Babaylan is the visayan dialect term for "priestess." Baylan is the male counterpart of the babaylan. Other terms for this role around the Philippines are arbularyo, hilot, mombaki, bailan/beliyan/bagyan, catalonan, dawac, or ma-aram...

Explore more about the babaylan by visiting the Center for Babaylan Studies and finding out more about the First International Babaylan Conference and also through direct subjective experience through prose poetry and imagery above at babaylan.com or to the right with a Babaylan Mandala I.I.