the box but the three B s had been released already and she could not find them When God returned from the abyss he said to Bulaklak Now what I said to you will be fulfilled that you will descend to the earth and will suffer God had already made a plan for and the forms of his works and creations water fire earth heaven trees and plants Sun Moon stars and above all the holy spirits that would help him in his works and creations God showed them to his consultant Bulaklak She said that the spiritual creations were perfect but the material things should be changed This was because in God s plan the huge and tall trees were to bear large fruits and the small and low trees were to bear tiny fruits Bulaklak said that if those trees were to be placed on the ground people and animals would seek shelter under the huge and tall trees when exposed to the heat of the sun and if the large fruits of the trees were ripe and could no longer cling to the stalk and withstand the fall they may cause injury or death to said people and animals God changed his plan in accordance with Bulaklak s advice The huge and tall trees would be the ones to bear tiny fruits while the small and low trees would be the ones to bear large fruits When everything was ready God thought to create his helpers but he was suddenly sweaty and when he shed the sweat away on his right and left sides the sixteen droplets of sweat on his right side became sixteen spirits while the eight droplets of sweat on his left side became eight other spirits From these twenty four he drew three to carry out his plan of creation These were the so called three powerful Avelator Avetemet and Avetillo These were the Tres Personas or the Santisima Trinidad who would speak from the beginning of creation 143 The Nuno and the Santisima Trinidad Edit The Nuno or Infinito Dios the first and most powerful deity of all created twenty four holy spirits and among them he chose three who would come to be known under the names Tres Persona Solo Dios the Sagrada Familia and the Santisima Trinidad The Three were the helpers and executioners of the creative plans made by the Nuno and by Maria or Gumamela Celis When the Tres Persona God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Spirit talked about the things they created suddenly the Nuno joined in and hid from the Three The Three thought that they were the first and had the right to plan creations They were not aware that everything was planned before they were created The Tres Persona were deeply confused by the mysterious voice they heard and what they saw a winged eye a light and an old man As the Three chased the mysterious voice they exchanged oraciones or words of power until they reached Heaven s gate In this phase the Tres Persona would be called the Sagrada Familia The Tres Persona did not know that they came from one God the Nuno that God the Father was the son of the Nuno and that God the Son was the Nuno s grandchild Because they did not know this they desired to seize and baptize whom they thought was the god of the heathens in order to be saved The chase ended when the Nuno entered the mount Bood After a battle and an exchange of oraciones with persuasion the Nuno agreed to be baptized but would do so by his own power The Nuno took out his finger from the rock of the mount Bood to be baptized as depicted in the anting anting of the Infinito Dios However it is said that for some mysterious reason the Nuno was not really baptized 144 The twenty four Ancianos Edit The twenty four Ancianos are the holy spirits created by the Infinito Dios from his sweat as helpers in his works they are identified by the antingeros with the Twenty Four Elders mentioned in Revelation 11 16 The twenty four Ancianos have been given by the Infinito Dios roles and names which wield magical powers One of the duties of the twenty four Ancianos is to keep track of the hours of each day the first of them is to keep track of the time at 1 o clock in the morning and so on in succession until the end of exactly 24 hours according to their respective numbers They are also the observers of everything that people do or work on earth be it right or wrong so man s sins are not safe from the Lord because of it The first two elders nuno reside in the two corners of the Earth and are the guardians of the Sun and the Moon 1 Uph Madac The first spirit of the twenty four Ancianos responsible for guarding the first hour after midnight She designed the Sun in accordance with a task given to her by the Infinito Dios She made many designs and presented them to her companions and to the Lord and they all agreed on the shape and appearance of the sun that would give light to the world