"It's time to dry your tears, Mariang."When a powerful mountain diwata won't stop crying, it means that the village downslope is bound for devastation. Her flimsy grasp on her ability to stop her tears frustrates her. But when resolving her grief means letting go of the reason behind her tears, she is left to find out if she is desperate enough to stop herself, or if it will take something else to make her stop.Mariang Makiling is the first novel from the world of the Chronicles of Alamat. The novels are woven with colourful Filipino myths and legends that have thrilled and delighted the people of the Philippines through the ages.

This anthology presents a bird's-eye view of the whole range of Philippine folk literature.

Maria is, in no particular order: a concept artist at a videogame studio, the goddess of Mount Makiling in the Philippines, and in love. And when Maria falls in love, tragedy and death follow. It’s going to take everything a goddess, her newly-befriended demon-horse, and Canadian national treasure Margaret Atwood have to break the cycle.

This is an exploration of Philippine cultural history. It presents a diverse range of texts including: the legend of a mountain goddess, Pigafetta's discovery account of the Philippines, the life of a 17th-century Christian convert and the foundation narrative of a Marian shrine.