REAL NAME
DOCTRINA CHRISTIANA
The first book ever printed in
the Philippines in 1593
FRANCISCAN ORDER SEAL
CHIRINO
“In Taitai, there were four hundred families and were divided into four
barangays. For each barangay, there was one datu, each of whom had
charge of a hundred inhabitants who are collectively called
CATONGOHAN”
PLASENCIA
This people always had chiefs, called by them datos, who governed
them and were captains in their wars, and whom they obeyed and
reverenced”. These chiefs ruled over a few people; sometimes as many as
a hundred houses, sometimes even less than thirty. This tribal gathering is
called in Tagalog a barangay”
SOCIAL CLASS (Loarca vs Plasencia)
4 DISTINCT CLASSES
• Datu (chiefly class)
• Maharlika (the nobility class)
• Timagua or Aliping Namamahay (common class)
• Ayuey,Tumaranpuc and Tumataban or Aliping Saguiguilir
(dependent class)
• LOARCA
PLASENCIA
• 3 KINDS OF ALIPIN
2 KINDS OF ALIPIN
1. Ayuey – most exploited groups 1. Aliping Namamahay – commoners,
2. Tumaranpuc – allowed to live in their equal rank to that of timagua. They
own houses, working for a day for lived in their own houses and are lords
the master of their property
3. Tumataban – work in the house of 2. Aliping Saguiguilir – serve their master in
the master only when there were his house and on his cultivated lands,
some feast and may be sold
SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEFS (Paterno vs Plasencia)
PATERNO
Tagalogs have SERES FABULOSOS like Magtatangal, Tigbalang, Patianac,
Hocloban, Mangangayoma, Mancocolam and Osuang
PLASENCIA
There are 12 distinctions made among the priests of the devil were as
follows:
Catolonan Mangangauay
Manyisalat Mancocolam
Hocloban Silagan
Magtatangal Osuang
Mangangayoma Pangatahojan
Bayoguin