diwatahan:B I S A Y A N M y t h o l o g y S e r i e s | x | Pandaki: goddess of r
diwatahan:B I S A Y A N M y t h o l o g y S e r i e s | x | Pandaki: goddess of redemptionNot much is known about this deity other than from the few references to her. What we do know is that she was the diwata of redemption who either choose to save the souls from purgatory in Sulad to bring them to the land of the ancestors in Saad, or she would leave them there until those souls were redeemed. Other than the heroes, heroines, and brave souls who were deemed worthy enough join the realm of the gods by either being killed in battle, struck by lightning, or eaten by a crocodile, all souls went to Sulad. This was the way things were since long ago when Pandaguan, the son of the first man and woman, died as a punishment by the gods Kaptan and Magwayen who struck him with lightning after paying grievance rituals for a shark he brought onto shore and blaming the gods for the death of the shark, something that wasn’t heard of before. He stayed in Sulad for an entire moon cycle before the gods pitied him and brought him back to life. However when he came back to the world of the living his son, Anoranor told him that his wife Lupluban was already living with another man. Pandaguan sent his son to bring his mother back however she refused telling Anoranor that Pandaguan was dead and that if the shark didn’t come back to life Pandaguan would not either as the dead do not come back to the land of the living. With this Pandaguan in sorrow and anger went back to Sulad and remained there. Because of this event from that point on all those who died never came back to life. According to the text in the Boxer Codex Manuscript (1590), all souls remained in Sulad until one day a woman name Sibay or Mastrasan ordered the people to make a sacrifice to the gods. This sacrificial offering was so that those souls who have died would not go to Sulad and stay there but they would instead be brought to Saad, a place in the rugged mountains where no living person could see them and where they lived out their lives feasting and celebrating in happiness.According to Miguel de Loarca in his Relacion de las Yslas Filipinas (1582), the maganito to redeem the dead souls was given to Pandaki with the sacred spiritual place, Mt. Madjaas on Panay Island in sight. With the maganito Pandaki would retrieve the souls from Sulad and bring them to Saad. In the Diccionario de Mitologico de Filipinas by Fernando Blumentritt, (1895) Pandaki was also known as Pandaki Sita. He mentions that both names referred to the same deity. Under the Pandaki Sita entry he says that she was a bad god that brought dead souls to Sulad as punishment, the opposite of what he wrote of the entry under Pandaki and of what Loarca mentions. From this it is assumed that Pandaki was the one who decided the fates of the souls and where they would end up based on their deeds and of the maganito offerings given to the gods by the dead persons loved ones. -- source link
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