<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832</id><updated>2012-02-01T22:32:31.697+08:00</updated><category term='kali'/><category term='Atlantis'/><category term='alipin'/><category term='southeast asia'/><category term='Order of the golden Fleece'/><category term='Pigafetta'/><category term='marcos'/><category term='El Dorado'/><category term='sasa'/><category term='Maharloka'/><category term='dinagat'/><category term='maharlika'/><category term='free energy'/><category term='permian triassic extinction'/><category term='Habsburgs'/><category term='sri vijayan empire'/><category term='Knights Templars'/><category 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philippines'/><category term='Sibulan'/><category term='spaceport'/><category term='Blaan'/><category term='davao'/><category term='maharlikan'/><category term='Austrian gold'/><category term='dictator'/><category term='Sri-Vijaya'/><category term='butuan'/><category term='Japan underwater city'/><category term='talaingod'/><category term='Christ'/><category term='panacan'/><category term='pangaea'/><category term='King Philip II'/><category term='Plato'/><category term='arakan valley'/><category term='Manny Pacquiao'/><category term='Yonaguni'/><category term='Mahabharata'/><category term='giants'/><category term='therapsid'/><title type='text'>Maharlikan</title><subtitle type='html'>freeing oneself from national mediocrity</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>50</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-2245135423015599930</id><published>2012-02-01T21:46:00.010+08:00</published><updated>2012-02-01T22:32:31.710+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maharlikan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tala'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tallano'/><title type='text'>Kingdom of Maharlika</title><content type='html'>Legal documentations that prove the existence of Maharlikan Kingdom, and may be used against the Oligarchy and other unjust forces that gripped this country and its people to hardships and landlessness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRph4mF1v-U"&gt;Lost Kingdom of Maharlika&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEmasKYyRI8&amp;feature=related"&gt;Tala Estate, the Truth Uncovered&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrDt6WdTVUc&amp;feature=related"&gt;Mohon ng Lupang Maharlika&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/ilikehistory/pacrimmap-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 1023px; height: 675px;" src="http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/ilikehistory/pacrimmap-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-2245135423015599930?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/2245135423015599930/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=2245135423015599930' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/2245135423015599930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/2245135423015599930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2012/02/blog-post_01.html' title='Kingdom of Maharlika'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-228830224205422282</id><published>2012-02-01T21:46:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2012-02-01T21:46:42.856+08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-228830224205422282?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/228830224205422282/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=228830224205422282' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/228830224205422282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/228830224205422282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2012/02/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-9009454261123753010</id><published>2012-01-31T01:44:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2012-01-31T02:13:53.843+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='therapsid'/><title type='text'>therapsid</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yBhU9x3d5Uk/Tybb6Zo-g2I/AAAAAAAAA8M/wkYTPaj8rn0/s1600/therapsid.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 153px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yBhU9x3d5Uk/Tybb6Zo-g2I/AAAAAAAAA8M/wkYTPaj8rn0/s320/therapsid.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703487774472962914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Therapsid that lived about 270 Million years ago were the dominant large terrestrial animals by the later half of the Permian Period.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having both mammalian and reptilian features, mammals were said be descended from Therapsids.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-9009454261123753010?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.sciencephoto.com/media/431451/enlarge' title='therapsid'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/9009454261123753010/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=9009454261123753010' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/9009454261123753010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/9009454261123753010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2012/01/therapsid.html' title='therapsid'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yBhU9x3d5Uk/Tybb6Zo-g2I/AAAAAAAAA8M/wkYTPaj8rn0/s72-c/therapsid.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-902757860195994368</id><published>2012-01-30T18:16:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T18:49:01.587+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='macchu picchu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lemuria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Easter Island'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pangaea'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yonaguni'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cibola'/><title type='text'>locations</title><content type='html'>Approximate locations of places and images mentioned in the article "&lt;a href="http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2012/01/scrutiny.html"&gt;Ancient Indigenous Tribe Narrates Identity of All Tribes in The World Originated From Cibolan in Davao, Philippines&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r253/artrocket/ricvilhoricibolantheory.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 800px; height: 592px;" src="http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r253/artrocket/ricvilhoricibolantheory.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(click on image for full view)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The map is based on possible location of Mu/Lemuria during the Paleozoic Era and prior to Continental Drift of the land mass Pangaea, and the locations were not necessarily in contemporary with the map.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-902757860195994368?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/902757860195994368/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=902757860195994368' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/902757860195994368'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/902757860195994368'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2012/01/locations.html' title='locations'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-5338661466542214366</id><published>2012-01-29T01:24:00.033+08:00</published><updated>2012-02-01T21:06:04.203+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lemuria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cenozoic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blaan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bagobo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='samal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paleozoic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='geological timeline'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='permian triassic extinction'/><title type='text'>Lemurian Timeline</title><content type='html'>(Re-edited as of 31 Jan 2012)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A milestone in my personal research&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I officialy call this &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Ric Vil Hori's Lemurian Timeline&lt;/span&gt; from Paleozoic (Permian) Era and up to the Present:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/atlantida_mu/esp_lemuria_3.htm"&gt;&lt;a href="http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r253/artrocket/lemuria-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 480px; height: 355px;" src="http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r253/artrocket/lemuria-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/atlantida_mu/esp_lemuria_3.htm"&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/atlantida_mu/esp_lemuria_3.htm&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Map of MU/ Lemuria as shown, manifested the legendary supercontinent &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;in contemporary with the Pangaea supercontinent during the Palaeozoic (Permian) Era&lt;/span&gt; and prior to the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event and the Continental Drift. The early inhabitants of Mu/Lemuria were a hermaphroditic race as narrated by the ancient knowledge of the &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;B'laan Indigenous Tribe&lt;/span&gt; of Mindanao Island, Philippines and also by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. The Lemurians in this era were silica-based and were once said to be highly Spiritual, profoundly in harmony with the Mother Planet, with Extra Sensory Perception abilities (such as telepathy and telekinesis of large objects), as our carbon-based mammalian ancestors shall arrive only in the later Cenozoic era.&lt;a href="http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r253/artrocket/pan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 428px; height: 242px;" src="http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r253/artrocket/pan.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee58/rxblackrocket/nibiruimage5.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 170px; height: 258px;" src="http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee58/rxblackrocket/nibiruimage5.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Permian-Triassic Extinction Event&lt;/span&gt; occurred about 250 Million years ago after a complex series of conflicts ensued between hermaphroditic Lemurians and another Alien race as narrated by Mindanao's &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;B'laan Tribe&lt;/span&gt; and Plato, which resulted to genetic splicing of male-female genders, relegation, and the eventual involvement of another force, as narrated by Mindanao's &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Samal Genesis&lt;/span&gt;, by ancient Sumerians, and the interplanetary collision as interpreted by Sitchin and Velikovsky. I highly speculate that the catastrophic formation of the Asteroid Belt may have occurred during this era, which may partly explain the presence of carbonaceous component found in C-Type asteroids manifested during the planet's Carboniferous Period prior to the collision. The catastrophic Extinction event nearly extinguished almost all life during this era, also known as the Great Dying. Surviving Lemurians may have escaped deep underground, with fragments of the Lemurian continent still existing. Other species such as coelacanths, cockroaches, also survived.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r253/artrocket/continentaldrift.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 859px; height: 527px;" src="http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r253/artrocket/continentaldrift.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Continental Drift&lt;/span&gt; occurred and Pangaea gradually transformed into the present day continents to heal the "wound" that destroyed a large portion of the MU supercontinent caused by the collision, through the wonders of gravity by the "Planet's Core Consciousness" similar to how in microcosmic level spherical shaped water behaves in zero gravity. In this light, the &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Expanding Earth Theory should be debunked&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE1IiI6DXE8&amp;feature=player_embedded"&gt;Water in Zero Gravity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New species began appearing, which was further enriched by water from priori-Mars after its front surface was bombarded by fragments from the catastrophic collision, as narrated by Mindanao's &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Bagobo creation mythology&lt;/span&gt; and interpreted by Velikovsky (minus his erroneous timeline). The first mammals appeared (and later evolved into apes as our earlier Human ancestors) during the &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Triassic Period&lt;/span&gt; and flowers began appearing during the &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Cretaceous Period&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r253/artrocket/Subduction.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 480px; height: 360px;" src="http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb181/brianamwright/Subduction.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r253/artrocket/apotertiary-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 525px; height: 431px;" src="http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r253/artrocket/apotertiary-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mindanao's &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Bagobo mythology&lt;/span&gt; narrated Human creation (Earth Humanity being borne both from Evolution and Creation) as &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Cenozoic Era&lt;/span&gt; approached. The Philippine archipelago began forming through the geological process &lt;strong&gt;Subduction&lt;/strong&gt; (mostly during the Cenozoic -Tertiary/Quaternary Period) as the remaining fragments of Lemuria ultimately sank about 22,600 years ago, with sunken remnant of a possible ancient Lemurian city eventually found in Yonaguni, Japan during the 20th Century.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r253/artrocket/japanlemurian.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 359px; height: 269px;" src="http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r253/artrocket/japanlemurian.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-5338661466542214366?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-1809347490340829974</id><published>2012-01-17T00:13:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2012-01-22T09:58:58.563+08:00</updated><title type='text'>scrutiny</title><content type='html'>my article, &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bukisa.com/articles/590523_ancient-indigenous-tribe-narrate-identity-of-all-tribes-in-the-world-originated-from-cibolan-in-davao-philippines#ixzz1jde7vXfB"&gt;Ancient Indigenous Tribe Narrates Identity of All Tribes in The World Originated From Cibolan in Davao, Philippines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, is now under "scary" scrutiny at a science forum, lemme trounce it up ha-ha-ha&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a 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href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/1809347490340829974'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/1809347490340829974'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2012/01/scrutiny.html' title='scrutiny'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-941301367818617204</id><published>2012-01-08T07:52:00.006+08:00</published><updated>2012-01-08T12:02:00.316+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Maharlikan Royalty</title><content type='html'>This is interesting:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/55998021/Introduction-Royal-Kingdom-of-Maharlikan"&gt;ROYAL KINGDOM OF MAHARLIKHAN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The article also confirmed my previous personal &lt;a href="http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2011/10/repost-of-my-research-on-ophir.html"&gt;research&lt;/a&gt; between the ancient ancestors' commercial ties with King Solomon's kingdom some two millennia ago.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-941301367818617204?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.scribd.com/doc/55998021/Introduction-Royal-Kingdom-of-Maharlikan' title='Maharlikan Royalty'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/941301367818617204/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-63895861499019875</id><published>2011-11-06T09:00:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2011-11-06T09:03:32.724+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Ancient Indigenous Tribe Narrates Identity of All Tribes in The World Originated From Cibolan in Davao, Philippines  Read more: http://www.bukisa.com/</title><content type='html'>I wrote this article that summarized discussions of my "Ric Vil Hori's Cibolan Theory" :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Ancient Indigenous Tribe Narrates Identity of All Tribes in The World Originated From Cibolan in Davao, Philippines&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read more: &lt;a href="http://www.bukisa.com/articles/590523_ancient-indigenous-tribe-narrate-identity-of-all-tribes-in-the-world-originated-from-cibolan-in-davao-philippines#ixzz1csmCHGSB"&gt;http://www.bukisa.com/articles/590523_ancient-indigenous-tribe-narrate-identity-of-all-tribes-in-the-world-originated-from-cibolan-in-davao-philippines#ixzz1csmCHGSB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-63895861499019875?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.bukisa.com/articles/590523_ancient-indigenous-tribe-narrate-identity-of-all-tribes-in-the-world-originated-from-cibolan-in-davao-philippines#ixzz1csmCHGSB' title='Ancient Indigenous Tribe Narrates Identity of All Tribes in The World Originated From Cibolan in Davao, Philippines  Read more: http://www.bukisa.com/'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-7334215583594107935</id><published>2011-10-31T10:14:00.014+08:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T16:55:12.780+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magellan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pigafetta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zamal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='island garden city of samal'/><title type='text'>Magellan first saw Samal, Davao on March 16,1521??</title><content type='html'>quotes written by Pigafetta, from book "First Voyage Round the World by Magellan":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;Saturday, the 16th of March, 1521, we arrived at daybreak in sight of a high island, three hundred leagues distant from the before-mentioned Thieves Island, &lt;strong&gt;This Isle is called Zamal&lt;/strong&gt;(1). The next day the general wished to land at another uninhabited island near the first , to be in greater security and to take water, also to repose there a few days.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Samar? Or Samal?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;The next day the general wished to land at another uninhabited island near the first,  &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Talikod Island?? &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;These people became very familiar and friendly with us(1), and explained many things to us in their languageand told us the names of the islands which we saw with our eyes before us(2). The island where they dwelt is called Zuluam, and is not large.(3).&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Samal Tribe?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Talikod Island, Davao City area, Davao del Sur, Compostela Valley, Davao Oriental?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Other name for Zamal or Samal Island?