SUCESOS DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS

VOCABULARY

Audencia - Royal Aduencia of the royal court of

justice in Spain and its colonies
Ecclesistics- the religious missionaries
having ideas and attidues not detetrmined by any
religious bias
Gallows- the apparatus for executing the
sentence of death by hanging
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What is Las Islas Filipinas?

The Philippines was named in

honor of King Philip II of
Spain.Specifically,Ruy Lope de
Villalobos named the land as he
arrived at the islands of SAMAR
AND LEYTE in 1544.
What is Sucesos?
EVENTS, HAPPENINGS,
OCCURRENCE

The Sucesos is the work of an

honest observer, a versatile
bureaucrat, who knew the
workings of the administration
from the inside.
 THE BOOK
SUCESOS DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS
( The Events in the Philippines)

An account of Spanish
observations about Filipinos and
Basic Facts about Notable and National Symbols
the Philippines the Famous
Philippines of the Philippines
Landmarks in the
Philippines
 Morga's work, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas,
was published in 1609 in Mexico and
consisted of eight chapters.

The first seven chapters dealt with the terms

of the governor-generals who had served in
the Philippines from the time of Miguel
Lopez de Legazpi in 1565 to Pedro de Acuña
in 1606.

Basic Facts about The last chapter,

Notable and titled "AnNational
account Symbolsof the
the Philippines Famous of the Philippines
Philippine
Landmarks inIslands,"
the provided ample
descriptions
Philippines of early Filipinos upon the
arrival of the Spaniards in the sixteenth
century.
 While at the British Museum in late
1889, Rizal found a copy of the first
edition of Antonio Morga's Sucesos
de las Islas Filipinas and began
copying the text by hand.
Basic Facts about Notable and
the Philippines Famous
Landmarks in the
Philippines
WHY CHOSE MORGA?
The original book was rare
Morga was a layman not a religious
chronicler
Morga is to be more objective than the
other religious writers
Morga was more sympathetic to the
Notable and
indios
Famous
Morga was
Landmarks in the not only an eyewitness but a
major actor in the events he narrates.
Philippines
Objectives of Rizal in
annotating Sucesos de las Islas
Filipinas

To awaken the consciousness of the

Filipinos regarding their glorious ways
of the past
To correct what has been distorted
about the Philippines due to Spanish
conquest
Notable and
To Famous
prove that Filipinos are civilized
Landmarks in the
even before
Philippines
the coming of the
Spaniards
MORGA’S AND RIZAL’S VIEWS ABOUT
THE FILIPINOS , THE PHILIPINES AND
ITS CULTURE
 INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

Those natives living in Luzon They will always choose

are tribes whom one cannot be violence until the government
safe with because to pacify enters because of their
them , it is either through good inhumane ways as answers to
or violent means. those
Notable and who do not submit to the
Famousfriars.
Landmarks in the
Philippines
 BODY TATTOO

The inhabitant natives also Agreed

known as Bisaya draw patterns
first before putting black
powder where the blood oozes
Notable and
Famous
Landmarks in the
Philippines
 CLOTHING

In the middle of their waist

Bahag is a rich colored cloth
they wore "bahaque" and their
and quite often with gold strips
foreheads wrapped with a
and they put moro style like a
potong.
turban.
Notable and
Famous
Landmarks in the
Philippines
 FOOD

They eat beef and fish which

they know is best when it has This fish that Morga mentions,
started to rot and stink. that cannot be good until it
begins to mt, is bagoong and
Notable
thoseand who have eaten it and
Famous
tasted
Landmarks in theit know that it neither is
nor should be rotten.
Philippines
 DRINKING

Natives drink heavily, Morga In his annotation, Rizal quoted

said, they all end up drunk Fr. Colin who said it is
during wedding feasts. common knowledge that they
drink a lot but no matter how
inebriated
Notable and
they seem to be
Famousafter a gathering or a feast,
Landmarks inthey
the can always find their way
Philippines
home.
 GOVERNMENT
There were no kings and queens or lords
in different barrios or provinces to rule.
Instead, they considered principals
among the natives.

