Definitions for babaylan
babay·lan

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1. babaylan

   Filipino shamans, commonly known as Babaylan (also Balian or Katalonan, among many other names), were shamans of the various ethnic groups of the pre-colonial Philippine islands. These shamans specialized in communicating, appeasing, or harnessing the spirits of the dead and the spirits of nature. They were almost always women or feminized men (asog or bayok). They were believed to have spirit guides, by which they could contact and interact with the spirits and deities (anito or diwata) and the spirit world. Their primary role were as mediums during pag-anito séance rituals. There were also various subtypes of babaylan specializing in the arts of healing and herbalism, divination, and sorcery.

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1. Babaylan

   Babaylan is a Visayan term identifying an indigenous Filipino religious leader, who functions as a healer, a shaman, a seer and a community "miracle-worker". The babaylan can be male, female, or male transvestites, but most of the babaylan were female. In addition to this, a babaylan is someone who "intercedes for the community and individuals" and is also someone who "serves". Any study of the babaylan must take into consideration the suppression of the babaylan's practices since the onset of European and American colonialism in the Philippines. Prior to, during and after the Philippine Revolution of 1896–1898, the babaylans of Dios Buhawi and Papa Isio of Negros Occidental participated in the struggle to throw off the Spanish yoke. Their primary agenda was religious freedom and agrarian reform; most followers of the babaylan tradition were dispossessed land owners thrown off their property by the Spanish hacienderos and in some cases by Spanish friars bent on acquiring land.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of babaylan in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of babaylan in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babaylan
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=babaylan