Dugai

Mortal Benguet woman, wife of the lower-skyworld deity Dumagid and mother of the thunder-demigod Ovug. She dies on the journey toward the skyworld, the loss that sets up Dumagid returning to split their son Ovug into the two thunder-voices.

Children

• Ovug

Powers

• Bears the thunder-child Ovug to the skyworld deity Dumagid

Relations

• spouse: DumagidMortal Benguet wife of the skyworld deity Dumagid.Ifugao thunder-origin myth (Beyer 1913) (primary)
• mother of: OvugBore Ovug, the thunder-figure, to Dumagid.Ifugao thunder-origin myth (Beyer 1913) (primary)

Sources

• existence: H. Otley Beyer, Origin Myths among the Mountain Peoples of the Philippines, Philippine Journal of Science sec. D vol. 8 (1913), the Dumagid-Dugai-Ovug thunder-origin narrative; Roy F. Barton, The Religion of the Ifugaos (1946) (primary)