Mandarangan
Bagobo · deity · Bagobo traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Mandarangan is the Bagobo god of war, who dwells with his wife Darago in the crater at the summit of Mount Apo, the sacred volcano. He is the patron of the magani, the warriors who have taken the requisite number of lives and who wear the blood-red garments of their order. At the great ginem ceremony, offerings that in earlier times included human sacrifice were made to Mandarangan and Darago to secure health, valor, wealth, and success in war; the spirits of brave warriors were believed to join him after death.
Domains
- war
- volcano
- sacrifice
Powers
- patronize the magani warriors
- receive the offerings of the ginem
Epithets
- Diwata sa Apo Sandawa — spirit of Mount Apo SandawaLaura Watson Benedict, A Study of Bagobo Ceremonial, Magic and Myth, Annals NYAS 25 (1916): 1-308. (secondary)
Relations
- spouse: DaragoFay-Cooper Cole, The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao (1913): 108-110. (secondary)
Sources
- Mandarangan is the Bagobo war god who dwells with his wife Darago in the crater of Mount Apo and is the patron of the magani warriors.: Fay-Cooper Cole, The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao, Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Series 12, no. 2 (1913): 108-110. (secondary)
- At the ginem ceremony offerings, in earlier times human sacrifice, were made to Mandarangan and Darago for health, valor, and success in war.: Laura Watson Benedict, A Study of Bagobo Ceremonial, Magic and Myth, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 25 (1916): 1-308. (secondary)