Ampual

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