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FACES OF PHILIPPINE MYTHOPOEIA
The Maycapal Adarnaverse Tales of Philippine Mythopoeia
Not your granddad’s Maximo Ramos book; not your uncle’s FB fanpage on Philippine Mythology; and not your brother’s myth fiction blog
Philippine Mythology X High-Fantasy book manifesting soon
BOOK TRAILER https://twitter.com/aericangelo/status/1478319536160251904?s=21
THE MAYCAPAL ADARNAVERSE 2022 BOOK TRAILER
Adarnaverse thunders into being…
Great Mother Hocloban
effloresces Adarnapelagus…
The Maycapals rise…
Who are the Anitus?
What is the Crucible of Lumawig?
The Once and Future Jove Rex Al
The Hidden God in the Stone
Who are the Diwatas?
Who are the Syncretics?
ADARNAVERSE | PHILIPPINE MYTHOPOEIA to cap off a most creative and productive 2021 ✨⚡️
sound on
Auguries of Innocence by William Blake
To see a World in a Grain of Sand ……
And a ☁️☁️Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour ⏳
[Philippine Mythopoeia in Fractal Geometry inspired by William Blake]
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Tis the season where we take stock of things, give thanks, be grateful; and pick up the pieces of our fragmented self to make it whole again—hoping the new us would be greater than the sum of our parts—like the INFINITY of a FRACTAL #PhilippineMythopoeia
Happy Holidays! May our 2022 be peaceful, productive, healthy, and hopeful
The Maycapal Adarnaverse. Hope you enjoy this simple preview slide video. Next happy update shall be by early 2022. Happy Holidays! ✨
Merry Christmas! ❄️ as religion and mythology are inextricably linked and essentially of one substance…
What is Philippine Mythopoeia? #Maycapal #Adarnaverse
It’s the reclaiming of the works and the Greek Myth allusions of Poet Francisco Balagtas; the songs and ballads of Poet Huseng Sisiw/Jose de la Cruz; the mysticism of Hermano Pule; the works of Jose Rizal, his El Consejo de Los Dioses; the traditions set by the Friars and Holy Orders; the epics, songs, and arts of the Indigenous Peoples; the zarzuelas; the academism of Juan Luna, Felix R. Hidalgo, Jose Honorato Lozano…
And in my heart of hearts, my forever influences on this masterwork are “Homer,” Hesiod, Ovid, Virgil, Dante, John Milton, William Blake, JRR Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, Lovecraft, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Ferdowsi, Philip José Farmer, Alan Moore, and Neil Gaiman.
THE MAYCAPAL ADARNAVERSE, Tales of Philippine Mythopoeia. ⚡️⚡️⚡️
A two-year high fantasy labor of love and passion, and a few Pheidippides-laps more with the manuscript, then we will meet the sentient Manila galleon/warship adventuring on the high seas; and the curious denizens of the Murillo-Velarde map. Whatever happened to the Old Gods during the Epoch of the Great Anitus Wars? What lurks beneath the Mindanao trench deep? Who are the Adarnas? What is the Alchemical Genealogy?
Receiving a dog-eared pocketbook of an abridged Bulfinch’s Mythology at nine years-old back in ‘84 changed my life (in hindsight!). Hopefully the celestial gears crank up and the cycle of adventure and creativity continues with this book and its readers.
Two hundred nine.
In two years, 2019-2021, with the pandemic and the caregive, I finished all my book illustrations today, 12:06 PM, Sunday, 11 April 2021, all two hundred nine (209) of them
Maycapal: Philippine Mythopoeia. From the timelessness of the cloud archipelago to the Philippine Republic of 1946.
Here’s to the anitos, diwatas, Indarapatra, to the babaylans, to Philippine flora and fauna, to myths, folklife and folklore, to the proud pre-conquest natives of the archipelago, to our Austronesian heritage, to the imagined Filipino and the Philippines!
To Thomas Bulfinch, to Edith Hamilton, to Hieronymus Bosch, to the early printers and typographers, to Cesare Ripa, to the medieval traditions brought by the holy orders, to renaissance humanists, heretics and alchemists.
