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Old Belief
← Diwata
Vast strangler fig standing alone on open grass, its fused trunk full of dark hollows and curtains of aerial roots hanging from every branch

the balete tree

The balete is the tree the belief attaches to most often: enormous, hollow at the centre, visibly different from everything around it.

Basis: Philippine tree belief · AI-generated

More of this creature

Still pale green pool held in a rock basin deep in dark forest, boulders breaking its surface and ferns and tree roots hanging over the edgesthe spring in the rocks →Round woven tray set on the ground between buttress roots, holding a heaped cone of white rice, broad green leaves and a small clay cup of liquidthe offering at the roots →