This full moon of September 29, 2023- we are going to Honor the Diwatang Makalindong and the Manobo Indigenous People.

MAKALINDOG IS A MANOBO DEITY SPIRIT, ACCORDING TO ASWANG PROJECT, WHICH IS THE FOUNDER OF THE WORLD WHO SET THE WORLD ON FOUR PILLARS.

THE MANOBO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, AS DEFINED BY YODISPHERE.COM, MEANS A PERSON OR PEOPLE. IT HAS OTHER NAME SUCH AS MANUVU OR MINUVU. IT ALSO MAY HAVE ORIGINATED FROM THE WORD MANSUBA WHICH THE WORD MAN MEANS PEOPLE AND SUBA MEANS RIVER. THE OTHER UNDERSTANDING ABOUT THE WORD MANUBO IS MAN AS PEOPLE AND TUBO MEANS GROWTH, THUS MANOBO MEANS FIRST PEOPLE.

IT IS BELIEVED THAT MANOBO BELONG TO THE ORIGINAL STOCK OF PROTO-PHILIPPINE OR PROTO- AUSTRONESIAN PEOPLE WHO CAME FROM SOUTH CHINA THOUSAND YEARS AGO, EARLIER THAN THE IFUGAO AND OTHER TERRACE-BUILDING PEOPLE OF NORTHERN LUZON.

ACCORDING TO PHILIPPINE CLEARING HOUSE MECHANISM, THERE ARE 8 CLUSTER GROUPS OF MANOBO AND THEY ARE:

HISTORY

THERE WERE MANOBO LEADERS THAT WERE 2 BROTHERS NAMED: TABUNAWAY AND MAMALU. DURING THE 14^TH CENTURY WHEN SHRIF KABUNSUAN WHO IS A MUSLIM MISSIONARY CONVERT THE PEOPLE INTO ISLAM, TABUNAWAY REJECTED ISLAM BUT ADVISED MAMALU HIS YOUNGER BROTHER TO SUBMIT AND BE CONVERTED. TABUNAWAY AND HIS FOLLOWERS FLED TO PULANGI RIVER,WHEREAS MAMALU’S DESCENDANT BECAME THE MAGUINDANAON OR THE ISLAMIZED MANOBO.

SOCIAL TITULARY

•TIMUAY ARE CHIEFTAINS WITHIN COMPACT VILLAGES THAT USUALLY HAVE 3 OR 4 DATU’S.

•BAGANI ARE WARRIORS

•BAYLAN ARE EITHER MALE OR FEMALE PRIEST/ HEALERS.

•BAI ARE FEMALE DATU

•MANIGUON ARE ELDERS THAT IS IDENTIFIED WHEN THE COMMUNITY RECOGNIZES A MALE MEMBER’S CAPABILITY TO LEAD PEOPLE, RESOLVE CONFLICTS, OR SUGGEST POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO PROBLEMS.

•KAMANIGOONAN ARE COUNCIL OF ELDERS.

THE MANOBO SHAMANS

THE MANUVU HAS 3 CLASSIFICATIONS OF SHAMANS, AND THEY ARE:

•THE WALIAN OR COMMON PRACTITIONER

•THE TUMANURON OR THE ONE WITH GUARDIAN SPIRITS; AND

•THE POHOHANA OR A DIVINER, PROPHET AND DOER OF MIRACLES.

WESTERN BUKIDNON MANOBO RECOGNIZE 2 TYPES OF BAYLAN AND THEY ARE:

•THOSE WHO CAN SEE BUSAW, TALK TO THE DIWATA, AND CURE ON PATIENTS BY BLOWING ON THEM; AND

•THOSE WHO DISCOVER CURE FOR THE PERSON’S ILLNESS THROUGH DREAMS SENT TO THEM BY A DIWATA AND THEN PERFORM A RELIGIOUS CEREMONY TO HEAL THE PATIENTS.

MANOBO COSMOLOGY

MANOBO COSMOLOGY BELIEVES THAT IT CONSIST OF FOUR WORLD, IT IS ALSO BELIEVED THAT THIS IS THE FOUR PILLAR THAT THE DIWATANG MAKALINDOG SETS.

THE FOUR WORLD ARE THE FOLLOWING:

•LANGIT WHICH IS A MULTI LAYERED SKYWORLD;

•PASAK OR YUNGSOD TO MAMASAK WHICH IS THE EARTH WORLD;

•YONGSOD NI MAYBOWAN WHICH IS THE UNDERWORLD; AND

•KULAGUAN WHICH IS THE PARADISE WHERE THE EPIC HEROES DWELL.

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THE ILIANON BELIEVES THAT THE SKY WORLD HAS SEVEN LAYERS WHILE THE MANUVU HAS NINE.

