Hanan
Tagalog · demigod · heroic age · Recorded classification
Half-divine daughter of Bathala by an unnamed mortal woman who died at her birth. Goddess of the morning and of new beginnings in the Tagalog tradition. Worshipped at the first prayer of each day alongside Bathala and Apolaki; especially invoked at life-transitions (birth, adulthood, death, planting, harvest, new annual cycle). Iconographic emblems: the dawning rooster and the morning sun. The youngest of the three Bathala-daughter-demigods per the dominant variant.
Parentage
- paternal: Bathala
Domains
- morning and dawn
- new beginnings and life transitions
Relations
- sibling: ApolakiFull sibling; shares the same complete attested parentage.
- sibling: MayariJocano Outline (primary)
- sibling: TalaJocano Outline (primary)
Sources
- existence: F. Landa Jocano Outline of Philippine Mythology; Damiana Eugenio Philippine Folk Literature: The Myth (primary)
- parentage: Jocano Outline (primary)