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.