Ovug
Ifugao · demigod · heroic age · demigod
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
Domains
- thunder and lightning
Powers
- his voice produces thunder and lightning
Epithets
- Ovug