SIL Philippines

The Maiden of Many Nation:
The Skymaiden Who Married a Man from Earth

In this volume the writer traces the world-famous swanmaiden motif as it is found in the oral narratives related by twenty-one diverse culture and language groups throughout the Philippines. Spanning a geographical area from Northern Luzon to the Zamboanga peninsula in the south, certain basic elements of the story retain striking similarities which the older generation of these oral tradition societies still includes in their ancestral roots.