Lumabat

Lumabat is the great culture-hero of the Bagobo, a son of Tuglay and Tuglibung who led a company toward the sky to become diwata. At the rim of the world, where sky and earth clap together like closing jaws, many of his followers were crushed, but Lumabat passed through. A diwata opened his abdomen and drew out his bowels so that he need never again eat and would not die, and he became a foremost divinity of the sky-world. He sought to bring his sister Mebuyan with him, but she refused and went down instead into the land of the dead.

Parentage

• paternal: Tuglay
• maternal: Tuglibung

Domains

• heroism
• sky
• immortality

Powers

• pass the clashing sky into the world above
• become a deathless diwata

Relations

• sibling: MebuyanLaura Watson Benedict, 'Bagobo Myths,' Journal of American Folk-Lore 26 (1913): 13-63. (primary)
• sibling: WariLaura Watson Benedict, 'Bagobo Myths,' Journal of American Folk-Lore 26 (1913): 13-63. (primary)

Sources

• Lumabat, son of Tuglay, led a company toward the sky, passed the clashing horizon, was rendered deathless by having his bowels removed, and became a foremost diwata of the sky-world.: Laura Watson Benedict, 'Bagobo Myths,' Journal of American Folk-Lore 26, no. 99 (1913): 13-63. (primary)
• Lumabat sought to bring his sister Mebuyan to the sky, but she refused and descended to the land of the dead.: Laura Watson Benedict, 'Bagobo Myths,' Journal of American Folk-Lore 26 (1913): 13-63. (primary)