Holy Mountain - Mount Banahaw
Banahaw is a traditional pilgrimage site for locals,
believed by many as a "Holy mountain", a spiritually-charged
location. The mountain and its environs are considered sacred by local
residents; the water from its sacred springs are deemed "holy
water" for allegedly having beneficial qualities, issuing forth from
locations called "puestos" or "holy sites". These sites are unique
natural features composed not only of springs, but also caves, streams and boulders;
with names with biblical allusions, and shrines erected in, on or around
them. These locations were allegedly revealed to a man named Agripino Lontoc by the "Santas Voces" or the
"Holy Voices", which also gave the names to these places way back
during the Spanish Colonial Era. Another one of this mountain is the
adjacent Mount Banahaw de Lucbán.
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