Kaptan is the supreme sky god of the pre-Hispanic Visayans, remembered in the colonial chronicles of Loarca and the Boxer Codex as the celestial power who, together with Magwayen of the sea, framed the world. In the creation narrative preserved in later folklore he is father of the wind Lihangin and grandfather of the four cosmic children; when the eldest, Likalibutan, leads his brothers in an assault upon the gates of the sky, Kaptan shatters them with his thunderbolts, and their broken bodies become the land, the sun, the moon and the stars. Grieving, the sky god afterward calls the sea to help him coax the first human beings from the drifting bamboo. Sources sometimes distinguish a wrathful aspect, Makaptan, an unfed sky lord who sends sickness because he has tasted neither the rice nor the wine of mortals.