1.

As a friar, how did Juan de Placensiadescribe the religious belief oof early
Filipinos?

- According to the extract of Fray Juan de Placensia, he depict the

early Filipino beliefs as peculiar at the same time. The excerpt
completed that the early Filipino ancestors worshipped a soul,
nature or cosmic bodies that would involve religious belief at that
time, he also stated that Christianity, our progenitors have their
spiritual foundation. They observed that our ancestors has a unique
way of how they worship a deities, they also adhere the ways of
congregating and worshipping out progenitor's God and deities.

2. How did Morga describe the religious beliefs or early filipinos?

- As a high functionary of Spain and being a judge, De

Morgadescribed the native beliefs in a way that a Filipino were being
insulted and oppressive. He articulated that the natives are lacking
wisdom of what they worshipped. We noticed also that the 2nd
paragraph of the extract doesn’t agree with the excerpt of de Plancia
that tells that natives has a gathering and different way of
worshipping, and different perception upon observing the religious
belief of the early Filipinos.

3. How did Loarcadescribe the religious belief of the Pintados?

- The excerpt focut on beliefs of the origin of the pintados, Loarca was
able to study the belief and religious custom of the natives. They
have a decent and organize spiritual belief than ours that time. He
also observed the baylanes of that place and state that the devil was
hiding through the image of a spiritual leaders of the natives. They
would invoked demons and the souls of the departed and they tend
to see the future and answer their questions.

4. Was Chirino'sdescription of early Filipino religion influenced by being a

friar?

- Yes,we conclude that his except can be a summary of the three

excerpt. We can able to say that he was influenced by the friars for
he can able to sum up all the point of view of all the three friars.

5. How similar or different was the description of Chirin from Placensia's

account of early Filipino?

- We noticed that there are no big differences nor similarities between

there work,first, thoughts and observations of them was upon the
stability of the ancestor's belief and spiritual lives, second, was
about the thoughts that insult and said that the ancestors conduct,
lots of sacrifices and the beliefs caused and triggered by the demons
and evil. Most commonly, they have the almost the sameillusbtration
of their own works.