Trance Dancing in Mindanao Names have been changed to protect the innocent. Honest truth folks..because today in Cotabato rituals like guana and the larger ipat is strictly prohibited and considered un-islamic. Yup.. these rituals are pre-islamic practice of communing with the ancestral spirits. A few days after we performed this ritual my first 4-day ipat [...]
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Indigenous Spirituality #1 Trance Dancing in Mindanao
Posted in Arts, Community, cotabato, Culture, dance, indigenous spirituality, mindanao, ritual, Thoughts, tagged babaylan, culture, mindanao, Philippines, travel on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