from then until now and into the future 2 Abo Natac The second spirit who designed the Moon which gives us light during the night He did so many times and these designs were presented to his companions and to the Infinito Dios and they agreed on the shape of the moon that is present today The following six spirits do not have any other office What they do is just wander out into the world and be God s watchmen 3 Elim The watchman from 3 00 AM to 3 59 AM4 Borim The watchman from 4 00 AM to 4 59 AM5 Morim The watchman from 5 00 AM to 5 59 AM6 Bicairim The watchman from 6 00 AM to 6 59 AM7 Persalutim The watchman from 7 00 AM to 7 59 AM8 Mitim The watchman from 8 00 AM to 8 59 AMThe Siete Arkanghelis 9 Amaley The president and first minister of the archangel warriors He is San Miguel Arkanghel on his shoulders rests the fight against the wicked to have security on Earth and in heaven San Miguel is assigned as the watchman from 9 00 AM to 9 59 AM each day he is also the watchman on the first day of each week which is Sunday so he is called upon on this day to prevent any disastrous events that may occur He is also the spirit messenger and messenger of the Infinito Dios throughout the heavens 10 Alpacor Made secretary of the whole universe by the Siete Arkanghelis he is San Gabriel who is the recorder of all the hidden wonders in the galaxy and the whole universe San Gabriel is the watchman from 10 00 AM to 10 59 AM each day He is also the watchman every Monday therefore people call upon him on this day to be saved from disasters 11 Amacor The prince of angelic justice and the giver of heavenly grace for which he is also the Butler of the Infinite God This angel is well known by the name San Rafael He is the watchman from 11 00 AM to 11 59 AM each day and each Tuesday He is the one to be called upon on Tuesdays for salvation from calamities 12 Apalco The angel who was made Justicia mayor in heaven Chief Ruler of heavenly things and recommender to God of punishments to be inflicted he is also the giver of wisdom to be used by the soul and earthly body of man This angel is identified as San Uriel who is assigned to watch at 12 00 noon and he is also the watchman on Wednesdays so he must be called on this day to be saved from a disaster 13 Alco The spirit that offers or prays to God for every good work of man he is also the receiver and informer of human needs regarding God This angel is San Seatiel who is the watchman on Thursdays and at the time of the first hour of the afternoon of each day so he is to be called upon at these times 14 Araco The spirit who was made the keeper of treasures and graces He holds the key to giving the riches and glory of God This angel is San Judiel the benefactor and giver of God s mercy He is also the assigned watchman on Fridays and from 2 00 PM to 2 59 PM each day so he is to be called upon at these times 15 Azarague The guardian spirit of heaven and Earth and the helper and protector of all spirits under the Infinito Dios He is San Baraquiel the watchman at 3 00 PM of each day and is also assigned as the watchman every Saturday so he is the one to be called on this day San Baraquiel is the last of the Seven Archangels who are known as the seven warriors of God the Father The Rebel 16 Luxbel The youngest bunso of the 16 spirits first created by the Infinito Dios His name means Light of Heaven because he is considered the closest to God When God began his creation he was baptized with the name Becca but he disobeyed the Infinito Dios so God renamed him Luxquer or Lucifer The history of Luxbel can be found in a book entitled Diez Mundos Ten Planets In this book exist various types of illicit wisdom such as hexes kulam glamour malik mata philters gayuma and much more All are discouraged from having a copy of this book because it is considered the cause of the unforgivable sin against the Lord The following five spirits were not baptized and did not accept the Infinito Dios s calling When the Lord Jesus Christ was hanging on the cross they came to be baptized but it did not turn out because at that time the Lord Jesus breathed his last They are 17 Istac The watchman from 5 00 PM to 5 59 PM 18 Inatac The watchman from 6 00 PM to 6 59 PM 19 Islalao The watchman from 7 00 PM to 7 59 PM 20 Tartarao The watchman from 8 00 PM to 8 59 PM 21 Sarapao The watchman from 9 00 PM to 9 59 PM The last three spirits are the Santisima Trinidad 22 Magugab Presents himself as Dios Ama God the Father who some say is the first person of the Santisima Trinidad But as Dios Ama he is not the Infinito Dios but only given the right and duty to identify himself as God the Father He was given the design of the world and all its contents