week 4a

• “Customs of the Tagalogs”

  “Las Costumbres de los Indios Tagalos de Filipinas” by Juan de Plasencia
• Juan de Plasencia

  ·         A Spanish priest

  ·         A Franciscan missionary arrived in the port of Cavite, Philippines on the 2nd month of July 1577

  ·         He was distinguished for his labors among the natives.

  ·         Multiple primary schools and linguistic abilities

  ·         First to form grammar and vocabulary of the tagalog language

  ·         He wrote the custom of the tagalogs and doctrina cristina
• Datu

  Chief, captain of wars whom governed, obeyed and reverenced
• NOBLES OR MAHARLIKA

  ·         Free-born, they do not pay taxes or tribute to the datu.

  ·         Must accompany datu in war, at their own expense.

   
• COMMONERS OR ALIPING NAMAMAHAY

  ·         They live in their own houses and lords of their property and gold.

  ·         They are married and serve their master.

  ·         The children inherit and enjoy their property and lands.
• SLAVES OR ALIPING SAGUIGUILID

  ·         They serve their master in his house and his cultivated landsand can be sold.
• MARRIAGE CUSTOMS

  Dowries are given by the men to the women’s parents.
• BATHALA

  Also believe in sacred animals

  and trees
• NAGANITOS

  The whole barangay or family

  united and joined in the worship.
• TEMPLE

  The house for worship.
• MAPLON – change of

  seasons
• BALATIC – our Greater

  Bear
• LICHA – images with

  many shapes
• DIAN MASALANTA –

  patrons of lovers and of

  generation.
• LACAPTI AND IDIANALE – patrons

  of the cultivated lands

  and of husbandry.
• BUAYA / CROCODILE – paid

  reverence to water-lizards.
• CATALONA –

  either a man or a

  woman.
• MANGAGAUAY –

  witches, who deceived

  by pretending to heal

  the sick.
• MANYISALAT –

  had the power in

  applying such remedies.
• MANCOCOLAM –

  whose duty is to omit

  fire from himself at

  night, once or oftener

  each month.
• HOCLOBAN – greater efficacy

  than the manggauay.
• SILAGAN – if they saw anyone

  clothed in white, they tear out the

  liver and eat it.
• MAGTATANGAL – to show

  himself at night to many persons

  without his head or pretended to

  carry his head to different places,

  and in the morning returned to his

  body.
• OSUANG – equivalent to

  “sorcerer”. They have seen

  him fly and that her murdured

  men and ate their flesh.
• MANGAGAYOMA – they

  made charms for lovers out of

  herbs, stones, and wood

  which will infuse the heart

  with love.
• SONAT – to help one to

  die. It predicted the salvation

  or condemnation of the soul.
• PANGATAHOJAN – a

  soothsayer and predicted the

  future.
• BAYOGUIN – signified a

  “cotoquean.” The nature

  inclined toward that of a

  woman.
• MANNER IN BURRYING THE DEAD:

  • The deceased is buried beside his house;
  • If he were a Chief, he was placed beneath a little house or porch which they constructed for his purpose.
  • They mourned for 4 days Layed him on a boat or bier
• • If the deceased had been a warrior, a living slave was tied beneath his body
  • The grief is also accompanied by eating and drinking.
• CASAMAAN – confessed more clearly

  to hell.
• SITAN – there dwell the demons.