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Digital 3D Models of Selected Unfamiliar Mythological Creatures from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao
Digital 3D Models of Selected Unfamiliar Mythological Creatures from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao
THE CREATURES
The following 3D models depict creatures of myths that originate from six ethnolinguistic groups; Kapampangan/Aeta & Bicolano from Luzon, Ilonggo & Aklanon from Visayas, and Bagobo & Maranao from Mindanao.
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KAMANA
The Aeta have a word called Kamana, meaning flesh-eating demon. But their accounts of the creature resemble that of Kapampangans from the lowlands, with straight hair and light skin. They used the story of the Kamana to scare children from venturing out of the community, believing that a Kamana would eat you or take you with them.
TAWONG LIPOD
Of Bicolano origin, the Tawong Lipod are invisible wind people. Formerly beautiful spirits of clouds and wind, those who were not able to return to the sky became dark malevolent entities, believed to cause illness and death. It is said that a victim of the Tawong Lipod must offer it two chickens, one black and one white.
CALAG
A creature of Ilonggo origin - the Calag is a creature that scavenges graves. It is said that when three days have passed during a wake and the body has not been buried, the Calag may appear and touch the coffin, causing the belly of the deceased to burst and emit a foul stench.
DAGASANAN
Dagasanan was a young Aklanon hunter that slew Panigotlo, a white deer, pet of the god Gamhanan. His villagers killed him for this act of sacrilege. On the spot where he was killed, an Inyam tree grows. In the river where the shadow of this tree falls, drownings occur very often, said to be Dagasanan's revenge against the village.
MANTIANAK
In Bagobo tradition, it is said that if a woman dies during her pregnancy, the ghost of the woman becomes a Mantianak, a vengeful spirit that appears with wild hair, long claws, and a large wound in her abdomen, showing the unborn child. The Mantianak hovers in the air near her former home, seeking out men to kill.
ARIMAONGA
The Arimaonga is a creature from Maranao mythology, described as a giant lion with a mane made of sunlight, which appears at night to playfully devour the moon. The Arimaonga releases the moon if people rub their fingernails against one another, or to the sound drums, gongs, and loud chants of people.