Amanikable

Tagalog god of the sea, a first-generation deity of Bathala's pantheon. Originally a god of hunters in the older accounts, he came to be the ill-tempered ruler of the waters who replaced the primordial sea-goddess Aman Sinaya.

Domains

• sea
• hunting

Powers

• raise tempests and angry seas

Relations

• contemporary: Bathala

Sources

• Boxer Codex (c. 1590)
• F. L. Jocano, Outline of Philippine Mythology (1969)