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1. Maguayan, and Captan

2. Lihangin, the wind and Lidagat, the sea

3. Father and mother of all the lesser gods

4. Licalibutanm

1. Land and humanity made from his corpse

5. Sicalac and Sicabay

1. First humans who fathered and mothered the whole race

6. Both of these characters played a nurturing and parental role either to the other gods or humanity.

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Maguayan
Captan

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C: Maguayan
C/A: Captan - Formed the corpses of the lesser gods into commemorative pieces such as the sun and moon, the earth and the stars.

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1. Pandaguan

2. Licalibutan

3. Liadlao

4. Libulan

5. lisuga

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The Anito were Polytheistic and somewhere inbetween Secular and Pagan.

For example many of the gods are explained as an element however they are often given a physical form as well:

The lord of Water was Maguayan and the lord of the sky was Great god Captan

Lidagat the sea, was Maguayan’s daughter, while Lihangin the wind, was Captan’s son

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In the beginning, There was only an endless sea and a boundless sky. Which were inhabited by two gods, one ruled the water and the other was lord of the skies.

These two deities bore children, the sea, and the wind. One day these two wed and from their union came four children:

one of copper (The Moon),
one of rock (Earth),
one of gold (The Sun),
and one of silver (The Stars)

One day the wind died and his power transferred over to his oldest son the god made of earth and stone. His son's aggressive nature and sudden new power caused him to lust for more power. After coercing his brothers into a plot to overthrow the sky, his grandfather killed them all in a fit of rage; One was melted, the other crumbled, and the final one ignited into flame. After a while the poor silver goddess was worried about her brothers and went out to look for them, the sky jumped to conclusions and assumed that she was with her brothers and struck her with lightning shattering her into billions of pieces.

Feeling horrendously guilty, The lord of the sky memorialized all but the greedy rock god and the others became The moon, The sun, and The Stars respectively. still feeling bad the Great God of the Sky granted the fallen treacherous god with a seed which bore grass, the animals, and mankind.

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I wonder if they have any special rituals for memorializing the dead.

I also wonder how the people of this religion treat their families, are they tight knit or do they have a lot of problems and squabble like their gods (squabble is an understatement).

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Death seems to hold a lot of value in this mythos, even gods are not immortal or everlasting and cannot return life to what has already departed and so they are capable of grieving over those who’ve they lost and tempering their punishments to stop them from being fatal as shown when smiting a human.

Humans being born from the inside of a bamboo shoot might seem stranger however, when see that bamboo symbolizes strength, flexibility and growth the whole senario appears much more endearing.

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How is the deity (s), or central figure (s) characterized in the myth? What role in the creation does said figure play? What powers, if any, does it have?

1. They seem to have two subsets of abilities, sky based > wind based and Water based > sea based.

2. The majority of the deities seem to be “people” and it's safe to assume that the creator gods  are made out of the element their abilities are based of meanwhile the lesser gods (Grandchildren are made of rock and precious metals).

3. Gods are mortal, and respect and grieve in the face of death ( even if the death was deserved).

4. Gods can temper their rage and limit their punishments to a certain point but pushed beyond that they’ll just destroy you.

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Maguayan, and Captan
Rulers of two ever present constants the sky and water

Lihangin, the wind (Dead) and Lidagat, the sea
Children of the first two gods
The Gods decided that their children would be wed, and so “ The sea became the bride of the wind”.

Their union bore three sons and a daughter
Licalibutan, Liadlao, Libulan, and Lisuga
(They were all killed)
And became the land, the sun the moon and the stars
respectively

Sicalac and Sicabay
(First humans)

Other Humans and then the animals
Initially humans worshiped a fierce shark, however they reasoned that if they could overpower a “god” They could over power a God and so they got struck with lightning for first worshiping a fake god and second for thinking they could challenge a god. (so they are more important than the animals but still on the same plane of existence.)

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Their purpose isn't specific, they were created as a way to commemorate/Memorialize  their Treacherous grandson’s death however they are told that they should only worship Maguayan and Captan.