religion

• Nagaanitos: worship; (anito-soul or spirit of ancestors)
• Sibi: a temporary shed, made on each side of the chief’s house, for the assembled people.
• Bathala: one of their many idols, whom they specially worshipped.
• Sun: almost universally respected and honored because of its beauty.
• Moon: they would rejoice, especially when new.
• Stars: they did not name them except for the morning star, which they called tala.
• Seven little goats: the Pleiades, a star cluster
• Balatic: the greater bear constellation.
• Mapolon: the change of seasons.
• Lic-ha: idols; images with different shapes.
• • Dian Masalanta: an idol, patron of lovers and generation
• Locapati and Idianale: Idols; patrons of the cultivated lands and husbandry.
• Buaya: crocodiles, were respected by the Tagalogs due to their fear of being harmed by them; they offered a portion of what they carried in their boats to them.