(P): Customs of Tagalog Flashcards
→ means tribal gathering
→ formed from the Filipino word balangay
Barangay
was what Malay settlers called the sailboats that brought them there, and referred to the village of family members typically onboard.
Balangay
→ 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
Datu
→ 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
Maharlicas
→ 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
Aliping namamahay
→ do all low-jobs such as extensive labors
→ treated as commodities
→ lives in their master’s house
Aliping Saguiguilir
Intermarriage:
If maharlicas had children among their slaves, the children and their mothers became?
FREEEEE LIKE A BIRD
Intermarriage:
If one of them (Maharlicas) had children by the slave-woman of another, what would the slave-woman do?
give her master half of a gold tael
Intermarriage:
If a free woman had a children by a slave?
they were all free, provided he were not her husband
Intermarriage:
If a female alipin/slave and maharlika had children?
odd numbers become maharlika and the even numbers become alipins
Intermarriage:
If a male alipin/slave and maharlika had children?
odd numbers become slaves and so on
Intermarriage:
If an alipin/slave and maharlika had onlye a child?
the child becomes half free and half slave
Intermarriage:
What if one married a woman of another village
the children were afterwards divided equally between the two barangays
Economy:
What can be used as a payment?
Gold tiles
Inheritances:
How are inheritance of legitimate children of father and mother passed?
Inherited equally unless the father showed slight partiality by such gifts as two or three gold taels, or perhaps a jewel.
Inheritances:
Tor F
In all cases, legitimate children gets inheritance equally
F (unless the father showed slight partiality by such gifts as two or three gold taels, or perhaps a jewel)
Inheritances:
If one had children by two or more legitimate wives?
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
Inheritances:
If a man had a child by one of his slaves, as well as legitimate children?
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
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?
classed as natural children; they inherited it all IF there were no children by the legitimate wife.
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?
Unless they had children by the legitimate wife.
Inheritances:
What if there were no legitimate or natural child?
The inheritance went only to the father or grandparents, brothers or nearest relatives of the deceased
Inheritances:
How do adopted children get inheritance?
inherit double of what was paid for their adoption
Dowries and Divorce:
How are dowries given in precolonial era?
paid by the husband to the female’s family before they marry their desired wife
Dowries and Divorce:
Who enjoys the dowries given?
The parents of the female
Dowries and Divorce:
If the wife left the husband for the purpose of marrying another, what would hapoen to the dowry?
all her dowry and an equal additional amount fell to the husband
Dowries and Divorce:
When the husband left his wife, what would happen to the dowry?
he lost the half of the dowry and the other half returned to him
Dowries and Divorce:
If the husband is dead, what would happen to the dowry?
dowry will be returned to the relatives of the husband
Dowries and Divorce:
When sons are about to get married, what would happen to the dowry?
Half of the dowry is given immediately, even if they are children
Dowries and Divorce:
If the the son or daughter is unwilling to marry, what will happen?
Son or daughter will stipulate a fine, in which the dowry will also be returned
Dowries and Divorce:
If it’s the arrangement of parents to separate the children?
the parents can pay the fine
How do people became aliping saguiguilir?
punishment to those who:
were proven to do such
- horrendous acts in their community
- cannot pay their debt
- became captives or bihag ng barangay due to dispute; mga nandudukot ng tao
Debt:
If the culprit had some relative or friend who paid for him?
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)
Debt:
What if he could not serve the creditor?
The culprit had to pay double what was lent him
Debt:
Who did the slaves, made by debt, serve?
served the person who lent them wherewith to pay
a great hindrance to baptism as well as to confession
Loans
is condemned to a life of toil;
debtors
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.
T
Criminal:
Taking away the children of the aliping namamahay and making use of them as they would of the aliping sa guuguilir, is what?
ILLEGAL POTA
Criminal:
How does death penalty/servered occur?
committed any offense against them, chief and his family, or spoke but a word to their wives and children
Criminal:
Who has the capability to decide the crimes done by certain people towards their community?
Datus
Criminal:
All other offenses were punished by?
Fines in gold
Criminal:
What if offenses were not paid promptly with fines of gold?
exposed the culprit to serve, until the payment should be made, the person
Arrangements:
T or F
The maharlicas could after marriage, move from one village to another, or from one barangay to another even
f (could not move from one village without paying a certain fine in gold or banquet)
Arrangements:
How many taels to move from one village to another
1 to 3 taels
Arrangements:
failure to pay 1 or 3 taels when moving from one village to another, might result in what?
War between the barangay which the person left and the one which he entered
temple or place of adoration
simbahan
estival celebrated in the large house of a chief for 4 days
pandot or worship
temporary shed on each side of the house with a roof
sibi
AETEAS?NEGRILLOS
posts of the house they set small lamps in the center of the house
sorihile
where and for how many days is pandot held?
chief’s large house for 4 days
whole barangay or family united and joined in worship
nagaanitos
officiating priest; a devil can also posses their body
Catolonan
Sinetch itey God:
all powerful or maker of all things
Bathala
Sinetch itey:
morning star
Tala
Sinetch itey God:
change of seasons which is our Greater Bear
Mapolon and Balatic
Sinetch itey God:
images of different shapes
Lic-ha
Sinetch itey God:
patron of lovers and of generation
Dian Masalanta
Sinetch itey God:
patrons of the cultivated lands and husbandry
Lacapati and Idianale
Sinetch itey God:
water lizards which they paid reverence
Buaya
‘mali q, typo
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.
Tigmamanuguin
Customs:
Act of proclaiming a feast, and offer to the devil what they had to eat.
offering sacrifice (goats, fowls and swine)
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
offering sacrifice (goats, fowls and swine)
Customs:
When a girl experiences her first menstruation, she will be blindfolded for how many days?
4 days and 4 nights.
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.
2, 1, 3, 4
Customs:
Blindfolding a girl for 4 days and 4 nights brings what?
Good luck in order for the lady to live a matiwasay and magandang buhay dalaga.
A good husband prospect
Customs:
T or F
The devil was sometimes liable to enter into the body of the catolonan
T
Customs:
The devil was sometimes liable to enter into the body of the catolonan, in this case what do people do?
had to be tied to a tree by his companions
Customs:
What offering was set before the idol?
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
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
- Chief
- Commoner
- Warrior
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
AETAS/NEGRILLOS
Death/Burial of aetas/negrillos
another life of rest “paradise” or “village of rest” governed by Bathala (maker of all things)
Maca
Death/Burial of aetas/negrillos
hell, a place of punishment and anguish governed by Sitan (demons)
Casanaan
Ano yung tatlong ghost?
- Vibit
- Phantoms AKA tigbalaang
- Patianac - when a woman died in child birth—punishment
Identify the creature:
→ office was general
Catalonan
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
Mangagauay or witches
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
Manyisalat
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
Mancocolam
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
Hocloban
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
Silagan
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
Magtatanggal
Identify the creature:
→ AKA sorcerer
→ fly and murders men and eats their flesh
→ Visayas islands
Osuang
Identify the creature:
→ made charms for lovers out of herbs, stones and woods which would infuse the heart with love
Mangagayoma
Identify the creature:
→ AKA preacher
→ help one to die
→ predicted the salvation and condemnation of the soul
→ office was general
Sonat
Identify the creature:
→ soothsayer
→ predicted the future
→ office was general
Pangatahojan
Identify the term:
→ “cotquiean”
→ man whose nature inclined towards that of a woman
Bayoguin
