Pamulak Manobo
Bagobo · deity · Bagobo traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Pamulak Manobo is the supreme creator of Bagobo cosmology, the maker of the earth and the sea and of the first man and woman. Dwelling above, he governs the rain, casting down water to nourish the rice or, when he withholds it, to blight the fields; good and bad harvests alike are referred to his will. In much of the literature he is the most powerful of all beings, standing above the diwata and the ancestral dead. Sources differ on his name: Fay-Cooper Cole records him as Pamulak Manobo, while later compilations equate him with Manama, the weaver of the first human forms.
Domains
- creation
- sky
- rain
- agriculture
Powers
- create the earth and the first humans
- cast down and withhold the rain
- govern good and bad harvests
Sources
- Pamulak Manobo is the supreme Bagobo creator who made the land, the sea, and the first man and woman, and who governs rain and harvest.: Fay-Cooper Cole, The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao, Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Series 12, no. 2 (1913): 106-108. (secondary)
- Later Philippine mythographies equate the Bagobo creator with Manama, the weaver of the first human forms.: Damiana L. Eugenio, Philippine Mythology, The Myths (Quezon City: UP Press, 1993). (secondary)