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ACCOUNT OF THE

PAGAN RITES and CEREMONIES


of the [TAGALOG] INDOIS of the PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
GOD
maker of all things
Bathala

Malayari highest-ranking deity

Diwata not the name of God; referring


to spirits equivalent of the
anitos
MACA

CASANAAN/SULAR
The latter is divided into two large towns
separated in the middle by an inlet of the sea

For the souls of mariners For the rest who are


who are dressed in dressed in red because
white of their prominence

The souls who inhabit these places die seven times


or resuscitated and undergo the same travail
 They offer everything to the anito

 They smear certain parts of their bodies with


the blood of animals they slaughtered for food.

 Indio have no temples but they have priest or


priestesses who are the principal ministers of
their ceremonies, rites and omens.
Male priest dress in women's clothes
 They marry other males and sleep with them as
if they were man and wife who have carnal
knowledge of each other.

 Sodomites- a person who has anal sex with


another person
PRIESTESSES or
CATALONAN

cure the sick with


superstitious words
or assist in drinking
feast.
Role of Priest
oto attend to all the needs in general
ohelp the priestesses invoke the spirits,
although with more pomp, ceremony, and
authority

Catalonan other kind of priest.


Sorcerer, and when they perform,
whether witchcraft or deceits, it is for
the purpose of emptying the pockets
of ignorant people.
 If the ill dies after the anito had prognosticated
good health, the priest rationalizers that anito has a
good intentions.
 There are who put fire to a sheaf of grass and throw
it out of the window, so the bad anitos are
responsible for the malady.
 If the people ministering to this are just disrupting
among themselves, it is evident that they are
commiting a hoax.
 Others offers a moderate drinking feast to the anito
assisted by the priest who administered what is
needed and pronounce that the cause of the illness
is because of the soul has left the body and until it
returns the sick will not recover.
 The affected ask the priest order to return
(of his soul) and they pay him in advance
according to mutual agreement.

 If the sick should die, they never run out of


excuses to absolve themselves.

 In general these islands the dead are buried


without delay.
They burry a dead body under a
house where all the dead relatives
are interred.
SET UP
- curtains
(depending on the
- lamps
importance of a
- foods deceased)
When a master die, they kill their slaves and bury them
so that they will serve their master in another life.

In terms of offering:
- drinking of liquor for more than a month
- removing of flesh (skin) from their bones
- the bones placed in an earthen (clay) jar
MOST REPUGNANT and HORRIBLE
things they do is:
they drink with the bones serving as cups that they call "Bataan
to Mariveles"
 Do not bury their dead. They take it to hill and strew and they flee
it hurriedly.

 Few are carry the dead but do not pass it through the main door
but through window.

 They carry the dead not only in house but on the road to the
burial.

 They like more in singing than crying.

 When chief died nobody in town sings or plays any kinds of


musical instrument.
 Eating rice for the same number of years as prescribed in dowry.

 Widow of chief covers herself with curtain and four days eating
nothing.

 Time of mourning, a priest dance around the mourner while


chanting.

 If the deceaded person or his parents had slaves they all shave
their heads.

 Men wear collars of rattan on some parts of the body and women
on the wrists.
 Women who wish to get pregnant breed
and fatten pigs by giving them food .
They dedicate the pigs sacrifice to the
anito after they give birth.

 They would get pregnant by fattening


and slaughtering pigs.

 During pregnancy the husband does not


cut his hair until his wife delivers.
Many omens when going out on a journey
call bathala- but they used it in
• BIRD colored reddish improper (they do not believe it to
blue and black be God but ACOLYTE)

BADLUCK
•somebody sneezes
•hear a lizard's clucking
•snake crosses their path
They adore the NEW MOON on
the first day it appears
 When they walk by the river or travel on the water in a
boat they pray to the crocodile.

 They call it grandfather and they say they are its


relatives.

 Those suffering from deadly herbs or poison or those


with abscesses or who are afflicted with some dangerous
disease are cured with spells understood only by these
who keep the law of Muhammad in the island of Borneo.

 Sesame seed oil used for treatment.


 They use some Conjuration for love making
that might be well loved or they might not
be seen.

 They use herbs to attract those whom like


and use other herbs that ensure disaffection
from others.

 They use superstitious amulets, the amulets


are embellished with the eyetooth of
crocodile or man shaped stone and hair from
duende and seed or root of a tree.
 When building a house before they put on the roof, they
place a scarecrow at the highest part of it.
 Swallow or a snake
should perch on enter
they abandoned it or
hold a drinking revelry or
maganito.

 When build a ship upon


launching for the first
time on the water, they
shoot an arrow towards
the sky or fire an
arquebus.
• When making ships for their trading, they hold drinking feasts
asking their god or the anitos to bless them with fortune
and give them much profit.

• Before planting their grain some hold maganitos, they make


offerings asking that the fields be fruitful and the harvest be
not lost.

• Before going into a war, they hold meetings which they


decide what to do to ensure a successful result.

• They sing a victory songs and hold a solemn drinking feast if


they return with prisoners

• When a couple separate, it is common for the one left behind


to promise
CUSTOMS:

When regards to the marriage, the man give a dowry to the


woman. After giving the dowry they hold a revel

When nights comes either the brides mother or some old woman
brings the couple to their bed.

The groom give a larger dowry by


paying something to each of the nearest
relatives of woman.

Without this and a dowry they very


rarely to marry.
Brave men whom inidios call
“BAYANI”
Preeminence or Dignity

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