1.As aFriar.

How did Juan de Plasencia describe the religious belief of early

Filipinos?

2.How did Morga describe the religious belief of early Filipinos?

3.How did Loarca describe the religious belief of Pintados?

4.Was Chirinos observationof early Filipinos religion influenced by Friar?

5.How similar or different were descriptions of Chirino from Plasencia’s early

Filipinos religious belief?

Answers.

1.Juan de Plasencia,there are no temples consecrated to the performing of

sacrifices,the adoration of their idols,or the general idolatry.When they wished to
celebrate a festival which called pandot or “worship”they celebrate it in the large house
a chief.On the posts of the house they set a small lamps, called sorihile, in the center of
the house they placed one large lamp,adorned with leaves of the white palm wrought
into many designs.They also brought together many drums,large and small,which they
beat successively white feast lasted was usually four days.During this time the whole
barangay,or family,united and joined in the worship which they call naga anitos.The
house,for above –mentioned period of time,was called temple.Among their many idols
there was one called Badhala,whom they especially worship.They also worship the
sun,which an account of it’s beauty,is almost universally respected and honored by
heathens.They worshiped,too,the moon especially when it was new,at which time they
held great rejoicings,adoring it and bidding it welcome.Some of them also adored the
stars,although they did not know them by their names,as the Spaniards and other
nations know the planets.They possessed many idols called lic-ha which were images
with different shapes;at times they worship any little triffle.They had another idol called
Dian Masalanta who was the patron of lovers and of generation.The idols called
Lacapati and Idianale were the patrons of the cultivated lands and husbandry.They paid
reverence to water lizards called by them buaya,or crocodiles,from fear of beingf
harmed by them.And a praise it in poetic song sung by the officiating priest,male or
female who is called Catalonan.In some their idiolatries they were accustom to placed a
good piece of cloth,doubled,over the idol,and over the cloth a chain or large, gold ring
thus worshipping the devil with out having sight of them.

2.Antonio de Morga proceeded more barbarously and with the greater blindness than in
all the rest.Without any knowledge of the true god, they neither strove to discover him
by way of reason,nor had any fixed belief.He appeared to them in various horrible and
frightful forms,and a fierce animals so,that they feared him and trembled before
them.They generally worship him and made images of him.They kept in caves and
private houses,were they offered them perfumes and odors and food and fruit,calling
them anitos.Others worshiped the sun and the moon, and made feasts and drunken
revils at the conjunction of those bodies.Some worshiped a yellow-colored bird that
dwells in their woods,called Batal.They generally worshiped and adore the crocodiles
when they see them,by knocking down and clasping their hands because of harm that
they receive from those reptiles they believe that by so doing the crocodiles will become
appeared and leaved them.

3.Miguel de Loarca during revelries. The people of coast ,who called the
Yligueynes,believe that the heaven and earth had no beginning,and that were two gods
called Captan and the other Maguayen.They believe the land breeze and sea breeze
were married and that’s the land breeze brought forth a reed,which planted by the god
Captan.When the reed grew it broke into sections which become a man and a woman.

4.Yes,because they celebrate their own feast and they worshiped their goddess and
wishes .They offer their different shapes.And they have their idols called Badhala when
they especially worshiped.

5.The similarities of Chirinos from Plasencia’s early Filipinos religious belief are they
believed the images and their god and goddesses.