My mothers name is Maria Felicia Tayag Manaloto Pangilinan. She belongs to the Tayag clan. Her mother is Elena Tayag. Like most Kapampangan families, we are patriarchal on the surface, but are matriarchal in actuality. We often belong to our mothers families even if we take the name of our fathers. After marriage, a Kapampangan woman takes the husbands surname, as is the custom introduced by the Spaniards, but it is the husband who becomes part of the womans family. Every Sunday, the family gathers at the womans household. This is the reason we know most of our relatives on the mothers side but hardly know anyone on the fathers side. Likewise my father is closer to his Lingat relatives on his mothers side than on his fathers relatives on the Pangilinan side. Ones maternal grandmother is often the ruler of the entire household. She is the one most feared and often revered. How I miss my mothers mother, Apung Nena and my fathers mother Apung Quitang...
Posted on: Mon, 26 May 2014 18:27:05 +0000
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