FINALS Flashcards
The first evidence of an infused physical and supernatural reality came from ________ who excavated with grave goods from burials aged 120 million years ago
paleo archeologists
Most anthropologists believe that organized religions began when people start
burial practices
despite the ______ overwhelming Catholic influence, several remnants of our prehistoric roots still prevail.
Spanish colonizers
Visayans call a huge tree as?
taw-an or enchanted
In The SOUL BOOK: Introduction to Philippine Pagan Religion (Demetrio et al., 1991), one of the exciting concepts of the soul is _____
dungan
_____ is an old concept of the soul, according to Visayans in Panay island.
dungan
TRUE OR FALSE: Dungan only exists when a person is alive
TRUE
When a person dies, the Dungan that goes out of the body is now called
kalag
Visayans celebrate November 1 and 2 as ______to pray for the faithful departed.
kalag-kalag
Whatever happens to the Dungan will also affect the ______
physical body
when an ________ (monsters or lost souls) damages your Dungan, your physical body will feel sick.
aswang or ungo
shaman or witch doctor
albularyo or mananambal
Aside from being an ethereal entity, Dungan also means _____
willpower
willpower is also called as _____ in tagalog term
lakas ng loob
As a person grows _____ the stronger the Dungan becomes.
mature
_______ are prone to get sick because their Dungan has not fully developed yet.
children or infants
According to the traditions in the ______ tribe of the Davao region, ______ are diety couples
Mandaya, buyag and usog
could not bear any child, and because of that, they envy other people who have children.
buyag or the wife
believe the soul or Dungan goes out of the body during sleep, and then it appears like small creatures – lizards, insects, or even birds (Magos, 1986).
Kiniray-a people of the province of Antique
believe that the souls of their ancestors remain after death and that they get offended if outsiders trespass their land
Tau-Buhid Mangyans of Mindoro
implying that the soul is like an invisible shadow that follows a living body
kaluluwa from the word duha
most Filipinos regard them as ________ to __________ because of Western scientific influence.
myths and legens to the level of superstition
criticizes calling prehistoric practices as “primitive” or “supervisions” in her book Babaylan: Filipinos and the Call of the Indigenous (2010).
Leny Strobel
She stressed out the need to ______ the spiritual path
LenyStrobel, decolonize
In the ________ world, there should be less ___for traditional beliefs
contemporary
stigma
Redemptorist Brother and anthropologist Karl Gaspar calls the ________ and _____ as “mystics in exile”
babaylans
shamans