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The Following podcast is a conversation with one of my favorite TPKP guests during the time of the pandemic, and I am very happy to have him back.
Jean Karl Gaverza is one of the most passionate and prolific people I know who study Mythologies from the Philippines.
He manages the Philippine Spirits facebook page and is an author of several books about myths, legends, and folklore, including The Spirits of the Philippine Archipelago, Mythica Obscura, Bakunawa, and others.
In this episode we talked about his books, the differences of legends and myths, linguistics in the Philippines, the aswangs, manananggals, bakunawas, and how mythological traditions shape Filipino culture from pre-colonial times going to the future.
This episode also marks the podcast's return to its original vision of unedited, free-flowing, face to face conversations with thoughtfully selected guests with treasure troves of knowledge to share and deep dive into.
And again, I am honored to have Mr Karl Gaverza to do it with. Please do subscribe, like, and share this podcast your friends, and most importantly, enjoy our conversation.
5:35 Mythologies in the Philippines
10:22 Filipino is a dialect of Tagalog
17:35 Mhenamad Thalon and Thamad Thalon
18:08 When you hear the Aswang or Tiktik
18:53 Is the Tikbalang myth endemic to the Philippines?
22:38 LGBT Nythology hoaxes
24:18 Aswang Project cancelled
27:58 Nagined, Arapayan, and Makabarubak
31:02 Spanish Interventions
36:07 How much of our myths are preserved?
38:33 How Karl does his reseach
42:03 Bureaucracy in indigenous cultures
44:13 Exploitation of culture
46:05 Ube as flavor of the year
47:06 Cultural appropriation
50:58 Looting in Archeology
1:04:36 Philippine mythology in pop culture
1:05:48 Poorly researched myth-based fiction
1:07:32 Thoughts on Apo Whang-Od
1:12:38 Komiksman spends a night in a hut deep in the jungle
1:15:03 Manananggal in NAIA
1:16:34 Contemporary babaylan
1:17:24 Komiksman's sanib story
1:18:50 Karl's kapre neighbor
1:19:38 How Karl got into mythology
1:22:58 The ancient Filipinos' cosmos
1:28:38 the ancient's creativity
1:28:55 Thoughts on Philippines lost history, oral traditions, The Binukot
1:33:39 Water connects, mountains divide
1:37:13 The Autronesian peoples
1:45:55 The Robinson snake
1:47:15 Pasig river monster
1:48:08 Manila's forgotten UFO story
1:49:35 Ancient astronaut theory
1:51:35 Human need to explain mysterious things
1:53:35 How mythology molded the Filipino culture
1:59:58 The Filipino family
2:01:53 Closing statements