Pinga
In Inuit mythology, Pinga ("the one who is up on high") was a goddess of the hunt, fertility and medicine. She was also the psychopomp, bringing souls of the newly-dead to Adlivun, the underworld.
The meaning of the word PINGA emerged very late in the continents of North, Central, South Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia only at the start of 10th century when the conquistadores and crusaders of these places came to the little island of LUSUNG (Luzon) of the Philippines in the Pacific, either for exploration, invasion, or simple need for adventure.
In this island-paradise they saw a unique tribe who spoke of a very romantic language which they called "TAGALOG" which literally meant "river dwellers". While the tagalog meaning of the word "PINGA" was "SPIRIT" in the original sense, the first foreigners who came to speak the strange tagalog tongue (Astronesian) in Luzon marveled at how the native speakers enunciated or pronounced PINGA in a slow manner with unstressed syllables. It was the "malumay" manner of vocalizing a tagalog word, different from "maragsa, mabilis at malumi" vocal sounds. That was also strangely different from their own tribes' manner of speaking with the peculiarity of their tongues with the scwa sound for example.
When the foreigners returned to their own continents or went to other places on earth, they tried vainly to teach the word that pertained to SPIRIT to the other tribes, and the TAGALOG WORD "Pinga" was erroneously spoken as "PING GA" in a vocal sound more efficiently correct for them. This tantamounted exactly to the way they sound their own word "finger" and to the natives of other places during that time era, the confusion about the correct meaning of a genuine tagalog PINGA originated, and persisted after several centuries of usage in other lands.
Other tagalog words for PINGA was ANITO which transformed to KALULUWA after the demise of the ancient Tagalog BAYBAYIN sometime in the 10th century.
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--Maginoongmandirigma (talk) 17:11, 9 March 2008 (UTC)