The Bakunawa is known across the Philippines as a serpent that swallows the moon, causing lunar eclipses. In Karay-a belief (an ethnolinguistic group from Panay island), the Bakunawa can refer to two different types of flying serpent: one which has a transparent stomach and one that has a thick-walled stomach. If one with a thin-walled stomach swallows the moon then it causes a partial eclipse, and if one with a thick-walled stomach does, a total eclipse will occur.

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