Indigenous religious beliefs of the Tagalog people
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The indigenous religious beliefs of the Tagalog people (sometimes referred to as Anitism,[1][2] or, less accurately, using the general term animism) were well documented by Spanish missionaries,[3] mostly in the form of epistolary accounts (relaciones) and entries in various dictionaries compiled by missionary friars.[3]
Archeological and linguistic evidence[2][4][3] indicates that these beliefs date back to the arrival of the Austronesian peoples,[1][5][3] although elements were later syncretistically adapted from Hinduism and Mahayana Buddhism[6][3] Many of these indigenous beliefs persist today, in syncretic forms discussed by scholars as Philippine variations of folk Catholicism and Islam.[7]