Katalonan

A Katalonan (also spelled Catalonan; Catulunan in Pampango) is a priest or priestess In the indigenous religions of the Tagalog and Kapampangan people. They are the Central to Southern Luzon equivalent of the Visayan Babaylan.

The term apparently springs from the Tagalog word "katalo", which means "in good terms with", such that the Catalonan are those "in good terms with the Anito spirits".[1]

Historian and Spanish Missionary Pedro Chirino, SJ noted that their long hair is a symbol of their commitment to their religion.[2]

Confusion with Babaylan

The Katalonan are the Tagalog equivalent of the Visayan Babaylan.

Although the many modern Filipinos mistakenly refer to any priest or priestess of the Animistic Prehispanic Filipino religions as Babaylan, writer Nick Joaquin and historian William Henry Scott remind modern Filipinos that the independent cultural evolution of each Filipino ethnic group should be respected.[3][4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Maggay, Melba Padilla (1999). Filipino Religious Consciousness: Some Implications to Missions. Quezon City: Institute for Studies in Asian Church and Culture. ISBN 971-8743-07-3.
  2. ↑ Chirino, Pedro (1604). Relacion de las Islas Filipinas: Lihim Na Pagsamba Sa Diwata Sa Taytay. http://www.elaput.org/chirn22.htm Retrieved on February 18, 2007.
  3. ↑ Scott, William Henry (1994). Barangay: Sixteenth Century Philippine Culture and Society. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press. ISBN 971-550-135-4.
  4. ↑ Joaqiun, Nick (1988). Culture and History. Pasig City: Anvil Publishing, Inc., 411. ISBN 971-27-1300-8.
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