such as the various types of flying creatures in the air and those crawling on the ground including man He is the watchman from 9 00 PM to 9 59 PM 23 Mariagub The second person of the Santisima Trinidad he has the fullness of Dios Anak God the Son and the power to fulfill all the mysteries wrought by the Lord Jesus Christ He is the spirit who incarnates in order to save those who receive him and believe in him This spirit in every age enters the bodies of the people commanded by God who in this context is called the Lamb of God He is the watchman from 10 00 PM to 10 59 PM 24 Magub The third person of the Santisima Trinidad as the Espiritu Santo Holy Spirit he acts to accomplish whatever must happen in the present Through his power the promises of the Infinito Dios to the people are formed and fulfilled He is the watchman from 11 00 PM to 12 00 midnight 145 The term Bathala in other cultures EditIn ancient Bicol bathala was a minor divinity represented by a small image which Bicolanos always carried for good luck according to the Bicol grammar of Mark of Lisbon 1628 61 they say it was an anito that brought good luck to one it accompanied Thus if a man was never hit by objects thrown at him he was said to be batalaan definition needed 146 According to Ferdinand Blumentritt the ancient Bicolano bathala was a kind of guardian angel 53 Its counterpart in the Tagalog culture according to Isabelo de los Reyes was the badhala katutubo 147 According to Andres de San Nicolas 1664 420 Bathala mey kapal was also among the deities of the Sambal people whose false genealogies and fabulous deeds they celebrated in certain tunes and verses like hymns which William Henry Scott wrote may have been due to the influence of the Tagalogs on the Sambal s culture and beliefs 148 Diccionario Pampango del P Beiv gano 1860 defines batala as a bird to whom the Pampangos have their omens 149 According to Ferdinand Blumentritt 1895 the term bathala among the ancient Visayans referred to the images of diwatas gods 53 Ancient Visayan invocation to Bathala Edit 1 Bathala origin of the first creatures Lives in the high mountains In your two hands Resides the generator Maniliw who is a witch Tall like the trunk Of the coconut Solid like rock Voracious like fire Fierce more than the mad perverse dog From your breast The generator Lulid Went forth It is heWho does what he likes Who darkensMore than the night Like the stalk of the Palay And SometimesAs if by means of rays of light Shoots the witches like an arrow Your living among the pygmies Destroy oh those bad charactersOf the generator Kamakala 2 Bathala thou art oh little bird Adarna Oh thou who art nestled in that encumbered home The abode of hawks and eagles Descend we pray thee to earth With all thy multicolored feathersAnd thy silken feathery tail Descend Descend to earth Oh thou bright winged little bird Celestial gift arth thou prepared for the earth Our life s source our mother devoted Verily thou hast suffered pains in those confinesOf mountains craggy and precipitous Searching for lakes of emerald now vanished Ferocious animalsArt thine motherOh venerable Mount Kanlaon The ruler of the people of the mountain 150 Note The bird Adarna is the eponymous character of a 16th century Filipino tale in verse Corrido and Life Lived by the Three Princes children of King Fernando and Queen Valeriana in the Kingdom of Berbania which is believed by some researchers to have been based on similar European stories The tale is also known as The Adarna Bird 151 Original Visayan invocation Edit Bathala pinunuan sang mgauna nga mga inanak Dito mag estar sa mga layogSa anang alima na tagsaSi amay Maniliw nga tamawnga Malayog anay sang puno kaniug Mabakod angay sa bantiling Kag masupong angay sakalayo Mabangis labi a madal ngaBany aga nga ayam Sa amang kilid lumsit Si ama Lulid Amo Siya ang mag sumunodKon tunay sa boot niya Nga mag bulit labingKagab ihon mapilong 152 Tagalog translation Edit Bathalang pinagmulan ngmga unang nilikha Nakatira ka sa mga bundokSa kamay mo nakalagaySi Maniliw na mangkukulamMatayog kang parang punong niyog Matigas na parang bato Masiklab na parang apoy Mabangis na higit saAsong nahihibang Sa dibdib mo lumabasAng manlilikhang Lulid Amo Siya ang nakagagawaAt nagbibigay dilimNa higit sa gabi 152 References Edit Reyes y Florentino Isabelo de los 1909 La religion antigua de los Filipinos Manila Impr de el Renacimiento 1909 Page 33 34 113 R Ghose 1966 Saivism in Indonesia during the Hindu Javanese period The University of Hong Kong Press pages 16 123 494 495 550 552 Scott William Henry 1994 Barangay Sixteenth Century Philippine Culture and Society 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