The supplied summaries present Laon as the supreme creator deity named in various Visayan creation accounts. Sources describe Laon as dwelling in the uppermost level of a seven-layered universe and identify Laon with the name Makaako. The extant notes are brief and do not preserve a full narrative of Laon's creative acts or the specific texts/communities in which those narratives were recorded; they record only that Laon is 'usually mentioned in the various Visayan creation myths' and is regarded as a supreme creator in late colonial summaries.
No descriptions of Laon's physical appearance, iconography, or anthropomorphic form are provided in the supplied materials. The sources supplied contain no imagery or morphological details and only present Laon in theological/cosmological terms (name, role, and cosmological dwelling).
The sources attribute to Laon the role of supreme creator and place Laon in the highest cosmological tier: 'Laon is usually mentioned in the various Visayan creation myths as the creator of the first...' and 'Laon... dwells in the uppermost level of the seven layers of the universe.' Beyond this remote, originating creative role and the identification with Makaako, the supplied materials do not document additional powers, ongoing interventions, or specific deeds.
Amalanhig
Amalanhig are Visayan undead beings in Philippine folk belief, described as aswang who failed to transfer their monstrosity or power before death and who rise from graves to attack living humans. Accounts portray them as externally human in appearance with enlarged upper canines and as predators that bite, feed with a pointed tongue in some tellings, or — in an alternative variant — tickle victims to death.
Anito
Anito is a category of non‑human and post‑human spiritual beings in indigenous Philippine animistic worldviews, encompassing ancestor spirits, nature spirits/local deities, and sometimes carved effigies (taotao) that house or represent those spirits. They mediate relations between the living and the unseen world, functioning as household guardians, owners of places, intercessors, or occasional agents of harm when offended.
Laodamas
Laodamas (Ancient Greek Λᾱοδάμᾱς, lit. 'tamer of the people') is a personal name borne by multiple mortal figures in Greek mythic-historical traditions — princes, warriors, and a king — appearing in Theban, Trojan, and Phaeacian narratives rather than as a single supernatural being.
Laodamia
Laodamia (Ancient Greek: Λαοδάμεια) is a personal name borne by several mortal women in Greek myth whose stories sometimes intersect with gods, death, and brief post‑mortem visitations. Rather than a single supernatural class, Laodamia functions as an episodic figure in multiple genealogies and heroic narratives (e.g., a Lycian princess, the wife of Protesilaus).
Laodamia of Phylace
Laodamia of Phylace is a mortal woman in Greek myth, best known as the faithful wife of Protesilaus whose intense grief and devotion prompt the gods to grant her a brief, divinely mediated visit with her dead husband returned from Hades. Her story illustrates human access to the chthonic realm only by exceptional divine pity and emphasizes marital fidelity and mourning.
Laodicus
Laodicus (Ancient Greek: Λαόδικος, lit. 'tried by the people') is not a singular supernatural being but a personal name attested for several minor mortal figures in Greek mythic and epic traditions — a genealogical father, a father of a sacrificial victim in the Minotaur cycle, and one of the suitors of Penelope in the Odyssey tradition.
Laomedon
Laomedon is a legendary mortal king of Ilium (Troy) in Greek myth. Son of Ilus and grandson of Tros, his refusal to fulfill payments promised to gods (Poseidon and Apollo) and to the hero Heracles leads to divine punishments on Troy and to Heracles' sack of the city.
Laonome
Laonome (Ancient Greek: Λαονόμη) appears in classical Greek sources as a mortal woman who functions within multiple heroic-age genealogies and as an eponym in one fragmentary account. Separately, Laonome is also the modern zoological genus name for a group of sabellid polychaete worms; ecological literature treats Laonome species as marine/estuarine organisms with invasive potential.
Laophonte
Laophonte (Ancient Greek: Λαοφόντη) is attested in Greek mythographic genealogies as a mortal woman — daughter of Pleuron and Xanthippe and sister of Agenor, Sterope, and Stratonice. Some traditions name her as wife of Thestius and mother of Iphiclus, Leda, and Althaea; other authors (e.g., Alcman) offer conflicting parentage for Leda. The name is also reused in zoological taxonomy as a genus of copepods (family Laophontidae).
Laothoe
Laothoe is a personal name attested for several distinct mortal women in ancient Greek mythic genealogies and, separately, a taxonomic genus name used in entomology; the sources provided treat these as distinct referents rather than a single supernatural entity.
Lapithes
Eponymous ancestral founder of the Lapiths in Greek mythology; a legendary figure whose name gives rise to the human people of Thessaly and who is described as brother to Centaurus, thereby accounting for the kinship and rivalry between Lapiths and centaurs.
Lapiths
The Lapiths (Greek: Λαπίθαι, Lapithai) are a legendary Thessalian human people in Greek myth, best known for their role in the Centauromachy at the wedding of King Pirithous. Portrayed as skilled horsemen and warriors, they function in myth and art as exemplars of civilized restraint against the bestial behavior of the centaurs.
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- [2]Kanlaon — Wikipedia. Wikipedia, 'Kanlaon' (etymology note: 'The name Laon itself means, the ancient one, from Visayan laon')wiki