Felalakas
Amis · demigod · Amis traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Felalakas is the son of the sea god in the Tafalong origin legend of the northern Amis. Drawn by the light of the maiden Tiyamacan, he seeks her hand and, when her family refuses, commands the ocean to raise a towering wave that bears her away to the deep and scatters her kin across the land. As a child of the sea deity he embodies the powerful and dangerous aspect of the ocean in Amis thought, a presence answered in the coastal communities by sea-directed rites. The unnamed sea god who fathers him belongs to the spirits of the earth and waters distinguished in Amis cosmology from the celestial kawas.
Domains
- sea
Powers
- raises a great tidal wave
Relations
- spouse: TiyamacanTakes the luminous Tiyamacan as his bride.Ihot Sinlay Cihek, interview, The Theatre Times (2019) (secondary)
Sources
- Felalakas is the son of the sea god who claims the shining maiden Tiyamacan and carries her off in a tidal wave in the Tafalong legend.: Ihot Sinlay Cihek, interview, The Theatre Times (2019) (secondary)