CUSTOMS OF THE TAGALOGS ⮚ A banquet to the entire

JUAN DE PLASENCIA barangay

⮚ If they marry from other
GOVERNING SYSTEM LEAD BY barangay the children will be
DATOS divided
⮚ Sentences are passed by the
⮚ Governs only few people between datu
30- 100 ⮚ They condemn a man at low
⮚ This tribal gathering is called caste who disrespect his
barangay daughter or wife of datu
⮚ They don’t settle far from other ⮚ The children of the
⮚ They are not subject to one another, accomplices are turned to
except friendship and relationship slave
⮚ The chief (datu) help one another in
wars WITCHES
THE CASTE ● As for the witches, they killed them
and their children and accomplices
● Commoners became slaves of the chief after he
● Slaves had made some recompense to the
● If Maharlica marries a slave, the first injured person.
child goes to the father and so on ● Other offences are punished by fines
● The children will inherit the status of in gold which not paid with
the parent it belonged. promptness, exposed the culprit to
SLAVES serve until the payment should be
made, person aggrieved to whom the
1. Namamamahay money was to be paid.
● Can’t be sold
● Can’t be transferred to PUNISHMENTS WERE DONE IN
other barangay unless by THE FOLLOWING WAY:
inheritance, provided they ● Half the cultivated lands and all their
stay in the same village products belonged to the master. The
2. Saguiguilid master will provide the culprit with
● Can be sold food and clothing thus enslaving him
and his children.
MAHARLICA ● The master will have the possession
● No moving from one village to of the children if ever the payment
another without complying the could not be met by the father.
● Aliping Saguiguilid - service within
following:
the house; serve the master to whom
⮚ Fine and gold (depend from the judgement applied.
barangay to barangay)
 ● Aliping Namamahay - living
independently; served the person
who lent them wherewith to pay.
LOANS
⮚ The same way goes to a
debtor concerning loans wherein he
will give half of his cultivated lands
and profits until the debt has been
paid or else he's condemned to a life
of toil and becomes slave.
⮚ After the father's death, the children
will continue to pay the debt or the
payment will be doubled.
INHERITANCES
⮚ Legitimate children of a father and
mother will be inherited equally not
unless the father and mother showed
a slight partiality by gifts such as 2 to
3 taels or a jewel.
DOWRY
⮚ Should be greater than the sum given
to the other sons.
TWO OR MORE LEGITIMATE WIVES
⮚ If one had children by two or more
legitimate wives, each child will
receive the inheritance and the
mother's dowry with its increase and
share of his father's estate.
SLAVE WOMAN
⮚ If a man had a son from one of his
slaves as well as legitimate children,
the former will have no share in the
inheritance.
⮚ If he had a child with a slave woman,
that child will also receive some of
his share.
UNMARRIED WOMAN (ISAANAVA)
⮚ If ever he had children by an
unmarried woman, she will still
receive a dowry but is not considered
as a real wife and her children are
said to be natural children.
⮚ If the father has a legitimate wife but
did not have a son but had
children to the unmarried wife
called Inaasava, the latter will inherit
all.
FREE MARRIED WOMAN
⮚ In case of a child of a free married
woman which was born while she
was married, if the husband
punished the adulterer and was
considered a dowry, that child will
also have a share in the inheritance
ADOPTED CHILDREN'S INHERITANCE
⮚ Dowry
● Upon divorce before the
birth of the children
● Upon the death of the wife/
husband
● Upon engagement
● Arranged marriage
THE WORSHIP OF THE TAGALOGS
● There were no temple for their
idols.
● SIMBAHAN means a place of
adoration; because when they wish
to do feast, called PANDOT or
WORSHIP in a large house of chief.
● There it's constructed to provide
shelter, with sheds for on both sides
called SIBI, means roof.
● On each posts there's a small lamp
called SORIHILE; in the center of
three column divided for people to
gather, a large lamp with leaves of
white palms into many designs.
● The use of drums which beats the
feast until it ends for usually four
days. During this; the barangay or
family unite to worship which they
called NAGAANITOS.
● 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. 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.
● Also, they knew the "seven little
goats" [THE PLEIADES], and the
change of season called MAPULON
and BALATIK, happens when the
GREAT BEAR [URSA MAJOR].
● They have many idols named
LICHA, which comes in many
forms.
● They had another idol called
DIAN MASALANTA, who was the
patron of lovers and of the
generations.
● The called LACAPATI and
INDIANALE, patron of cultivation
of land and husbandry.
● Honoring the crocodiles, named
BUAYA, fear from being the
harmed.
● Moreover, they tend to look at
omens at what they encounter. For
example, a bird called
TIGMAMANUGUIN which sings
from the tree, they consider good or
bad omens may come in their
journey.
● They also practice divination as to
show their luck.
● These natives determine time; by
cultivation of soil, counted by
moons, and other more effects of
the nature: all these helps to
make the year.
● The winter and summer were
named as SUN-TIME and
WATER-TIME.
● The years of the advent of the
SPANIARDS, seasons were
determined by names, and have
been divided into weeks.
FEAST
● Their Manner of offering sacrifice.
● They offer to devil what they had to
eat.
● Done in front of the idol.
CATOLONAN
● The officiating priest.
● Devil sometimes liable to enter the
body of the Catolonan
● Objects of the sacrifice were goat,
fowls and swine.
