Anatala Bathala! God be Exalted - a podcast by Apu Adman Aghama

Last new moon of July 2022 we started our Diwataan Study Series. And Bathala is the 3rd Diwata which we invoked.

Who says that our Old Filipino God is dead? Thats why most Filipino are converted either to Christianity or Islam. And some have come to other religions such as Buddhism and others.

Though Historically we recognize that during precolonial times that our ancestors probably been converted into Buddhism and Hinduism due to the influence of the Sri Vijaya and Majapahit Empire which is of Indian Origin. But whether our ancestors been converted to the religious movement at that time, our Ancestors have their own mind and belief system that been synchretize to the modern ones. Such as in this present time which Roman Catholicism and Islam are the dominant Religion in our Country, still our ancestors did not give up totally their old faith and believe system but was able to synchretize it to the modern one. Such as on the Belief on Bathala.

Our Diwataan Study Series will be a 3 years and 11 month Series which every month we will Highlight one Supreme Diwata which have ruled certain Ethnolinguistic Tribe in our Country. On the Past months we already have higlighted Ampu Nagsalad and Diwata sa Kagubatan of which both of them are from Palawan.

Each Diwata that we have encountered teaches us something important to us so that we could re-establish our Faith unto them in this modern Times. Such as now, Bathala is teaching us to use the Word ANATALA which is one of his Name that means God is Exalted. In Christianity when they are Happy we could hear them say " Praise the Lord! Halleluyah!" so as our Muslim Brothers we hear "Allahu Akhbar!" And now for us as revivalist and reconstructionist of the old Faith, we could use the word Anatala in Praising God. So the Question now for you is, Have you Praise God lately? What is the reason why you praise God? Why do we need Praise God?

I hope these questions will help you develop relationship with the Diwata of our Lahi which is Bathala!

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