RIPH LESSON 3 REVIEWER
CUSTOMS OF TAGALOGS
"Las Costumbres de los Tagalog”1589
Juan de Plasencia
Marriage
Juan de Plasencia
 Real Name: Fray Joan de Puerto Carrero,
del covento de Villanueva de la Serena
 First batch of Franciscan missionaries in the
Philippines.
 commissioned by governor heneral
Santiago De Vera to write authorative
report about the customs of tagalog
 WHY?- to know government administration
of justice, inheritance, slaves and dowries
 Defender of the native population, looking
after the people
 "Arte de la Lengua", "Declaracion de toda
la Doctrina Xtrina," and "Vocabulario“
which is a compilation of Tagalog
Vocabulary.
 “Las Costumbres do los Tagalos”; was
submitted to Governor de Vera on October
24, 1589.
CUSTOMS OF THE TAGALOGS
Inheritance
Social classes
 Nobles
o Chiefs/Datus
o Free born
Dowry
o Gat / Lakan , as in Lakan Dula and
Gat Maitan.
o Not pay tax
 Commoners/ Aliping Namamahay
o Live their own houses and lords of
their property and gold
 Dependents/Alipin Saguiguilir
o Serve master
o Cultivated lands can be sold
o Among the VISAYAS, dependents
were of 3 kinds:
o Tumataban – worked for his
master when summoned to do so.
o Tumarampuk – worked one day for
his master
o Ayuey – worked three days for his
lord
 Pamumulungan/ pamamalae – It was the
 Orphan
o “If the wife, at the time of her
marriage, has neither father,
 Men and women can marry someone
outside their class.
o Maharlika and Slave whether
Namamahay/Sanguiguilir
o 1st, 3rd, and 5th male or female belong to
the father
o 2nd, 4th, 6th… belong to the mother
o If father is free, commoner or slave
Children belong to him is the same with
the father and same applied to the
mother
o If fall to servitude which was there
parents, if there is odd number the odd
one is half free and slave.
o Saguiguilid could be sold but not
mamahay and children nor transferred
o Maharlika- can’t transfer from one
village to another with paying a certain
fine in gold.
o Failure to pay result a war
o Legitimate children inherited equally.
Except the parents showed a slight partially
by such gift as two/three golds
o Bigay-kaya – land, gold, or dependents or
any valuable article.
o Panghimuyat (panghing- puyat) – a certain
amount of money to be given to the
parents of the bride
o Bigay-suso – to be given to the bride’s wet
nurse.
o – another sum of money given to
the parents as a reimbursement for
the amount spent in feeding the
girl during her infancy
o Dowries are given by the men to the
women’s parents. If the latter are living,
they enjoy the use of it. At their death,
provided the dowry has not been
consumed, it is divided like the rest of the
estate, equally among the children, except
in case the father should care to bestow
something additional upon the daughter.
duty of thee parents to haggle and to make
the final arrangements for the marriage
ceremony.
 Superstitions- Tigmamanuguin, First
menses
 Supernatural Beliefs: