In pre-colonial Philippines, people worshipped various spirits that inhabited the natural world. They believed spirits inhabited places like forests, mountains, and bodies of water. Rituals and festivals called pandot were held to honor these anitos and contact them through mediums. People also worshipped celestial bodies like the sun, moon, stars, clouds, and wind, believing their spirits controlled aspects like weather, seasons, and fertility. A supreme god, Bathala, was believed to be remote and unreachable except through lesser anitos. Anitos were represented by physical idols placed in homes and fields to bring good fortune in areas like harvests, voyages, childbirth, and marriage. Rituals involved offerings