Fukan

Fukan is the human wife of the culture-hero Lumawig in the Bontoc creation-and-flood cycle. In the version recorded by Cole, after a flood sent over the world only a brother and sister, Fatangna and Fukan, survive; Lumawig preserves them, bids them marry to repopulate the earth, and the Bontoc valley is settled by their descendants. In Lumawig's own legend it is Fukan, a Bontoc woman, whom the descended god chooses for his wife, making her at once a flood-ancestress and the consort of the supreme deity. She is mortal, the named foremother of the Bontoc rather than a goddess.

Domains

• ancestress of the bontoc

Powers

• to survive the world-flood and become ancestress of the Bontoc

Relations

• spouse: LumawigFukan is the Bontoc woman whom Lumawig takes to wife when he lives on earth; their marriage is the source of the Bontoc people.Mabel Cook Cole, Philippine Folk Tales (Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1916). (secondary)

Sources

• Fukan is the Bontoc woman, a survivor of the world-flood, whom the culture-hero Lumawig marries and through whom the Bontoc people are descended.: Mabel Cook Cole, Philippine Folk Tales (Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1916). (secondary); Albert Ernest Jenks, The Bontoc Igorot (Manila: Bureau of Public Printing, 1905). (secondary)