Description
Folkloric spirits, deities, and mythical beings provide a window into years gone by. When viewed through an ethnographic lens, they provide important clues to understanding past culture and its evolution into modern society. In the case of the Philippines, where syncretization with these beliefs through trade, migration, and colonization created a constant cultural inflfluence, these clues become invaluable for discovering the precolonial Filipino identity. The value of this has rarely been realized in the mainstream
