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2.Antonio de Morga proceeded more barbarously and with the greater blindness than in
all the rest.Without any knowledge of the true god, they neither strove to discover him
by way of reason,nor had any fixed belief.He appeared to them in various horrible and
frightful forms,and a fierce animals so,that they feared him and trembled before
them.They generally worship him and made images of him.They kept in caves and
private houses,were they offered them perfumes and odors and food and fruit,calling
them anitos.Others worshiped the sun and the moon, and made feasts and drunken
revils at the conjunction of those bodies.Some worshiped a yellow-colored bird that
dwells in their woods,called Batal.They generally worshiped and adore the crocodiles
when they see them,by knocking down and clasping their hands because of harm that
they receive from those reptiles they believe that by so doing the crocodiles will become
appeared and leaved them.
3.Miguel de Loarca during revelries. The people of coast ,who called the
Yligueynes,believe that the heaven and earth had no beginning,and that were two gods
called Captan and the other Maguayen.They believe the land breeze and sea breeze
were married and that’s the land breeze brought forth a reed,which planted by the god
Captan.When the reed grew it broke into sections which become a man and a woman.
4.Yes,because they celebrate their own feast and they worshiped their goddess and
wishes .They offer their different shapes.And they have their idols called Badhala when
they especially worshiped.
5.The similarities of Chirinos from Plasencia’s early Filipinos religious belief are they
believed the images and their god and goddesses.