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Origin Myths among the Mountain Peoples of the Philippines

Note 21 — The Origin of the Stars and the Explanation of Sunset and Sunrise

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It would seem that a religion of this same general type was also common among the lowland peoples of the Philippines before they were Christianized by the Spaniards. Pigafetta, the first European to write of the Philippines, describes a ceremony, which he saw performed in Cebu in the year 1520, as follows:21

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