THE REASON FOR OFFERING
THIS SACRIFICE AND ADORATION
● The recovery of sick person
● The prosperous voyage
● Propitious result in war
● Good harvest
● Successful deliver of child birth
● Happy outcome in married life
● The girls who had their monthly
courses had their eyes blindfolded
for four days and four nights. At
the end of the period, the
Catolonan took young girls to the
water. The old men said that they did
this for girls to have a fortune of
finding their husband.
DISTINCTIONS OF DEVILS
ACCORDING TO THE PRIEST
● CATOLONAN – this office was
an honourable one among the
natives.
● MANGAGAUAY – wishes who
deceived by pretending to heal the
sick.
● MANYISALAT – had the power of
applying remedies to lovers that
 they would abandoned and despise
their own wife.
● MANCOCOLAM – its duty was to
emit fire from himself at night
● HOCLOBON – without the use of
medicine, and by simply saluting or
raising the hand, they killed whom
they chose.
● SILAGAN – if they
anyone in white, they’ll tear out
its liver and eat it, thus causing his
death.
● MAGTATANGAL – her purpose
was to show herself at night without
his hear or entrails.
● OSUANG – (sorcerer) they
that they have seen him fly, and
that he murderedmen and ate their
flesh
● MANGAGAYOMA – they made
charms for lovers out of herbs,
stones, and wood whichwould infuse
the heart with love.
● SONAT – which is equivalent to
“preacher.” It was his office to help
one to die, at which time he
predicted the salvation
condemnation of the soul.
● PANGATAHOJAN (babaylan) – is
thespiritual leader of the tribe in
pre-colonialPhilippines. They are
also soothsayers, andpredicts the
●
future.
BAYOGUIN –
“cotquean,” a man whose
signified
nature
inclined
woman.
toward that of a
MANNER OF BURYING
● The deceased was buried beside his
house, and 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 coffin or bier. In place of
rowers, various animals were place
at the oar by twos - male and
female.
● It was the slave's care to see if they
saw were fed.
● 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 finally
they wearied of it.
say ● The Aetas or Negrillos (Negritos)
had also a form of burial, but
different. They dug a deep,
perpendicular hole, and placed
the decease within it leaving him
upright with head or crown
unburied on top of which they
put half a coconut which was to
serve him as a shield.
SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEFS
or ● Believes in aswang, dwende, kapre,
tikbalang, patyanak/tiyanak.
● They also believes in magical
power ofamulet and charms such
as anting-anting, kulam and
gayuma or love potion
a
•They are not
subject to one
another,
except
friendship and goes to the
relationship father and so
•The chief on.
(datu) help ∙The children
one another in will inherit
wars the status of
THE CASTE the
∙Commoners parent it
∙Slaves belonged.
∙If Maharlica SLAVES
marries a 1.
slave, the first Namamamah
child ay
•Can’t be sold
•Can’t be from one
transferred to village to
other another
barangay without
unless by complying the
inheritance, following:
provided they • Fine and
stay in gold (
the same depend from
village barangay to
2. Saguiguilid barangay)
• Can be sold • A banquet to
MAHARLICA the entire
– no moving barangay
• If they disrespect his
marry from daughter or
other wife of datu.
barangay the • The children
children will of the
be divided accomplices
• Sentences are turned
are passed by to slave
the datu WITCHES -
• They As for the
condemn a witches, they
man at low killed them
caste who and their
children and
accomplices paid with
became promptness,
slaves of exposed the
the chief culprit to
after he had serve until the
made some payment
recompense should be
to the made, person
injured aggrieved to
person. whom the
Other money was to
offences are be paid.
punished by PUNISHMEN
fines in gold TS WERE
which not
DONE IN culprit with
THE food
FOLLOWING and clothing
WAY: thus
• Half the enslaving
cultivated him and his
lands and children.
all their • The master
products will have the
belonged to possession of
the master. the
The children if ever
master will the payment
provide the could not be
met by the living
father. independently;
•Aliping served the
Saguiguilid - person who
service lent them
within the wherewith to
house; serve pay.
the master LOANS –
to whom The same
the way goes to
judgement a debtor
applied. concerning
•Aliping loans wherein
Namamahay - he will give
half of his
cultivated to pay the
lands and debt or the
profits until the payment will
debt has be doubled.
been paid or INHERITANC
else he's ES –
condemned to Legitimate
a life of children of a
toil and father
becomes and mother
slave. After will be
the father's inherited
death, equally not
the children unless
will continue
the father and LEGITIMATE
mother WIVES – If
showed a one
slight partiality had children
by gifts such by two or
as 2 to 3 taels more
or a jewel. legitimate
DOWRY - wives,
should be each child will
greater than receive the
the sum given inheritance
to the other and the
sons. mother's
TWO OR dowry with its
MORE
increase and in the
share of inheritance. If
his father's he had a child
estate. with a slave
SLAVE woman, that
WOMAN – If a child
man had a will also
son from one receive some
of his slaves of his share.
as well as UNMARRIED
legitimate WOMAN
children, the (ISAANAVA)
former will – If ever he
have no share had children
by an
unmarried legitimate wife
woman, she but
will did not
still receive a have a son
dowry but is but had
not children to
considered as the
a unmarried
real wife and wife called
her children Inaasava, the
are said to be latter will
natural inherit a
children. If the
father has a