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belief system |
animism |
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idols |
carved representation of the spirits adore, worship, and praise |
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belief is still powerful |
survived the onslaught of time and functions |
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Bathala |
highest deity |
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anitos function |
messenger for communication between Bathala and people
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anitos are what? |
lesser spirits: environmental spirit |
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mythical creatures example |
aswang shokoy diwata sirena |
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hierarchy of the gods |
Bathala anitos mythical creatures |
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counterpart of paganism |
God saints |
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ritual complex |
way of justifying the deities |
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Catalonan |
or aka Babaylan officiating priests |
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job of Catalonan |
medium to talk to anito |
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why are Catalonans mostly women |
they are domesticated and developed medical and health procedures (curious and observant) which leads to good health where they take religion to be the reason anitos and Bathala are more responsive to women since they are mostly men |
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Catalonan's purpose divination |
appeasement protect the population with anting-anting and agimat |
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bangungot (scares men) tik-tik (scares women) and the like justifies what? |
purpose of catalonan
and their control |
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anitos good and bad |
anitos maligno |
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babaylan good and bad |
babaylan aswang (preys on men) |
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Catalonan's purpose |
divination food offering rituals |
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people pondering about death means |
there's specialization which also means that there is a surplus of people and food |
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death rituals purpose |
makes the people important journey towards the underworld ( rituals as provisions) remove ties with the dead |
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pre-colonial rituals reborn |
body is "boiled" to take the moisture out then embalmed on a fetal position to be put in an sarcophagus
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pre-colonial rituals tree burial |
put an incision in a young tree, fill with stones (do it again and again) when father is already dead, place him inside then twine with rope to be close |
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pre-colonial rituals manunggul jar |
place bones in the jar jar would be placed in cave that over looks the sea the "boat" figure is said to be transported by the shadow of the sea created by the sun |
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sukob |
can't marry if someone died in the same year to save expenses |
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Marriage political reasons |
baranagay or family to unite (political dynasty) |
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Marriage economic reasons |
preservation of wealth |
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Marriage pro-creation |
legitimacy for offsprings |
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is Philippines monogamous or polygamous? |
mostly monogamous no stringent law for polygamy |
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1st "lover" is called |
asawa for economic purposes |
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2nd, 3rd, 4th lover is called |
kaibigan for emotional purposes |
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arrangement marriages are usually from |
birth |
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courtship process |
don't go directly to the person got to the family and name your intention |
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courtship downpayment |
reservation fee for the girl's hand in marriage must be tangible (bolo, carabao) you can take it back if the girl says no |
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marriage |
concept revolves around rituals |
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marriage rituals |
dowry or bride price designed for the purchase of bride |
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purpose of bride price |
growing of the daughter (money father had to spend for the pagpalaki of anak) investment for the groom's other brother's marriage display one's wealth (show of force through namamanhikan) compensation (as the daughter will be removed from her family) |
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reasons for divorce |
can't bear child nagpapatayan sila |
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if divorce pursues, what happens? |
groom's family expenses for the wife must be paid back |
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traditional dance |
put money on the couple's wedding clothes |
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Marriage extortion |
"pay" all of the bride's relatives before you get to meet her |
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purpose of pregnancy |
solidify the family and relationship |
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how to get pregnant |
sacrifice pigs since the are for ritualistic purposes and they give a lot of piglets |
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belief system in which what takes part of the conception of the baby |
anitos (they have an active participation) |
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husband must not cut his hair until delivery or else |
child would not be born |
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wives should not eat fish that have no scales or else |
child birth will be different |
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must eat one meal only |
or else you are carrying more than one child |
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concept of abortion |
unwanted not married |
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why not have more children? |
economic reasons (welcome population but land does not get bigger, meaning less mamanahin) |
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when is child naming? |
after a few days old |
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how to name a child |
circumstance at birth what the baby sees first |
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child development what do they learn? |
shoot bow and arrow lances and spears |
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datu's child must do what? |
decapitate defeated datu's head |
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why must a child be the one to decapitate? |
transfer of respect defeated barangay pays homage to the chuld |
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"pangato" |
Fathers encourage kids to "poke butt" |
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how is patrilineal kinship reinforced? |
respect father and son as teacher student relationship |
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menstruation ritual |
girl is blindfolded for 4 days and nights everyone is invited for food and drinks (to tell them she is ready to bear a child) catalonan bathes her and removes blindfold |
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menstruation ritual purpose |
to bear children and find husband |
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bararao (weapon) |
head hunting |
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WHY WE FIGHT why head hunting of datu? |
for identification kill the leadership (severe ties) less killing casualty |
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WHY WE FIGHT alipins |
must be alive and well which is why the system of fighting is non-lethal (arnis for defense and kali for disarm) |
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WHY WE FIGHT ransom |
usually the chiefly class Magellan's crew was sold to Sabah, Malaysia |
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system of fighting is created to |
capture people |
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how to avoid capture |
run away and hide throw rocks then hide |
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Battle ofMactan |
2-3 hours for the fighting to actually begin (cause of the running and hiding) |
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how did the Battle of Mactan start to get OFFENSIVE |
when Magellan burned housed |
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core idea for fighting |
people as resource by capture to be sold as slaves |
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other cases for interbarangay raids |
unwarranted killings stealing of wives treachery when one goes in a friendly manner to another village trade |
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Philippine tattoos |
pintados |
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pintados state their |
war records kill records bravery (since body art is painful) |
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why have pintados? |
to intimidate the enemy so they won't fight (just like the Japanese ninjas and their flags) |
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two types of laws |
oral (for temporary) written (for permanent) |
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who makes the laws? |
council of elders and datu |
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indication of having laws |
population is getting bigger |
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Filipino term for village crier and his purpose |
umalohokan announces oral laws |
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what happens when you break the law |
go to a judicial court judge from a different barangay for neutrality people as witnesses to say if you're innocent |
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Judicial system what is pagsubok |
anitos take part of determing the innocent |
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examples of pagsubok |
person who hesitated getting the stone out of the water is guilty person who has more scars is guilty person whose torch light goes out is guilty |
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why are the pagsuboks like these? |
because they believe that if you are innocent the anitos will protect you |
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Justice system punishment |
be a slave "minimal" torture (mental and/or emotional) |
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Lobloban system |
Poking of the butt |