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Lider: Ticong

Kapangkat: Alcon, Baniqued, Boa, Dela Cerna, Quintos, Tandan

Mga Sanggunian:

Alcon - Kaalamang-Bayan

Calen Boa - Kapangyarihan

Savannah - Kaakuhan at Kasangga

Ishie - Kaakuhan

Dereck Sivan - Kaugnayan at Paggawa ng Manuscript

Dela Cerna - Kaugnayan at Paggawa ng Manuscript

Quintos - Kapangyarihan at Audio

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Sometimes she is represented as a vast ocean whose waters reach all lands, including underground rivers, which led to the belief that her waters also flow into the Underworld, making her one of the few deities who can enter the realm of the spirits. This led to her evolution in myths as a goddess of the Underworld, pictured as a woman wearing grieving clothes, her face covered with dark cloth who ferries souls in her majestic balangay. Her transformation is sometimes credited to the fact that in a version of the creation story, her only daughter Lidagat has died of broken-heartedness. (I would like to note that Lidagat was not mentioned in early Spanish accounts, but in a version of the Bisayan creation story by John Maurice Miller from 1904.) Magwayen was so grief-stricken that she followed her daughter's soul to Sulad (a purgatory) and took up the role as ferrywoman of souls, to be near her. She ferries the souls of the dead to the underworld in her boat across a spiritual river called Lalangban, which divides Sulad and Saad, land of the ancestors.

Magwayen was highly venerated as Mother Goddess of the Sea and as the great provider by ancient Bisayans all over the central islands of the Philippines. But when the Spanish came and introduced Christianity, the worship for Magwayen was inevitably replaced by the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary as the great mother of humanity, and in the end she suffered the same fate as Kaptan, whose worship diminished as time went by. However, her fame has endured the test of time and is very much alive in the stories of the Bisayan people. She is also one of the few female deities to have control of the sea as compared to mythologic traditions all over the world, which shows the respect and equality women received in the time of our precolonial ancestors.

Role in the Creation Story

At the very beginning there was nothing in the world except for the sea and sky and nothing in between. Within the world there was only the sky God, Kaptan, and the sea Goddess, Magwayen. They fought each other intensely and violently, Magwayen throwing her strong typhoon waves up toward the sky and Kaptan throwing large rocks and lighting back down. This long, bitter feud between the two deities lasted for a long time, until one day they drew the sea and sky closer together and created the islands. The sea and sky deities ceased their fighting, coming together as friends and eventually lovers. After they married, Kaptan planted a seed in the sea where it soon grew to become a bamboo reed. Out of the bamboo emerged Si Kalak, the first man, and Si Kabay, the first woman.

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Magwayen, Bisayan Goddess of the Sea & Underworld + Full Moon Eclipse in Pisces - Hella Pinay

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Sometimes she is represented as a vast ocean whose waters reach all lands, including underground rivers, which led to the belief that her waters also flow into the Underworld, making her one of the few deities who can enter the realm of the spirits.

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Si Magyen ay isang makapangyarihang diyosa ng kalangitan, sya rin ay may kakayahang magbigay ng mga ibat ibang Karagdangan klima kapag sya ay nagalit

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• Kaptan - Asawa ni Magwayen at Diyos ng kalangitan. Siya ang nagtataglay ng kapangyarihan sa kalawakan at may responsabilidad sa pag-aalaga ng langit. Mahalaga ang kanyang papel sa pagpapanatali ng kaayusan sa kalangitan at sa ugnayan nito sa daigdig.

• Lidagat - Ang nag-iisang anak ni Magwayen at Diyos ng dagat. Nung ang kamatayan niya sa sirang puso (broken heartedness), kalungkutan lang ang nasa isip ni Magwayen. Kaya sinamahan ni Magwayen ang kaluluwa ni Lidagat sa Sulad (afterlife) at ito’y upang ipapakita ang gaanong minamahal niya ang kanyang anak nang kawalang-hanggan.

• Lihangin - Ang anak ni Kaptan at Diyos ng kalangitan. Sa mitolohiyang Bisaya, nakasaad doon na sina Magwayen at Kaptan ay nag-aaway bago pa siya likhain ng kanyang ama na si Kaptan. Nang lumipas ang ilang dekada at lumaki na si Lihangin, pinakasalan niya si Lidagat, ang anak ni Magwayen, at nagresulta ito sa muling pagsasama ni Kaptan at Magwayen dahil sa relasyon ng kanilang mga anak.

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Siya ang diyosa ng dagat at kamatayan sa Bisayang mitolohiya. Siya nilikha ni Kanlaon at kasama niya si Kaptan, Diyos ng Langit. Sila ang  lumikha ng mundo pati rin ang sinaunang tao. Kadalasan ay may dala siyang budyong shell. Ang budyong shell nagsisimbolo bilang paghahari niya at kinakatawan ang lakas at katapangan. Kung siya ay nagagalit nakakagawa siya ng higanteng tsunami, baha, at ulan. Bilang diyosa ng kamatayan, binibigyang diin ang tungkulin niya bilang tulay pagitan sa mortal at espirituwal na mga kaharian.

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Alam niyo ba na umaabot ang katubigan ni Magwayen / Maguayen sa "underworld" kaya itinuturing din siyang "Diyosa ng Underworld" at hindi lamang ang Katubigan?

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Sa mitolohiyang Bisayas, si Kaptan ay may mahalagang papel bilang pinakamataas na diyos at kilala siya bilang katumbas ni Bathala. Masama ang relasyon nila ni Magwayen dahil magkaaway sila. Gayuman, ito ay magbabago sa lahat nung ikinasal ang dalawang anak na sina Lidagat at Lihangin. Ang mga diyos ay sumang-ayon sa kasal ng kanilang mga anak, kaya ang dagat(Lidagat) ay naging nobya ng hangin(Lihangin). isinasaad din ng ibang mga kuwento na ikinasal sina Kaptan at Magwayen at pinagtagpo ang kalangitan at karagatan.

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Si Magwayen ay ang sinaunang diyosa ng dagat at Mundong Ilalim. Nilikha niya ang mundo at ang pangunahing tao kasama si Kaptan, ang diyos ng langit. Isinagawa siya ni Kan-laon upang maging pantimbang kay Kaptan, siya ang dagat na kasalungat sa langit ni Kaptan. Isinasakatawan niya ang malawak na karagatan, ang kaniyang pag-aaruga at pagmamalasakit ay kasing lawak nito. Nilalarawan siya bilang mapag-ina at nakakakalma, ngunit nawawala ang kanyang awa kapag siya ay nagagalit.