Ilokano Deities

The list of Ilokano deities below is from Llamzon.

• Buni - God
• Parsua - Creator
• Apo Langit - Lord Heaven (Apo means "Lord")
• Apo Angin - Lord Wind
• Apo Init - Lord Sun
• Apo Tudo - Lord Rain

The Ilokanos also believed in the following anito (spirits).

• Mangmankik - spirits who dwell in woodlands and trees
• Kaibaan - dwarfs who dwell in anthills
• Bagbagutot - spirits who swell in shrubs
• Namagayak - the soul of the rice (pagay)

Other mythological creatures are:

• Katataoan - giants
• Ansisit - dwarfs the size of a finger
• Kaibaan - dwarfs two to three feet tall
• Pugot - spirits of ancestral aborigines (Aetas) who guard treasures
• Kumao - half-bird half-animals
• Aswang - spirits that sell and kidnap children

The Ilokanos believed that man had three souls.

• Karma - ego: responsible for the normal feeling in the individual. It is thought of as vapor and assumes the form of insects after leaving the body.
• Alingaas - shadow
• Kararwa - soul, which existed even after death