What is the purpose of Kalantiaw code?

What is the purpose of Kalantiaw code?

Chief among these was the Code of Kalantiyaw, which listed 18 orders for the proper punishment of certain moral and social transgressions. Depending on the gravity of the offense, punishment ranged from a light fine to being cut to pieces and thrown to crocodiles.

What is the name of the source in the Code of Kalantiaw?

Datu Kalantiaw was a chief on the island of Negros. It was written about by Jose E. Marco in 1913 in his historical fiction “Las Antiguas Leyendes de la Isla de Negros” (The Ancient Legends of the Island of Negros). He ascribed its source to a priest named Jose Maria Pavon.

What is Kalantiaw Code V?

Article V. Obey ye: Exchange in food must be carried out faithfully. He who complies not shall be lashed for an hour. He who repeats the act shall, for a day be exposed to the ants. Article VI.

Who debunked the authenticity of the Code of Kalantiaw in 1986?

Debunking the Code Historian William Henry Scott asserted in his PhD thesis, Critical Study of the Prehispanic Source Materials for the Study of Philippine History that there is no evidence that any Filipino ruler by the name of Kalantiaw ever existed or that the Kalantiaw penal code is any older than 1914.

What are the laws in the Code of Kalantiaw?

You shall not kill, neither shall you steal, neither shall you do harm to the aged, lest you incur the danger of death. All those who infringe this order shall be condemned to death by being drowned in the river, or in boiling water.

What is the Maragtas code?

The Maragtas Code is proof of the advanced civilization of the Bisayans. Morals were high, industry was encouraged. Gregorio Zaide agreed in his book, that the Code of Maragtas was promulgated in 1212.

Is Maragtas real?

The Maragtas is an original work which purports to be based on written and oral sources of which no copy has survived. The author makes no claim that the work contains a transcription of particular pre-Hispanic documents.

What are the laws cited in the Code of Kalantiaw?

What is the history of Maragtas?

The Maragtas is a work by Pedro Alcantara Monteclaro titled History of Panay from the first inhabitants and the Bornean immigrants, from which they descended, to the arrival of the Spaniards. The work is in mixed Hiligaynon and Kinaray-a languages in Iloilo in 1907.

Who made the Code of Ur-Nammu?