Individuals or families belonging to the Agreed

principals formed relationships and
friendships with each other and
sometimes, due to differences, caused Pointed out that friendly
wars.
relations were more
Notable and
common
Famous
Landmarks in the
Philippines
 MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND
HOUSEHOLD
The groom contributes a dowry, which
he received from his parents. The bride
does not bring anything until she inherits
A Filipino woman helps her husband and is
from her parents. not seen as a burden.
The house where the parents and
children lives is called a bahandin. In Tagalog, a house is called pamamahay. It
Inasawa is a wife married to a native
is impossible that bahandin is printed for
man.
bahayin
Notable and
Famous
Landmarks in the
Asawa is the term called for the wife of the
Philippines
native man.
 RELIGION / HEALERS

There were no priests or a man of religion to

attend to religious matters. They believed in
idols and superstitions which the devil inspired
them to do to tell whether sick persons would
live or die.

Notable and
Famous
There were
Landmarks priests
called
in the
Philippines
Catalona or Babaylan.
 BELIEF ON CROCODILES

Morga said the natives

revere and venerate the
crocodile because they
are afraid of its power.

Rizal explained
Notable and
that there.
Famous
wereLandmarks
instances in the when
Philippines
crocodiles, while sparing their
Indio servants, gobbled friars.
 CUSTOMS FOR THE DEAD
They bury the dead in their houses.
In their funeral, there was no
procession, only those performed
by the members of the household
of the dead.
It is much more
Notable and natural to venerate the
remains ofFamous
our loved ones than those
Landmarks
fanatical martyrs in the
whom we have no
Philippines
dealings and who probably will never
remember us
 TRADE/ECONOMY
COTTON WEAVING
Morga’s observation about cotton is Morga : They weave blankets and
raised in the island and they spin it to garment which they also sell.
thread and sell it.
Rizal : Morga must have meant sinamay
Rizal agreed to it. which was woven from abaca.

ARTIFACTS GOLD
Morga: The natives of the island sell
the artifacts to the Japanese. Morga: Igorot kept their golds buried
in the ground.
Rizal: Agreed
Rizal: Agreed to it.
 ARTILLERY
Governor Santiago de Vera, on his
time, had set up a foundry for the
making of artillery under the hands
of an old indio called Pandapira.

Talked about
Notable Panday
and Pira as an indio
who already
Famousknew how to found
Landmarks
cannons even inbefore
the the arrival of the
Philippines
Spaniards.
 SHIP BUILDING INDUSTRY
Described Filipino boats large
enough to cary "one hundred
rowers on the border (vanda) and
thirty soldiers on top (pelea).

Claimed that the country, at one time,

withNotable and means, built ships of
primitive
Famous
around 2,000 tons. He then
Landmarks in the
proceeded
Philippinesby lamenting the
environmental costs of Spanish boat-
building.
 SYSTEM OF WRITING AND
ACCOMPANYING LITERATURE
Observed that writing was widely in use all
over the pre-Hispanic Philippines, that all
indios, men as well as women, could read
and write at least properly in their own
language.

Agreed that there was indeed a system

Notable but
of writing and went one step further in
Famous
assuming that there was a great volume
Landmarks in the
of written literature at the time the
Philippines
Spaniards arrived in the Philippines.
 AN EXCERPT

Morga: Their regular daily food is rice...

together with boiled fish of which there is an
abundance, and pork or venison, likewise meat
of wild buffalo or carabao. They prefer meat
and fish, saltfish which begin to decompose and
smell.
 AN EXCERPT
Rizal's annotation: This is another preoccupation of the Spaniards
who, like any other nation, in the matter of food, loathe that to
which they are not accustomed or is unknown to them. The
English, for example, is horrified on seeing a Spaniard eating snails;
to the Spaniard beefsteak is repugnant and he can't understand
how raw beefsteak can be eaten; the Chinese who eat tahuri and
shark cannot stand Roquefort cheese, etc., etc. The fish that
Morga mentions does not taste better when it is beginning to rot;
all on the contrary: it is bagoong and all those who have eaten it
and tasted it know that it is not or ought not to be rotten.
 Important Points
• Sucesos De Las Islas Filipinas is the first book to tackle the Philippine history.
• The book discusses the political, social and economical aspects of a colonizer
and the colonized country.
• The book that describes the events inside and outside of the country from 1493
to 1603, including the history of the Philippines.
• The pre-colonial Philippines already possessed a working judicial and legislative
system
• Spanish missionaries put an end to the baybayin written system of the Philippines
to translate their goals
• Our ancestors possessed a complex society and culture filled with arts and
literature
 Rizal's 3 Propositions
The people of the Philippines have a culture on their own,
before the coming of the Spaniards.
Filipinos were decimated, demoralized, exploited, and
ruined by the Spanish colonization.
The present state of the Philippines was not necessarily
superior to its past.
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