Ampual
Ifugao · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
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
- Ampual is a major Skyworld god of the Ifugao who gave animals and plants to the people and is invoked among the great intercessor gods in healing and agricultural rites.: F. Landa Jocano, Outline of Philippine Mythology, 1969 (secondary); R. F. Barton, The Religion of the Ifugaos, American Anthropological Association Memoir 65, 1946 (secondary)