ABOUT THE BOOK

This collection constitutes Volume 2 of the author’s eight-volume Philippine Folklore Literature Series. The present volume focuses on myths, simply defined as sacred narratives explaining how the world and man came to be in their present form. An “Introduction” distinguishes myth from legend, and offers a system of classification of myths, which follows the arrangement of mythological motifs in Stith Thompson’s Motif-Index of Folk Literature.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Damiana L. Eugenio obtained her B.S.E degree, cum laude, from the University of the Philippines, her M.A. in English Literature from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, and her Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles, where she also did her studies in folklore. Her doctoral dissertation on Philippine awits and corridos was subsequently published under the title, Awit and Corrido: Philippine Metrical Romances. She has received several awards for her works, among them: “Most Outstanding Novo Ecijano in the Field of Arts (Literature); “Ina ng Folklore ng Pilipinas (Mother of Philippine Folklore).”