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;The island we were at was named &lt;strong&gt;Humunu&lt;/strong&gt;(1); nevertheless because we found there two springs of very fresh water we called it the Watering place of good signs, and because we found here the first signs of gold. there is much white coral to be found here, and large trees which bear fruit smaller than an almond, and which are like pines. There are also many pine tress both good and bad. &lt;strong&gt;In this place there were many circumjacent islands, on which account we named them the Archipelago of St. Lazarus, because we stayed there on the day and feast of St. Lazarus&lt;/strong&gt;(2).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Talikod Island?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Davao Gulf area?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;That same day (March 25,1521) we took the course between West and Southwest(1) and passed amist four small islands, that is to say, Cenalo, Huinanghar, ibusson and Abarien.(2) &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;from Samal, Davao they changed course "west and southwest" or &lt;strong&gt;1. Northernmost tip of Mindanao in present day Surigao City? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Cluster of islands along Surigao del Norte area, Siargao, Dinagat, Liloan in Leyte, Limasawa?&lt;/strong&gt;(When viewed on their trip from Samal, Davao, these islands, esp. leyte did look "small" as the expedition viewed these islands by its tip!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thursday, the 28th of March, having seen the night before fire upon an island, at the morning we came to anchor at this island; where we saw a small boat which they call Boloto, with eight men inside, which approached the ship of the captain-general. Then a slave of the captain's who was from Sumatra(1), otherwise named Trapobrana, spoke from afar to these people, who understood his talk (2), and came near to the side of the ship, but they withdrew immediately, and would not enter the ship from fear of us.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. from Sri-Vijayan empire?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. "Lumad Visayan" - mixture of Old Malay, Dravidian Kavi, Sanskrit?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;The island of this king was called Zaluan and Calagan(1), and when these two kings wish to one anotherr they come to this island where we were(2). Of these kings the painted one is called Raia Calambu, and the other one Raia Siani. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Butuan and Caraga?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Masao, Butuan?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seemed that the Spanish expedition of Magellan, lacking in accurate geographical description of the area, tend to identify land masses surrounded by bodies of water as "island," Masao in Butuan seemed to be carved out from river delta that was perhaps misunderstood as "island."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If based on the mainstream historical claim that the first mass was held in Limasawa, Leyte, it's ridiculous for the Raja's of Butuan and Caraga to sail all the way to Limasawa to attend the first mass, unless of course if they chartered a fastcraft ferry for the special occassion, and for Pigafetta and Magellan's crew to visit his kingdom, for both Raja's to meet cordially for gamehunting, &lt;em&gt;there must be regular schedules of fastcraft ferries for the Limasawa - Kingdoms of Butuan and Caraga route since 1521!!&lt;/em&gt; LOL&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-7334215583594107935?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/7334215583594107935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=7334215583594107935' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/7334215583594107935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/7334215583594107935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2011/10/magellan-landed-in-samal-davao.html' title='Magellan first saw Samal, Davao on March 16,1521??'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-4404599337816935816</id><published>2011-10-31T07:41:00.014+08:00</published><updated>2011-10-31T08:29:43.061+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giants'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sumerian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dinagat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='island garden city of samal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='davao'/><title type='text'>repost on the Samal People and Giants</title><content type='html'>repost from my post on the thread &lt;a href="http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=85219364#post85219364"&gt;Davao Heritage &lt;/a&gt;at skyscrapercity.com:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;Oral and written accounts passed down from generation to generation indicate that Samal Island used to be known as Pu, and has been inhabited by the Sama since time immemorial&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Sama indigenous group is mistakenly thought to have originated from Mandaya, Mansaka, and Muslim groups. Samas insist, though, that they are a separate entity with distinct forms of music, art expression, and tribal rituals. Individuals used to be named after the living things around them, and each name was complemented with the term Samal, which served as their family name. For this reason, it was easy to identify the members of the tribe among the other indigenous groups in neighboring islands.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Samal People have reasons to say so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;based on my personal research, Samal, or Pu indeed had a very long history. In the ancient of times it had been said the island was once inhabited by giants caled Dinagats. These giants were abusive for they would raid villages (most likely along mainland Davao) and steal, vandalize (like defecating on their kitchen), and kidnap women and made sex slaves. Babies out of such abuse that were born giants were assimilated, those that remained human-size were rejected and separated with the kidnapped women to be their slaves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The humans, fed up with the abusive giants, gathered together to device ways on how to get rid of them. They decided to deceive the giants by sending them delectable foods laden on a small boat. the giants upon seeing the boat, surmised it as offering of submission by the tiny humans and that the humans had finally conceded to their "superiority." The food however, was laced with poison.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TzjCP3MZFBk/Tq3hmvQjXuI/AAAAAAAAA8A/3SvZlxBvkH4/s1600/Samal_paradise%255B1%255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TzjCP3MZFBk/Tq3hmvQjXuI/AAAAAAAAA8A/3SvZlxBvkH4/s320/Samal_paradise%255B1%255D.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669435561566494434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Dinagats only allowed all their fellow giants to partake of the food and prohibited human-sized slaves and the kinapped women to partake of the feast whom they treated as inferior class. All the giants were ultimately killed, except for the human-sized slaves, now Free. Thus the survivors called themselves "Samal," which said to be meant as &lt;em&gt;dregs&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;left-over&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;For the Sama tribes, the biggest sin was the act of stealing another man’s wife.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this contempt for such offense must have been borne from that tragic chapter of their legendary history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, there were indeed accounts of first-hand witnesses (local inhabitants, construction workers, treasure hunters) who discovered skeletal remains in Samal. Most of these discovered remains were stolen and unaccounted for. Even foreign scientists investigated the phenomenon. but mediocre nartional historical authorities (as they had, until recently, ignored the role of Mindanao legacy in mainstream history lessons ) outrightly dismissed these priceless gems of local history that could otherwise spell the difference to the dysfunctional state of this oligarch-dominated state and society. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even the Sama's creation myth is very old, and eerily similar with the myths of the ancient Sumerians (Abraham's father was a Sumerian priest) supposedly the oldest civilization in the World, according to western historians that is.It was also intriguing that the bible mentioned about such giants most probably borrowed from Sumerian accounts, known as Nephilims, borne of angel (read: extraterrestrial) and human parents. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the Samal creation myth, based on my personal research, may explain the phenomenon of Asteroid Belt far in the Solar system. On the other hand, my personal research also hinted that parts of the Bagobo People's creation myth may partly explain the phenomenon of water-less Mars.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-4404599337816935816?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/4404599337816935816/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=4404599337816935816' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/4404599337816935816'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/4404599337816935816'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2011/10/repost-on-samal-island-and-giants.html' title='repost on the Samal People and Giants'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TzjCP3MZFBk/Tq3hmvQjXuI/AAAAAAAAA8A/3SvZlxBvkH4/s72-c/Samal_paradise%255B1%255D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-1840995998321427896</id><published>2011-10-29T02:30:00.009+08:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T09:03:10.159+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lemuria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bagobo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dravidian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='davao'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cibola'/><title type='text'>the Bagobo People's shall be vindicated</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.arscives.com/historysteel/images/bagobo-family.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 700px; height: 446px;" src="http://www.arscives.com/historysteel/images/bagobo-family.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ancient knowledge of the Bagobo Peoples of Davao and Mindanao, preserved and nurtured through the ages their ancient claim that Cibolan River of Apo Sandawa, was the cradle of Human civilization, SHALL BE VINDICATED.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had discovred from personal research that the term "Cibolan," remembered just as our Bagobo brethrens said they would, by its scattered children from Negros to as far as the American continent by the Native Americans, was a word not even originating from the latter, but from the language of the Dravidians of southern India!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Cibolan" comes from the Dravidian root words civ-pola, meaning "golden city" or "city of reds." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ancient Laguna Copperplate Inscription revealed that our ancestors had used the ancient, old Javanese language of Kavi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mystery is finally revealed, the distant liink between the Native Americans of the American continent, the Bagobo People's of Southeast Asia, and ancient India of South Asia are finally meet and my personal research has turned full circle, through the ancient languages of the Sri Vijaya Empire, Kavi!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kavi, or Old Javanese is a branch of language that developed from the &lt;a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/...dian-languages"&gt;Dravidian languages&lt;/a&gt; of southern India! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dravidian languages are spoken by about one-fourth of all Indians, overwhelmingly in southern India. Dravidian speakers among tribal peoples (e.g., Gonds) in central India, in eastern Bihar, and in the Brahui-speaking region of the distant Pakistani province of Balochistan suggest a much wider distribution in ancient times. The four constitutionally recognized Dravidian languages also enjoy...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;•Indic writing systems (in Indic writing systems) &lt;br /&gt;A southern form of Brahmi developed into the Grantha alphabet, from which in turn the writing systems of the Dravidian languages of southern India (e.g., Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, and Kannada) as well as the writing systems of the Sinhalese language of Sri Lanka, the Khmer and Mon languages of Southeast Asia, and the Kavi, or Old Javanese, system of Indonesia were developed. The Thai writing... &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, the Native Americans pointed the direction to the Spanish Conquistadores that ancient Cibola, the City of Gold, the fabled El Dorado, to the north of presently known Mexico. How could the Bagobo Peoples dare to claim that ALL tribes in the World originated from Cibolan River of Mt. Apo, when Davao is riduculously too far away from "north of Mexico" ?!?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ridiculous indeed, or so it seemed...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...Until one clicks on the previous blogs:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/11/did-humanity-originate-in-foothills-of.html"&gt;Did ancient Humanity Originated from the Foothills of Mt. Apo?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/12/of-davaos-cibolan-river-and-american.html"&gt;Of Davao's cibolan River, American Indians, and "Golden City"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2010/07/some-proofs-for-my-cibolan-theory.html"&gt;Further Proofs for my "Cibolan Theory"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-1840995998321427896?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/1840995998321427896/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=1840995998321427896' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/1840995998321427896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/1840995998321427896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2011/10/bagobo-peoples-shall-be-vindicated.html' title='the Bagobo People&apos;s shall be vindicated'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-8438035973604923369</id><published>2011-10-28T08:16:00.012+08:00</published><updated>2012-01-08T09:31:44.830+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mindanao'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='butuan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ophir'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='davao'/><title type='text'>repost of my research on Ophir</title><content type='html'>Been a long time since I last posted, having to be with a mediocritized society that put in position an incompetent oligarch puppet as national leader out of mudslinging, ignorance and hypocrisy can be so uninspiring.  However, we shall go on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a repost from another website, of my research on Ophir:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is what I discovered culled from personal research about the ancient land of Ophir and how I had it traced in our archipelagic islands,  possibly in Mindanao.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the bloody Crusades with the capture of Jerusalem by the Knights Templars on the 11th Century, the Knights while searching for relics from the ancient city discovered the treasure map of Solomon that detailed the location of the gold mines of biblical Ophir whose gold were said to be used in the building of Solomon's temple.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the 14th Century the Templars, declining in influence with unsuccesful campaigns against the Muslim world and the recapturing of Jerusalem by the Turks in the 13th century, were persecuted by the King of France and the Pope and were eventually destroyed during the Inquisition, with their Grand Master Jacques de Molay burned at the stake on March, 1314 defiant to the end as to utter against those who wronged him, in which the Pope died a month later, and the French king died in a hunting accident before the year ended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The surviving Knights Templars escaped, hiding with them treasures and the relic of the ancient map of Solomon discovered from Jerusalem hundreds of years ago.  They traced the location of Ophir from Solomon's ancient map, and the European warriors ultimately arrived in the shores of this archipelagic islands, most likely somewhere in the Northeastern Mindanao in Butuan-Surigao area (about 200 years even before Magellan's fleet arrived (the illustrious navigator also held the first mass in Masao (Mazaua) , Butuan; some of the country's conventional historical beliefs biased to Luzon-Visayas are erronous and must be rectified, the first mass must have been held not in the Visayas but in MINDANAO)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this land they buried their treasures with the aid of the Indigenous Peoples, their leaders known among the learned as Lemurian priests (some Templars who were left behind to guard the treasures  later intermarried with their daughters), the treasures protected from greedy and vile hands even to this day by powerful deities of our pre-colonial ancestors known as &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Diwatas&lt;/span&gt; (better not be myopic when dealing with this, trash bigoted colonial biased paradigms down the bin!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my personal research I discovered that it amazingly fit like jigsaw puzzle as to my questions why some Indigenous Peoples esp. in Mindanao and Davao exhibit caucasian features, as well as clues to the unearthed excellently crafted antique pre-colonial gold jewelries dated 10th-13th Century (had been suspecting of European influence in its intricate details upon seeing it in the Ayala Museum in Makati)  that were discovered also in Butuan-Surigao area in Mindanao.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many years before I had heard that it was said the place where the gold used in Solomon's Temple came from Butuan area in Mindanao.  At first it seemed preposterous and shrugged it off, until recently when my personal research (found the mainstream history education to be contemptuously incomplete) led me to this.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i847.photobucket.com/albums/ab36/israelzion7/Solomons-Temple-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 217px;" src="http://i847.photobucket.com/albums/ab36/israelzion7/Solomons-Temple-2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-8438035973604923369?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/8438035973604923369/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=8438035973604923369' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/8438035973604923369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/8438035973604923369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2011/10/repost-of-my-research-on-ophir.html' title='repost of my research on Ophir'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-7473961315782600775</id><published>2011-02-14T07:27:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2011-02-14T07:36:06.524+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pre-colonial philippines'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='surigao gold'/><title type='text'>featured blog</title><content type='html'>I found out that my blog, &lt;a href="http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/10/glittering-evidence.html"&gt;Glittering Evidence&lt;/a&gt;, was posted on this website, &lt;a href="http://vedicempire.