Maknongan
Ifugao · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Maknongan, or Mah-nongan, stands at the head of the vast Ifugao pantheon as the god most often glossed 'creator of all things' and the ultimate recipient of animal sacrifice. R. F. Barton's ethnography cautioned that the name derives from the vocabulary of offering and is also applied to honored dead, so that Maknongan functions less as a remote high god than as the focal figure of Ifugao sacrificial religion. In the creation tradition recorded by F. Landa Jocano, Maknongan and his wife Bugan together fashioned the world and its inhabitants.
Domains
- creation
- sacrifice
Powers
- to create the world and its inhabitants
Relations
- consort of: BuganIn the creation account recorded by Jocano, Maknongan creates the world together with his wife Bugan.F. Landa Jocano, Outline of Philippine Mythology, 1969 (secondary)
Sources
- Maknongan (Mah-nongan) is commonly described as the chief god of the Ifugao, honored as the creator of all things and the principal recipient of sacrifice, though Barton noted the term is also applied honorifically to deified ancestors.: R. F. Barton, The Religion of the Ifugaos, American Anthropological Association Memoir 65, 1946 (secondary); F. Landa Jocano, Outline of Philippine Mythology, Centro Escolar University Research and Development Center, 1969 (secondary)