CUSTOMS OF THE TAGALOGS Flashcards
Las Costumbres de los Indios Tagalos de Filipinas or the Customs of The Tagalogs was authored by?
- Father Juan de Plasencia, a Franciscan missionary in the Tagalog region since 1578 until 1590.
- He came together with the first batch of Franciscan missionaries in the Philippines from Spain
This document was written as an answer to the request of the monarchy in Spain which was to provide pieces of information about the government, administration of justice, inheritances, slaves, dowries, worship, burials, and superstition of the “Indians” in the colony. In addition, the document is to rectify previous reports about the people’s way of life in the region.
Customs of the Tagalogs
- This people always had chiefs, called by them _____, who governed them and were captains in their wars, and whom they obeyed and reverenced. The subject who committed any offense against them, or spoke but a word to their wives and children, was severely punished.
- chieftain
datos
- the free-born, nobles
- They did not pay tax or tribute to the dato, but must accompany him in war at their own expense
Maharlika
- commoner
- They are married, and serve their master, whether he be a dato or not, with half of their cultivated lands
- They live in their own houses, and are lords of their property and gold. Their children inherit it, and enjoy their property and lands
- aliping namamahay
- slaves
- They serve their master in his house, and on his cultivated lands and may be sold
- The master grants them, should he see fit, portion of their harvests so that they may work faithfully. For this reason, servants who are born in the house of their master are rarely sold. That is the lot of captives in war, and of those brought up in the harvest fields
aliping saguiguilir
The term arose from the fact that when they came to this land, the head of the boat (or ________) became a dato
balangay
- (its origin) was a family of parents and children, relations and slaves
-refers to a political unit established by the Tagalogs
barangay
- when they wished to celebrate a festival
- “worship”
pandot
On the posts of the (chief’s) house they set small lamps, called?
sorihile
the whole barangay, or family, united and joined in the worship which they call?
nagaanitos
feasts usually lasted for?
four (4) days
“all powerful,” or “maker of all things.”
Badhala
natives had no established division of years, months, and days; these are determined by the cultivation of the soil, counted by?
moons
The winter and summer are distinguished as?
sun-time and water-time
