Philippine Folk Literature: The Myths
A Reference, Anthropology book. I can't imagine a more thorough resource for Philippine folklore. This is essential reading for Filipinos.
Philippine Folk Literature: The Myths constitutes Volume II of the author's eight-volume Philippine Folk Literature Series. The present volume focuses on myths, simply defines as sacred narratives explaining how the world and man came to be in their present form. An "Introduction" distinguishes myth from legend, with which it is usually confused, and offers a system of classification of myths, which follows the arrangement of mythological motifs in Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk Literature. The myths in this collection are arranged according to the eight categories in the system of classification mentioned above: 1) the Gods: their Activities and Relationships; 2) Cosmology and Cosmogony; 3) Topographical Features of the Earth (water and land features); 4) World Calamities (The Great Flood); 5) Establishment of the Natural Order; 6) Creation and Ordering of Human Life; 7) Origin of Animal Life and Characteristics; and 8) Origin of Plant Life and Characteristics....
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I can't imagine a more thorough resource for Philippine folklore. This is essential reading for Filipinos. An excellent collection of mythology, on the whole, covering all parts of the Philippines and all types of myths. (Other volumes, which I have not read, cover other folklore.) In some cases, I would have liked to see a little commentary. For example, a couple myths tell of the origin of corn and tobacco; when were those introduced historically?... sfdg
