Sehal
Ilocano Deities of Stars and Planets?
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Excerpt: “The Ilocanos believe that shooting stars have something to do with love. They move from one place to another. The aerolites that fall on earth are called layap. The common folk believes that tying a knot in the handkerchief when the layap falls enables them to enclose in the knot the babato (miraculous stones of love). In Ilocos, there was a pair very much in love with each other. According to the townspeople, the lovers drowned in a marsh where none can drown, not even a fly, for it was not deep enough. Among the names of Filipino gods in the dictionary of Buzeta and Bravo, one can find a god or a goddess called Sehal. Sehal is an Ilocano word that means beauty and the Ilocanos, like the Tagalogs, invoke the help of Venus in their love letters. Is it possible that once upon a time there was one like Venus called Sehal?”
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