Tagala Dieties

Bathala mei Capal (Bathala Maykapal) – creator & creator and preserver of all things god of the tag-ilog (Tagáls )

Maca (Village of Rest) – the place where people who died goes, those who are just, and the valiant, and those who lived without doing harm, or who possessed other moral virtues.

Also known as Ana Tala,first anito.

Aman Sinaya (Father of the fishnet) – god who invented the art of fishing by creating the use of a net and fishhook.

Lakan Bakod/Bakor – anito/god of abundance and the fruits of the earth.

Lakan Pati/Lakapati – the Deity of Sown Fields & Fertility

Lakan Bini/Lakabini/Lakambini- Goddess of Throat Ailments and prayed to for health.

Aman Ikabli/Ama ni Kabli – god of hunting and the patron god of hunters.

Diyan Masalanta – Goddess of lovers and childbirth.

Mankukutod – God of Coconut Trees & Patron God of Tuba Tappers.

Uwinan Sana – God of the fields and forests.

Haik – God of the Sea. Prayed for his protection when traveling by the sea from tempests and storms and good weather and favorable calm.

Linga – a phallic god known for fertility and for curing diseases.

Bulak Tala or Tala – the goddess who represented the morning star and worshiped along with Mapulon (who they saw as Pleiades) and Balatik (the constellation Orion).

Idiyanale/Diyan Ale – the goddess of husbandry who overlooked all activities of raising crops/land and animals used in farming. 

Meylupa – Crow God of the Earth.

Laho – a naga, or mythical serpent.believed to devour the moon and sun, causing solar and lunar eclipses.

Bibit – God Who Cured Illness

Lakan Balingasay – god of trees.

Kulalaying (Dalagang nasa Buwan) – Goddess of the Moon. The maiden in the moon, and Dalagang Binubukot, the Cloistered Maiden in the moon.. Worshiped during the new moon, praying for life and riches.

Other Gods

  • Balakbak and Balantay = two deities who guarded Tanguban, the realm of the dead souls
  • Bingsol = the god of ploughmen
  • Biso = a type of police officer in the heavens
  • Bulak Pandan = deity of pandan
  • Kampungan = a god of harvests and sown fields
  • Kapiso Pabalita = the protector of travelers
  • Lampinsaka = the god of those who are crippled
  • Makapulaw = god of sailors
  • Matanda = god of merchants
  • Paalulong = god of the sick and dead
  • Paglingniyalan = another god of hunters
  • Ginuong Pagsuutan = goddess of women in labor
  • Pagwaagan = a wind god
  • Pusod Lupa = god of the fields
  • Sirit = a servant of the anito

Casanaan (Place of anguish). the place where people who are wicked goes, a place of punishment, grief, and affliction, where dwelt the demons, whom they called sitan.

Tigmamanukan – Bathala’s messenger bird, a blue and black bird that is a sacred animal and an omen.(believe to be the Philippine fairy blue bird.

Meilupa – worshiped the raven, which, called “the master of the earth.

Mayari, Apo Laki, Anagolay, Hanan, Anitun Tabu, Galang Kaluluwa, etc. are considered to be part of the modern myths and deities that have been labeled and associated with the Tagalog Deities since the mid 1900s and others are deities taken from other ethnic groups like the Zambals and Kapampangans..