Philippine history : reassessed / Isidro Escare Abeto.

body of the Earth, were perceptible to them like a big living organism. They
were other type of peoples distinct from us."

Visayan's Indigenous Culture
More than 500,000 years before the coning of the Spaniards, the
Ylayans (Filipinos) already had their own culture, morals and ways of family
and social life. The black people from New Guinea, as well as the other ethnic
peoples from the East, brought to Panay and the other parts of Ylaya, their
indigenous ways of life. The negritoes at first, both males and females were
naked, wearing no body apparels. Contacts later with other ethnic groups
developed their self-consciousness. Males and females covered their delicate
parts with native materials, such as ginit, a fabric-textured part of the coconut

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