Tala

Tala is the diwata, or goddess, of the morning and evening star in Tagalog mythology, a figure drawing on the Hindu goddess Tara and echoed among the India tribes of Bihar, Savara and Bhuiya as well as the Indianized Semang of Malaya; a Majapahit-era gold statue found at Agusan in 1918, known as the Golden Tara, has been linked to this Hindu-Tagalog adoption. In the most popular telling Tala is one of three daughters of the supreme deity Bathala, already recorded on this atlas, and a mortal woman, alongside her sister Mayari, goddess of the moon and also already recorded on this atlas. In a more modern narrative her mother is instead the moon goddess Buan, who hides her starry children from the sun god Arao, and Tala serves as her mother's herald, signaling when the sun has grown too far away to pursue them.