THERE ARE NO EXACT EXPLANATION ON THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE BELIEF ON THE SKYWORLD SPECIALLY ITS LAYERS. IN ORDER TO ATTEMPT IN EXPLAINING IT, WE MIGHT SAY THAT THE SKY WORLD ARE THE EARTH ATMOSPHERE THAT HAS MULTIPLE LAYERS.

ACCORDING TO ILIANON THERE ARE 7 LAYERS OF SKYWORLD/ ATMOSPHRE. ACCORDING TO NIWA OR NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH OF NEW ZEALAND, THE 7 LAYERS OF THE SKYWORLD OR ATMOSPHERE ARE THE FOLLOWING:

1.TROPOSPHERE

2.STRATOSPHERE

3.MESOSPHERE

4.THERMOSPHERE

IONOSPHERE

6. EXOSPHERE

7. MAGNETOSPHERE

WHILE WE SEE THIS IMAGE AT QUORA.COM IN SUPPORT OF THE MANUVU 9 LAYERS OF SKYWORLD WHICH ARE:

  1. TROPOSPHERE

  2. TROPOPAUSE

  3. STRATOSPHERE

  4. STRATOPAUSE

  5. MESOSPHERE

  6. MESOPAUSE

  7. THERMOSPHERE

  8. THERMOPAUSE

  9. EXOSPHERE

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THE DWELLERS OF THE SKYWORLD

ACCORDING TO THE MANOBO COSMOLOGY THE LANGIT

HAS 3 KINDS OF INHABITANTS AND THEY ARE:

•THE UMLI WHO ARE CLASS OF DEITIES WHO HOLDS THEM APART FROM HUMAN AFFAIRS;

•THE DIWATA WHICH ARE LESSER DEITIES THAT CONTROLS NATURAL PHENOMENA AND VARIOUS LIVING CREATURES AND ARE PATRONS OF HUMAN ACTIVITIES; AND

•THE BUSAW WHICH ARE MALIGNANT SPIRITS THAT CAUSES ILLNESS AND MISFORTUNES.

•DAYAWAG OR MESSENGERS OF GOD ALSO HELPER OF BAYLAN TO DISCOVER THE OFFENSE AN INDIVIDUAL MADE TO A DIWATA THAT HAS CAUSED THE ILLNESS.

DEITIES OF THE MANOBO PANTHEON

THERE ARE ABOUT 50 DEITIES OF WHICH THE SUPREME DEITIES ON DIFFERENT LAYERS OF THE SKY WORLD

FIRST LAYER (KATULSAN) DEITIES:

MANAMA

KERENEN

NENLIMBAG

MAGBABAYA

MEMINTARAN

MISUARA

NENGASEN ALATAALA

SECOND LAYER DEITIES

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•MANDANGAN GODDESS OF BLOODSHED AND WAR.

•IBABASOK GOD OF FARMING

•MANAWBANAW GOD OF RAIN AND THUNDER

•LELAWAG GOD OF WILD GAME

•AHMOGKAT AND BULALAKAW GOD OF RIVERS AND STREAM MENGILALA GOD OF MURDER

IN MANOBO THEOLOGY, THEY CONSIDER A SUPREME AS THE DEITYIS ESSENTIAL TOWARDS HUMAN SURVIVAL.

IPEMEMEHANDI, GODDESS OF WEALTH, IS CONSIDERED EQUAL TO THE SUPREME DEITY. HER DWELLING PLACE IN THE SKYWORLD OVERFLOWS WITH WEALTH: THE CREEK SHIMMERS WITH SILVER COINS, THE PLAINS ARE MADE OF GOLD, THE RIVERBANKS ARE MIRRORS. THERE ARE PEWTER BELLS FOR GRAVEL, PORCELAIN JARS FOR STONES, AND TIKES (LEG OR KNEE BANDS OF BRAIDED NITO) AND NECKLACES FOR MOSS ON TREES. ALL, RICH OR POOR, MUST VENERATE IPEMEMEHANDI WITH OFFERINGS OF SILVER MONEY, BETEL CHEW, CLOTH, AND SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS—THE RICH TO BECOME RICHER, AND THE POOR TO IMPROVE THEIR LOT IN LIFE.

TEGULAMBONG, IPEMEMEHANDI’S HUSBAND, CAN CAUSE ILLNESS WHEN ANGERED AND MUST BE APPEASED BY A KALIGA-ON HEALING CEREMONY AND FEAST. THE KALIGA-ON IS NOT PERFORMED FOR IPEMEMEHANDI.

GIMUKOD OR UMAGAD: THE MANOBO’S SOUL

THE GIMUKOD IS THE “TRUE PERSON, WITH ITS OWN PERSONALITY AND MIND APART FROM THE BODY. IT CAN SEE, HEAR, AND FEEL THINGS THAT THE BODY CANNOT SENSE. IT HAS LITTLE CONTROL OVER THE PERSON TO WHOM IT IS LINKED, YET IS ULTIMATELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT PERSON’S ACTS.”

