“filipino mythology” does not exist; don't tag something when it does not even exist, how stupid are you?
[cracks knuckles] [drinks tea viciously]
well, one as rude as you might as well be as stupid, for “filipino mythology” does exist and people like you make me gag. Our stories might not be as well documented as the greeks or the romans or and god damn egyptians, but we have preserved them through oral traditions. We told them to our children before they sleep, we told them to young teens when they would need guidance, we told them throughout centuries and believe me: we are far from forgotten. so, you want some mythology, i’ll give you some god damn mythology:
— creation myths that i myself have heard many many times from my grandparents (my grandfather mostly)
anyway, regardless of what you think. filipino mythology is as valid as any other mythology out there and i shall protect it at all costs. normally i would have just deleted such a message but how you had told me of how invalid my culture was, well that angered me. to completely tell me that, i myself was invalid, a statistic. you are no better than the spaniards that arrived at our coasts. oh how they erased out existence from history’s books. let me tell you this, i will not be silenced. i will not be stopped. i will not be merciful. you come back into my ask like this again, i will meet you with a fury that even the gods cannot contain
I will school you, you ignorant imbecile. And to do that, I won’t even comment on the level of ignorance and rudeness evident in that kind of question. Just know that if you cross us again, I will destroy you in all the ways your puny mind cannot even fathom as destruction.
First off - while Keith (vespeir) has provided some links, I understand how most people might see Wikipedia as unreliable/unacademic. The thing is, though, Philippine mythology now is a product of generations and generations of Western brainwashing/colonization. It’s watered down, and basically just Greek/Roman deities translated. But you also have to understand that most of what we know now? It’s propaganda.
But anyway - there’s been extensive research regarding Philippine myth pre- and post-Western influence, both in the fields of literature and anthropology (most of them being from my university, with notable people being F. Landa Jocano from the UP College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Department of Anthropology, and Damiana Eugenio, from the UP College of Arts and Letters, Department of English and Comparative Literature.
Both of these people show up when you google them, not only because of their body of work, but because of the citations awarded to them, Jocano with a lifetime citation by the Manila Critics Circle, and Eugenio - dubbed the Mother of Philippine Folklore - with a Centennial Award for Cultural Research).
Just a few of my favorite articles on Philippine myth:
- An editorial on mythology as a cultural mirror
- Mythology as propaganda during the Marcos regime (just hints of it here, as an explanation/caption to an exhibit in the Vargas Museum, with Malakas and Maganda (PHL equivalent to Adam and Eve) replacing Kalak and Kabai (original equivalent to Adam and Eve) as Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos doppelgängers).
- A very interesting article on the Aswang
There would be more, but I have to go now. I might come back to add links, but articles are available everywhere, I shit you not. There’s also a lot of modern stuff coming out, one being a comprehensive encyclopedia focused on Philippine myth and lore.
And holy crap, I haven’t even touched on the gods! On the diwatas, and the malignos! Maria Makiling, for crying out loud!
You should thank whatever you believe in that typing this has cooled me off. But I’ll be back, and I swear to all that is holy, if I’m still angry by then, there will be hell. Masusunog ka sa impiyerno, gago, ako mismo magpapadala sa’yo doon.
