Angalo

Sources describe Angalo as a legendary creation giant with pre‑Hispanic origins in the Ilocos region and as the first man; one English-language source states he was "son of the god of building." Myths cast him as an etiological ancestor whose actions—often narrated as family episodes—produce geographic features and natural conditions and whose daughters are named as progenitors of local peoples (the Ilocano, Aeta, and Igorot are mentioned in the available account).

Accounts emphasize Angalo's immense size: his head "touched the sky" and he could "easily walk from the Ilocos Region to Manila in one step." He is accompanied by a giant wife, Aran, and three giant daughters. Few other physical details are provided in the cited material beyond references to his scale and a loincloth (baag) mentioned in an anecdote.

Myths attribute world-forming acts to Angalo: through his actions he "shaped the hills and mountains of Luzon, formed the oceans, and put up the sky, sun, moon and stars." Natural phenomena are read as manifestations of his body and behavior—for example, thunder is described as Angalo's voice, earthquakes as his movements, and a rainbow as his hanging G‑string. Narrative episodes attribute specific landscape features to discrete acts (e.g., footprints as small valleys, caves as former shelters, depressions at Pinsal Falls formed when he knelt to drink, and the Banaoang Gap created when he kicked the range in sleep).