Dadanhayan ha Sugay, whose name ethnographers gloss as 'the lord from whom permission is asked', is one of the three divine persons of the Bukidnon creation myth recorded among the Talaandig. Where the creator Magbabaya is human in form and wills only good, Dadanhayan ha Sugay has a human body crowned by ten heads, all of which drool sticky saliva without ceasing. He represents the unformed and contrary pole of creation: it is from his soil and saliva that the matter of the earth is drawn, but only through the creative will of Magbabaya and the cooling mediation of the winged Agtayabun. Scholars such as Demetrio have noted that his ten drooling heads resemble multi-headed beings of Indic iconography, a possible echo of early Hindu-Buddhist contact in Mindanao and Sulu. He completes the triad as the necessary counterweight to Magbabaya, the two held in equilibrium by Agtayabun.