COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Miguel de Loarca
Fr. Pedro Chirino

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Allyssa Pacinos
Jofel Gonzales
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Sir Arwin Biso
Topic Miguel de Loarca Fr. Pedro Chirino
1. Marriage/  The Indians (Filipino) are accustomed one hundred pesos  Filipinos are marrying several wives and also the
which contains the sum of one hundred taels, gold, slaves woman are marrying several husbands which has
Dowry and jewels as a dowry to the woman, if the woman been practice in Vizayas and Mindanao but the
mounted the staircase the slave given by the father-in-law most common and general practice is marrying
is enough but if the woman take a glance to the people one woman only by the Tagalogs
and to her father-in-law, the father-in-law must give her
another slave. Everything that the woman will do is  Marriage between uncle and niece are acceptable
accompanied with jewel then the ceremony will start. The except for the brother and sister, grandfather and
old man will shout about the ceremony of matrimony of granddaughter, and father and daughter which
two people and right after the old man ends his speech has been the gateway for concubinage and
the old woman will join the couples hands and lays them wedlock.
in the rice and the rice will be thrown to the guests
present at that ceremony, after this the ceremony is  Filipinos has a very distinct formalities of
completed. betrothal which has been accompanied by
penalties and the worst penalty is execution.
 Marriage among the timaguas are not following the same Marriage here is not perpetual though dowry has
practices since they have nothing to give or offer instead been figure these days.
they are only drinking pitarrilla from the same cup.
Guests begin to depart after they give a shout and by this  Moreover husband has no obligation to give
they accomplish the ceremony of marriage which has dowry to his in-laws according to his own means.
been also being done for the rich and respective slaves. If unfortunately divorce came along to their way
and the man parts his wife he loses the dowry but
 Marriage among the slaves are very bias those time since if the wife part her husband the dowry will be
they have nothing to offer at all, there is no ceremony restored to his husband.
held instead they only says to each other that “Let us
marry” . The chief will send an Indian agent to the  Their children will be divided equally and when in
other’s female slave that the chiefs slave (ayuey) desired the state of slavery the children will be divided
to marry. If the marriage has been arranged there is no equally to be a slave of their different masters.
further ceremony but the chief will give an earthen jar or
three or four dishes that serves as the dowry to the female  If the man has three wives he is not obligated to
slave. Since the slaves belongs to the chiefs half of their marry them all in one day this is alike the
offsprings will be given to the chief of the female while the Mohametans the man can have a lot of wife as
other half will be given to the man’s chief, when the long the man can support all of his wives.
offsprings are able to work their parents will be
tumaranpoques and were given an own house to leave and
will only serve their masters one day out of four.

 In terms of the marriage between a freeman and a slave

before was formidable that half of their offspring will be
slave and the other half will live freely. The choice is upon
the parents to choose whom of their offspring to live
freely and to live as a slave.
2. Shrouding  Everyone must be at grief when a chief had died.  When someone is being sacrifice to the anitos or
Quarrel, singing are strictly prohibited and anyone who diwatas Filipinos are dancing along with the
and Burying will disobey the rule will be severely punish in order to sound created by the bell ringing and when the
catalona or bailana is played they are exerting
give awareness to most people that the chief is dead. To
their Dead those who don’t follow the rules will have to pay the more force when they stop which signifies the
penalty and will be their slave but if the slave commits the death of the sick person. When they knew that the
action his/her master should take full responsibilities and person is dead they will start to play a new music
shall pay the penalty. which has been accompanied by weeping. Along
with the grieving music they will perform it with
the gum storax-tree and they will wash the body
of the dead person and will dress his/her having
the best garments he/she desires even before after
continues grief of three consecutive days the dead
will be buried.

 Other Filipino are anointing the body of the dead

person with balsams that they mostly believe will
definitely prevent corruption. Also they will
anoint the juice of ivy that will penetrate to the
body of the death to remain uncorrupted after
many years.

 The Filipino never buried them in the earth

instead they enclosed the body with the hardest
wood which has been the cover being fitted that
even air is impossible to enter. When the body has
been buried they used to place gold, articles of
values and buried under the house.

 The dead cannot be alone upon death it is why he

must be accompanied with slave, moreover they
fed the slave with hearty meal then killed
afterwards believing that the slave shall follow his
master. After burial has ceased the widow
expressed her sorrow by fasting which she eats a
small amount and vegetable is the only food
allowed for her.
  The devil inside the Filipino these days are grown,
3. Laws of  When an Indian (Filipino) committed a violation and has being undeniably greedy to gain more than what
Slavery been involve in the crime his life is never be close to death
even if he commits a crime like stealing, adultery, murder
was enough by taking extra charges to those who
are lending to them then since there is continues
and so on for each crime can be arrange with establish extra charges it is hard for the lender to pay the
fine which he can pay through gold and jewels. If he can’t amount that being lend until you can’t pay any
pay the fine he must borrow the arrange fine and shall be debts due consecutive delay of payments and
slave to whom he borrows and can be free again until he become a slave and his/her offspring will also
pay the amount that he lend to his master. become a slave and serve their master freedom
from slavery will be accomplish until the day that
they paid the debt including the extra charges to
delay payment before.

 Also a person can be slave if he/she violate the

rules for example, a person fail to preserve silence
when there is dead especially when a chief has
died, happening to pass in front of chief which is
during that time bathing other violations of rules
have an arrangement fine which when the fine is
not met by the one who commits an act against the
law will be slave and can be free again upon
payment.

4. Beliefs about  There is no brief explanation that Miguel de Loarca did,  There are different gods and goddesses that the
their gods but the chief mostly is being explained and has given the Filipino was idolizing and patronizing during
spotlight to be introduced. Like for example the special those time one of the god that the Tagalogs
treatment for the chief when they died and the penalties patronize is “Bathala Mei Capal” which means “
that the commoners who commits against the law, by this God the Creator or Maker” and for the Bisayans
way having the special treatment o the chief which they they called it “Laon” which denotes antiquity.
highly respect and idolize they seems to treat their chief
as they god.

5. The beginning  There are two kinds of people which are the one who live  Before, the Tagalogs believe that the beginning of
of life in along the coast and the one who live in the mountain. life came from the first woman and man which
These people have two different beliefs which regard has been found inside the bamboo tree having the
about the begging of life which has never been briefly unison of heart at the most incessant and intimate
stated by Miguel de Loarca. form of love.

6. Practice of  Filipinos preserve their ancient lore through songs which  When someone is being offer as a sacrifices, after
Music is done with the most earnest and pleasing manner being its death a new music has been played which is
accompanied by the oars of the island dwellers accompanied of weeping.