(P): Customs of Tagalog Flashcards

1
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→ means tribal gathering
→ formed from the Filipino word balangay

A

Barangay

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was what Malay settlers called the sailboats that brought them there, and referred to the village of family members typically onboard.

A

Balangay

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→ highest class

→regarded as the leaders of barangays
also the decision-makers of the communities

→ decides on different problems and conflicts faced by the community (dictatorship vibes)
also recognized to be smart and mahusay in

A

Datu

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→ came from indian sanskrit word

→ AKA free/noble people

→ did not pay tax or tribute to the dato
responsible for assisting the Datu in their day-to-day activities

→ trained fighters that can accompany their Datu in wars

A

Maharlicas

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5
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→ Commoners that are responsible for certain households as a helper

→ cannot be treated as commodities

→ serve the Datu and other mamamayan
can get married and have properties

→ their children can inherit and enjoy their property and lands

A

Aliping namamahay

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→ do all low-jobs such as extensive labors

→ treated as commodities

→ lives in their master’s house

A

Aliping Saguiguilir

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7
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Intermarriage:

If maharlicas had children among their slaves, the children and their mothers became?

A

FREEEEE LIKE A BIRD

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Intermarriage:

If one of them (Maharlicas) had children by the slave-woman of another, what would the slave-woman do?

A

give her master half of a gold tael

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9
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Intermarriage:

If a free woman had a children by a slave?

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they were all free, provided he were not her husband

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Intermarriage:

If a female alipin/slave and maharlika had children?

A

odd numbers become maharlika and the even numbers become alipins

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Intermarriage:

If a male alipin/slave and maharlika had children?

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odd numbers become slaves and so on

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12
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Intermarriage:

If an alipin/slave and maharlika had onlye a child?

A

the child becomes half free and half slave

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13
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Intermarriage:

What if one married a woman of another village

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the children were afterwards divided equally between the two barangays

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14
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Economy:

What can be used as a payment?

A

Gold tiles

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15
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Inheritances:

How are inheritance of legitimate children of father and mother passed?

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Inherited equally unless the father showed slight partiality by such gifts as two or three gold taels, or perhaps a jewel.

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16
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Inheritances:

Tor F

In all cases, legitimate children gets inheritance equally

A

F (unless the father showed slight partiality by such gifts as two or three gold taels, or perhaps a jewel)

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17
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Inheritances:

If one had children by two or more legitimate wives?

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each child received the inheritance and dowry of his mother with its increase, and that share of his father’s estate which fell to him out of the whole

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18
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Inheritances:

If a man had a child by one of his slaves, as well as legitimate children?

A

The child with slave had no share in the inheritance;

but the legitimate children were bount to free the mother and give him something—a tael or a slave, if the father were a chief

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19
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Inheritances:

If he had some sons by a free unmarried woman, to whom a dowry was given but who was not considered as a real wife?

A

classed as natural children; they inherited it all IF there were no children by the legitimate wife.

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20
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Inheritances:

If maharlica’s/datu had some sons by a free unmarried woman, to whom a dowry was given but who was not considered as a real wife, natural children (children by free unmarried woman) inherit it all unless what?

A

Unless they had children by the legitimate wife.

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Inheritances:

What if there were no legitimate or natural child?

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The inheritance went only to the father or grandparents, brothers or nearest relatives of the deceased

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22
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Inheritances:

How do adopted children get inheritance?

A

inherit double of what was paid for their adoption

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23
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Dowries and Divorce:

How are dowries given in precolonial era?

A

paid by the husband to the female’s family before they marry their desired wife

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24
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Dowries and Divorce:

Who enjoys the dowries given?

A

The parents of the female

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25
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Dowries and Divorce:

If the wife left the husband for the purpose of marrying another, what would hapoen to the dowry?

A

all her dowry and an equal additional amount fell to the husband

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26
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Dowries and Divorce:

When the husband left his wife, what would happen to the dowry?

A

he lost the half of the dowry and the other half returned to him

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27
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Dowries and Divorce:

If the husband is dead, what would happen to the dowry?

A

dowry will be returned to the relatives of the husband

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28
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Dowries and Divorce:

When sons are about to get married, what would happen to the dowry?

