Alunsina
Suludnon · deity · mythic prehistoric · Recorded classification
Goddess of the Eastern Sky in Suludnon Hinilawod / Sugidanon epic tradition; daughter of Kaptan king of the gods; mother of the triplet demigods Labaw Donggon, Humadapnon, and Dumalapdap by the mortal Halawod chieftain Datu Paubari. The Hinilawod opening — divine-suitors' jealousy at her cross-class marriage, gods' flood, sister-Suklang-Malayon's warning, refuge on higher ground, secret settlement at the Halawod river-mouth — establishes the structural setup for the entire epic-cycle. Identified across regional variants with Laon and Lalahon (Hiligaynon and broader Visayan supreme creator-figures of Mt. Kanlaon).
Parentage
- parent: Kaptan
Children
Domains
- goddess of the eastern sky
- divine mother of the hinilawod triplets
- stars
Powers
- give her jewels to become the heavenly bodies
- intervened as a goddess to halt the seven-year duel between her warring sons
- conceived and bore triplet demigod heroes through divine virgin birth
Epithets
- Alunsina The goddess of the eastern sky; mother of the three hero-brothers of the HinilawodThe Hinilawod epic (Sulod of Panay) (secondary)
Relations
- lover: Datu PaubariHinilawod / Sugidanon epic (primary)
- mother of: Labaw DonggonHinilawod (primary)
- mother of: HumadapnonHinilawod (primary)
- mother of: DumalapdapHinilawod (primary)
- spouse: Tungkung LangitIn the Panay creation myth Alunsina is the wife of the supreme sky-god Tungkung Langit, who banishes her — a cosmogonic cycle distinct from her Hinilawod role as Datu Paubari's partner and mother of the triplets.F. Landa Jocano, Sulod Society (1968); the Panay creation myth (Tungkung Langit and Alunsina) (secondary)
- sibling: Suklang MalayonReciprocal of suludnon_suklang_malayon.sibling (alphabetical family sweep). (auto reciprocal)