Kabunian
Bontoc · deity · Bontoc traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Kabunian is the Bontoc name of the remote creator high-god of the sky, recorded by Jenks under the form Intutungcho and elsewhere as Kambunyan or Kafunian. He is conceived as a benevolent but distant being who lives in the sky above the world and from whose household the culture-hero Lumawig, his second son, descended to the Bontoc. The title Kabunian is shared widely among the Igorot peoples of the Cordillera, and among the Bontoc it slides between the father and the more vivid figure of the son, so that worshippers sometimes use the one name for the other.
Children
Domains
- sky and heaven
- creation high god
Powers
- to dwell in and rule over the sky
- to father the culture-hero Lumawig and send him to earth
Epithets
- IntutungchoAlbert Ernest Jenks, The Bontoc Igorot (Manila: Bureau of Public Printing, 1905). (secondary)
Sources
- Kabunian, also named Intutungcho, is the Bontoc creator high-god of the sky and the father of Lumawig.: Albert Ernest Jenks, The Bontoc Igorot (Manila: Bureau of Public Printing, 1905). (secondary); Carl Wilhelm Seidenadel, The First Grammar of the Language Spoken by the Bontoc Igorot, with a Vocabulary and Texts, Mythology, Folklore, Historical Episodes, Songs (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 1909). (secondary)