Agemem
Tinguian · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Agemem is the wife of Kadaklan, the great sky-spirit of the Tinguian, as recorded by Fay-Cooper Cole. She is consistently named as his consort; in the Lagangilang and Abang thunderbolt traditions Kadaklan 'eats the ground and releases his wife Agemem,' linking her to the earth/ground from which she is freed when the thunderbolt strikes. Cole gives little independent narrative for her beyond her marriage to Kadaklan.
Domains
- earth
Relations
- spouse: KadaklanAgemem is the wife of Kadaklan, the greatest of the spirits.Fay-Cooper Cole, The Tinguian: Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe (Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Series, Vol. XIV, No. 2, 1922) (secondary); Fay-Cooper Cole, Traditions of the Tinguian: A Study in Philippine Folk-Lore (Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Series, Vol. XIV, No. 1, 1915) (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Fay-Cooper Cole, The Tinguian: Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe (Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Series, Vol. XIV, No. 2, 1922) (secondary); Fay-Cooper Cole, Traditions of the Tinguian: A Study in Philippine Folk-Lore (Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Series, Vol. XIV, No. 1, 1915) (secondary)