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🇵🇭 I take instant photos, I travel, I read books, and I like trying drinks. Posts are predominantly photos. https://open.substack.com/pub/donein90seconds https://linktr.ee/coelijimenez

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Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 2d

It seeks to possess all 7 moons by swallowing them. The Bakunawa already swallowed 6 moons, but was stopped by the god Bathala from eating the last one.

Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 2d

Day 31 – Bakunawa
The Bakunawa is a serpent or dragon that is believed to eat the sun or moon during an eclipse. It is kept at bay by loud noise and music.

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Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 3d

When they no longer need nursing and can shift for themselves they go to another district underground to join people who died later in life of disease or any form of sickness.

Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 3d

Day 30 – Mebuyan
From the Bagobo ethnolinguistic group. There is a special place in the Bagobo underworld for children who died at their mother’s breasts. They are nourished by the goddess Mebuyan whose entire body is delicious breasts.

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Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 4d

Day 29 – Todtod
From Visayas. It has two teeth up and two down. It is large and has a stone arm.

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Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 5d

Punished a man for his rudeness by giving him a basket filled with all the insects and reptiles in the world.

Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 5d

Day 28 – Ob-Obanan
From the Bontok ethnolinguistic group. An underworld goddess. Her white hair is inhabited by insects, ants, centipedes, all the vermin that bother man.

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Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 6d

Day 27 — Maklium-sa-bagidan
Visayan god of fire and the Skyworld.

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Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 7d

If the people mended their ways they would be forgiven, but if not, Gugurang would cause the volcano to erupt to wipe out the sinners.

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Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 7d

Day 26 – Gugurang
From the Bikol ethnolinguistic group. Gugurang was a good and powerful god who dwelt inside the volcano Mayon. He was given full control over the people and whenever they disobeyed his wishes, he would warn them by letting the volcano pit rumble.

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Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 8d

This spirit belongs to a group of disturbers and mischief-makers that include Balingen-ngen, Dapeg, and Kikiba-an.

Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 8d

Day 25 – Benisalsal
From the Tinguian ethnolinguistic group. A mischievous and unpleasant spirit who is said to cause illness, headache, sore feet, and bad dreams. It is also said to throw things.

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Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 9d

What better way to enjoy the horizon than to have Jigglypuff peeking under the wing

Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 9d

The man told the priest his sins and turned over the shroud he was wearing (that was a defence against entering hell) and the two black demons seized him and disappeared.

Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 9d

Day 24 – The Two Demons of Buhi
Two ferocious black demons. The Franciscan friar Mateo de San Jose and his acolyte encountered these two demons who were dragging an indio principal (big man) who was tied up with a thick chain around his throat.

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Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 10d

He likes mischief but mostly good, tricks those who forget to greet him (usually in the form of being tripped by an unseen entity).

Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 10d

Day 23 – Mr. Brown / Mr Jones
A Kapre called Mr. Brown was called as such in American times when they colonized the ‘brown race’ of the Filipinos. Can be seen at night in Malacanang.

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Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 11d

Day 22 – Walo
From the Maranao ethnolinguistic group. Has eight hairy heads and a thousand eyes. Guards a section of heaven where the souls of all humans are located. The souls are kept in tightly covered jars.

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Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 12d

It is only afraid of the dongla and live fire. It can pass through these though because it moves like lightning.

Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 12d

There is an old custom among the Ifugao to hand their dead under the house and build fires around it they keep the vigil and plant the crimson herb, dongla, around the house (The umangob is afraid of it).

Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 12d

Day 21 – Umangob

From the Ifugao ethnolinguistic group. Descriptions vary from a dog like creature to a lion like or wolf like creature. It also has fiery eyes.

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Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 13d

She goes out to steal a human corpse changing the corpse into a pig or fish, then she takes it home and cooks it. She can turn humans into beings like her, giving some of the corpse to her neighbors.

Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 13d

Day 20 – Ungo
In Zamboanga this creature is called Ungo, she is referred to as a ‘she’. She looks like a woman and becomes a bird or a beast by night.

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Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 14d

That’s one version. The other version was that while Tala was coming down Bundok Arayat, he met Lakambini, and they had sex, and her eggs became the first rice grains.

Coeli @ihateinstaxcoffee.bsky.social · 14d

Day 19 – Tala
In Kapampangan myth Tala is male. Tala, the son of Unag Sumala. Unag Sumala is the dawn, so the morning star came down to earth and became man. He was born as a human child, but he was carrying the first grains of rice in his hand.

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