Lidagat
Visayan · deity · Visayan traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Lidagat is the personified calm sea, daughter of the sea deity Magwayen. Wedded to the wind Lihangin, she bears the four children of the Visayan cosmogony. Her stillness set against her husband's restless motion, she perishes with him of grief after their sons are struck down by the sky. Her name is the Bisaya word dagat, 'sea.'
Parentage
- paternal: Magwayen
Children
Domains
- sea
Powers
- holds the calm of the sea
Relations
- child: MagwayenCole, Philippine Folk Tales (1916), 'The Creation', pp. 99-101. (secondary)
- spouse: LihanginCole, Philippine Folk Tales (1916), 'The Creation', pp. 99-101. (secondary)
- parent: LikalibutanCole, Philippine Folk Tales (1916), 'The Creation', pp. 99-101. (secondary)
- parent: LiadlawCole, Philippine Folk Tales (1916), 'The Creation', pp. 99-101. (secondary)
- parent: LibulanCole, Philippine Folk Tales (1916), 'The Creation', pp. 99-101. (secondary)
Sources
- Lidagat, the calm sea, is the daughter of Magwayen and wife of the wind Lihangin, mother of the four cosmic children.: Cole, Philippine Folk Tales (1916), 'The Creation', pp. 99-101. (secondary)