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=103&amp;Itemid=1"&gt;Vedic Empire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It also discussed other insights that linked the pre-colonial era of this country to ancient India&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-7473961315782600775?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/7473961315782600775/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=7473961315782600775' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/7473961315782600775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/7473961315782600775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2011/02/featured-blog.html' title='featured blog'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-650591097265698343</id><published>2010-09-13T20:30:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-13T20:36:20.116+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oligarchs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PNoy'/><title type='text'>Maharlikan amid PNoy presidency</title><content type='html'>My post to an online forum entitled &lt;a href="http://pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?t=469197"&gt;"If you have the chance, do you want to change your citizenship?"&lt;/a&gt; especially in an era where this country is beset by an incompetent presidency (whom I didn't vote anyway).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I would rather change my perspective as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-style: italic;"&gt;MAHARLIKAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;, not disregarding, but transcending &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-style: italic;"&gt;beyond&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; that of calling one's self as Filipino.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I have done &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;personal research&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;  about it because the mainstream educational system in this country  manipulated by oligarchic interest suppresses such knowledge, limiting  the Filipino perspective merely in the colonial era because that was  where the oligarchs gained their podium, unwittingly reducing instead  the Filipino identity as susceptible to colonial mentality and reducing  the country to its mediocre, unoriginal cultural state susceptible to  oligarchic whims as manifested nowadays, even to the point of  subliminally identifying their puppet president as P-NOY who manifested  the ineptness, mediocrity associated with it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; The Maharlikan is the true embodiment of FREEDOM and the will to fight  for it, and its ancient root is much deeper and more profound than  perceiving one's self as Filipino that's traced merely in the colonial  era.  To be Maharlikan is to change, not just by name, but to bring  change from within, awakening the ancient rootedness upon each  individual in defining one's self in this part of our Planet."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-650591097265698343?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/650591097265698343/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=650591097265698343' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/650591097265698343'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/650591097265698343'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2010/09/maharlikan-amid-pnoy-presidency.html' title='Maharlikan amid PNoy presidency'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-411797087675056211</id><published>2010-09-06T08:55:00.011+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-06T09:31:42.106+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maharlika'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maharloka'/><title type='text'>Maharlikan and Freedom</title><content type='html'>&lt;h6 style="font-weight: normal;" class="uiStreamMessage" ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Reposting my post from the facebook page &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Change-the-name-Philippines-to-Maharlika/385995341192?v=app_2373072738#%21/topic.php?uid=385995341192&amp;amp;topic=11952"&gt;"Change the name 'Philippines' to 'Maharlikan' "&lt;/a&gt; (with some revisions):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;h6 style="font-weight: normal; font-style: italic;" class="uiStreamMessage" ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Kabayan,  from my research I discovered that description on Maharlika was written  according to Paul Morrow, which runs contradictory to my previous  research that Maharlikans were actually "Freemen." The logic that he  seem to try to impose was that Maharlikan's were less free citing they  had to pay for their own weapons, which is flawed because it only showed  that by principle, it proved they were not tied up to the Datus as they  provide their weapons independently, and it was only a fitting relation  that Datu's pay for their services, and vice versa, exposing that the  foreign writer didn't grasp the "utang-na-loob" inherent in our culture.   During times of war, it was more an honorable duty for a warrior to  fight for his people and his Freedom, it's more profound than "bound to serve" obviously due to his lack of grasp  with our culture of "Karangalan," and dismally mimicked it with  shallow paradigm on commercialism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There also seemed a systematic  attempt to erase this integral part of our ancient identity as Free  People i.e. Maharlikan by whoever these ulterior forces are.  Most  generations of students today were not even aware of the word "Maharlika" and it  showed the mainstream education system of this country is being  infiltrated by those who prefer to keep our people merely subservient  and hypnotized to inferior colonial mentality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was  later  that I discovered that Maharlikans were also warriors taken from the  word MAHARLOKA," meaning GREAT LAND, one of the ancient subcontinent of  LEMURIA and the most powerful of them, for it was also a warrior nation,  and our archipelago islands were remnants of this Great Nation many,  many millennia ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The MAHARLIKANS shall once again awaken MAHARLOKA, our GREAT LAND.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-411797087675056211?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/411797087675056211/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=411797087675056211' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/411797087675056211'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/411797087675056211'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2010/09/respoting-my-post-from-facebook-page.html' title='Maharlikan and Freedom'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-6151058383974394638</id><published>2010-08-14T09:50:00.016+08:00</published><updated>2011-11-01T08:07:26.577+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maharlika'/><title type='text'>refuting an erroneous description</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/TGYLW8BUigI/AAAAAAAAA6M/QrMwVnpd904/s1600/maharlika.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 style="font-weight: normal;" class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;span class="UIStory_Message"&gt;I  am reposting my comment (with some additions) on a &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/#%21/topic.php?uid=385995341192&amp;amp;topic=11952"&gt;facebook&lt;/a&gt; discussion board refuting an &lt;a href="http://www.pilipino-express.com/history-a-culture/in-other-words/251-maharlika-and-the-ancient-class-system.html"&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; that described the word Maharlika according to Paul Morrow. It merely reflected his lack of grasp as to the inherent local culture that only locals could comprehend more than what he was merely taught of. Definitely for the sake of ethics he should not impose his foreign viewpoints to innate local perspectives as it will only expose its limitation. Here is his attempted portrayal:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 style="font-weight: normal;" class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maharlika – &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Members of the Tagalog warrior class known as &lt;em&gt;maharlika &lt;/em&gt;had the same rights and responsibilities as the &lt;em&gt;timawa, &lt;/em&gt;but in times of war they were bound to serve their &lt;em&gt;datu&lt;/em&gt;  in battle. They had to arm themselves at their own expense, but they  did get to keep the loot they won – or stole, depending on which side of  the transaction you want to look at. Although they were partly related  to the nobility, the &lt;em&gt;maharlikas&lt;/em&gt; were technically less free than the &lt;em&gt;timawas&lt;/em&gt; because they could not leave a &lt;em&gt;datu’s&lt;/em&gt; service without first hosting a large public feast and paying the &lt;em&gt;datu&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; between 6 and 18 pesos in gold – a large sum in those days&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 style="font-weight: normal;" class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 style="font-weight: normal;" class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;span class="UIStory_Message"&gt;However, I strongly believe his  viewpoints  that attempted to portray the Maharlikan were ridiculously  erroneous:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 204, 153);"&gt;"I believe the description of Maharlika in this article is inaccurate, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 204, 153);"&gt;most likely a foreigner, the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 204, 153);" class="text_exposed_show"&gt;writer merely attempts to tailor fit his&lt;br /&gt;pespective about the ancient social system of the Nation by relating it&lt;br /&gt;with some kind of 20th century western capitalist society.  Even in&lt;br /&gt;ancient Japan, unlike the present 20th century society, warriors were&lt;br /&gt;definitely of higher rank than merchants, who were even considered less&lt;br /&gt;than their peasant subjects.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 style="font-weight: normal;" class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;span class="UIStory_Message"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 204, 153);" class="text_exposed_show"&gt;To portray the Maharlikan as "less free" than the Timawa is an &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;utter contradiction as the Maharlikan warrior &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;fights for his freedom and for his people.&lt;/span&gt;  His gesture of respect for the Maginoo was to keep pace with the social order, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;the fact that the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Maharlikan armed himself at his expense proved his sense of noble &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;independence and not necessarily bounded to a master&lt;/span&gt;, although, just as the rest of the community he honored higher ranks or the elderly with respect (hence the word "opo, po"), and vice versa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 style="font-weight: normal;" class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 style="font-weight: normal;" class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;span class="UIStory_Message"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 204, 153);" class="text_exposed_show"&gt;The subjective portrayal of the Maharlikan bounded to "pay" or host a&lt;br /&gt;large feast seems the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;foreign writer being unaware of the unwritten code of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ethics on generosity of our ancestors and our culture&lt;/span&gt;, for even in the present a Pinoy traveler is expected to bring in some "pasalubong," or may even race with each other as who pays first for his/her companion on a jeepney ride.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);" class="UIStory_Message"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;" class="text_exposed_show"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(255, 204, 153);" class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(255, 204, 153);" class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;span class="UIStory_Message"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;" class="text_exposed_show"&gt;The modern Maharlikan pledges allegiance to no one but for for HUMANITY and for FREEDOM."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/TGYLW8BUigI/AAAAAAAAA6M/QrMwVnpd904/s1600/maharlika.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 208px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/TGYLW8BUigI/AAAAAAAAA6M/QrMwVnpd904/s400/maharlika.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505100083203705346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;( image courtesy of &lt;a href="http://pagodkanaba.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://pagodkanaba.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-6151058383974394638?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/6151058383974394638/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=6151058383974394638' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/6151058383974394638'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/6151058383974394638'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2010/08/refuting-erroeneous-description.html' title='refuting an erroneous description'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/TGYLW8BUigI/AAAAAAAAA6M/QrMwVnpd904/s72-c/maharlika.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-6105567243837973204</id><published>2010-07-26T09:20:00.011+08:00</published><updated>2010-07-26T10:31:22.702+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arnis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kali'/><title type='text'>awaken, Maharlikan Warrior</title><content type='html'>During my research about Maharlika, there awakened in me an innate knowledge of martial arts that suddenly sprang up! Previously, I had not been particular about martial arts even up to early last year and neither did I have interest of it back then, yet it seemed I already knew about it, like some DNA data in me being triggered by the word MAHARLIKA, like a mantra. It had awakened about late last year. Presently I'm with a local group that is into Kali or Arnis , our nation's ancient martial arts because I observed that the moves that was awakened in me was similar to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a video created by our Davao group, the Mandirigmang Kaliradman:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/go69J-qqQsA&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/go69J-qqQsA&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soon I discovered from  personal research that our country, presently known as Philippines, other than the remnant of the ancient continent of MU (Lemuria), that our land's ancient name was MAHARLOKA and it was known as a warrior nation and said to be the most powerful nation of MU during those times.  Now there's the warrior side within that is awakened by the word MAHARLIKA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Awaken yours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:12pt;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-6105567243837973204?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/6105567243837973204/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=6105567243837973204' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/6105567243837973204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/6105567243837973204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2010/07/maharlikan-warrior-awaken.html' title='awaken, Maharlikan Warrior'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-1465183676903655419</id><published>2010-07-18T14:54:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2010-08-15T12:50:37.726+08:00</updated><title type='text'>I got back up</title><content type='html'>&lt;h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;span class="UIIntentionalStory_Names" ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;name&amp;quot;}"&gt;                &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="UIStory_Message"&gt;For my personal research "Ric Vil Hori's Cibolan Theory :)" now there are  supports that back me up!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(courtesy of albertus magnus of PEx :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/showpost.php?p=46841204&amp;amp;postcount=115" onmousedown="'UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this)," rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span&gt;http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/show&lt;/span&gt;&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;span class="word_break"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;post.php?p=46841204&amp;amp;postcount=115&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-1465183676903655419?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/1465183676903655419/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=1465183676903655419' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/1465183676903655419'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/1465183676903655419'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2010/07/i-got-backers.html' title='I got back up'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-2372626743525641789</id><published>2010-07-02T14:57:00.020+08:00</published><updated>2010-07-26T11:22:36.080+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lemuria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Easter Island'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cibolan river'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yonaguni'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Philippine trench'/><title type='text'>further proofs for my Cibolan Theory :)</title><content type='html'>Here are further proofs that will reconfirm my "&lt;a href="http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/11/did-humanity-originate-in-foothills-of.html"&gt;Ric Vil Hori's Cibolan Theory&lt;/a&gt;" that supports the claim of the Bagobo Peoples, one of our indigenous tribes here in Davao, Mindanao that supposedly ALL of the World's tribes originated from Cibolan River in the foothills of Mt. Apo, Davao through my theory in fusing it with the lost continent of MU, or Lemuria, the linking of the legendary lost city of Cibola among American Indian tribes, and fitting other pieces of the puzzle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/TC20xD_N9AI/AAAAAAAAA5c/_aeccb4DNkU/s1600/yonaguni+face.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/TC20xD_N9AI/AAAAAAAAA5c/_aeccb4DNkU/s200/yonaguni+face.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489242275811554306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The discovery of a submerged, ancient city in Yonaguni, Japan that showed striking similarity with the ancient ruins of American Indian cities, even replete with an awesome, mysterious stone-etched image of a human face with feather head gear!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/TC22bh3f9rI/AAAAAAAAA5s/sxZW7MbFalo/s1600/yonaguni+ruins.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 164px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/TC22bh3f9rI/AAAAAAAAA5s/sxZW7MbFalo/s200/yonaguni+ruins.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489244104898377394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEg8bl6cI9M"&gt;HISTORY CHANNEL: JAPAN'S MYSTERIOUS PYRAMIDS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/TC27DuWOhiI/AAAAAAAAA50/L1mDfSKICC4/s1600/philippine+trench.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/TC27DuWOhiI/AAAAAAAAA50/L1mDfSKICC4/s200/philippine+trench.