PACKET 3 “worship,”

Juan de Plasencia’s Customs of  Sibi

the Tagalogs temporary shed on each side of the
house, with the roof to protect the
 The Customs of the Tagalogs is a people from the wet when it rained.
narrative on the established culture  Sorihile
of the Tagalogs in Luzon written by Small lamps
Juan de Plasencia, 1589  Nagaanitos
 Fray Juan de Plasencia or Joan de time the whole barangay, or family,
Portocarrero (real name) was a united and joined in the worship
member of the Franciscan Order  Bathala
who came in the Philippines in 1578 “all powerful”
 The original document of Customs “The maker of all things,”
of the Tagalogs is currently kept in  Tala
the Archivo General de Indias in Morning star
Seville, Spain  Mapolon
“ seven little goats” (the Pleiades)
Definition of Terms:  Balatic
 Dato Greater Bear
Is the chief, captain of wars, whom  Licha
governed, obeyed, reverenced many idols which were images with
 Barangay different shapes; and at times they
Is the unit of government ruled by a worshipped any little trifle
chieftain, and consist of 30-100  Dian Masalanta
families together with their relatives who was the patron of lovers
and slaves. and generation
 Maharlica  Lacapati and Idianale
Free born, they do not pay tax patrons of the cultivated lands and of
 Aliping Namamahay husbandry
lived in their own houses and lords of  buaya or crocodiles
their property and gold water-lizards
 Aliping sa Guiguilir/Guiguilid  catolonan
served their master in his house and officiating priest, male or female
his cultivated islands and  Maca
can be sold “paradise” / “village of rest”
 Simbahan  Casanaan
which means temple or place of A palce of punishment, grief, and
adoration affliction/
 Pandot
“place of anguish”
 Sitan
Demons
 Tigbalaang
Ghost/ vibit and phantoms
 Patianac
a child died during childbirth