Tuglibung
Bagobo · deity · Bagobo traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Tuglibung is the primordial old woman of Bagobo myth, wife of Tuglay, with whom she belongs to the world of the beginning. She is the mother of humankind and of the beings who became diwata, and in Benedict's cycle she is a knowing figure who holds the customs and magic of the ancient time. Sources differ on whether she is a first mortal woman fashioned at creation, as in Cole's account, or an autonomous primal ancestress, as in Benedict's myths.
Children
Domains
- ancestry
- fertility
Powers
- bear the ancestral peoples and diwata
Relations
- spouse: TuglayLaura Watson Benedict, 'Bagobo Myths,' Journal of American Folk-Lore 26 (1913): 13-63. (primary)
- child: LumabatLaura Watson Benedict, 'Bagobo Myths,' Journal of American Folk-Lore 26 (1913): 13-63. (primary)
- child: MebuyanLaura Watson Benedict, 'Bagobo Myths,' Journal of American Folk-Lore 26 (1913): 13-63. (primary)
- child: WariLaura Watson Benedict, 'Bagobo Myths,' Journal of American Folk-Lore 26 (1913): 13-63. (primary)
Sources
- Tuglibung is the primordial old woman of Bagobo myth, wife of Tuglay and mother of the ancestral peoples and diwata.: Laura Watson Benedict, 'Bagobo Myths,' Journal of American Folk-Lore 26, no. 99 (1913): 13-63. (primary)
- Cole records Toglibong as the first woman created at the beginning.: Fay-Cooper Cole, The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao (1913): 106-108. (secondary)