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489249193489761826" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The natural geological movement of Earth's crust in the Pacific area, the original site of the sunken continent of MU, is continually moving between the underwater mountain ranges of the East Pacific Ridge down to the Marianas Trench, the ocean's deepest part in a process known as Subduction, at a rate of about 3 inches a year, and had been doing so for millions of years.  The crust is continually dragged down into the Marianas Trench at the edge of the Philippine tectonic plate as the moving crust goes deeper into the mantle (which may partly explain the sinking of the ancient MU continent), causing magma to rise into the surface and thus forming volcanic islands.  But the rising islands of the presently known Philippines, especially Mt. Apo in the island of Mindanao were large enough to possibly host survivors of this ancient tragedy, and on its foothills the beautiful, mysterious river of Cibolan so venerated by the Bagobo peoples claimed to be the origin of ALL tribes (possibly remaining survivors of the ancient sunken continent of MU) in the World!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHgRDnvOnM4&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;HISTORY CHANNEL: THE DEEPEST PLACE ON EARTH&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/TC2wQ2yM2RI/AAAAAAAAA5U/Tq8CqRy_18U/s1600/easter+island.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/TC2wQ2yM2RI/AAAAAAAAA5U/Tq8CqRy_18U/s320/easter+island.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489237324464970002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Further evidence of the existence of MU also includes the strange, mysterious rock faces of Easter Islands, said to be remnants of the lost civilization of Lemuria.  &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/TC21ensEPtI/AAAAAAAAA5k/ueoRDw1w3ZM/s1600/peru+ruins.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 132px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/TC21ensEPtI/AAAAAAAAA5k/ueoRDw1w3ZM/s200/peru+ruins.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489243058489016018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Notice the eerie similarity of these rock faces and other remnants to those found in the the submerged ancient city in Yonaguni, Japan and the stone ruins of American Indian cities! And should I also mention the seemingly similar physical features of Filipinos, Eskimos, and American Indian tribes?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I made this personal initiative because the mainstream educational system in this country especially pertaining to its otherwise awesome pre-colonial Past, was dismally insufficient in providing such knowledge to those seeking for it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-2372626743525641789?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/2372626743525641789/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=2372626743525641789' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/2372626743525641789'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/2372626743525641789'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2010/07/some-proofs-for-my-cibolan-theory.html' title='further proofs for my Cibolan Theory :)'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/TC20xD_N9AI/AAAAAAAAA5c/_aeccb4DNkU/s72-c/yonaguni+face.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-4891800790627549157</id><published>2009-12-18T09:51:00.020+08:00</published><updated>2010-07-20T12:10:20.309+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sri-Vijaya'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='panacan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spaceport'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Jerusalem'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sasa'/><title type='text'>my amazing prediction about Davao being the so called "new Jerusalem"</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was actually my post on another &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.davaoexchange.com/topic.php?topic=1053&amp;amp;page=0"&gt;&lt;em&gt;thread&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; discussing about my blog &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/11/did-humanity-originate-in-foothills-of.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;'Did ancient humanity originated from the foothills of Mt. Apo?!?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been contemplating....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;based on my definitely unconventional research. in the ancient times when less advanced natives would definitely see the scientific technologies of today as "miracles" when transported to their space-time era, the ancient natives would then consider its highly advanced proponents as "gods," hence the creation of religions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was observed that, especially among ancient cities and locations, there existed grid patterns that correlate with each other such that these patterns would actually be 'visible' once viewed relative to the scope of the planet, or seen from above the heavens. Examples would be the ancient Sumerian cities relative to each other, the alignment of Angkor Wat (highly considered to be the capital city of Sri-Vijayan empire in which our archipelago islands were once part of), Teotihuacan in Mexico and the pyramids of Egypt relative to star system Sirius, as well as the famous Nazca lines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SyrxuNli7iI/AAAAAAAAA3s/nHL0lrn60bE/s1600-h/Temple_mount%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 320px; float: right; height: 214px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416407278089858594" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SyrxuNli7iI/AAAAAAAAA3s/nHL0lrn60bE/s320/Temple_mount%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It would also be interesting to note that the platform in Jerusalem from where once stood Solomon's temple, and presently the Dome of the Rock, actually was very old and existed even before the biblical Hebrews invaded its original inhabitants. By definitely unconventional assumptions, this platform, in the same manner as the Ziggurats or pyramids had its own ancient mysterious functions, was said to be remnant of a (gasp) ancient SPACEPORT!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fame of Jerusalem may actually be due to its ancient importance as the SPACEPORT of the "gods" or Elohim!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There were rumors of Davao being the "new Jerusalem". in the light of my personal researches revealing the very important role of Davao that would definitely bring huge impact once revealed to the rest of Humanity (my research would definitely strengthen the Out of Sundaland theory as to the origin of pre-colonial Filipinos), as well as certain, 'less mediocre' individuals such as amdg and others who saw the vision, and relative the coming future Technologies, this is my prediction:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I predict that in the coming brighter future, Davao, in the light of revelations from my personal quest as to its profound role in the hidden history of Humanity (that obviously the present mainstream pathetic colonial mentality-induced educational system in this country didn't do much part, yet) would be the next, not just internationally, but interstellar and even intergalactic(!) Future cosmopolitan (there's more to what this means!) Capital City of Humanity, its dubbing as the &lt;em&gt;"new Jerusalem"&lt;/em&gt; by certain individuals would actually mean, in more understandable technological terms: my beloved Planet's &lt;strong&gt;NEW INTERGALACTIC SPACEPORT!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes! Yes! and lemme' predict it too, the spaceport may be practically located in, er, Sasa- Panacan area (chuckle)!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember that! And when it finally happens, remember who told you so, me!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SyryACtFNWI/AAAAAAAAA30/cTXbpcbh4do/s1600-h/space+earth.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 381px; height: 335px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416407584406320482" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SyryACtFNWI/AAAAAAAAA30/cTXbpcbh4do/s400/space+earth.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-4891800790627549157?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/4891800790627549157/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=4891800790627549157' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/4891800790627549157'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/4891800790627549157'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-amazing-prediction-about-davao-as-so.html' title='my amazing prediction about Davao being the so called &quot;new Jerusalem&quot;'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SyrxuNli7iI/AAAAAAAAA3s/nHL0lrn60bE/s72-c/Temple_mount%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-7691671602621419253</id><published>2009-12-13T20:30:00.035+08:00</published><updated>2010-01-29T14:48:20.494+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cibolan river'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sibulan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='El Dorado'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='American Indians'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cibola'/><title type='text'>of Davao's Cibolan River, American Indians, and "Golden City"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SyTstqKzhTI/AAAAAAAAA3E/GxMzkLryJXA/s"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414712921164055858" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SyTstqKzhTI/AAAAAAAAA3E/GxMzkLryJXA/s400/cibolan+river.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Down south of the sprawling, modern-day city of Davao, near a famous brewery factory, the body of water that the Bagobo's so venerated in their historical legacy (see other &lt;a href="http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/11/did-humanity-originate-in-foothills-of.html"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;), Cibolan River laid melodiously across the bridge along a concrete national highway. Its (threatened) crystal-clear waters continually gush among stone boulders as it did for thousands of years, seemingly ambivalent in the midst of modernity that had crept upon it with pedestrians and motorists criss-crossing naively and in some occasions ringing with the laughter of local children enjoying its waters.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SyTxpRYAlmI/AAAAAAAAA3c/63_SGz3bWvg/s1600-h/cibolan+1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 150px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414718343347213922" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SyTxpRYAlmI/AAAAAAAAA3c/63_SGz3bWvg/s200/cibolan+1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;However, Cibolan River (presently known as Sibulan) was not much known among the recent generations of locals for its profound role as narrated by the Bagobo peoples. Instead, it is presently caught in controversy between opposing hydropower&lt;br /&gt;and water utility companies fighting for its water resources. Other than these, the typical locals knew not much of the river except for water tubing adventures and scenic trails for their mainstream history lessons never told them about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Today, I exchanged IM's (instant message) with another fellow from pinoyexchange.com &lt;a href="http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?t=413753&amp;amp;page=4"&gt;thread&lt;/a&gt;. He provided links about the topic we had been discussing and the word "Cibola" got my attention. then it led me to the probable link between Cibolan River, that intriguingly led me to the American Indians, particularly with the Aztecs, with their legendary "golden city" of Cibola, the fabled city that Spanish conquistador Cortez attempted to seek but never found, immortalized by Edgar Allan Poe as the "El Dorado," and the ancient continent of MU!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The word "Cibola" made me recall what the ancient Bagobo narrative had stated:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;"So two by two the children of the first couple left the land of their birth. In the place where each settled a new people developed, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(255,204,102)"&gt;and thus it came about that all the tribes in the world received their names from things that the people carried out of Cibolan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, or from the places where they settled."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Bagobos could be right! From Mt. Apo in Davao, Mindanao and across the vast Pacific Ocean, in the America's, the ancient American Indians may have remembered their olden ancestry just as the Bagobo's had mentioned! They still remembered the ancient name of Cibolan that the Bagobo's implied where they originated, and were somehow "right" in claiming the fabled place was located north of Mexico for referring to the recent &lt;a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/imagenes_atlantidamu/lemuria6_00.gif"&gt;map&lt;/a&gt; of legendary MU, its portion in the America's were once connected to the north of Mexico!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here now is the connection that the fabled seven gold cities or the seven islands of Cibola (supposedly traced back to the islands Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, Philippines, New Guinea and the Malay Peninsula that were said to be remnants of the lost continent of MU),  so awesome in legendary fame from among the native American Indians, may be linked with the legendary continent of MU and its ancient legacy remembered by the name of the ancient Cibolan River in the foothills of Mt. Apo, Davao that sprang from the tumultous chapter of the sinking of the ancient continent, and from the remnant island of Mindanao the Cibolan River emerged that the Bagobo's claimed ALL of the World's tribes (American Indians included!) originated and whose name their offsprings would still remember, and they did!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The name Cibola was said to be originated from the Dravidan word &lt;em&gt;civ-pola&lt;/em&gt;, meaning "golden city" or "city of reds." &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Golden City" is one of the many names of ancient Lemuria! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cibolan River may have been named to remind of the ancient motherland of MU (Lemuria)!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The ancient Cibolan River located south of the bustling modern city of Davao, known by the locals for its crystal clear waters, water tubing, controversy between power and water utility companies, and otherwise seemingly obscure fame, may soon hold the key to the unveiling mysteries not just of our country's, but Humanity's ancient Past!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;links:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lost-civilizations.net/atlantis-whirling-mountain-navajos-page-2.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;http://www.lost-civilizations.net/atlantis-whirling-mountain-navajos-page-2.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/atlantida_mu/esp_lemuria_3.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/atlantida_mu/esp_lemuria_3.htm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-7691671602621419253?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/7691671602621419253/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=7691671602621419253' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/7691671602621419253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/7691671602621419253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/12/of-davaos-cibolan-river-and-american.html' title='of Davao&apos;s Cibolan River, American Indians, and &quot;Golden City&quot;'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SyTstqKzhTI/AAAAAAAAA3E/GxMzkLryJXA/s72-c/cibolan+river.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-7554618610747901475</id><published>2009-12-06T07:00:00.010+08:00</published><updated>2009-12-12T08:23:15.767+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maharlikan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maharlika'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pioneering'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prediction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Southern Mindanao'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='davao'/><title type='text'>my Maharlikan prediction</title><content type='html'>My Maharlikan prediction in retaliation against a forumer who consistently attacked my views in a&lt;a href="http://www.topix.com/forum/world/philippines/TFHH0TBS3HOR1HQ03/p19#lastPost"&gt; topix.net forum&lt;/a&gt; but, intriguingly he's not even a Filipino or Fil-Am! Smells fishy. Maybe someone whose suckery will soon be threatened by the reawakening of the Maharlikan individual, for such individual will no longer claim himself/herself in a name like mantra seemingly synonymous with: "We are proud 2nd class subjects of colonial invaders! We are proud second class subjects of colonial invaders, We are proud..." Duh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;I am a fiercely independent (minded) person and I always will be. I still abide by my views and I am able to defend it. I am not surprised at at all at the reactions of some people here that only hinted their mediocrity, and convincing such kinds is the LEAST of my priorities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;There are individuals however, distinct and openminded as they may be, who are beyond the years of the typical closeminded hoards and able to grasp what I have perceived. My views are so beyond the grasp of the MEDIOCRE. There will come a time when the detractors will eat their words, but to partake of the dawn of the light I foresee they will be proven WRONG and I will perceive those who attempted to discourage and drag me down as NOT WORTH my effort.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;I predict this:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;In the coming years &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;the EAST will outshine the WEST.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Southern Mindanao will be a ray of hope in this pathetic country for they chose to strengthen themselves with their ancient roots and be "indigenized" rather than to compromise with the inferior mindset of the rest of mediocre Filipinos to the mentality of the "colonized"&lt;/span&gt;, who are to be blamed for the pathetic state of this country and its rapidly degrading reputation to the rest of the world that they themselves can't deny.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;This part of the country will&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt; attract pioneering and independent minded individuals who would rather get away from mediocre hoards&lt;/span&gt; and create a new beginning for themselves, and considerably for a renewed nation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Metropolitan Davao must prepare itself to accommodate their influx yet importantly must ensure that harmony with Nature is nurtured for it is where the profound inspiration is rooted.&lt;/span&gt; Davao have chosen the path uniquely its own and it is the right path different from the loopholes experienced by other major cities of the country, particularly M.Manila and Cebu with their irresponsible pollution, wanton exploitation and rampant crimes. &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Davao will be the new model towards the renewal of a nation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;There will come a time when a worthy generation that chose not to be subjugated like idiots to colonial mentality, starkly contrasting the errors of inept generations before them, will &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;finally lead this renewed nation to its glorious future together with the rise of the EAST, and Southern Mindanao will lead them the way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Remember that. