#amihan
Hello! I was wondering if you ever did any posts on Amihan? I haven’t really found anything surrounding this deity :(
My Answer: (question was sent by submission)
So there wasn’t any precolonial deity called Amihan. Amihan is mentioned as an air deity who creates winds in a creation story mentioned in Francisco Demetrio’s essay, Creation Myths among the Early Filipinos. Demetrio states this creation story was in the Pavon manuscript, which along with the Povedano manuscript has already been proven as a hoax created by Jose E. Marco, someone who is well known for their forgeries in history and “lost manuscripts”, back in the 60s.
As for Amihan being the name of the bird in the creation story that pecked the bamboo reed that Si Kalak and Si Bayi (Malakas and Maganda in Tagalog) came out from I actually haven’t found a credible source that mentions this. In all the old texts that talk about this creation myth in the Bisayas, they never mention the name of the bird. The name was still being told on the internet when I first started looking into our mythologies back in 2011. But, I’ve never found where this started. It’s possible it’s just been spoken of through oral history, but as for historical records, I haven’t personally found anything.