| | Maria Moser - Institute for Human Sciences |
 | | Moreover, the parish-churches would be too small to host them (the population of one parish usually consists of around 30,000 people), and they are also too far away from their homes (the poor cannot afford the cost of transportation to go to church). |
 | | From a literary and theological standpoint, the Pasyon Pilapil is not remarkable. |
 | | However, we have to ask whether this interpretation fails to recognize the original purpose ascribed to the pasyon by the Spanish colonizers, which was clearly a domesticating one: The pasyon was meant to inculcate loyalty to the Spaniards among the indigenous people and to make them resigned to the status quo. |
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