Diyan Masalanta

Tagalog goddess of love, conception and childbirth — the deity Plasencia singles out as patroness of lovers, whose worship the friars most sought to suppress. Daughter of Anagolay and Dumakulem in Jocano's reconstruction.

Parentage

• Anagolay
• Dumakulem

Domains

• love and childbirth

Powers

• grant love, conception and safe childbirth

Sources

• Juan de Plasencia, Customs of the Tagalogs (1589)
• Jocano (1969)