#thethreebrothersoftheunderworld

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#TheThreeBrothersoftheUnderworld #TheThreeBrothers #theUnderworld Another theme to note in Philippine myth, mostly from the Bisayas region is a trio of psychopomps. This trio is comprised of brothers who live in the underworld or a variation thereof and are responsible for guiding the soul, in the Sulod case for that soul’s entire life. This can be seen in the Sulod trio ofMangganghaw, Manglaegas and Patag’aes. They have a relationship wherein each brother is in charge of a particular time in the soul’s lifetime, Mangganghaw watches before the soul is born and as it is conceived, Manglaegas makes sure that the child is born alive and Patag’aes holds a conversation with the soul of the newborn on how they want to live and die. While the three brothers in Sulod myth do not follow the traditional method of psychopomps i.e. guiding the soul after it dies, their duties in guiding the soul through life and eventually when they die (In the case of Patag’ aes) is enough to classify them as psychopomps. In Bisaya mythology the psychopomp brothers’ methods are similar to those of the ferrymen in other Philippine groups. Magyan carries the souls of the dead to the underworld, called Kasakitan, in a boat called the balanday where there soul is taken by his brother Sumpoy to a subsection of the underworld called Kanitu-nituhan. Both these brothers live in the underworld while the third brother lives in the middleworld called Kamaritaan. While Makaptan does not guide the soul as he is a god of sickness, he is the husband of the goddess of death, Sidapa.