Myth and the Creative Imagination

• Main Author: Garcia, J. Neil
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2021
• Subjects: myth and writing; functions of myth; sugidanon of Panay; Tikum Kadlum; Amburukay; Derikaryong Pada; myth and pedagogy; mythopoeia; myth and science; mythopoetic retellings; Creative Writing
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/akda/vol1/iss1/6; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/akda/article/1005/viewcontent/5_Garcia_Myth_20and_20the_20Creative_20Imagination_Akda_201_281_29.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

This essay inquires into the broadly creative affordances offered by mythological material to artists in general, and to writers in particular. It uses as examples the first few volumes of the Panay Bukidnon’s epic series, whose insights into non-dualistic thinking and transcendence echo the paradox...