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Philippine Pre-Colonial Marriage Customs

Pre-colonial Philippine customs included various marriage, social, and religious traditions: 1) Marriage customs involved courtship, dowries, and payments to the bride's family. Monogamy was common for men. 2) Social dress differed by gender and signified social status. Men wore sleeved or sleeveless jackets while women wore skirts. 3) Religious practices included worshipping nature spirits, idols, and ancestral souls. Priests and priestesses communicated with spirits and led rituals making offerings. Superstitious beliefs centered around immortality of the soul and afterlife, as well as venerating the dead through burial traditions like placing valuables in coffins. Professional

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Philippine Pre-Colonial Marriage Customs

Pre-colonial Philippine customs included various marriage, social, and religious traditions: 1) Marriage customs involved courtship, dowries, and payments to the bride's family. Monogamy was common for men. 2) Social dress differed by gender and signified social status. Men wore sleeved or sleeveless jackets while women wore skirts. 3) Religious practices included worshipping nature spirits, idols, and ancestral souls. Priests and priestesses communicated with spirits and led rituals making offerings. Superstitious beliefs centered around immortality of the soul and afterlife, as well as venerating the dead through burial traditions like placing valuables in coffins. Professional

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Naga College Foundation, Inc.

College of Arts and Sciences

GEC 3 – READINGS IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY

NAME: Nicole B. Collantes COURSE/SECTION: BSN_1D DATE:14/09/2021

PHILIPPINE CUSTOMS
Research and identify 2-3 customs observed by Filipinos during the pre-colonial period. Cite your
reference/s as well. You can use bullets for your answers.

ASPECTS PHILIPPINE CUSTOMS/TRADITIONS

[Link] Customs
• Men were in general, monogamous; while their wives are
called asawa, while concubines are called “friends”

• In order to win the hand of his lady, the man has to show his
patience and dedication to both the lady and her parents

• Courtship usually begins with paninilbihan

• If the man wins the trust of the paresnt, he does not


immediately marry the woman , but he has to satisfy several
condition:

- Give a dowry or bigay-kaya


- Pay the panghihimuyat
- Pay the wet nurse bigay- suso
- Pay the parent himaraw
- Bribe for the relatives called sambon (among the
Zambals

[Link]/Society
 Mode of Dressing male attire was composed of the
kanggan (sleeveless jacket) and bahag (loincloth) the
color of the kanggan indicates rank – red for the chief,
black or blue for the commoners Bogobo man & woman
men also wear a turban called putong , which also tell the
social status/achievement of the individual wearing it
 female attire consisted of baro or camisa (jacket with
sleeves) and saya or patadyong (a long skirt); – some
women wore a piece of red or white cloth on top of their
skirt called tapis Kalinga & subuanon women.
 Men also wear turban called putong, which also tell the
social status/achievement of the individual wearing it.
1. Worship
• Showed respect for animals and plants like the
crocodile, crow, tigmamanukin; some trees were not
also cut because they were thought to be divine diseases
were thought to be caused by the temper of the
environmental spirits.
• Adored idols called anitos or diwatas to whom they
made offerings some anitos were considered bad;
however, they made offerings to them too in order to
appease them or placate their anger
• Priestesses such as the babaylan/ baylana or katalona
acted as mediums to communicate with these spirits

[Link] Beliefs

• Pre- Colonial Filipinos believed in the immortality of


the soul and in life after death.
• They also believed in the existence of a number of
gods whom they workship and made offerings to
according to rank.
• Filipinos also venerated the dead by keeping alive
their memory by carving idols of stone, gold or ivory
called likha or larawan; food, wine and other things
were also shared with the dead
[Link] traditions
• The dead was placed in a wooden coffin and
buried under the house complete with cloth, gold
and other valuable things
• Upon the death of the person, fires were made
under the house and armed men acted as
sentinels to guard the corpse from sorcerers
• Professional mourners were hired to accentuate
the depth of mourning
• Sometimes, the relatives of the dead wore
rattan bands around their arms, legs and necks
and they abstained from eating meat and drinking
wine.

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