Lawanen
Maranao · mortal · Maranao traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Lawanen (Lawanën) is a celebrated princess-heroine of the Darangen, famed for her beauty and often linked with the name Paramata Gandingan. She figures as bride and as the prize whose courtship and abduction touch off warfare among the sultanates, and in the Gandingan cycles she is the wife of the warrior Mabaning. Sources differ on her exact kinship to the house of Bembaran.
Domains
- beauty
Powers
- command the devotion of heroes
Relations
- spouse: MabaningWed to the warrior Mabaning.Darangen, the Gandingan cycles (MSU, 1986-1988). (primary)
Sources
- Lawanen is a celebrated princess-heroine of the Darangen, renowned for beauty, associated with the name Gandingan and wed to Mabaning in the Gandingan cycles.: Darangen (MSU, 1986-1988), Gandingan cycles. (primary); Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa and Damiana L. Eugenio, Philippine Folk Literature: The Epics (2001). (secondary)