Mountain as Memory and Meaning: A Semiotic Reading of the Ilongot Tales (Dimolat)

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{"abstract":"This study addresses the limited documentation and critical analysis of Ilongot oral literature, specifically their tales or dimolat, which are significant to Philippine culture. The research aimed to analyze the semiotics of 22 collected Ilongot folktales by Laurence L. Wilson, focusing on their narrative structure and how signs and symbols interpret the concept of the mountain. Employing qualitative critical analysis, the tales were mapped using Vladimir Propp's narrative functions and character roles, Greimas's Actantial Model, and Roland Barthes's semiotic approach. Findings indicated that the tales conform to a universal narrative structure while exhibiting cultural specificity. Propp's and Greimas's models revealed archetypal heroes, helpers, donors, and opponents, with opponents often being abstract forces like famine or death. Semiotic analysis interpreted the mountain as a cradle of life, refuge, protection, provider, sustenance, sacred space, site of isolation and testing, and keeper of cultural memory. The study concludes that these tales are not merely entertainment but convey ancestral wisdom, moral education, and identity preservation, with the mountain symbolizing the Ilongot people's deep connection to their environment, history, and community.","abstract_source":"gemini_shortened","authors":["Fritzie Sison","Augusto Antonio Aguila"],"date":"2025-10-08","doi":"10.70838/pemj.470909","id":6511,"issue":9,"journal":{"issn":"2822-4353","name":"Psychology and Education: A Multidisciplinary Journal"},"pdf_sha256":"dae816bb507da464146d354ca3a25aae7f8fabae64f97fa4be880b77832dc8fe","schema":"scimatic-article/1","title":"Mountain as Memory and Meaning: A Semiotic Reading of the Ilongot Tales (Dimolat)","volume":47}

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