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''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" (or a combination of any of those). The ''babaylan'' can be male, female, or male transvestites (known as ''asog'', ''bayoc'', or ''bayog''), 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 ''babaylans practices since the onset of European and American colonialism in the Philippines. There are two kinds of ''babaylan'': the living ''babaylan'' and heavenly ''babaylan''. The living ''babaylans'' are ''babaylans'' who are still living in the physical world, who serve people and help to control day to day negative happenings on earth. The heavenly ''babaylans'' are the ''babaylans'' who directly receive heaven's messages from God. The heavenly ''babaylans'' guide the living ''babaylans'', who also receive messages from heaven but serve people directly on earth. Each ''babaylan'' has this so-called ''gabay''. The ''gabay'' are heavenly ''babaylans'' who protect and serve the living ''babaylans''. Each ''babaylan'' has a different designation in the world. People may be destined to become presidents, senators, doctors, teachers, or members of the armed forces, but the ''babaylans'' always these things' "center." There are five elements in the power of living ''babaylans'': wind, soil, fire, water and earth (''kalikasan''). If a living ''babaylan'' is ordained and baptized in the place of the ''babaylans five elements, he or she will be a powerful ''babaylan''. 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. ==See also== *Two-spirit *Dios Buhawi *Negros Revolution *Papa Isio *Shaman *Tamblot Uprising *Katalonan 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「babaylan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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