LESSON 4 Flashcards
CONTENT &CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS of “Customs of the Tagalogs” by ____
Juan de Plasencia
He spent most of his missionary life in the Philippines, where he founded numerous towns in the provinces of ____
Bulacan, Laguna, and Rizal.
He authored several religious and linguistic books, most notably the ___, the first book ever printed in the Philippines
Doctrina Cristiana (Christian Doctrine)
Juan de Plasencia passed away in____, in the year____.
Liliw, Laguna
1590
Other title for (Customs of the Tagalogs, 1589).
Relacion de las Costumbres de Los Tagalogs
_____ was assigned in the Visayas, and _____ was set in Tagalog Region.
Fr. Francisco Alcina
Fr. Juan dePlasencia
Started out as a single clan comprised of parents, children, their extended family members, and their slaves.
The barangay
Alliances of barangay are formed through_____
blood compact or Sandugo
✽ Governs the barangay and captain of wars.
✽ Obeyed and revered by the members of the barangay.
✽ Create and execute laws.
Datu or dato
✽ They do not pay taxes
✽ Freeborn
✽ Must accompany the Datu in war, at their own expense, but divide the spoils.
✽ Warriors, rich traders, and craftsmen.
Nobles or Maharlikas
✽ Lower ranking than the Maharlika
✽ Also called ____
✽ Everyday folks, forming the majority of the population.
✽ They pay taxes and served the Datu as well as the Maharlikas.
✽ They live in their own houses, and are lords of their property and gold.
Commoners or Timawa class
Aliping namamahay
✽ They are allowed to earn money but have to surrender a percentage of earnings to their masters.
✽ They cannot be slaves nor either parents nor children can be sold.
✽ They cannot be taken away from their own village and be carried with the master who is going to dwell to another village.
Commoners or Timawa Class
✽ Could not own anything.
✽ Usually captives of war or sentenced criminal.
✽ Could be bought or sold at will.
✽ Couldn’t enter into a contract or marriage.
✽ Used in sacrificial ceremonies and could be buried alive upon the death of their masters, to continue serving them in the after life
Alipin or aliping sagigilid
Marriage and children
Explain
Dowries
Explain
Dowries and divorce
Explain
Dowries and contract
Explain
Laws and punishments
Explain
- a celebration of festival or worship which is held at the large house of the Datu.
Pandot
- a temporary shed to shelter the people during worship.
Sibi
– small lamps to illuminate the sibi during worship.
Sorohile
– the act of worshipping that unites the whole barangay and families.
Naagnitos
✽ “All powerful”
✽ Maker of all thing
Bathala
✽ Worshipped the moon (____), especially when it was new, which they had great rejoicing ,adoring it and bidding its welcome.
Mayari
✽ Stars are also adored by some, specifically ____ – the morning star.
Tala
✽ The god of seasons, medicine and health.
Mapolon
✽ Goddess of love, conception and childbirth and the protector of lovers.
Dian Masalanta
Identified as the most important fertility deity. The goddess of cultivated land.
Lacapati
The Greater Bear
Balatic
✽ Images with different shapes, sometimes worshipped with little importance.
Lic-ha
✽ The goddess of labor and good deeds. Tagalog deities are fluid genders, she was also known as a female deity of animal husbandry, and a male deity of agriculture. Deity of craftsmanship.
Idianale
✽ The guardian of Kasamaan and the keeper of all souls therein.
✽ in a 1589 record, ____ and Bathala is said to have once waged a war with each other to determine who should
rule the realms intended for ancestral souls
Sitan
✽ One of the priestess of the devil.
Catolonan
✽ She was tasked to destroy and break every happy and united family that she could find.
Manisilat or Mansisilat
✽ Witches who pretends to heal the sick.
Mangagauay
✽ If they saw anyone clothed in white, it will tear out his liver and eat it. Thus causing death.
Silangan
✽ The only male agent of Sitan, he was to emit fire at night and when there was bad weather, hence he is referred to as a fire god. Fires caused during bad weather are associated with him or Kidlat.
Mancocolam
✽ Shows himself at night to may persons without his head or entrails.
Magtatangal
✽ A flying creature that murders men and eat their flesh.
Osuang
✽ They made charms out of herbs, stones, and wood, which infuse the heart with love.
Mangagayoma
✽ Helps someone die.
Sonat
✽ Predicts the future. A seer.
Panatahojan
✽ A cotquean (masculine woman), a man whose nature inclined toward that of a woman
Bayoguin
✽ Place of another life of rest. The “paradise” or “village of rest”. Those who go to this place are the just, the valiant, and those who lived without doing harm, or who possessed moral virtues.
Maca
✽ Place of punishment grief, and affliction. Which is also called “place of anguish”.
Casanaan
✽ Ghost
Vibit
✽ Phantoms
Tigbalaang
✽ The lament, which can be heard at night, of a woman died during childbirth. She and her child suffered punishment.
Patianac
