The American anthropologist who founded Philippine ethnology gathers the stories mountain peoples of Luzon and Mindanao told about where the world came from. Ifugao accounts of the god Wigan and a great flood sit beside Manobo legends of a petrified boat and crew, explanations of sunset and the stars, and the marriage of a goddess with a mortal.
A short, early record of Philippine mythology taken down from living tellers. Download the free EPUB.