Lakapati

Tagalog hermaphrodite deity of fertility and cultivated land, one of the most-invoked gods of the rice-farming Tagalogs. Worshipped at planting with the prayer 'Lakapati, feed thy servant.' In Jocano's reconstruction the consort of Mapulon and mother of Anagolay.

Children

• Anagolay

Domains

• fertility and agriculture

Powers

• Grant the rice-fields their increase
• Give the fish of river and sea

Relations

• spouse: Mapulon

Sources

• San Buenaventura, Vocabulario de lengua Tagala (1613); Boxer Codex (c. 1590)
• Jocano (1969)