Filipino ancient God MYTHOLOGY

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Anito is recognized throughout the Philippines. 

this looked like cartoons

Very interesting list of gods and goddesses, and deities.  Before the arrival of the Spanish and Christianity, and also before the arrival of Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, life in the Philippines was very different, and of course we know this to be obvious.  But it's hard to imagine what it was like.  It's easy to picture Filipinos with spears and shield in some tribal format, but most Filipinos were probably not like that especially in the larger populated areas.  I don't know how the average Filipino carried on their every day life.  We can imagine them waking up, some of the men going to the fields to take care of the rice fields or crops and livestock, some tending to their fish pond or fish pen, some fishing or getting on a boat to fish in the sea, some perhaps hunting, some working in a market or traveling to different barangays to sell their goods.  The woman probably did a lot of these things also, and I don't mean to be gender biased.  Woman likely cooked, made clothes, took care of family finances, and etc.  But with respect to mythology, religion, spirituality, and philosophy I somehow have a hard time picturing how this was integrated into Filipino society at a level more richer than what we see today.  Many Filipinos today do believe in pagan beliefs, but it was bigger and larger back then, since it's more of a backdrop today's Catholic religion  (or Islam in some cases).  Some Filipinos do believe in aswangs, but many also don't anymore, and some groups never have.  Many Filipinos believe in trolls (little men and women) that can inflict a disease (usually a skin disease) if you step on their little house requiring you to give them a gift such as food in order to relieve the disease.  Some Filipinos believe in creatures or giants living in trees.  Some Filipinos put offerings (normally food) up in a tree.  In Thailand, I believe they are called spirit houses.  The idea is to provide food and appease the spirit or spirits living the tree or in your area.  A more modern form is to provide food next to a picture of Jesus Christ whereby ants usually eat it.  And then there are Filipinos today who don't believe in any of these things.  But even these Filipinos are a bit superstitious, and I'm not just talking about their belief in their faith (be it Christianity or Islam and etc.), but by nature they're superstitious.  I suppose most people in the world are like that.  Take for example when Filipinos gamble.  Gambling by nature encourages superstition since you believe in good luck and bad luck.  Many Filipinos believe that they can see a pattern in their gambling beyond logic and math, they can feel if it's their time to win, or if the slot machine is giving money.  

But going back to the old indigenous Filipino beliefs.  There were arbularyos and actually they're still around in good number, but I know them more commonly as hilot specialists.  The hilot specialist is commonly known today as a folk doctor.  He's consulted by all types of Filipinos, but often more so by the poor since modern healthcare is beyond their financial means.  But even the hilot specialist is in general viewed as a back drop to modern medicine in my opinion.  People believe in modern medicine so much, but hilot and other indigenous medical and healing practices are for the most part effective, and some can't be explained yet by modern science.  

One last thing.  Filipinos practiced tattooing back then, and although there's been a revival of this practice, it's more subdued, and of course tattooing back then had more of a cultural and spiritual meaning or at least had more stricter cultural and spiritual criterias.

the pictures are gone? where did it go?