Article ID: CBB502441072

Mabel Cook Cole's Philippine Folk Tales: an ethnoastronomical analysis (2022)

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Although anthropologists, and more recently astronomers, have studied and published on the astronomical beliefs and practices of different Philippine ethnic groups, one other source of information available to ethnoastronomers is the astronomical data contained in myths and legends. This paper analyses the astronomical stories contained in the book Philippine Folk Tales. These stories were compiled and annotated by the American anthropologist Mabel Cook Cole and published in 1916, and they focus on Indigenous views of the Sun, the Moon and the stars. Most of the 'folk tales' in Cole's book derive from northern Luzon and ethnic groups in the Davao district on the island of Mindanao.

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Authors & Contributors
Hamacher, Duane W.
Alejandro Martín López
Leaman, Trevor M.
Cartwright, Brad J.
Paviour-Smith, Martin
Mejuto, Javier
Concepts
Cosmology
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Ethnoastronomy
Astronomy
Constellations; zodiac
Sun
Time Periods
Ancient
18th century
Precolumbian period (America)
Modern
Renaissance
Medieval
Places
Australia
Argentina
Greece
Citizen Band Potawatomi Indian Tribe of Oklahoma
Middle and Near East
Micronesia
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