Tagalog is a language spoken by twenty-two million people in the Philippines.
In her book Diwata , Barbara Jane Reyes frames her poems between the Book of Genesis creation story and the Tagalog creation myth, placing her work somewhere culturally between both tra.
Diwata is a Tagalog term meaning "muse." Diwata is also a term for a mythical being who resides in nature, and who human communities must acknowledge, respect, and appease in order to live harmoniously in this world.
Tagalog is a language spoken by twenty-two million people in the Philippines