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-7554618610747901475?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/7554618610747901475/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=7554618610747901475' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/7554618610747901475'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/7554618610747901475'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-maharlikan-prediction.html' title='my Maharlikan prediction'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-2428339938687406056</id><published>2009-12-02T02:37:00.018+08:00</published><updated>2009-12-19T21:50:55.992+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blaan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brown race'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Solomon&apos;s gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ophir'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Plato'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lemurian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Japan underwater city'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='surigao gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israelites'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bagobo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mt. apo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yonaguni'/><title type='text'>Our Origin was much older than biblical Adam and Eve!</title><content type='html'>My post in a thread from &lt;a href="http://www.topix.com/forum/world/philippines/TU8KNV0JBLJ6OI7S7/p2#lastPost"&gt;topix.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;The claim by the threadstarter is least likely.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;The Israelites were a different breed tracing their origin from biblical Adam and Eve. Pinoys however, despite the ignorance, should trace their origin very much older than that, in fact so old Plato's narrative of Humanity's ancient ancestors prior to the creation of man-woman coincided with the creation myth of the B'laan, an indigenous tribe in Mindanao!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;However, the predecessor of the ancient B'laans, the Bagobos of Davao, revealed something more profound, they claimed &lt;a href="http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/11/did-humanity-originate-in-foothills-of.html"&gt;ALL THE WORLD's TRIBE originated from the foothills of Mt. Apo!&lt;/a&gt;, and they even predicted the arrival of the Spaniards and Americans!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SxVl32naWeI/AAAAAAAAA2s/NqxKsS6bu8I/s1600/japan+lemurian.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410342537583548898" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SxVl32naWeI/AAAAAAAAA2s/NqxKsS6bu8I/s320/japan+lemurian.bmp" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This may sound preposterous until one incorporates the very ancient, lost continent of MU or Lemuria so profoundly vast and located in the present Pacific area, as this was the ancient motherland of Plato's olden ancestors as coincided with the B'laans! and there are proofs that Mt. Apo grew out from its seas most likely by the time Lemuria sank in the waters. And there was recent &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs2Ghk1iWbw&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;discovery of underwater ancient city believed to be Lemurian in Yonaguni, Japan&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;It had been said that when all races in the world whether white, black, yellow, red, etc. would be genetically mixed up, the result would be Brown!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SxVmyCBE-oI/AAAAAAAAA20/B4uCtI0R9q0/s1600/solomon%27s+gold.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 138px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410343537076402818" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SxVmyCBE-oI/AAAAAAAAA20/B4uCtI0R9q0/s200/solomon%27s+gold.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;However, there may be connection between ancient Israelites and pre-colonial Philippines, because many researchers believed that the gold laden land of Ophir from where Solomon's gold came from as mentioned in the Bible, may be located in Mindanao, particularly in the Butuan-Surigao area! In fact there were discoveries in Surigao of ancient pre-colonial gold ornaments (10th-13th century AD) so intricate and excellently done it could easily be one of the ancient world's best! &lt;a href="http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/10/glittering-evidence.html"&gt;It was shown on TV by Probe Team and is now presently exhibited in Ayala Museum.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SxVnRpD5ASI/AAAAAAAAA28/DkUjHj03rhE/s1600/gintong+pamana.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 293px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410344080133128482" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SxVnRpD5ASI/AAAAAAAAA28/DkUjHj03rhE/s400/gintong+pamana.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(close-up view showing excellent craftsmanship of "Gintong Sablay," an ancient Hindu inspired gold ornament that weight about 4 lbs. found in Surigao and dated from 10-13th century pre-colonial era.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;No, we didn't come from Israelites because our ancient legacy is much more profound and very much older than that!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Unbelievable? that's because as mentioned earlier, you were kept ignorant by forces that did not want you to know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now you know.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-2428339938687406056?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/2428339938687406056/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=2428339938687406056' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/2428339938687406056'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/2428339938687406056'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/12/our-origin-was-much-older-than-biblical.html' title='Our Origin was much older than biblical Adam and Eve!'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SxVl32naWeI/AAAAAAAAA2s/NqxKsS6bu8I/s72-c/japan+lemurian.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-8214592250859498343</id><published>2009-11-23T17:42:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-23T18:09:52.043+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ophir'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Knights Templars'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='indigenous peoples'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Solomon'/><title type='text'>questions unfolding</title><content type='html'>The site that I recently discovered and posted in the previous blog had actually answered once held questions in my quest for personal research, that obviously the mainstream educational system in this country would deem too insufficient to provide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From my post in our ongoing discussion in the pinoyexchange.com thread &lt;a href="http://pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?t=413753&amp;amp;page=3"&gt;Out of Taiwan Theory versus Out of Sundaland(Mu) Theory, Origin of the Filipinos&lt;/a&gt; with Albertus magnus:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Albertus both your research and mine are indeed starting to link up. From my experience on personal research, my gauge and basis on its accuracy is when, despite the distance, the vastness, the separation of the sources, it is the accurate ones that amazingly fit in like jigsaw puzzle and stick up over the rest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You once posted a link that described the alliance between the Templars and the certain rulers of the Muslim empire. This actually answered my personal question about the claim that the Templars may have arrived in our islands, even before the Spanish colonizers came. I was intrigued, &lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;how could the Templars arrived here when during those times this archipelago was blocked from the West with the rising power of the Muslim empire?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;Until the link that you posted provided the clue:by the Templars forging alliance with the Muslim empire that otherwise would have been blocked had they been ordinary fleet from the Christian West.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whew! this is very interesting we're like impromptu detectives here with these treasure trove of information that can only be revealed by those who seek and not merely rely on the mediocre, partially supressed and definitely incomplete information about our history by mainstream historical sources as if it was their sole 'gospel truth' :lol&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also sought advice from my friend in Europe, and he mentioned that the Templars that once we were apprehensive about, may have basis for certain secret society did have the benevolent intention, despite the sheer complexity of it, when the time comes that Humanity will finally be freed from the cunning manipulation of those malevolent financial oligarchs with vile agenda of enslaving humanity. But there indeed existed factions within these secret societies, so indeed we must remain in constant vigilance from differentiating the "good guys" from the "bad guys." Here's an excerpt from the link that I discovered:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"If Faction One - the international bankers who we call the New World Order - wins, a one world government will be implemented and humanity will become slaves... at least the ones who survive the purge... and I will bet you that YOU and I won't be amoung the survivors!"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"If Faction Two wins, there is a plan to take the money that has been stolen from the people of the world, and give it back to the people of the world." &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is another excerpt that would differentiate the "good guys" from the "bad guys":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The monarchs of Europe during the middle ages, were bleeding the peasants dry. All land, animals, plants and trees belonged to the "King". The peasants could not hunt, gather food or build shelter to provide for themselves or their family. Had there been no sovereign, the peasants would have used the things God provided in nature to feed, house and clothe themselves. With the King ruling all property, the peasant could not survive unless the King decreed it. This massive injustice to the common man, was the reason a benevolent group of minor royals and clergy created the original Knights Templars.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;These researches fused together have profoundly answered previous questions that unfolded upon my quest, like why were there indigenous peoples especially in Mindanao who exhibited caucasian features, being tall and fair-skinned? This excerpt answers it:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;When the Templars knew that they needed to stop their work and go into hiding, they put together a fleet of ships that carried their treasures to the Philippines. This occurred shortly before their order was wiped out.The Templars knew what was coming and they planned their own exit. They planned it in such a way that they were able to secure all the documents they had found in King Solomon's Temple. Some they stored in the salt mines in Austria, others they took with them to the Philippines.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The gold the Templars brought to the Philippines was added to the treasures that were already there.Many of the Templars stayed with the treasure and married the daughters of the Priests from Mu... now called tribal chiefs.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;That excerpt also provided answers to my personal question, how come some of the indigenous peoples, especially revealed by a Datu whom I met in Bukidnon, Mindanao, practice a religion almost similar to Christianity even before the Spanish colonizers arrived? The Templars, as it was mentioned above, carried the treasures in their fleet of ship and it occured shortly "before their order was wiped out," that was before the tragic year 1307. Definitely they may had also instilled Christianity, and a much older version at that, among the indigenous peoples prior to the arrival of Spanish colonizers in 1521!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It also further concretize that the islands, &lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;especially ancient Mindanao may have been known by the Templars since ancient times as they had in their possession documents from Solomon's court that further provided clue with the claim that ancient Mindanao may actually be the fabled sources of Solomon's gold known as the land of Ophir! It also linked up with the documentary film by the Probe Team &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/10/glittering-evidence.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;Gintong Pamana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt; about discoveries of excellently crafted pre-colonial gold artifacts in Surigao. Witnessing the sheer quality of those intricate artifacts by our ancestors would indeed spread throughout the ancient world for excellent craftsmanship!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I posted the link on my &lt;a href="http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/11/amazing-answers-about-country-like.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc99;"&gt;maharlikan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; blogsite and highlighted the essential parts for easier reference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We seem to be making history right here in this thread and we have tangible proofs. Rejoice! we are part of its revelations.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-8214592250859498343?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/8214592250859498343/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=8214592250859498343' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/8214592250859498343'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/8214592250859498343'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/11/questions-unfolding.html' title='questions unfolding'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-386860351544947610</id><published>2009-11-19T18:46:00.038+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-06T14:47:21.274+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Austrian gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Knights Templars'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Order of the golden Fleece'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Federal Reserve'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Habsburgs'/><title type='text'>is this country the ancient Treasury of vast, fantastic wealth that dated back since ancient Lemuria (MU) ?!? (And other really weird stuffs)</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is a very intriguing link I discovered during my personal research. It seemed plucked out straight from some fantastic fantasy or scifi story, and yet it claimed itself so part of this very physical dimension.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;It seemed to blur one's boundary between fantasy and reality, as if with glaring conviction that the usual clich'e that "Fact is stranger than fiction" rings true once again. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And it involves this country and its people.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It seemed to provide answers to one's long unanswered questions in a package fantasticaly presented with gold wrappers and strings, yet at the same time the package opens up to far more mysteriously profound dimensions that can leave the receiver, awestruck.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;It reminded me of a phrase from my poem "Questions," that such &lt;em&gt;answers are like questions waiting to unfold.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Is this country the planet's Treasury of vast, fantastically untold wealth that dated since the ancient times from the legendary, lost continent of MU to our ancestor's pre-colonial wealth famed by the ancient explorers from Hindu, Chinese, Greek and even from King Solomon's court, and even from gold treasures sourced from as far as the Aztecs to British, Chinese, Austrian treasuries in WW2?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Did a secret society of Templars already established presence in the islands even before the first Spanish expedition arrived in the country on 1521?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Will these explain why some members of indigenous peoples of the country, particularly the tribes found in Mindanao, sometimes exhibit caucasian features, and even practice a religion akin to Christianity even before the Spanish colonizers arrived?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Are the Templars the notorious global financial oligarchs that caused much offense against the country, or were they themselves victims of frame up by the Oligarchs?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What do the Mongols, the Habsburgs, and the King of Spain, Philip II from whom this country was named, have in common?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Has the once mighty Federal Reserve already crumbled, and that this country had played a vital role to its downfall?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Who are the bad guys? Who are the good guys?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Are these indeed facts, or are these rumors?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As the adage saith, "Those who know, do not speak, those who speak, do not know." But then, that only applies to those who do. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Excerpt from the discovered &lt;a href="http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=120267"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;With the FED system gone who/what replaces it? Bad or not this is "our" system getting replaced and all we have known for our entire lifetimes.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Whoever/whatever is big enough, strong enough to overturn this system is the future controller of the world, our world, our country.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SwipOjFUJQI/AAAAAAAAA1I/bq4XTEAPYAw/s1600/fed.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 197px; float: right; height: 200px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406757420059075842" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SwipOjFUJQI/AAAAAAAAA1I/bq4XTEAPYAw/s200/fed.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;We better be praying it is a benevolent force as the golden rule will apply, he who has the gold makes the rules. We know so much about "the bad guys", about the current corrupt system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But what do we know about the "good? guys", the replacement system?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Coat of Arms of Phillip the Good,&lt;br /&gt;The Founder of the Order of the Golden Fleece, OGF&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Casper wants to know &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;about the people who are responsible for killing the Federal Reserve. Who are they? Who could have been big enough and strong enough to overturn the FED. What do they believe? "...he who has the gold makes the rules."