Episode S3 · Ep 18 November 11, 2022 13 min 54s

S3E10: Auroran Gods

"No anito. No tikbalang. No duwende." Nearly three hundred years ago, on the eastern coast of Luzon, this is what a priest told his converts. But what happens when his mission collides with the old gods and the old ways?

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References:

Dizon, Mark (2011). “Social and Spiritual Kinship in EarlyEighteenth-Century Missions on the Caraballo Mountains.” Philippine Studies 59(3), 367–398.

Dizon, Mark (2015). “Spirit Beliefs, Murder, and Religious Change Among the Eighteenth Century Aeta and Ilongot in Eastern Central Luzon.” Philippine Studies 63(1), 3-38.

Mataragnon, Rita (1977). “A Conceptual and Psychological Analysis of Sumpong.” In Pe-Pua, Rogelia (Ed.), Handbuk ng Sikolohiyang Pilipino (339-347). The University of the Philippines Press.

Audio of “Tanging Yaman” from Bukas Palad Ministry.