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- Title:
- PISTA
- Date Created:
- 2021-10-20
- Description:
- Tagalog dictionaries earlier than the Noceda-Sanlucar of 1754 show PISTA embedding itself into Tagalog. By 1754, 189 years since colonialism started in Filipinas, MAGPISTA had become a common term meaning to celebrate a fiesta, a day when Christian faith (fe) is honored with rituals and feasts. NGILIN and PANGILIN were to celebrate a fiesta. NILANG was to celebrate fiestas and guard Sundays which missionaries enforced as for religious activities solely. ALABAT are small bamboo set up as flags during a fiesta. PALASPAS are palm leaves; MAGPALASAS was to decorate with them. To be invited to a fiesta or a wedding was CANGAY; to attend a fiesta or a cockfight (permitted and taxed during fiestas) was DAYO. Carnival or Carnestolendas in Spanish appears as BOLINGBOLING and LAPAS. There was another kind of ritual feeding that persisted from pre-Christian days: LAMAC was to apportion food the way ancestors liked them; also small plates on which treats were placed at mortuaries. It was hoped abundance would come for those who fed the deceased. Charity was part of celebrating. ALOC was to give the sick food; DAIS was to bring food to the needy. Before setting out on the road or a journey — to enjoy fiesta cooking and bring food as caridad — one ate first: BALHO.
- Subjects:
- Noceda-Sanlucar Fiesta Customs Traditions Cooking
- Exhibition:
- Tagalog 1754
- Source:
- A postcard showing a fiesta of the early 1900s. FSM photo
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "PISTA", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll292.html