The Code of Kalantiaw Art 14- These shall be made slave for life: who have

beautiful daughters and deny them to the sons of

Datu Kalantiaw – Rajah Bendahara Kalantiaw
chiefs, and with bad faith hide them away.
- Made the lawful code in the Ph or the Code of
Art 15 - Concerning beliefs and superstitions; these shall
Kalantiaw in Negros
be beaten: who eat the diseased flesh of beasts
- Epic story of maragtas
- Composed it in1433 Art 16 - The fingers shall be cut-off: of all those who
break idols of wood and clay
William Henry Scott – said the code is only a deception
Art 17 -These shall be killed: who profane sites where
Art 1 – you shall not kill, steal, harm to the aged.
idols are kept, and sites where are buried the sacred
Parusa – drowed in the river or in the boiling water things of their diwatas and headmen.

Art 2 - you shall obey. Let all your debts with the Art 18 - Those who do not cause these rules to be
headman be met punctually obeyed

Parusa – hundred lashes, thrust his hand in boiling
water 3x, second beaten to the death
Art 3 – obey you. let no one have women that are very
young nor more than he can support
Parura - swim for three hours, e beaten to death with
sharp thorns.
Parusa - eaten by sharks and caymans
1913 - Jose E. Marco’s book “Las Antiguas Leyendas de
la Isla de Negros”
Dr. Jose P. Rizal wrote this poem when he was eight
years old and it is Rizal’s one of the most prominent
works.

Art 4 - Observe and obey; let no one disturb the quiet of First Catholic Mass in PH- march 31,1521 on Easter
the graves. Sunday held by FR. Pedro De Valderrama

Parusa - killed by ants, beaten to death with thorns. Located in southern leyte

Art 5 - You shall obey; he who exchanges for food, let it
be always done in accordance with his word
Parusa - beaten for one hour, exposed for one day
among ants.
Art 6 - You shall be obliged to revere sights that are held
in respect
1897- is a historic year of two events: the Cavite Mutiny,
martyrdom of three priests: Mariano Gomez, Jacinto
Zamora and Jose Burgos
Jose Montero y Vidal - Spanish historian who
documented this event
Spanish Version of the Cavity Mutiny of 1872

Parusa - one month's work in gold or in honey
Art 7 - - These shall be put to death; he who kills trees
of venerable appearance
Parusa - kills a shark or a streaked cayman
Art 8 - Slavery for a doam
Parusa - burns the fields of another
Two other primary sources accounts exist that seem to
counter the accounts of Izquierdo and Montero. First,
the account of Trinidad Hermengildo Pardo de Tavera,
Doctor and a Filipino scholar and researcher, and wrote
a Filipino version of the bloody incident in Cavite.
Selections from Trinidad Pardo de Tavera, “ Filipino of
the Cavite Mutiny,”.

Art 9 - - All these shall be beaten for two days: who sing
while traveling by night

Parusa - mock the dead.

Art 10 - - It is decreed an obligation; that every mother

teach secretly to her daughters matters pertaining to
lust and prepare them for womanhood

Parusa - killed by being cut to pieces and thrown to the

caymans

Art 11 - These shall be burned: who by their strength or

cunning have mocked at and escaped punishment

art 12- - These shall be drowned: all who interfere with

their superiors, or their owners or masters; all those
who abuse themselves through their lust

art 13 - All these shall be exposed to ants for half a day:

who kill black cats during a new moon; or steal anything
from the chiefs or agorangs, however small the object
may be.