The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 38, 1674-1683: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
History
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 38, 1674-1683: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources
[See account of the Bohol revolt in VOL. XXIV, pp. 116-119; it also
spread to Leyte. We present here some further account, obtained from
Murillo Velarde's Hist. de Philipinas, fol. 17, 18; Diaz's Conquistas,
pp. 132-136. Concepción (in Hist. de Philipinas, v, pp. 20-25) adds
nothing new.]
The majority of the ministers in the island of Bohol [48] had gone
to Zebu, to celebrate the feasts of the beatification of St. Xavier;
in their absence Lucifer attempted to possess himself again of those
souls. The divata, or demon, appeared to some Indians in the woods--its
face covered, like that of one taking the discipline--and commanded
them to quit the gospel ministers and the Spanish vassalage, and take
refuge in the hills; and to build him a chapel, where he would aid them
and give them whatever they needed to pass their lives in happiness and
abundance, without the encumbrance of paying tribute to the Spaniards
or dues to the churches. Two or three Indians, who on account of their
evil deeds were wandering as fugitives, became priests of this divata,
in order to persuade the people to apostasy and rebellion; and, to
take away the fear which they naturally feel toward the Spaniards,
these priests told them that, if they would attack the Spaniards,
the divata would cause the mountains to rise against their foe;
that the muskets of the latter would not go off, or else the bullets
would rebound on those who fired them; that if any Indian should die,
the demon would resuscitate him; that the leaves of the trees would
be converted into saranga (which is a large fish); that when they
cut bejucos, these would distil wine instead of water; that from
the banana-leaves they would make fine linen; and, in short, that
all would be pleasure, enjoyment, and delight. With these magnificent
promises, so attractive to men--and especially to the Indians, who are
so inclined to idleness and sloth--four villages revolted; only Loboc
(which is the chief village) and Baclayon remained firm in the faith,
and in loyalty to the king.
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