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TOPICS:
• ANALYZE RIZAL’S IDEAS ON HOW TO REWRITE PHILIPPINE HISTORY.
• COMPARE AND CONTRAST RIZAL AND MORGA’S DIFFERENT VIEWS ABOUT
FILIPINOS AND PHILIPPINE CULTURE.
REPORTERS:
• JONEL FRANCISCO
• MAE MANIO
• RONALD SAMSON
Rizal’s ideas on how to
rewrite Philippine history.
What is Sucesos De las Islas Filipinas?
• Morga wrote that the purpose for writing Sucesos was so he could
chronicle "the deeds achieved by our Spaniards i the discovery,
conquest, and conversion of the Filipinas Islands - as well as
various fortunes that they have from time to time in the great
kingdoms and among the pagan peoples surrounding the islands. "
• Taking issue with the scopes of these claims. Rizal argued that the
conversion and conquest were not as widespread as portrayed
because the missionaries were only successful in conquering a
portion of the population of certain Islands.
What leads to Jose Rizal Sucesos De las Islas
Filipinas?
• Rizal Spent his entire stay in the city of London at the Bristish
Museum’s reading room.
• Having found Morga’s books, he laboriously hand-copied the whole
351 pages of the Sucesos.
• Rizal proceeded to annotate every chapter of the Sucesos.
Rizal's annotation of Morga's Sucesos
• His extensive annotations of Morga's work number "no less than 639 items
or almost two annotations for every page."
• Rizal also annotated Morga's typographical errors.
• He commented on every statement that could be nuanced in Filipino
cultural practices. For example, on page 248 Morga describes the
culinary art of the ancient Filipinos by recording: "... they prefer to eat
salt fish which begin to decompose and smell." Rizal's footnotes : "This is
another preoccupation of the Spaniards who, like any other nation in
that matter of food, loathe that to which they are not accustomed or is
unknown to them... 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 it is not or ought not to be
rotten"
Rizal's annotation of Morga's Sucesos
• 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 ANNOTATIONS MORGA’S
SUCESOS
Rizal’s Annotations De Morga’s Sucesos
VS.
1. Philippines was NOT DESERTED and was 1. Philippines was DESERTED and
actually HABITABLE. INHABITABLE.
2. Spaniards, like any other nation, treat food to 2. Beef and fish they know it best when it has
which they are not accustomed or is unknown to started to rot and stink
them with disgust. This fish that Morga mentions
is bagoong (salted & fermented fish).
RIZAL’S 3 PROPOSITIONS
1. The people of the Philippines have a culture on their own, before the coming
of the Spaniards
2. Filipinos were decimated, demoralized, exploited, and ruined by the Spanish
colonization
3. The present state of the Philippines was not necessarily superior to its past
IMPORTANCE OF RIZAL’S ANNOTATIONS
TO THE PRESENT GENERATION
To awaken in the Filipinos the consciousness of our past
To devote ourselves to studying the future
To first lay bare the past, in order to better judge the present and to survey the
road trodden during three centuries
To prove Filipinos had a culture of their own, prior to colonization, that the
Filipinos were NOT inferior to the white man
To shatter the myth of the so-called “Indolence of the Filipinos”
To reduce those Filipinos who denied their native tongue into rotten fish
To seriously study Tagalog and produce a comprehensive Tagalog dictionary
To embrace the generic term “Indio”, or in today’s case, Filipino, with all its
negative connotations, and turn it into one of dignity and nobility
REFERENCES
http://www/philippinestudies.net/ojs/index.php/ps/article/viewFile/662/663
https://filipiknow.net/life-in-pre-colonial-phil ippines/
https://www.coursehero.com/file/p3ol5 23/o-RIZALS-ANNOTATION-OF-MOR GAS-SUCESOS-
DE-LAS-ISLAS-FILI PINAS-Three-purposes-for/
https://www.slideshare.net/abbieelaine kuhonta/sucesos-39902918 4.
https://prezi.com/qawe8nczviaq/rizals- annotation-of-sucesos-de-