The Life and Works of Rizal
Module 10: Assignment 1
Instruction: Complete the table provided.
Pigafetta, A. (1969), First voyage around the world (PP.23-32) Manila, Philippines: Filipiniana
Book Guild.
Rizal, J. (1962). Historical events of the Philippines Islands: published in Mexico in 1609 by
Antonio de Morga; recently brought to light and annotated by Jose Rizal; preceded by prologue
by Ferdinand Blumentritt, Manila, Philippines: Jose Rizal National Centennial Commission.
PIGAFETTA MORGA
Antonio De Morga
Antonio Pigafetta Dr. Jose Rizal
Ferdinand Magellan Indio
People Lapu-Lapu Pintados
Zula Propagandista
Filipinos Bluementritt
Pigafetta does offer insight into
some Visayan customs such as Filipinos have found it a useful
their cuisine, the process of account of the state of their
fermenting palm and coconut native culture upon the coming
wine, and native attire. From his of the conquistadors; Spaniards
Customs and Culture retelling of interactions with have regarded it as a work to
Raja Humabon, the lord of admire or condemn, according
Cebu, and other Visayan ruling to their views and the context of
elite, we get a feel of how they their times; some other
operated. Europeans, such as Stanley.
The natives, but their food, Morga, he primarily describes
Belief and Religion attire, customs, and traditions, the “ignorance” and
too. He described historical “stubbornness” of the non-
events like the first Easter Day Christian Filipinos. Others
Mass celebrated in the worshipped the sun and moon,
Philippines. Accepting yellow-colored bird called as
Christianity may have been an “batala”, and crocodiles.
attempt to win over a new They kept those in private caves
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and private houses where they
offered perfumes, odors, food,
powerful deity for Humabon. fruit as a form of sacrifice and
worship.
Humabon may have instead
‘tricked' Magellan by co-opting
the Spanish into his plans to Lieutenant governor of the
subdue a political and Philippines. The community as
commercial rival. The ignorant, he did not accept the
Society and Government unadulterated by colonialism. It Filipino culture and stood
would challenge the according to his firsthand
misconception of some that experiences and culture as
Filipinos, before colonization, Spaniard.
were savages.
The Magellan Route is the way Late 16th Century observations
traced by the nautical expedition on the primitiveness of Filipino
made by the first world sexual life had influenced had
circumnavigation in the dawning ultimately based his
of the 16th century. The quill pronouncements on the casual
would be taken up by Spanish travel notes of reactionary and
Remarkable Practices
missionaries who would racist apologists for Spanish
document Visayan and Tagalog colonialism. Rizal’s silences in
culture in greater detail in their the Morga are rare occasions but
attempts to evangelize them. It's telling ones, and such is the case
a paradox that makes Philippine with his silence on the subject of
history compelling. penile mutilation.
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