A

Half of the dowry is given immediately, even if they are children

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29
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Dowries and Divorce:

If the the son or daughter is unwilling to marry, what will happen?

A

Son or daughter will stipulate a fine, in which the dowry will also be returned

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30
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Dowries and Divorce:

If it’s the arrangement of parents to separate the children?

A

the parents can pay the fine

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31
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How do people became aliping saguiguilir?

A

punishment to those who:
were proven to do such

  1. horrendous acts in their community
  2. cannot pay their debt
  3. became captives or bihag ng barangay due to dispute; mga nandudukot ng tao
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32
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Debt:

If the culprit had some relative or friend who paid for him?

A

He was obliged to render the latter half his service until he was paid-not, however, service within the house as aliping saguiguilir, but living independently, as alipin namamahay. (SERVICE is aguiguilir, but LIVES INDEPENDENTLY)

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33
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Debt:

What if he could not serve the creditor?

A

The culprit had to pay double what was lent him

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34
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Debt:

Who did the slaves, made by debt, serve?

A

served the person who lent them wherewith to pay

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35
Q

a great hindrance to baptism as well as to confession

A

Loans

36
Q

is condemned to a life of toil;

A

debtors

37
Q

T or F

Borrower become slaves, and after the death of the father the children pay the debt. Not doing so, doubles the amount must be paid.

A

T

38
Q

Criminal:

Taking away the children of the aliping namamahay and making use of them as they would of the aliping sa guuguilir, is what?

A

ILLEGAL POTA

39
Q

Criminal:

How does death penalty/servered occur?

A

committed any offense against them, chief and his family, or spoke but a word to their wives and children

40
Q

Criminal:

Who has the capability to decide the crimes done by certain people towards their community?

A

Datus

41
Q

Criminal:

All other offenses were punished by?

A

Fines in gold

42
Q

Criminal:

What if offenses were not paid promptly with fines of gold?

A

exposed the culprit to serve, until the payment should be made, the person

43
Q

Arrangements:

T or F

The maharlicas could after marriage, move from one village to another, or from one barangay to another even

A

f (could not move from one village without paying a certain fine in gold or banquet)

44
Q

Arrangements:

How many taels to move from one village to another

A

1 to 3 taels

45
Q

Arrangements:

failure to pay 1 or 3 taels when moving from one village to another, might result in what?

A

War between the barangay which the person left and the one which he entered

46
Q

temple or place of adoration

A

simbahan

47
Q

estival celebrated in the large house of a chief for 4 days

A

pandot or worship

48
Q

temporary shed on each side of the house with a roof

A

sibi

49
Q

AETEAS?NEGRILLOS

posts of the house they set small lamps in the center of the house

A

sorihile

50
Q

where and for how many days is pandot held?

A

chief’s large house for 4 days

51
Q

whole barangay or family united and joined in worship

A

nagaanitos

52
Q

officiating priest; a devil can also posses their body

A

Catolonan

53
Q

Sinetch itey God:

all powerful or maker of all things

A

Bathala

54
Q

Sinetch itey:

morning star

A

Tala

55
Q

Sinetch itey God:

change of seasons which is our Greater Bear

A

Mapolon and Balatic

56
Q

Sinetch itey God:

images of different shapes

A

Lic-ha

57
Q

Sinetch itey God:

patron of lovers and of generation

A

Dian Masalanta

58
Q

Sinetch itey God:

patrons of the cultivated lands and husbandry

A

Lacapati and Idianale

59
Q

Sinetch itey God:

water lizards which they paid reverence

A

Buaya

‘mali q, typo

60
Q

Sinetch itey God:

a serpent, rat, or bird, when heard singing can be a sign of an evil omen: in the other, as a good omen, and then they continued their journey.

A

Tigmamanuguin

61
Q

Customs:

Act of proclaiming a feast, and offer to the devil what they had to eat.

A

offering sacrifice (goats, fowls and swine)

62
Q

Customs:

→ done in front of the ideal

→ anoint with fragrant perfumes such as musk and civer or gum of the storax-tree and other odoriferous woods

→ praise it in poetic songs

→ after being offered, they were cooked and eaten also

→ among people of rank, festivities can last about 30 days

A

offering sacrifice (goats, fowls and swine)

63
Q

Customs:

When a girl experiences her first menstruation, she will be blindfolded for how many days?

