Tungkung Langit
Suludnon · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Tungkung Langit ('pillar/prop of the skies') is the supreme male diwata and creator-god of the Sulod (Suludnon/Panay-Bukidnon) pantheon of Central Panay, documented by anthropologist F. Landa Jocano. In the Sulod three-tiered cosmos he rules the upperworld (Ibabawnun) and is assisted by lesser divinities; in the Panay creation myth he and his wife Alunsina, goddess of the eastern skies, dwell together in the primordial void until, angered by her jealousy and idleness, he banishes her and orders chaos into the sea, earth and sky, hanging the sun, moon and stars in the heavens in the hope of her return. He is the Visayan counterpart to the Tagalog supreme being Bathala.
Domains
- sky
- creation
Powers
- ordered the primordial chaos into sea, earth and sky
- set the sun, moon and stars in the sky as Alunsina's jewels
Epithets
- Tungkung Langit Pillar/Prop of the SkyF. Landa Jocano, Sulod Society; Panay creation myth (secondary)
Relations
- spouse: AlunsinaAlunsina (goddess of the eastern skies) is the wife of Tungkung Langit; their separation is the engine of the Panay creation narrative.F. Landa Jocano, Sulod Society (1968) and Outline of Philippine Mythology (1969); Panay creation myth — Tungkung Langit, supreme sky-god, and Alunsina, goddess of the eastern skies, are husband and wife (secondary)
Sources
- existence: F. Landa Jocano, Sulod Society: A Study of the Kinship System and Social Organization of a Mountain People of Central Panay (1968) (secondary)
- role-supreme-creator: F. Landa Jocano, Outline of Philippine Mythology (1969); Panay (Sulod) creation myth (secondary)