Magwayen is the deity of the sea and the primordial waters, the power that answers the sky god Kaptan in the framing of the world. Beyond the cosmogony, Bisayan belief made the sea deity a ferry of souls: the dead were carried by boat across the waters toward Sulad, the abode of the departed. In the recorded creation narrative Magwayen is parent of Lidagat, the calm sea, whose marriage to the wind Lihangin produces the four cosmic children. Sources differ on the deity's gender: in the primordial sky-and-sea pairing Magwayen is often figured as a feminine ocean set against the masculine heaven, while the folklore genealogies name Magwayen as a sea-god father; the ambiguity is original to the tradition rather than resolved by it.