The lingling-o is commonly used as an ornament. According to the local beliefs, lingling-o has supernatural powers that brings luck and improves the owner's fertility. It is also believed that anitos reside in this item.

Traveling to the northern part of the island Luzon will bring you not only to beautiful landscapes with amazing rice terraces. It will bring you also to the regions with remote villages and colorful and traditional living upland tribal communities.

The Visayas or Visayan Islands is one of the three principal geographical divisions of the Philippines, along with Mindanao and Luzon. It consists of several islands, primarily surrounding the Visayan Sea, although the Visayas are considered the northeast extremity of the entire Sulu Sea. Residents are known as the Visayans.

Mindanao is named after the Maguindanaons who constituted the largest Sultanate historically, and evidence from maps made during the 17th and 18th centuries suggests that the name was used to refer to the island by the powerful natives at the time. Mindanao is the second largest and southernmost major island in the Philippines.

The indigenous peoples of the Philippines consist of a large number of indigenous ethnic groups living in the country. They are the descendants of the original inhabitants of the Philippines. They were not absorbed by centuries of Spanish and United States colonization of the Philippines archipelago, and in the process have retained their customs and traditions.

La Isla de Los Pintados” (Island of the Painted Ones) - Pintados is the term used by Spanish colonists to describe indigenous people with tattooed bodies residing in the islands of Cebu, Bohol, and Leyte in the Biçayas (Visayas) region of the Philippines. The word itself means "painted."

Tiwala: trust; faith; hope

Igorotak is another term for Igorot a native of Cordillera region of the Republic of the Philippines comprising Baguio City, Abra, Ifugao, Kalinga, Apayao and the Mountain Province. The term “Igorotak” is not a familiar word used and not common as compared to the usage of the word “Igorot”.