RPH - Customs of the Tagalog

Question 1

Why did spaniards hire Filipino as Gobernadorcillo?

Answer 1

they had difficulty in
running local politics because of the limited number of
Spaniards who wanted to live outside Intramuros.

Question 2

they ended up performing the administrative duties of the gobernadorcillo.

Answer 2

The friars

Question 3

Friars’ duties:

Answer 3

a.Supervised election
b.Helped in collecting the taxes
c.Directly involve in education
d.Most knowledgeable and influential figure in the pueblo.

Question 4

is an example of a written document of the personal
observations and experiences of the friars in those times.

Answer 4

Plasencia’s Relacion de las Costumbre de Los Tagalogs (Customs of the Tagalog).

Question 5

wrote Relacion de Las Islas Filipinas and describe Filipino’s ways of life in Visayas region.

Answer 5

Miguel de Loarca

Question 6

wrote Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas provide information on the state of the Philippines on the later part.

Answer 6

Lieutenant Governor Antonio de Morga

Question 7

Info on Fray Juan de Plasencia (Joan de Portocarrero)

Answer 7

*Member of the Franciscan order
*Did a mission in southern Tagalog with Fray Diego de Oropesa.
*Helped in the foundation of the towns Quezon, Laguna, Rizal and Bulacan
*He converted many people to Christianity that help him to write a book – Customs of the
Tagalog.
*Vividly described the political, social, economic
and cultural practices of the Filipinos before they
were Christianized.

Question 8

*He wrote Doctrina
Christian en Lengua Espanola y Tagala- first printed book in the Philippines in 1593

Answer 8

Fray Juan de Plasencia (Joan de Portocarrero)

Question 9

Where is the Doctrina
Christian en Lengua Espanola y Tagala now?

Answer 9

*Original is currently in the Archivo General de
Indias in Seville, Spain.
*A duplicate copy is Francisco Ibero – Oriental in
Madrid Spain.

Question 10

Chief who governed them, captains in their wars whom they obeyed and reverenced.

Answer 10

Datu

Question 11

tribal gathering or community.

Answer 11

Barangay

Question 12

2 knds of slaves in tagalog

Answer 12

aliping namamahay
aliping saguiguilid

Question 13

it may be written or not

Answer 13

laws

Question 14

Three castes

Answer 14

1. noble
2. commoners
3. slaves

Question 15

are given by men to the women’s parents before marriage

Answer 15

Dowries

Question 16

What where wives called?

Answer 16

asawa

Question 17

courtship begins with?

Answer 17

Paninilbihan

Question 18

dowries

Answer 18

1. bigay-kaya - land or gold
2. panghihimuyat - gift for parents
3. bigay-suso - bride’s wet nurse

Question 19

grounds for divorce

Answer 19

1. adultery
2. abandonment on the part of the husband
3. cruelty
4. insanity

Question 20

supreme being

Answer 20

bathala

Question 21

god of agriculture

Answer 21

idayanale

Question 22

god of death

Answer 22

sidarapa

Question 23

god of fire

Answer 23

agni

Question 24

god of rainbow

Answer 24

balangaw

Question 25

god of war

Answer 25

mandarangan

Question 26

god of harvest

Answer 26

lalahon

Question 27

god of hell

Answer 27

siginarugan

Question 28

plane lands work

Answer 28

agriculture

Question 29

high lands wrk

Answer 29

hunting

Question 30

work in seas or rivers

Answer 30

fishing

Question 31

major languages

Answer 31

1. tagalog
2. ilocano
3. pangasinan
4. pangpangan
5. sugbuhanon
6. hiligaynon
7. magindanaw
8. samarnon

Question 32

system of writing

Answer 32

Baybayin

Question 33

baybayin consisted of how many vowels and consonants?

Answer 33

3 and 14

Question 34

Relevance of the Customs of Tagalog

Answer 34

*Describes the way of life of the Filipinos before the
Spanish era.
*Politics
*Disproved the claim of some Spaniards that
the Filipinos were uncivilized and lacking in
culture.

Question 35

one needs to
master the local language and the study of
culture of the people.

Answer 35

Effective evangelizers