Taguangkan sang Duta, this is the place called by the tribe. This place is huge underground burning lake surrounded by high arched roof. This place was described by the oral chant of the tribe as the place where the entrance of Duta sang Kalipayan or Land of Happiness begins.
From the myth of stone age-tribe Atigueang of the mountainous Central Panay.
In the burning lake, the souls were imprisoned before it can enter the land of happiness. If a person had committed violations and blasphemies to the law of the Earth Spirit Guardians, his soul will be trapped in the burning lake and could not pass through it until the day where his savior soul will pass through and will help him . Then this pure soul will become his savior and remove him from the burning lake. If his soul savior had not yet come, then he will be transformed into a state of deep sleep. If a person is holy he can passed with ease.
The tribe believed that the soul is an eternal entity.They believed in many gods and goddesses. They called them Macacagahum meaning Thy Powerful.
They believed in personal god whose spirit dwell on earth, whom they pray everyday to his spirit. They believed also that the earthly spirits and the soul of the holy man can help a person in times of need and can use their unseen forces as protection from harm and calamities and disasters, like storm at sea or land, flood, fire, earthquake, accidents, and others where men has no control.
To them, the soul can travel in all dimension either in real world or supernatural world.
From the beliefs of the tribe retold.
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