However, an exceptionally rich exhibition at the SEAiT site provides important glimpses into gender roles and women in everyday life in the early twentieth century. The SEAiT sites 500 photographs include many interesting subjects, although images of the Spanish American War of the late 1890s account for the largest single category. The Philippine Islands have long been known for powerful and diverse belief systems. The area as a whole shares many of the same religions as Japan, China, and Korea. The islands however, are indigenous and they also share indigenous beliefs.
Many ancestral religions survive from the earliest human origins.
We have included here a site on Religious Beliefs and Cosmology of the Filipinos, Indigenous Beliefs. Go to New Zealand .