Save Gender Masculine Usage Philippine Mythology Scripts ᜋᜎᜃᜐ᜔(Baybayin) Pronounced Pron. /mɐ.lɐ.ˈkas/(Tagalog) [key·simplify] Meaning & History Means "strong, hard, powerful" in Tagalog. In Philippine mythology, he and Maganda were the first humans. They were said to have sprung from a large bamboo tree pecked by a sarimanok (mythical bird) known as Magaulancealabarca.