Sidapa

Sidapa



Sidapa is the Visayan god of death that precludes war and also the patron of Mt. Majaas.
His veneration and worship was far and wide not only in Visayas but as far as Taal and also pre-colonial Bicol.
He is depicted as very handsome  having very white skin and muscular body, and on his head were golden horns some say it was crown (golden) resembling horns.

Sidapa waiting for Bulan

Stories say he was a lover of Macaptan but left him(the reason is to why some thought Sidapa was a woman), From the sky world he descended to the tallest mountain where he planted a tree in which all life span of mortals can be measured. Having powers over death he can extend a life of someone if he wishes to. stories say he is a very kind god that when a family member of a dying would pray to him or make "maganito (sacrifice)" in his name grant their prayers and extend the life of their loved one.
Sidapa is also known to prevent wars before they start.he dislikes war and the reason behind it is that he and the god of war Macanduc are not in good terms because they pursued the same person or rather the same moon: the god of death battled and outsmarted the god of war and defeated him, thus claiming the right to take comely boy moon Bulan as his child-bride.

The story of Sidapa and Bulan

The god of death was lonely and he like all the creatures were awed by the beauty of the seven moons. He asked the mermaids and the birds to serenade ("harana")praises and sweet words to the moons, he also asked the flowers to make sweet perfumes and nectar, Finally guided by the fireflies one of the moons descended to meet him, it was Bulan who was lithe and childlike and comely. He took the boy to be his bride and story goes they still sleep in each others arms in  of mt. Majaas.

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Hine-nui-te-pō

Hine-nui-te-pō ("Great woman of night") is a goddess of night and death and the ruler of the underworld in Māori mythology. She is a daughter of Tāne. She fled to the underworld because she discovered that Tāne, whom she had married, was also her father. The red colour of sunset comes from her

ll of the children of Rangi and Papa were male. It was Tāne who first felt the need for a wife and began to look for a companion. His mother showed him how to make a female form from red earth. Then Tāne breathed life into Hine-ahuone, the earth-formed-maid, and mated with her. Their child was Hine-ata-uira, maid-of-the-flashing-dawn (a.k.a. Hine-tītama), and Tāne took her to wife

One day, while Tāne was away, Hine-ata-uira began to wonder who her father was. She was disgusted and ashamed when she heard that her husband was also her father, and she ran away. When Tāne came back he was told that she had run off to the spirit-world, and he quickly followed after. But he was stopped from entering by Hine herself, in her new role as goddess of the underworld. "Go back, Tāne", she said to him, "and raise our children. Let me remain here to gather them in." So Tāne came back to the upper world, while Hine stayed below, waiting only for Māui to bring death into the world, and begin the never-ending procession of mortals to her realm .

Māui did the last of his tricks on her, attempting to make mankind immortal by trying to crawl through her body, entering in her vagina and leaving by her mouth while she slept, to reverse the path of birth. But one of his bird friends, the Pīwakawaka, laughed at the ridiculousness of the situation, seeing Māui turned into a worm squirming to enter the goddess, and woke her. To punish the demi-god, she crushed him with the obsidian teeth in her vagina; Māui was the first man to die