Bugan
Ifugao · deity · mythic prehistoric · Recorded classification
Bugan is the great female name of the Ifugao mythic corpus. In the deluge myth she and her brother Wigan alone survive the flood and become the ancestors of the Ifugao; in other traditions Bugan appears as the wife of the creator Maknongan, and in the tale of Bugan and Kinggauan as a goddess who married a mortal man. She is also said to have descended to earth to teach people the use of the forces of air and water.
Domains
- ancestry and fertility
Powers
- to teach humankind the use of the forces of air and water
Relations
- spouse: WiganAfter the flood Bugan marries her brother Wigan with the gods' sanction to repeople the earth.H. Otley Beyer, 'Origin Myths among the Mountain Peoples of the Philippines', Philippine Journal of Science, vol. 8, 1913 (secondary)
- sibling: WiganBugan and Wigan are the sibling pair who alone survive the deluge.Damiana L. Eugenio, Philippine Folk Literature: The Myths, University of the Philippines Press, 1993 (secondary)
Sources
- Bugan is the principal goddess-name of Ifugao mythology: the flood-surviving ancestress of the Ifugao, wife of Wigan, and in other tales the wife of the chief god and a goddess who descended to teach humankind.: R. F. Barton, The Mythology of the Ifugaos, Memoirs of the American Folklore Society 46, 1955 (secondary); H. Otley Beyer, 'Origin Myths among the Mountain Peoples of the Philippines', Philippine Journal of Science, vol. 8, 1913 (secondary)