ILLNESS IS CAUSED BY AN ANGRY BUSAW OR DIWATA BECAUSE THE SICK PERSON HAS BROKEN A TABOO OR HAS NOT PAID THE SPIRIT PROPER RESPECT. A BAYLAN HEALS THE SICK PERSON WITH A CURING RITUAL CONSISTING OF CHANTED PRAYERS, A DANCE, AND USE OF MEDICINAL HERBS AND AN AMULET. ILLNESS ALSO OCCURS WHEN THE GIMUKOD STRAYS AWAY FROM THE BODY, AND SO THE BAYLAN MUST BE CALLED TO GO AFTER IT AND RETURN IT TO THE BODY OF THE SICK PERSON.

MANOBO’S HEAVEN AND HELL(PLACES IN THE AFTERWORLD)

IN DEATH, THE BODY RETURNS TO THE EARTH, THE BREATH RETURNS TO NENGAZEN (SUPREME BEING), AND THE GIMUKOD TRAVELS TO THE AFTERWORLD.

SUROGA A HAPPY PLACE FOR THE GOOD PERSON

NARAKA, A PLACE OF PUNISHMENT FOR EVIL PERSON

IBO IS WHAT THEY CALL THE UNDERWORLD AND IT IS RULED BY MAIBUYAN

MAYBOLLAN WHERE IBOL WEAVES DAGMAY OUR OF DEAD PEOPLE’S HAIR

MAYBOWAN WHICH IS RULED BY IBO AND IYEVAN

THOSE WHO DIE A NATURAL DEATH AND THOSE WHO DIE IN BATTLE TAKE SEPARATE ROADS TO THE AFTERWORLD. SOME SAY THAT THIS AFTERWORLD OVERLAPS WITH THE EARTHWORLD BUT IS INVISIBLE.

ROLE OF DIWATANG MAKALINDONG AND IT’S IMPORTANCE IN OUR LIFE

IT IS MENTIONED THAT DIWATANG MAKALINDONG IS THE ONE WHO SET THE WORLD ON 4 PILLARS. AND THESE PILLARS CONSIST OF:LANGIT, YONGSOD NG MAMASAK (HUMANKIND), YONGSOD NI MAYBUWAN, AND THE KILAGUAN.

THROUGH DIWATANG MAKALINDONG ALL BEINGS HAVE A SPECIAL PLACE TO DWELL: SUCH AS IN LANGIT WHICH IS THE DWELLING PLACE OF UMLI, DIWATA AND BUSAW PASAK OR THE EARTH WHICH MAMASAK DWELLS, SO AS THE TAGBANUA/MANGUDLAWAY, MANDALINGAN, APILA, AND LUNOD.

SETTING THE PILLARS BY DIWATANG MAKALINDOG GAVE ORDERLINESS TO OUR WORLD THUS WE ENJOY PEACE. AS WE ATTUNE OURSELVES TO THE ENERGIES OF DIWATANG MAKALINDONG, WE COULD INVOKE HIM FOR JUSTICE, DISCIPLINE & ORDERLINESS, DIRECTIONS AND GUIDANCE. WE COULD ASK THE DIWATA TO REVEAL UNTO US OUR SPECIAL PLACE IN THE SOCIETY WHERE WE COULD EXCELL AND HAVE A SUCCESSFUL LIFE.

PRAYER TO THE DIWATANG MAKALINDONG

GLORY AND HONOR TO YOU

DIWATANG MAKALINDONG

WHO SETS THE FOUR PILLARS

OF THE WORLD.

WE ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR PRESENCE IN OUR LIFE, BY SETTING FORTH ORDERLINESS IN OUR LIFE. MAY THE PILLARS YOU SET FOR US ALWAYS GUIDE US TO THE PATH OF PEACE. MAY WE BE WORTHY TO BE YOUR VESSEL AS WE HONOR YOU IN OUR LIFE. MAYARI NA!

LUWALHATI AT PARANGAL AY SUMA IYO

DIWATANG MAKALINDONG NA SYANG

NAGTATAG NG 4 NA HALIGI NG SANLIBUTAN. KINIKILALA KA NAMIN SA AMING BUHAY SA PAMAMAGITAN NG PAGTATATAG NG KAAYUSAN SA AMING BUHAY. MAGING LAGING GABAY NAMIN NAWA ANG HALIGI NA IYONG ITINATAG UPANG AMING LAGING MATAMO ANG KAPAYAPAAN. MAGING KARAPATDAPAT NAWA KAMI NA MAGING IYONG SISIDLAN HABANG AMIN KANG PINARARANGALAN SA AMING BUHAY.

MAYARI NA!