of Palawan; floods are said to be caused when the crab goes in and out from a huge hole in the sea Tandayag – a huge being from Batak mythology in Palawan; different accounts say that the Tandayag is a whale, a giant fish, or a dragon which closes the navel of the world called Burungan; if Burungan is left open and Tandayag is not appeased, the whole universe will be washed away by a furious rush of water, unless a shaman makes a spiritual journey to Burungan to close the navel with the aid of a spirit guide in the form of a sea turtle Makarallig – a giant monster created by the evil Manobo god, Ogassi (not the ogassi race from Bagobo beliefs); virtually invulnerable to any weapons and its heart is made from stone; its body became a mass of leeches after being defeated by the Manobo hero Batooy Child of Makarallig – the stone child of Makarallig in the form of a human; said to be fastened on a cliff of the Pulangi River and is nurtured by Busaw; if released, the child is said to take on the mantle of his father and destroy all the people of the earth Manaul – in Tagalog mythology, some accounts say that it was Manaul who pecked the bamboo where the first humans sprang from, while in some accounts, the bird was Amihan, deity of peace; in Bisaya mythology, a different bird with the same name was the horrible king of the birds who fought the wind deity Tubluck Laui; the epic war ended when Manaul was pummeled with boulders by the Bisaya supreme god, Kaptan; in another Bisaya version, Manaul was the bird who dropped rocks over the deities Kaptan and Maguayan to stop the two from warring; in the mythologies of Panay, a race of birds known as manaul are considered sacred and killing one is punishable by death Mythological races Accedes March 20, 1995 Published on September 16, 2019, Among the mythical creatures of Philippine mythology are as follows: angongolood – a race of swamp gorilla-like beings who jump and hug victims, which are transformed into trees from Bicol beliefs; spooked by noises made by striking the side of boats tamahaling – a race of red-skinned earth spirits which may turn maleficent and live in balete trees; they are the keepers of animals in Bagobo