A Dialogue Among Clever People
ONCE some guests were gathered in a rich man’s home, and it happened that a serious conversation about life arose. They talked about persons absent...
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All Over The World
ONE evening in August 1941, I came out of a late movie to a silent, cold night. I shivered a little as I stood for...
The Creation Story (Tagalog Myth)
When the world first began there was no land, but only the sea and the sky, and between them was a kite (a bird something...
The Children of the Limokon
This story is a myth from the Mandaya tribe of Mindanao, Philippines. In the very early days before there were any people on the earth,...
In the Beginning: Bilaan Myth (Mindanao)
In the beginning there were four beings (Melu, Fiuweigh, Diwata, and Saweigh), and they lived on an island no larger than a hat. On this...
The Story of the Creation – A Bilaan Myth (Mindanao)
In the very beginning there lived a being so large that he cannot be compared with any known thing. His name was Melu, and when...
Origin: Bagobo Myth (Mindanao)
In the beginning there lived one man and one woman, Toglai and Toglibon. Their first children were a boy and a girl. When they were...
The Creation (Igorot Myth)
In the beginning there were no people on the earth. Lumawig, the Great Spirit, came down from the sky and cut many reeds. He divided...
How the World Was Made
This is the ancient Filipino account of the creation. Thousands of years ago there was no land nor sun nor moon nor stars, and the...
The Waves
Matters of big moment at stake, and the struggle of a character in a painful effort to decide which course to follow—these make the essence...
1896 (Cry Freedom)
The cry awoke Balintawak And the echoes answered back… “Freedom”! All the four winds listened long To the shrieking of that song…. “Freedom”! I heard...
I Vialed The Universe
I vialed the universe And laughed at the concentrated Gods. But the Genie escaped with His halo of riddles. I pondered anew and unslept. Thoughts...
