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the governor-head
Gobernadorcillo
man of a
village or small town

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Gobernadorcill the governor-head man of a

o village or small town

Friars a member of the religious

order. To supervise and
monitor the activities of the
parishes

Friars became the most

knowledgeable and
influential figure in the
pueblo

Relacion de las written by Miguel de Loarca,

Costumbres de an encomendero
Los Tagalogs
(Custom of the
Tagalogs, 1589)

Relacion de las contains numerous

Costumbres de information that historians
Los Tagalogs could use in reconstructing
(Custom of the the political and socio-
Tagalogs, 1589) cultural history of the
Tagalog Region

Antonio de lieutenant governor who

Morga wrote Sucesos de las Islas
Filipinas

Juan de aka Juan de Portocarrero

Plasencia

Juan de he was a member of the

Plasencia Franciscan Order in the
Philippines in 1578

Juan de was assigned in Southern

Plasencia tagalog areas

Juan de wrote the first printed book

Plasencia in the Philippines, Doctrina
Christiana en Lengua
Espanola y Tagala in 1593

Doctrina first book printed in the

Christiana Philippines (1593)

Juan de died in Liliw, Laguna. He

Plasencia helped in the foundation of
Quezon, Laguna, Rizal, and
Bulacan

Doctrina a primary source about the

Christiana systems of government in
marriage, religion, beliefs,
etc

Doctrina the original document is

Christiana kept in Archivo General de
Indias, in Seville, Spain.
Duplicate copy in Madrid,
Spain.

Datos chiefs who governed them

where the captains in their
wars, and whom they
obeyed and reverenced

Barangay from the Malayan word

"Balangay" meaning boat

Barangay it's origin was a family of

parents, children, relations
and slaves. It is also called a
tribal gathering

Aliping may get married

namamahay

Aliping serve and accompany the

namamahay master

Aliping live in their own house

namamahay

Aliping their children cannot be

namamahay made slaves

Aliping cannot be taken from their

namamahay own village

Aliping may not be married

Saguiguilid

Aliping to serve and accompany the

Saguiguilid master in his house

Aliping may be sold

Saguiguilid

Three classes: maharlica, slave, and free

woman/men

Maharlica + = maharlica forever

Maharlica

maharlica + own = freedom for the child and

slave of wife
maharlica

maharlica + = half free or full slave

slave of another
maharlica

free woman + = all free

slave

maharlica + = division of children

slave

odd birth order belong to the father

even birth belong to the mother

order

only child = half free, half slave

Maharlikas after marriage, could not

move from one village to
another without paying a
certain fee in gold as
arranged among them

Maharlikas Gold ranges from one to

three taels and a banquet to
the entire barangay

Maharlikas when one married a woman

of another village, the
children were afterwards
divided equally between the
2 barangays

Man of low punishment and other

birth offenses
(commoner)
who insulted
the daughter or
wife of a chief
would be given:

Punishment either death penalty or

slavery depending on the
judgement of the person
who gives merit.

If witch death penalty will be given

(punishment) automatically, and children
becomes slaves of the chief

Other offenses fines in gold, half of

cultivated land and all
produce belonged to the
master, service

Dowries gift of money or property

given by men to the
women's parents before
marriage

Dowries if parents are both alive, they

both enjoy the use of it. If
not consumed, it is divided
equally among the children.

Divorce before wife left husband for

birth of the marrying another = all dowry
children to husband

Divorce before wife left without marrying

birth of the another = dowry is returned
children

Divorce before husband left wife = half

birth of the dowry lost, half returned
children

Husband whole dowry and fine goes

possessed to the children, held
children at time responsible to
of divorce grandparents/any
responsible relative

Bathala "all powerful" or "maker of all

things"

Sun for it's beauty, is almost

universally respected and
honored by the heathens

Moon especially when it was new,

at which time they had great
rejoicing, adoring it and
bidding it welcome

Mapolon change of seasons

Balatic greater bear (northern star)

Lic-ha images of diff shapes

Dian Masalanta patron of lovers and

generation

Lacapati and Patrons of cultivated lands

Idianale and husbandry

sacrifice = feast

offering manner to proclaim a feast

sacrifices and offer to the devil what
they had to eat

idolatry worship the devil without

sight, devil can enter body
of Catolanan

Devil tie him to a tree to prevent

incarnation hurting his body, a rare
ocassion

Objects to goats, fowls, and swines are

sacrifice flayed , decapitate, or laid
bare before the idol. Eaten
by guests at feast

Reason for for recovery of the sick,

sacrifice and prosperous voyage, good
adoration harvest, successful
childbirth, happy marriage

Catalonan can be male/female.

honorable to natives but
ordinary among people of
rank

Mangagauay pretends to heal the sick,

uses charm, witchcraft that
can result to death, can
prolong a person's life for a
year

Manyisalat similar to mangagauay.

Power to applying such
remedies to lovers that they
abandon and despise their
own wives

Mancocolam emit fire from himself at

night (at least once a month),
wallows on person's ordure
and filth; persons will
become ill and die

Hocloban most powerful than

mangagauay, can kill by just
raising hand, can heal those
they've charmed.
Catanduanes is the upper
part of Luzon

Silagan tears out liver of person

clothed in white and eats it.
Catanduanes

Magtatangal present at night without

head/entrails. pretends to
carry head to many places.
In the morning returns to the
body. Catanduanes

Osuang "sorcerer" that can fly,

murders men and eats flesh.
Visayan islands

Mangagayoma another class of witches,

makes charms for lovers and
infuses heart with love

Sonat "preacher" that helps one

die. Predicts salvation and
condemnation of soul. Not a
lawful practice

Pangatahojan "soothsayer" who predicts

future

Bayoguin "cotquean". Man whose

nature is inclined that of a
woman

Manner of - burried beside house

burying the - dead chief-beneath little
dead house/porch
- before burial: 4 days of
mourning, lad on boat
(coffin) with pairs of animals
- dead warrior - a live slave
is tied beneath the body
until dies, relative bewail and
praise his good qualities
- accompanied by eating
and drinking

infidels an unbeliever with respect

to a particular religion

Maca "paradise/village of rest". For

the just, who lived without
doing harm and possess
moral virtues

Casanan "place of anguish"

Pagans casanaan - where the

wicked belong

Sitan demon dwelling in Casanaan

Roof called sibi temporary shed on each

side of the house to protect
people from rain

Sorihile small lamps

festival pandot or worship

nagaanitos

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