Tala used light spheres or orbs to ferry men to safety at night.
In another, more modern story,[4] sun god Arao (probably Apolaki) and the moon goddess Buan (probably Mayari) both had large families of stars, but Buan believed her stars could not survive the heat of Arao.
Derived from this myth are the Tagalog words tala, which means "bright star", araw (sun) and buwan (moon).
For the Kapampangans, Tálâ is the bright star and the one who introduced wet-rice culture in Pampanga.
Felipe Pardo (Archbishop of Manila 1686-1688), in his letter, mentioned an anito, which the Tagalogs from Laguna still remembered, named Bulactala.