To Francisco Balagtas, to Damian Domingo, to Jose Honorato Lozano, to Jose Rizal, Juan Luna and Felix R. Hidalgo.
To Gaiman, to Pullman, to Le Guin.
To semiotics, to Umberto Eco.
To archetypes, to Carl Jung.
To folklore, to Maximo D. Ramos, to E. Arsenio Manuel, to Damiana L. Eugenio.
To history, heraldry, comparative literature, religion and mythology.
To museums, archives, and libraries.
I owe to them my love of reading, drawing, and imagining.
Now to continue my writing!
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Philippine Good Friday Lore is about the supernatural empowerment of amulets called “anting-anting.” These talismans figured throughout Philippine history in the various religious uprisings and the Revolution against Spain and in the Philippine-American War.
These illustrations of the myth and lore of anting-anting are featured in my upcoming book “Philippine Mythopoeia.”
I rendered some characters of the Philippine Mythopoeia book in the style of Renaissance grotesque, with creeping flora, weird fauna, monsters, and deities.
I have been working on my book about Philippine Mythology and Folklore entitled “MAYCAPAL” since 2019. The corona virus pandemic of 2020 threw a wrench on my writing, illustrating and productivity like with the rest of the world. I got my groove back and am back on track. ✍️
“Alchemical Marriage of Filipinas and Don Felipe II, El Rey de España”
An alchemical text from the upcoming Philippine Mythopoeia book. Minting NFT soon https://rarible.com/aericangelo
My recent illustrations for the upoming book “Philippine Mythopoeia,” a high-fantasy epic set in Southeast Asian and Philippine Mythology, Folklore, and Alternate History.
Available as NFT: https://rarible.com/aericangelo
“The Fantasy of Manila Carnival 1904” is a recent artwork of mine that is available for purchase as NTF:
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Prelude to the St. Louis World’s Fair, what mysteries await the faefolk! This is part of a series of illustrations for the upcoming book “Mythopoeia,” a high-fantasy epic set in Southeast Asian and Philippine Mythology, Folklore, and Alternate History.
Submitted a painting to an international magazine for consideration,
“A deconstruction of the divine birth mythos of cultures and religious traditions, imagined as a psychosexual experience. The artist drew upon his Roman Catholic upbringing and studies which he processed through a distillation of his readings of Carl Gustav Jung and comparative mythology.”
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Maligayang Araw ng Kalayaan! Happy 124th Independence Day! Here are two iconographic plates from the Philippine Mythopoeia book ✨
Historically 3 Independence Days: Declaration against Spain June 12, 1898; War-Time Japanese-Sponsored “Independence” 1943; from USA 1946
“You look at trees and label them so,
(for trees are ‘trees’, and growing is 'to grow’);
you walk the earth and tread with solemn pace
one of the many minor globes of Space:
a star’s a star, some matter in a ball
compelled to courses mathematical
amid the regimented, cold, Inane,
where destined atoms are each moment slain.
…
Yet trees are not 'trees’, until so named and seen–
and never were so named, till those had been
who speech’s involuted breath unfurled,
faint echo and dim picture of the world,
but neither record nor a photograph,
being divination, judgement, and a laugh,
response of those that felt astir within
by deep monition movements that were kin
to life and death of trees, of beasts, of stars:
free captives undermining shadowy bars,
digging the foreknown from experience
and panning the vein of spirit out of sense.
Great powers they slowly brought out of themselves,
and looking backward they beheld the elves
that wrought on cunning forges in the mind,
and light and dark on secret looms entwined.
He sees no stars who does not see them first
of living silver made that sudden burst
to flame like flowers beneath an ancient song,
whose very echo after-music long
has since pursued. There is no firmament,
only a void, unless a jewelled tent
myth-woven and elf-patterned; and no earth,
unless the mother’s womb whence all have birth.”
–J.R.R Tolkien, “Mythopoeia”
