Ovug

Half-divine son of the lower-skyworld deity Dumagid by the mortal Benguet woman Dugai. The split-into-two-halves at his father's hands — one half in the skyworld, one half on earth — produces two distinct thunder-voices: skyworld-Ovug for sharp lightning-thunder, earth-Ovug for low rolling-thunder. The etiological thunder-figure of Ifugao meteorological theology — the demigod whose continuing existence-as-two-voices explains the natural phenomenon.

Parentage

• paternal: Dumagid
• parent: Dugai

Domains

• thunder and lightning

Powers

• his voice produces thunder and lightning

Epithets

• Ovug latin · Ovug · cultThe deity of thunder and lightning, whose bolt splits the skyR. F. Barton, The Religion of the Ifugaos (secondary)

Relations

• mother: Dugai (mortal Benguet woman, biological mother) · IfugaoIfugao thunder-origin myth (primary)

Sources

• existence: Beyer, Origin Myths of the Mountain Peoples of the Philippines (Philippine Journal of Science D.7, 1913), pp. 85-117 (the Dumagid-Dugai-Ovug thunder-origin narrative); Barton, The Religion of the Ifugaos (American Anthropologist Memoir 65, 1946) (primary)
• parentage: Ifugao thunder-origin myth (primary)