Karl Gaverza’s thesis deals with Philippine higher and lower mythology.
Terms, such as the aswang, were semantically deconstructed to delineate between the different aspects and connotations on what the Philippine idea of different types of halimaw, roughly translated as “monsters”, can be represented by one lexical item.
Themes and motifs of Philippine myths were extracted from different mythological stories. Philippine higher mythology was organized by ethnolinguistic group in terms of cosmogony, cosmology,the conceptualization of the soul and the deities associated.
Philippine lower mythology and the creatures associated were given a new classification.
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