Save Gender Masculine Usage Philippine Mythology Scripts ᜋᜎᜃᜐ᜔(Baybayin) Pronounced Pron. mu-lu-KAS(Tagalog) [key·IPA] 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.