Kawas refers to an Amis supernatural entity. Though the Amis have converted to Christianity, their spiritual beliefs and Christianity have syncretized and the term kawas is still used. Kawas are divided into 6 groups: gods, ancestors, souls of living, spirits of living things, spirits of lifeless objects, and ghosts and mysterious being giving their blessing or calamities to mortals according to myths about them . Bamboo oracle specialists were among communicators. ''Lisin'', or ceremony, was the preferred method to cope with kawas.

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Kawas is also a root word. ''Cikawasay'' refers to a spiritual practitioner/healer/shaman.According to amis culture an dfollore sikaswaya-A humar blesser is medium between god and human who are blessed and accompanied by 'KAWAS'.Kawas are messenger of kakrayan-The almighty and creator of everything...who have the power to see refection of time-future and past and are present in world to regulate everything planned by KAKARAYAN''Kawasan'' (kawas+an) refers to anything mysterious, indeed the same word means a locality in Indonesian/Malay and Filipino and may have had a deeper meaning as a dwelling place for kawas and likely is a cognate. ''Kawaskawas'' refers to a set of spiritual beliefs, such as a religion. https://www3.myasiantv.cc/show/rainless-in-a-godless-land/episode-11

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