Customs of The Tagalogs

 

Customs of the Tagalogs Juan de Plasencia

Presented by: 

Mark Kenneth Gajultos

 

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He was a Spanish friar of the Franciscan Order. He was among the rst group of Franciscan missionaries who arrived in the Islands on July 2, 1578.

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He spent most of his missionary life in the Philippines, where he founded numerous towns in Luzon and authored several religious and linguistic books, most notably the Doctrina Cristiana (Christian Doctrine), Do ctrine), the rst book ever printed in the Philippines.

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As a friar, Juan de Plasencia lived up to his pledge, leading a lifestyle devoid of any luxury and in constant contact with the people he was trying to convert to Christianity. He was also known to be a defender of the native population, looking after the poor, ill, or neglected, and standing up for their rights on numerous occasions

Juan de Plasencia

 

Background Backgroun d of the Document

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DATU

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ALIPING SAGUIGUILIR 

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MAHARLIKA

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RELIGION

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ALIPING NAMAMAHAY

BELIEFS

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The Customs of the Tagalogs was intentionally made to provide an eroticize description of the Tagalog natives, clearly fed by politics and Propaganda.

 

Content and Analysis

DATU also calledas chieftain who governed many as a hundred houses called barangay.

 

THREE CASTES

Maharlica

Aliping Namamahay

they do not pay tax or tribute to the dato but they are obliged to accompany him in

they have their own gold and wealth. They cannot be transferred to another

war at their own expenses.

barangay unless inheritance.

by

Alipining Saguiguilir they are the slaves. They can be either farmers or slaves.

 

THREE CASTES

Maharlica If a Maharlica married a commoner or slave the children will be divided.

Aliping Namamahay

They are married and serves their master whether he is a dato or not with half of their cultivated lands.

Alipining Saguiguilir They serve their master in his house and on his cultivated lands. They can

be sold to other masters.

 

RELIGION

Among their many idols, there was named BATHALA, means signify "all powerful", or  "maker of all things", which they worship the most. They also worship the sun, for its beauty beauty.. Also they worship the moon, especially when it sets to be new. Some of them adored the stars, knowing it to be the morning star, which they called TALA.

 

Manner of Burying •

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if they were a chief, he was placed beneath a little house of porch which they constructed for his purpose. Before entering him, they mourned him for four days, and afterwards, placed him in a boat which served as a cofn or bier. If the deceased is a warrior, a living slave was tied beneath his body until it is wretched way he died. And for many days, the family of the dead man bewailed him. Until nally they wearied of it.

 

WITCHES As for the witches, they killed them and their children and accomplices became slaves of the chief after he had made some recompense to the injured person. Other offences are punished by nes in gold which not paid with promptness, exposed the culprit to serve until the payment should be made, person aggrieved to whom the money was to be paid.

 

TERMS AND CONCEPTS

MANCOCOLAM its duty was to emit re from himself at night

MANGAGAUAY wishes who deceived by pretending to heal the sick.

HOCLOBON without the use of medicine, and by simply saluting or raising the hand, they killed whom they chose.

 

CONTRIBUTION IN UNDERSTANDING THE PHILIPPINE HISTORY This shows the Filipinos has already a culture on its own before the Spaniards came.

it mainly accounts the life system of the Filipinos during the pre-Spanish period.

considered as a primary source, which also proved that Filipinos are already civilized even before the Spanish colonizationace

contains an immense information regarding the political and sociocultural aspect within the Tagalog area This document shows the importance of primary source in the understanding the grand narrative of Philippine History

 

RELEV EVANCE ANCE OF THE REL DOCUMENT It tackles about the everyday living of the ancient Filipinos, their system of government, their social status, and their customs, beliefs, and transition. This document is important in determining how the Spaniards will govern the Filipinos during the Spanish era.

 

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