The Visitation of the Gods
The letter announcing the visitation (a yearly descent upon the school by the superintendent, the district supervisors and the division supervisors for “purposes of inspection...
Literature
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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,...
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Footnote To The Youth
The sun was salmon and hazy in the west. Dodong thought to himself he would tell his father about Teang when he got home, after...
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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...
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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...
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The House of Zapote Street
Dr. Leonardo Quitangon, a soft-spoken, mild-mannered, cool-tempered Caviteno, was still fancy-free at 35 when he returned to Manila, after six years abroad. Then, at the...
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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...
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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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The Chieftest Mourner
He was my uncle because he married my aunt (even if he had not come to her these past ten years), so when the papers...
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Return To The Primitive
A species of nationalism is being preached in the Philippines that ought to be scrutinized more closely for the dangerous fallacies it contains. The people...