A

4 days and 4 nights.

64
Q

Customs:

Arrange this process:

→ At the end of this period, the Catolonan took the young girl and bathed her and washed her head

→ the friends and relatives are all invited to partake the food and drink while the young girl is confined in a house

→ the Catolonan took the young girl and bathed her and washed her head.

→ Took off the bandage from her eyes.

A

2, 1, 3, 4

65
Q

Customs:

Blindfolding a girl for 4 days and 4 nights brings what?

A

Good luck in order for the lady to live a matiwasay and magandang buhay dalaga.

A good husband prospect

66
Q

Customs:

T or F

The devil was sometimes liable to enter into the body of the catolonan

A

T

67
Q

Customs:

The devil was sometimes liable to enter into the body of the catolonan, in this case what do people do?

A

had to be tied to a tree by his companions

68
Q

Customs:

What offering was set before the idol?

A

Cooking a jar of rice until the water was evaporated

placed a few buyos—small fruit wrapped in a leaf with some life and food

69
Q

Identify whose death/burial of a TAGALOG:

_______ 1. beneath a little house or porch; mourned for him for 4 days then laid him on a boat
_______ 2. beside his house

________ 3. a living slave was tied beneath his body until in this wretched way he died

A
  1. Chief
  2. Commoner
  3. Warrior
70
Q

Identify whose death/burial:

→ dug deep, perpendicular hole, and placed the deceased within it, leaving him upright with head or crown unburied on top of which they put a coconut which was to serve him as a shield

→ then, they’ll kill an Indian in retribution

A

AETAS/NEGRILLOS

71
Q

Death/Burial of aetas/negrillos

another life of rest “paradise” or “village of rest” governed by Bathala (maker of all things)

A

Maca

72
Q

Death/Burial of aetas/negrillos

hell, a place of punishment and anguish governed by Sitan (demons)

A

Casanaan

73
Q

Ano yung tatlong ghost?

A
  1. Vibit
  2. Phantoms AKA tigbalaang
  3. Patianac - when a woman died in child birth—punishment
74
Q

Identify the creature:

→ office was general

A

Catalonan

75
Q

Identify the creature:

→ pretending to heal the sick

→ their maladies are capable of causing death

→ prolong life for a year by binding to the waist a live serpent

→ office was general

A

Mangagauay or witches

76
Q

Identify the creature:

→ same as mangagauay

→ power of applying remedies to lovers that they would abandon and despise their own wives

→ prevent them from having intercourse with their wife

→ no titi = sickness upon her

→ office was general

A

Manyisalat

77
Q

Identify the creature:

→ emit fire from himself at night, once or oftener each month

→ those who enter the house where the priest is wallowing fell ill or died

→ office was general

A

Mancocolam

78
Q

Identify the creature:

→ greater efficiency than mangagauay

→ without meds and by simply saluting or raising the hand of whom they want to kill

→ their charms are used for their desire to heal

→ they can destroy the house of some Indian hostile without instruments

→ Catanduanes

A

Hocloban

79
Q

Identify the creature:

→ anyone clothed in white is killed by tearing out his liver and eating it—Catanduanes

→ tore out in the way thru the anus and all the intestines of a Spanish notary, who was burred in Calilaya by father Fray Merida—Calavan

A

Silagan

80
Q

Identify the creature:

→ show himself at night to many persons without his head or entrails

→ in the morning, the devil will return his head to his body

→ Catanduanes

A

Magtatanggal

81
Q

Identify the creature:

→ AKA sorcerer

→ fly and murders men and eats their flesh

→ Visayas islands

A

Osuang

82
Q

Identify the creature:

→ made charms for lovers out of herbs, stones and woods which would infuse the heart with love

A

Mangagayoma

83
Q

Identify the creature:

→ AKA preacher

→ help one to die

→ predicted the salvation and condemnation of the soul

→ office was general

A

Sonat

84
Q

Identify the creature:

→ soothsayer

→ predicted the future

→ office was general

A

Pangatahojan

85
Q

Identify the term:

→ “cotquiean”

→ man whose nature inclined towards that of a woman

A

Bayoguin