Crossword-Solution: ANITOS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ANITOS | anagram | AINTSO, ASINTO, ATIONS, ATONIS, ISNOTA, ITSANO, NOTASI, OSTIAN, SOTNIA, TAINOS |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Idols of the Philippines. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
ARAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ANITOS (5)
Just before he died a chicken was killed, and the old people gathered at the house, cooked the chicken, and ate, inviting the ancestral anitos and the departing spirit of Som-kad' to the feast.
These they kept in caves and private houses, where they offered them perfumes and odors, and food and fruit, calling them anitos.
There were no temples throughout those islands, nor houses generally used for the worship of idols; but each person possessed and made in his house his own anitos, [330] without any fixed rite or ceremony.
The Devil communicates with them through their idols or anitos, playing the rôle of the dead man whom they are adoring; and often he enters into the person of the priest himself, for the short space of the sacrifice, and makes him say and do things which overwhelm and terrify the onlookers.
The first and last concern of the Filipinos in cases of sickness was, as we have stated, to offer some sacrifice to their anitos, or divatas, which were their gods.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1961).