Ampual is a god of the Fourth Skyworld credited with giving animals and plants to humankind. He belongs to the group of major deities — alongside Liddum, Hinumbian, Wigan and others — invoked with animal offerings and rice wine to intercede with the chief god when sickness or crop failure strikes.
Domains
animals and plants
rice agriculture
Powers
to bestow animals and food plants upon humankind and oversee the transplanting of rice
Sources
F. Landa Jocano, Outline of Philippine Mythology, 1969
R. F. Barton, The Religion of the Ifugaos, American Anthropological Association Memoir 65, 1946