&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am happy that Casper has finally asked this question.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Explaining this to someone who is not familiar with my personal story and the articles I have written for the last 12 years, is not going to be an easy task.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Casper had asked this question a few years ago, I would have started my answer by explaining who Faction Two is, where they came from and what they have been doing for the last 100 or so years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, over the last 12 years I have learned a lot, and in the last few months, it has come to my attention that the origins of Faction Two go back FAR longer than I had ever imagined. They go back to ancient times where they are still veiled in mystery.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;Who is responsible for destroying the Federal Reserve? As I said earlier, a few months ago I would have answered, "Faction Two and the Knights Templars."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/Swis2KcUttI/AAAAAAAAA1g/7uLBzsrarpA/s1600/knights+templar.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 150px; float: left; height: 200px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406761399174346450" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/Swis2KcUttI/AAAAAAAAA1g/7uLBzsrarpA/s200/knights+templar.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I realized that the Knights Templars were only one segment in a long line of secret societies who believe in bringing the peoples of mankind together for the common good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Knights Templars were founded (according to history books) in 1096. According to a Templar from Salzburg, Austria, the Templar Order was founded in 938 at Larambique, at the foot hills of the massive Mt. Blanc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Templars were destroyed by the King of France and the Pope he had placed on the Vatican Throne in 1307.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About one hundred and thirty years later another organization was formed. &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Order of the Golden Fleece. This is the organization that I believe dates back as far as Jason and the Argonauts. This is the secret society that I believe has labored behind the scenes to help humanity reach the pinnacle of achievement that our Creator built into our DNA. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From Ancient Greece to Europe, to the far east, then to the new world and on to the Philippines, this secret society has traveled the globe establishing secret satellite societies all around the planet.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;The name in each country is different. The members of each group have no idea they are connected to a larger, world wide group.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why do these people remain in the shadows? Because if they didn't they would have been tracked down and killed. Even though their groups are world wide, they have not been strong enough for centuries to take on the wealth and the power of their enemy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);font-size:180%;" &gt;The "Treasury" of this secret group is located in the Philippines. The Philippines are the mountains of the legendary continent of Mu. Mu was host to an advanced civilization that existed at the same time as Atlantis. When the earth changes began, the rulers of Mu built deep underground bunkers in their highest mountains. There they stored the riches of Mu and the technology of Mu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SwirXI0CEKI/AAAAAAAAA1Y/7hjBOKYbaCw/s1600/lemurian.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 270px; display: block; height: 400px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406759766649344162" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SwirXI0CEKI/AAAAAAAAA1Y/7hjBOKYbaCw/s400/lemurian.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SwirNo8TNPI/AAAAAAAAA1Q/2xxFvwj0ZUY/s1600/lemurian.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A priesthood was established to guard the treasure and the secrets. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;When the Templars knew that they needed to stop their work and go into hiding, they put together a fleet of ships that carried their treasures to the Philippines. This occurred shortly before their order was wiped out.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Templars knew what was coming and they planned their own exit. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They planned it in such a way that they were able to secure all the documents they had found in King Solomon's Temple. Some they stored in the salt mines in Austria, others they took with them to the Philippines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The gold the Templars brought to the Philippines was added to the treasures that were already there. &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Many of the Templars stayed with the treasure and married the daughters of the Priests from Mu... now called tribal chiefs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Over the centuries other treasures were brought to the Philippines. Some Spanish Templars who were part of the group sent to South America to raid the Aztec treasures, realized that these treasures needed to be saved. &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Instead of taking all of the Aztec gold back to Spain, much of it was sent to the Philippines.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The royal treasury of England, which was hidden at the start of WWII in Malaysia, was captured by the Japanese and ended up in one of the Philippine "treasuries". The treasury of the Chinese royal family is also hidden in the Philippines as is much Japanese gold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;Many Templars have married into the tribal bloodlines that are descended from Mu. The men who oversee the gold are of this bloodline.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Philippine gold will be used to back ALL currencies around the world.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; It is happening as I write this. Soon there will be many examples of two currencies, the Federal Reserve Notes and gold backed money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;The Philippine gold is protected by MORE than just people and weapons. It is protected by beings that are not of our world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another key figure in the secret societies that have worked to bring the people of the planet together for the highest good of all concerned, was Marco Polo. He traveled to the Orient in 1274. He stayed there for 17 years, returning to Venice in 1291. While he stayed in China he was the guest of Kublai Khan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kublai Khan was the fifth and last Khagan (1260–1294) of the Mongol Empire. In 1271, he founded the Yuan Dynasty, and became the first Yuan emperor. (I am predicting that one of the first gold backed currencies will be the Yuan. Also remember Benjamin Fulford and the Chinese Secret Society he spoke about.).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Mongol Empire spread all across Eurasia from the China Sea all the way to Hungary. The Hungarian royal family, the Esterhaszys, trace their bloodline to the Khans and the Mongol invaders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If it had not been for the Esterhaszys, the Habsburgs would never have existed. If it hadn't been for the Habsburgs, King Phillip II of Spain would not have existed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Greece, China, the Philippines and Austria all connect to a royal bloodline that appears to have been around for thousands of years... maybe tens of thousands of years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;"The Philippines were named after King Phillip II of Spain who was directly descended from the founder of the Order of the Golden Fleece&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/Swi1n7JtEWI/AAAAAAAAA2A/UuqWa9hZJ_c/s1600/order+of+golden+fleece.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 202px; display: block; height: 320px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406771050156200290" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/Swi1n7JtEWI/AAAAAAAAA2A/UuqWa9hZJ_c/s320/order+of+golden+fleece.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Order of the Golden Fleece was established in 1430 by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy..."&lt;br /&gt;http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=119277&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;snip&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ceremonious acts of Phillip The Good in 1430 are documented, "etched in stone". But does the creation of the record Phillip left signify something which began with him? Or do Phillip's records verify something for the first time -- that we know about?&lt;br /&gt;Phillip was surveying a heritage bestowed throughout a long span of "earth time". Do older records from other times and places (as Marco Polo may have circulated) "dot-connect" with Phillip's interest in cultural heritage?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Knights Templars origins are conventionally early 12th century AD, but the Templar Charter dates itself mid-tenth century. Templar lore hails from the days of Solomon. Does OGF lore hail from ancient days of Colchis, or earlier? From days after the Black Sea Flood c5500 BC, or earlier?&lt;br /&gt;From the above post by TheMythSmith&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;snip&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Philippines were named after Philip II of Spain. Phillip II was a direct descendent of Phillip the Good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Phillip II was the son of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Charles V was the son of Philip I of Castile, (also called Philip the Handsome) and Joanna the Mad of Castile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Philip I of Castile was the son of Mary of Burgundy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mary of Burgandy, called Mary the Rich (13 February 1457 – 27 March 1482), was the only child of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and his wife Isabella of Bourbon&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Charles the Bold was the son of Philip the Good (founder of the Order of the Golden Fleece) and Isabel of Portugal. He was made a Knight of the Golden Fleece just twenty days after his birth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1994, almost 50 years after the end of World War II, and almost 50 years after Austria signed a secret treaty with the Allies, &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the Austrian gold and the royal treasury were brought home from their hiding place in the Philippines.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the same time, many of the exiled royal families of Austria, Italy, Romania and other countries, began returning to their homelands. Most of these people had not been home since 1945 or before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;Had the Austrians tried to bring their national treasury home before 1995 (when it actually entered Austria), the secret treaty they signed in 1955, which allowed Austria to become one country again, would have made them give HALF of their National Treasury to Israel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SwitzrAB7JI/AAAAAAAAA1o/91bLcIODGwQ/s1600/illuminati+zionist.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 320px; height: 320px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406762455886064786" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SwitzrAB7JI/AAAAAAAAA1o/91bLcIODGwQ/s320/illuminati+zionist.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Austria was not about to give their gold, which has been in Austrian hands for centuries, to Israel. They followed the treaty to the letter and when Israel demanded gold, Austria pointed them to gold accounts of Jews that were held in banks in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;How did the Austrian treasury get to the Philippines?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Austrian National Treasure was stolen by Hitler when Germany invaded Austria in 1938. Hitler stored it in his accounts in Swiss banks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The gold was stolen by a man who was the head of the Knights Templars. The man was a naval hero from WWI. He was an Admiral in the German Navy and the head of their department of Military Intelligence, known as the Abwehr, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris. Canaris is best known for being the brains behind the assassination attempt of Adolf Hitler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During WWII Admiral Canaris made a trip from Berlin to Spain every two weeks. These trips are written about in a book called The Canaris Conspiracy. What was omitted from the book was the stop in Switzerland to pick up tons of Austrian gold. The gold was taken to Spain where it was loaded onto German submarines and taken to Paraguay. In 1955 the gold was moved to the Philippines.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wrote the following article to explain to people where &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;the opposition &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;to the New World Order came from:&lt;br /&gt;FACTION TWO -- THE ABWEHR -- KNIGHTS TEMPLARS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (views: 25209)&lt;br /&gt;Rayelan -- Sunday, 10 September 2000, 5:19 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following quotes were taken from this article. They are not in order!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The officers who made up the Canaris Conspiracy came from several countries - Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Austria. They were part of the royal families that had made up the Austro-Hungarian Empire. They wanted to end the war and save their countries from the total destruction and enslavement their enemy (the NWO) had in mind for them. These men knew who the real enemy was. Their empire had been destroyed in the late 1890's by the same power that now backed Adolph Hitler."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"The mission of the Federal Reserve System in the United States is to rake off as much American wealth as possible before destroying the sovereignty of the United States and delivering it into a one world government."&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/Swiw7kjSzdI/AAAAAAAAA14/TfiVr4lwevU/s1600/international+banking.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 320px; height: 254px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406765890128760274" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/Swiw7kjSzdI/AAAAAAAAA14/TfiVr4lwevU/s320/international+banking.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"When loyal American military men were approached by the former Canaris conspirators, they quickly understood how American businessmen had sold out their country by creating a banking system that stole the wealth of America and put it in the hands of the same international cabal that was backing Hitler. The international bankers were orchestrating the war, not for conquest of land, but for accumulation of power and money on a worldwide level...AND as another step in creating their New World Order."&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"The men and women who make up Faction Two are working for one thing: Their goal is to destroy the New World Order and the international bankers behind it. They seek to restore sovereignty to individual nations and to the individuals who make up the nations."&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Following was written by Admiral Gunther Russbacher, ONI, CIA, an Esterhaszy and a member of the Habsburg royal family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Adolph Hitler invaded Austria in 1938 and stole the Austrian treasury, which was transferred to Swiss banks by Hitler himself. Much of the gold in the Austrian treasury was Templar gold taken from King Solomon's Temple. During World War II, even though Admiral Canaris was the head of German Military Intelligence, he made two trips a month to Switzerland and then to the Catalan region of Spain. He was stealing back the Templar gold and storing it in Spain!"&lt;br /&gt;"The Templar gold stayed hidden in Spain until it could be transported by submarine to Paraguay. In 1955, its location was discovered and the gold was moved to the Philippines. &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;In 1994, members of Faction 2, who are Knights Templars, arranged for the Philippine gold to be returned to Austria. In December of 1994, the largest gold transfer in history entered Germany from a gold smelter in Greece. This was the Templar gold."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Sources have said that this gold will be used to back the new monetary unit of Europe, the Euro. When the Euro is finally backed by gold, it will become the currency of choice for the business World. This will cause the dollar to fall, and according to my sources in Faction 2, the fall of the dollar will mean the end of the Federal Reserve Banking System and its member banks. Hopefully this will also end the international bankers' plans for creating a New World Order." &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;"Since 1995 a war has been going on in the financial world. Most people are so naive about the way the financial world works that they do not even begin to understand how the war is being fought."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"One of the ways it is being fought is by sucking as many naive investors into the stock market as possible. Once the powers who are fighting this war believe they have sucked up as much money as they possibly can, they will try to engineer a stock market crash in a way that will leave as much money as possible in the hands of their group. In other words, both groups are working to crash the market, destroy their enemy, and leave themselves in the driver's seat. The real losers in all of this are the innocent people who put their life savings in a rigged stock market!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"If Faction One - the international bankers who we call the New World Order - wins, a one world government will be implemented and humanity will become slaves... at least the ones who survive the purge... and I will bet you that YOU and I won't be amoung the survivors!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"If Faction Two wins, there is a plan to take the money that has been stolen from the people of the world, and give it back to the people of the world." &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the meantime, there is money waiting in trusts! This money belongs to nations around the world. It was stolen by the Federal Reserve Bankers who in turn had it "stolen" from them in numerous ways, from phony bearer bonds, to wildly inflated dot.coms, to corporate raiding, bankruptcies, bank failures, hedge funds, off shore accounts, and a modified PROMIS software that "siphoned" money from one account and put it in another!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since December of 1993 I have known of Faction Two's plan to:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1) Abolish the Federal Reserve and the IRS;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Establish a U.S. Treasury Banking System, with a new currency backed by precious metals.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"In 1994, when I was in Austria, I was present at many off the record discussions between European appointed and elected leaders. I was in Austria to finish up &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the largest gold transfer in history. The transfer that I was involved in was the first in several shipments of gold from the Phillippines to Austria."