Liadlaw
Visayan · deity · Visayan traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Liadlaw is the golden child among the four offspring of the wind and the sea, a being made all of gold. Drawn by his elder brother Likalibutan into the assault on the sky, he is destroyed by Kaptan's thunderbolts, and his shining body is set in the heavens as the sun. His name is the Bisaya word adlaw, 'sun, day.'
Parentage
Domains
- sun
Powers
- becomes the sun
Relations
- child: LihanginCole, Philippine Folk Tales (1916), 'The Creation', pp. 99-101. (secondary)
- child: LidagatCole, Philippine Folk Tales (1916), 'The Creation', pp. 99-101. (secondary)
- sibling: LikalibutanCole, Philippine Folk Tales (1916), 'The Creation', pp. 99-101. (secondary)
- sibling: LibulanCole, Philippine Folk Tales (1916), 'The Creation', pp. 99-101. (secondary)
Sources
- Liadlaw, a child of gold, is one of the four children of Lihangin and Lidagat and becomes the sun after being destroyed by Kaptan.: Cole, Philippine Folk Tales (1916), 'The Creation', pp. 99-101. (secondary)