Magbabaya, fully styled Diwata na Magbabaya, is the supreme creator god of the Bukidnon (Talaandig and Higaonon) peoples of the Mount Kitanglad range and the upper Pulangi valley in north-central Mindanao. The name derives from the Binukid root baya', 'will' or 'the power of choosing', so that Magbabaya is 'the One Who Wills' or in whose charge all things rest. In the ethnographies of Fay-Cooper Cole and Vincent Cullen he stands at the head of a hierarchy of supernatural beings, most powerful of all, delegating particular spheres to subordinate divinities who must be won over with offerings. In the creation narrative collected by Carmen Ching Unabia he is the supreme planner who, seeing only emptiness, fashioned the first eight elements and from them the sea, sky, moon and stars. Folk tradition recorded in Eugenio's anthology adds that he dwells in a windowless house of coins high in the sky, since to behold him would cause all men and things to dissolve into water. Often described as neither wholly male nor female, he forms one member of the Bukidnon creative triad together with Dadanhayan ha Sugay and the mediating Agtayabun.