&lt;br /&gt;"I was told that the first shipment to come home was the gold that Hitler stole from the Austrian Treasury in 1938 when he invaded Austria. I was also told that the gold would be used to destroy the Federal Reserve."&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/Swiv6rCRTZI/AAAAAAAAA1w/9sdLVDW3yYU/s1600/humanae+libertas.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 300px; height: 306px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406764775177801106" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/Swiv6rCRTZI/AAAAAAAAA1w/9sdLVDW3yYU/s400/humanae+libertas.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From this post:&lt;br /&gt;http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi/read/22472&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Casper asks:&lt;br /&gt;snip&lt;br /&gt;Will the new manage the financial affairs of the planet better than the old?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is the power behind the new "Western? Or Eastern?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;snip&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nevertheless I am anxious about all of it and realizing how very little I actually KNOW.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;snip&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We will be aligned with the "new" whatever it is, like it or not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Think on these things as we await announcements clarifying who and what we have become.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Casper 3-09-08&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a quote from the Templar Charter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Templar Charter, which was shown to me in 1994, is the best way I know to show what is in the hearts of the people who battle against the new world order, the people I refer to as Faction Two.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Original and True Charter&lt;br /&gt;of the True Knights Templars&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The men who created the original Knights Templars did so to protect the common man from the excesses of royalty. The Original Templar Charter set down a list of basic human rights for ordinary people. These rights were based on their God-given rights. Rights that are given to each and every human, by virtue of their birth on Earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;The monarchs of Europe during the middle ages, were bleeding the peasants dry. All land, animals, plants and trees belonged to the "King". The peasants could not hunt, gather food or build shelter to provide for themselves or their family. Had there been no sovereign, the peasants would have used the things God provided in nature to feed, house and clothe themselves. With the King ruling all property, the peasant could not survive unless the King decreed it. This massive injustice to the common man, was the reason a benevolent group of minor royals and clergy created the original Knights Templars.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=120267"&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=120267&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-386860351544947610?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/386860351544947610/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=386860351544947610' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/386860351544947610'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/386860351544947610'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/11/amazing-answers-about-country-like.html' title='is this country the ancient Treasury of vast, fantastic wealth that dated back since ancient Lemuria (MU) ?!? (And other really weird stuffs)'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SwipOjFUJQI/AAAAAAAAA1I/bq4XTEAPYAw/s72-c/fed.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-6970393046661684577</id><published>2009-11-12T08:26:00.018+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T07:10:26.791+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bagobo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mt. apo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bukidnon'/><title type='text'>my reply to albertus magnus</title><content type='html'>My personal reply to albertus magnus from &lt;a href="http://pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?p=38812742#post38812742"&gt;pinoyexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Mitochondrial genetic studies proving the single&lt;br /&gt;origin of modern&lt;br /&gt;Man...[url]http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/stephenoppenheimer/reading.html[/url][url]http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/paul-rodgers/2008/05/sundaland-spread-taiwan[/url][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve[/url][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_modern_humans[/url][url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlRSsvB4iLE&amp;amp;feature=fvw[/url]&lt;br /&gt;But civilization, the birth of agriculture or the domestication of animals&lt;br /&gt;and plants or the transition from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to an agricultural&lt;br /&gt;society happened in the Eden in the East as Oppenheimer termed the Sundaland&lt;br /&gt;during the last Ice Age. And the deluge or the rising of sealevels occuring gave&lt;br /&gt;birth to various deluvial myths and motiffs on various cultures like the&lt;br /&gt;allegorical Noah's flood.Various theosophists, masons, mystics, members of&lt;br /&gt;esoteric circles have all believed in Lemuria, a sophisticated civilization, as&lt;br /&gt;the Mu, or Motherland. Which scientists like Oppenheimer and Solheim equates&lt;br /&gt;with Sundaland. Some occultists picture the extent of Lemuria even occupying the&lt;br /&gt;expanse of Pacific ocean just like what visionarylink had posted. This could be&lt;br /&gt;the etheric or even the astral equivalent or correspondence of the terrestial&lt;br /&gt;Lemuria. So the first Lemurians were higher dimensional beings inhabiting higher&lt;br /&gt;dimension or etheric Lemuria not yet fully physical beings as occultists say.&lt;br /&gt;But sooner in the allegorical Fall of Man, they become fully corporeal carnal&lt;br /&gt;beings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; "&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps it would be a revelation to take a second look at the origin mythology of the Bagobo peoples, and with this, based on on the probable map shown by a certain society on Lemuria, the presence of Mt. Apo must have possibly helped in surviving a portion of ancient Lemuria. It should also be noted that Mt. Apo is home to some endemic flora and fauna species originally found only in the area, such as the orchid Waling-waling and the Philippine Eagle. Having trekked to Mt. Apo years ago, I did notice something strange because thousands of feet above sea level there was actually an intriguing spot where white sands similar to those found in the beaches abound, and so do limestone boulders. these may imply that many many years ago, a portion of the majestic peak may have risen from the seas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I have also noticed among the Bagobo peoples, they were an intriguing mix of features, for other than the usual Malay look, some of them did manifest Caucasian phyical characteristics&lt;/em&gt;. The late mayor of Davao City during the 70's or 80's (I actually met him when I was a kid, and I remembered fully well his countenance), Mayor Elias Lopez was actually a Bagobo but he had seemingly caucasian features also, tall and light skinned. I did inquire with a Bagobo househelp about the caucasian features of some of their peoples and she replied &lt;em&gt;"they (ancestors) were the original natives."&lt;/em&gt; When I saw her mother, she also featured light skin tone in contrast to her dark tone. Perhaps it may have something to do with the relation between genetic evolution and Consciousness. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;Among the indigenous peoples of Mindanao, one actually notices varied mix of ethnic features and could identify the brown, white, black ethnicity from among them. Individuals from the anthropological and historical fields from the country (just make sure not the usual local mediocre lackeys and apers for foreign interest) or from Asia and even from around the world, should give great attention regarding these, especially with the myth of origin by the Bagobo peoples and its possible link with ancient Sundaland, or Mu. Who knows, the discovery may hold clues to the missing key as to the origin of the world's tribes, and it's right over here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regarding the black race, I also made personal research and the ancient Sumerians narrated in detail their origin in south Africa and its relation to gold mines (there were recent discoveries of mining artifacts dated hundreds of thousands of years). I once read a little information that the ancient black peoples revolted from their slavery against the "gods." However, I believe the theory on Lemuria may still be very much older in scope.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-6970393046661684577?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/6970393046661684577/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=6970393046661684577' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/6970393046661684577'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/6970393046661684577'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/11/my-replies-to-albertus-magnus.html' title='my reply to albertus magnus'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-5673969224322844942</id><published>2009-11-07T16:18:00.047+08:00</published><updated>2010-06-29T09:13:35.851+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lemuria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bagobo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mindanao'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creation mythology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='davao'/><title type='text'>Did ancient Humanity originate from the foothills of Mt. Apo?!?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SvXADmaTBrI/AAAAAAAAAzQ/rwk26VUEP2k/s1600-h/mt.+apo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 320px; display: block; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401434496183764658" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SvXADmaTBrI/AAAAAAAAAzQ/rwk26VUEP2k/s320/mt.+apo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;Mt. Apo, Mindanao, Philippines&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This may seem a prequel to the previous &lt;a href="http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/05/did-nations-ancient-history-originate.html"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; that I posted, albeit with an even more fantastic twist, and a far larger scale at that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scenic Mt. Apo is the country's highest peak, majestically towering over the vast expanse of the southern tip of Mindanao island bordering over the mountainous edges of Davao City. However, the ancient narratives of an indigenous people that lived along its mountain ranges, the Bagobo tribe (they also named the peak, which means "grand old man"), bespeak about a fantastic claim that ALL of Humanity's tribes supposedly originated from the foothills of this majestic peak!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the Bagobo account:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pitt.edu/%7Edash/creation-phil.html#origin"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Origin&lt;br /&gt;Bagobo (Mindanao)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the beginning there lived one man and one woman, Toglai and Toglibon. Their first children were a boy and a girl. When they were old enough, the boy and the girl went far away across the waters seeking a good place to live in. &lt;b&gt;Nothing more was heard of them until their children, the Spaniards and Americans, came back&lt;/b&gt;. After the first boy and girl left, other children were born to the couple; but they all remained at &lt;b&gt;Cibolan on Mount Apo&lt;/b&gt; with their parents, until Toglai and Toglibon died and became spirits. Soon after that there came a great drought which lasted for three years. All the waters dried up, so that there were no rivers, and no plants could live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Surely," said the people, "Manama is punishing us, and we must go elsewhere to find food and a place to dwell in."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So they started out. Two went in the direction of the sunset, carrying with them stones from Cibolan River. After a long journey they reached a place where were broad fields of cogon grass and an abundance of water, and there they made their home. Their children still live in that place and are called Magindanau, because of the stones which the couple carried when they left Cibolan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two children of Toglai and Toglibon went to the south, seeking a home, and they carried with them women's baskets (baraan). When they found a good spot, they settled down. Their descendants, still dwelling at that place, are called Baraan or Bilaan, because of the women's baskets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;So two by two the children of the first couple left the land of their birth. In the place where each settled a new people developed, and thus it came about that all the tribes in the world received their names from things that the people carried out of Cibolan, or from the places where they settled.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;All the children left Mount Apo save two (a boy and a girl)&lt;/b&gt;, whom hunger and thirst had made too weak to travel. One day when they were about to die the boy crawled out to the field to see if there was one living thing, and to his surprise he found a stalk of sugarcane growing lustily. He eagerly cut it, and enough water came out to refresh him and his sister until the rains came. Because of this, their children are called Bagobo.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pitt.edu/%7Edash/creation-phil.html#origin"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"&gt;http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/creation-phil.html#origin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The question may sound preposterous even from among locals here, furthermore exacerbated by their mainstream education on history unwittingly patterned after previous colonial-based systems that will least likely hint of such otherwise locally rooted but ancient phenomenon, having been very dependent on Western-biased sources and interests rather than that of the East or this country's.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ridiculous it may seem to be, for how could "obscure" Mindanao from among more than seven thousand clusters of archipelago islands, in a country so miniscule to compare with other huge land masses and countries of this planet, would dare claim what could have been a very important role in the forgotten annals of Humanity's history?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or so it seemed. Unless one puts the ace on the table; unless one considers this very ancient, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;lost continent&lt;/span&gt; into the picture that existed hundreds of thousands of years ago, but forgotten or deliberately supressed to a supposed "modern" but unknowing society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/atlantida_mu/esp_lemuria_3.htm"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px; float: left; height: 237px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401440285604782882" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SvXFUlr1IyI/AAAAAAAAAzY/YeLafficEpQ/s320/lemuria.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;According to ancient narratives and documents, there once existed a very powerful continent known as the land of MU, or Lemuria. Much older than the West's legendary Atlantis or the biblical garden of Eden (an account that comparably turned out to be among the most recent), ancient Lemuria once stretched 5000 miles long and 3000 miles wide somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, with a population that was said to reach 63 Million people over 200,000 years ago. Its peoples were a noble, highly advanced civilization adept at telepathy, astral travel, teleportation, until its eventual demise, and based on my personal research, partly caused by alien interference (the Greek historian Plato and another Mindanao indigenous tribe, the Bilaan also narrated accounts of the said phenomenon). The ancient ancestors of great civilizations of ancient Egypt (with more probability of later connection with Atlantis) and the Meso-Americas such as the Mayas, were even said to be refugees of this great, lost continent that may hold clue as to the similarities of Asians with American Indians and Eskimos. In the image provided, the sketch that featured the probable location of Lemuria showed that Mt. Apo in Mindanao that the Bagobo peoples claimed where the names of all the world's tribes originated may be on the edged part of the ancient legendary continent. It had been said that the eventual disintegration of Lemuria transpired over a period of many thousands of years, with the final destruction that occured about 10,700 years before that of Atlantis, or about 22,600 years ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Bagobo mythology also predicted that the lost children will return back to their place of origin. As mentioned in my previous blog, &lt;a href="http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/05/did-nations-ancient-history-originate.html"&gt;"Did the nation's ancient history originate from Southern Mindanao?"&lt;/a&gt;, the early wave of settlers from Southeast Asia eventually arrived in Southern Mindanao about 500 AD, which through the years were followed by the arrival of other races from as far as Europe, America, and from other continents occuring even up to the present.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-5673969224322844942?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/5673969224322844942/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=5673969224322844942' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/5673969224322844942'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/5673969224322844942'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/11/did-humanity-originate-in-foothills-of.html' title='Did ancient Humanity originate from the foothills of Mt. Apo?!?'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SvXADmaTBrI/AAAAAAAAAzQ/rwk26VUEP2k/s72-c/mt.+apo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-362537959609296128</id><published>2009-10-26T06:52:00.022+08:00</published><updated>2010-01-08T07:32:37.066+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='butuan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ancient artifacts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pre-colonial philippines'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='surigao gold'/><title type='text'>glittering evidence</title><content type='html'>Here is a shining, and literally so, presentation produced by the Probe Team, a local video documentary show, entitled &lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Gintong Pamana&lt;/span&gt; (Golden Heritage) about the discovery of excellent gold artifacts and jewelries dating from 10th to 13th century in Surigao, Mindanao island, in what could be one of the most important, tangible heritage not just of this country, which for decades had been groping in the dark as to the legacies of pre-colonial history, but in Asia as well that could rewrite history like never before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This may also be the a glittering evidence mentioned from my previous blog, &lt;a href="http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/10/pre-colonial-empires.html"&gt;of spices and empires, &lt;/a&gt;that indeed this nation was once a place renowned in the ancient times for its unusual abundance of gold mentioned from the account of ancient Greeks (known as &lt;em&gt;Chryse&lt;/em&gt;, the Golden One), Indians (&lt;em&gt;Suvarnadvipa&lt;/em&gt;, Islands of Gold), Chinese (&lt;em&gt;Chin-chou &lt;/em&gt;, Isle of Gold, &lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Lusung Dao&lt;/span&gt; or "Luzon daw"), and even in biblical account to the court of King Solomon (&lt;em&gt;Ophir&lt;/em&gt;)!