"Anito" is a word in TAGALOG, ILOKANO, HILIGAYNON
n. spirit, ghost of ancestor; superstition. v. /AG-/ to worship the ancestral spirits. Saan mo nga patien dagiti aganito. Don’t believe those who worship the ancestral spirits.
aníto - Superstitious practices, ceremonies
and sacrifices; to make use of or perform
superstitious rites. Indì ka magpáti sináng
mga aníto nga walâ sing naigoán. Don’t
believe in those superstitious practices that
are so nonsensical. Ginanitóhan níla siá.
He was subjected by them to superstitious
rites. (cf. diwáta, babáylan, diósdíos).
anito
Definition: (noun) deity, idol
The Cunning Little Vixen, in which a fox is caught by a hunter and kept in a farmyard with the other animals. He keeps her because he loves her, despite the fact she is destructive, and there is a value for her too in his attention, though its consequence is her captivity. But her nature drives her to seek the wild, and one day she escapes the farmyard and finds her way back into the forest; but instead of feeling liberated she is terrified, for having lived in the farmyard most of her life she has forgotten how to be free.
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Superstitious regard for a totem; the worship of any real or imaginary object; nature worship.
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