Maria Makiling of the Mountain — Southeast Asia (Lesser-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel to the Philippines, to a mountain in Laguna that lies along the horizon in the shape of a sleeping woman. Maria Makiling was the diwata who lived on it and looked after everyone who went up — ginger in your firewood that dried into gold, a hut with a fire in it where there had been no hut, dishes lent for a wedding and never charged for. She asked nothing back except that the pots came home. For a long time they did.
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Source & tradition: Filipino (Tagalog)…
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