Save Gender Feminine Usage Philippine Mythology Scripts ᜋᜄᜈ᜔ᜇ(Baybayin) Pronounced Pron. ma-gan-DA(Tagalog) [key·IPA] Meaning & History Means "beautiful" in Tagalog. In Philippine mythology, she and Malakas were the first humans. They were said to have sprung from a large bamboo tree pecked by a sarimanok (mythical bird) known as Magaulancealabarca.