🦶 CRYPTID SIGHTING · EXP. Nº0555
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Bakunawa
Bakunawa is a cryptid — a creature whose existence is unconfirmed by science — with reported sightings near Visayas, PH. This file collects the accounts and folklore surrounding it.
Where and when was Bakunawa sighted?
- Location
- Visayas, PH
- Date sighted
- Unknown
- Coordinates
- 10.66, 123.87
- Testimonies
- 0
- Last updated
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What is Bakunawa?
Pre-colonial Visayan cosmology, recorded by Spanish chroniclers from the 1600s onward, describes Bakunawa as a colossal serpent-dragon coiled around the earth, responsible for eclipses because it periodically rises to swallow the moon whole. To drive it off, entire villages would pour into the streets banging pots, gongs, and bamboo poles, shouting for the moon's return, a practice still reenacted ceremonially in parts of the Visayas today: "give back what is not yours to eat, Bakunawa!" Myth held that the world once had seven moons, and Bakunawa devoured six of them before humans intervened to save the last. Folklorists connect the noise-making custom directly to genuine lunar eclipse observation predating telescopic astronomy, when a sudden darkening moon plausibly looked like something enormous consuming it, and the racket was a practical, communal response to an inexplicable celestial event.
📎 Source: Enigma Atlas
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