Manama
Also called Sigalungan.
Manama is the creator god of the Manuvu of the Philippines — pre-existent and alone, who framed the world on crossed steel bars and molded it from the scrapings of his own fingernails.
At a glance
- Tradition
- Philippine folklore
- Region
- Philippines (place of origin)
- Trait family
- The Two-Realmed
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Traits
Read from the figure's description, which a model wrote. Open "why" for the sentence a trait came from.
Behaviour
- Knows past present and future
why
That original name was Sigalungan, meaning far-seeing and all-knowing — he could see, know, and hear anything at any distance, past, present, or future — and he revealed it through the diwata spirits.
Utility powers
- Creation
why
Then the world: Manama took two bars of steel and set them criss-cross as a frame, scraped his fingernails, molded the scrapings into a solid mass, and grew it by will power until it became the world.