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Origin Myths among the Mountain Peoples of the Philippines

Note 29 — The Origin of the Stars and the Explanation of Sunset and Sunrise

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The subject of the Ifugao religion is an extensive one, and I have no intention of discussing it in detail here. I shall merely give a few general facts, and a few of the more interesting myths. In addition to some minor papers by the Dominican fathers Malumbres and Campa, most of our information concerning the Ifugao religion is contained in three extensive manuscript monographs.29 The myths that I shall give here are selected from the first and third of these manuscripts, and the general facts are taken from all three.

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