![]() ![]() As the majority of pre-colonial societies in the Philippines prior to Spanish colonization viewed everything in balance, many gods and goddesses of these societies were depicted to possess both female and male personifications or the personifications of an opposite gender, in line with the same gender balance personifications in many indigenous mythologies in Southeast Asia and Oceania. These deities and their stories have similar elements and characteristics when compared to other mythologies, especially in Asia and Oceania. These deities form part of Anitism, commonly referred in the West as Philippine mythology, which was the dominant religion in the archipelago for more than a millennium prior to colonization. The deities of Philippine mythology are the gods and goddesses (natively called anito in the north and diwata in the central and south) worshiped by Filipinos before the Christianization of the natives. ![]()
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