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even the Spanish historian who sailed with Magellan's expedition, Pigafetta, exclaimed that gold in the islands were so abundant that just a simple dig could produce gold nuggets the size of walnuts. The sudden disappearance of such treasures upon the arrival of colonizers were enigmatic, but the discovery of the Surigao gold artifacts provided clue that unlike ancient mainstream practices, the natives of these islands buried their gold even when the owners were yet alive (and in connection with previous discussions, sought the aid of their &lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;anitos&lt;/span&gt; or Elemental deities for safeguarding of such treasures from vile agendas, a practice that mainstream "modern" paradigms exacerbated by bigotry may not comprehend as to the reality it once held in the lives of these ancient, prosperous ancestors).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The whole documentary is generally presented in the local language, Tagalog. Even for foreigners who may not understand the tongue, witnessing the sheer excellence, intricate craftsmanship, priceless historical value, almost ethereal quality of the ancient golden artifacts may still leave anybody speechless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VUSKPwIuQI0&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VUSKPwIuQI0&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the link to the whole documentary:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn7nqNAoVd4"&gt;GINTONG PAMANA (Part 1 OF 8)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-362537959609296128?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/362537959609296128/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=362537959609296128' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/362537959609296128'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/362537959609296128'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/10/glittering-evidence.html' title='glittering evidence'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-8032158531285109593</id><published>2009-10-15T19:46:00.039+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-23T15:41:41.338+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sri vijaya empire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spice trade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='majapahit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='southeast asia'/><title type='text'>of spices and empires</title><content type='html'>One of the advantages of participating on internet forums is having to meet with likeminded individuals, or even opposite minded ones but both with grit to discuss specific topics that otherwise one may not likely discourse with people in one's limited geographic location.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Internet forums now enable to meet individuals to share ideas despite the distance, be it from this country or from other nationalities enabling wider exchange and broader insights of topics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From these forums I gained insights about this country's pre-colonial history from individuals who dared to think beyond the mediocrity and timidity surrounding them. Neither can one find such insights from this country's mainstream educational system, infamously inept in providing in-depth knowledge especially pertaining to pre-colonial eras, that had unwittingly patterned its curriculum instead after its Spanish colonizer, then eventually other foreign interests, inevitably weakening its rootedness as a nation and succumbing to inferior colonial mindset among its constituents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/StqeGwJ74cI/AAAAAAAAAzA/gqGxILfmblE/s1600-h/maharlikan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 233px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393797342572569026" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/StqeGwJ74cI/AAAAAAAAAzA/gqGxILfmblE/s320/maharlikan.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It had been said (with mention to forumer &lt;a href="http://pinoyexchange.com/forums/showpost.php?p=37993741&amp;amp;postcount=20"&gt;albertus magnus&lt;/a&gt;) that the inhabitants of pre-colonial Philippines may actually be the last bastion of the fusion between two prominent Southeast Asian empires, the Sri-Vijayan and Majapahit Empires. In my opinion, these may partly explain why the pre-colonial inhabitants display a seemingly unusual profusion of gold jewelries. So widespread were the use of these precious metals that even slaves wore gold ornaments, and otherwise ordinary utensils such as combs were said to be made of shining gold. It seemed intriguing whether ancient Southeast Asian peoples during those times had such habit of displaying abundant extravagance among its mainstream constituents, but least likely may be the case. Perhaps this profusion of wealth could partly explain that the inhabitants of this country may indeed be remnants of the fusion between those once mighty and prosperous empires.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Sri Vijayan Empire existed between 7th -14th AD while the Majapahit Empire in the years 1293-1500. Although both empires were based in present day Indonesia (Sri Vijaya being traced in the island of Sumatra with its capital city Palembang, and the Majapahit Empire in Java island), a phenomenon may have occured that eventually pushed the empire to the archipelagic islands in its last remaining days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/StqaVzSD5PI/AAAAAAAAAyo/geG1N3PHyyo/s1600-h/sri+vijaya.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 235px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 315px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393793203063481586" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/StqaVzSD5PI/AAAAAAAAAyo/geG1N3PHyyo/s320/sri+vijaya.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The kingdoms of Southeast Asia once played a very vital role in the lucrative spice trade routes that brought within the empire vast prosperity. Most likely, the rapid spread of a foreign religion, Islam in most of the mainland areas eventually pushed the empire's staunch inhabitants that refused to convert to Islam, and neither surrendering their wealth, to the edges of its trade routes, in the cluster of archipelago islands beyond the seas. As the Islamic empire ultimately succeeded at blocking the lucrative spice trade routes to the Christian West, the latter was obliged to find an alternative route to the East that eventually led it to these archipelago islands, the present day Philippines, unwittingly named after its colonizer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/StqanX4ZFBI/AAAAAAAAAyw/2ihU0_ykG2I/s1600-h/spice+trade.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 308px; HEIGHT: 320px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393793504945706002" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/StqanX4ZFBI/AAAAAAAAAyw/2ihU0_ykG2I/s320/spice+trade.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;map of 15th century Spice Trade of pre-colonial Southeast Asia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The vast wealth accumulated by the empire was said to be safely hidden secretly underground (to be guarded until a more deserving generation will partake of it) even with the aid of the ancient ancestors' deities of higher dimensional plane such as nature spirits or the &lt;em&gt;Diwatas &lt;/em&gt;(knowledge of such entities together with other vestiges of pre-colonial culture were supressed and destroyed by the colonizers with its religious bigotry and political grip, and even by its present lackey of an educational system) to keep it away from foreign invaders that began with the Spanish explorers that eventually colonized the islands.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It had been said that a fraction of these wealth were exposed during the tumultous event in Philippines history during the time of deposed president Marcos, in which the legendary Yamashita treasures were said to be part of it. Some of the alleged "Marcos wealth" that were exposed upon their exile were even unaccounted for by the Marcoses themselves, as if appearing out of somewhere.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-8032158531285109593?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/8032158531285109593/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=8032158531285109593' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/8032158531285109593'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/8032158531285109593'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/10/pre-colonial-empires.html' title='of spices and empires'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/StqeGwJ74cI/AAAAAAAAAzA/gqGxILfmblE/s72-c/maharlikan.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-977458694241347020</id><published>2009-09-17T18:30:00.007+08:00</published><updated>2009-09-20T01:19:44.388+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='filipino'/><title type='text'>reconsidering Maharlika</title><content type='html'>Here is an intriguing essay by Rodil Rodis of Inquirer on renaming the country as Maharlika:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;'Maharlika' Reconsidered&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Reader response to my column about a name change for the Philippines was phenomenal. From Mindanao, Kauban M. wrote that Moros prefer Maharlika as “it is the name suited to our culture and character.” A local reader, Joseph Vizcarra, also liked Maharlika “because it pays honor to the advanced indigenous civilization we had before the coming of the Spaniards. It also betrays our Hindu roots as well as blood links with the rest of the Austronesian family. On top of this we would all be called Maharlikans!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;Many readers pointed out that our Moro brothers and sisters in Mindanao and Sulu despise the names “Philippines” and “Filipinos” because of their colonial stigma. Moro scholar Alunan C. Glang asserted that only those who were subjugated by Spain and bowed to the authority of King Felipe II should be called “Filipinos.”&lt;/span&gt; Since the Moros were never Spanish subjects, they were never “Filipinos”&lt;/strong&gt;. In fact, for 350 years, generations of Moros had spilled blood precisely to avoid becoming “Filipinos.” Those unable to resist becoming Filipinos were regularly subjected to "Moro Moro" plays with the Spaniards as the heroes and the Moros as the dastardly villains.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the Spaniards named their farthest-flung colony “Filipinas,” they did not call its inhabitants “Filipinos.” The people were called “indios.” Those who were pure full-blooded Spaniards from Spain were called “peninsulares.” Those with even a one percent drop of native or non-Spanish blood were contemptuously referred to as “insulares” or “Filipinos.” &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;Historically, “Filipino” was used as a pejorative or had a discriminatory connotation attached to it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Ironically, even now, to be a “Filipina” in England and other countries is to be a “domestic helper.”)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the 18th century, a new class had emerged, a mixture of upper class indios and lower class insulares, propelled by indio intermarriage with the Chinese. (The Spaniards decreed that no Chinese man could leave the Parian, the Chinese community just outside Intramuros, unless he was married to an indio woman). &lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This new class was the ilustrado class and one of them, an 18-year old boy named Jose Rizal, was the first to use “Filipino” to refer to indio &lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; In his 1879 poem, “A la Juventud Filipina” (To the Filipino Youth), Rizal challenged the Filipino indio youth to be the hope of the motherland. Even though they were not “insulares,” Rizal and his classmates at the Ateneo considered themselves “Filipinos”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Rizal went to Spain to study, he exhorted his fellow ilustrados to take pride in being an “indio.” In fact, he called his group “Indios Bravos.” &lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rizal and other ilustrados in Spain would later propagate the view that “Filipino” should mean all people born in the islands, not just the insulares.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was not universally accepted. Andres Bonifacio, the founder of the Katipunan, referred to the country as “Katagalugan” and the Katipunan’s Cartilla, written and published in 1896, expressly stated: “The word tagalog means all those born in this archipelago; therefore, though visayan, ilocano, pampango, etc., they are all tagalogs.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;As Nathan Quimpo points out, “the Philippine Revolution of 1896 was a misnomer” as it began as the Katagalugan Revolution. “It became the Philippine Revolution only in 1897 when Emilio Aguinaldo, the former gobernadorcillo (mayor) of Kawit, ousted Bonifacio from the helm of the revolutionary movement and had him executed. Aguinaldo, who had continued all along to use Filipinas, dropped Katagalugan.&lt;/span&gt;”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the Malolos Congress in October of 1898, Aguinaldo sought to establish a federation with the Moro sultanates of Mindanao and Sulu, recognizing that they were not yet part of the nation that was being forged in Malolos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1913, Katipunan General Artemio Ricarte proposed that the Philippines be renamed “Rizaline Islands” and Filipinos, “Rizalines.” While in exile in Japan, Ricarte drafted a constitution for the “revolutionary government of the Rizaline Republic.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;There would be no serious effort to change the name of the country until 1971 when a new constitution was drafted and ratified. Article XVI, Section 2 states that "The Congress, may by law, adopt a new name for the country…which shall be truly reflective and symbolic of the ideals, history, and traditions of the people.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in 1972, he convened an Interim Batasang Pambansa to replace the Congress that he had abolished by presidential decree. One of the representatives appointed by Marcos was “Kuya Eddie”Ilarde, a popular TV-radio personality from the 60s and 70s, who sponsored a parliamentary bill on August 14, 1978 seeking to change the name of the Philippines to Maharlika.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately for Ilarde, Maharlika was inexorably linked to Marcos who claimed that it was the name of the guerilla unit he formed and led in WW II. It turned out to be a hoax along with his claim that he was the most decorated soldier of WW II.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Before his claim was exposed, Marcos had gotten his cronies to produce a Hollywood movie entitled “Maharlika” about his alleged war exploits. A Hollywood starlet named Dovie Beams played an American nurse who became the love interest of the fictional Marcos. What was supposed to only be reel became real when “Lovey Dovie” became Marcos’s mistress.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The term “Filipino nationalism” is a contradiction in terms. To be a nationalist is to be anti-colonial. “Nationalism,” declared Sen. Claro M. Recto, “is the natural antagonist of colonialism.” To be a Filipino is to be a subject of King Felipe II. To be a nationalist is to refuse to be a colonial subject. So how can one be a "Filipino nationalist"? &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Whether it is Maharlika, Katagalugan or Bayanihan, the time has come to discard the name Philippines or Filipinas &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://globalnation.inquirer.net/mindfeeds/mindfeeds/view/20080902-158208/Maharlika-Reconsidered&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-977458694241347020?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/977458694241347020/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=977458694241347020' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/977458694241347020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/977458694241347020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/09/reconsidering-maharlika.html' title='reconsidering Maharlika'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-4898817371871955790</id><published>2009-08-15T06:56:00.013+08:00</published><updated>2009-08-15T10:38:21.639+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maharlika'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Atlantis'/><title type='text'>Maharlika Nation</title><content type='html'>I had posted a forum at &lt;a href="http://www.topix.com/forum/world/philippines/TFHH0TBS3HOR1HQ03"&gt;www.topix.com &lt;/a&gt;discussing about renaming the country as MAHARLIKA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The forum had been ongoing for more than 2 and a half years as of this writing, and individuals both Filipinos and of other nationalities had contributed their opinions regarding the matter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recently, there were discussions to create a systematic plan about changing the name of the country, as proposed by forumer &lt;em&gt;bornleader&lt;/em&gt; from India who outlined the initial steps.  It is good that likeminded individuals have conglomerated through the forum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I envision that the advocacy towards Maharlika shall go beyond the renaming of the Philippines, but rather would encompass even other countries, especially India, and other mainland nations like Thailand, etc.  From my research I discovered that there occured an era when a once very powerful, legendary 'lost' continent existed along these geographical areas, in the same manner as the West had inculcated the legendary Atlantis as narrated by the Greek historian Plato. Among the countries that existed in this vey powerful continent, was the most powerful nation of them all, and this nation comprised both the modern countries of India and the now slave-mentality christened Philippines. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This legendary Asian continent I had referred to, may prove to be much older than Plato's account. Thus, it may not be surprising that even individuals from India expressed interest, for they had documented and preserved these olden treasures in their ancient texts.  Bornleader's views regarding the link confirmed my previous research that indeed there existed this glorious Era that once spanned in the secret ages, but seemingly had been endangered and supressed to oblivion.  However, these legendary accounts of lost continents, of secret knowledge, of great legends must be supported with tangible facts, and it will occur for these had been held, protected, and had survived. The profound legacy of this treasured history promises greater perspectives of the Maharlikan's once great and noble Past towards a Future far more greater than his/her Present could yet imagine.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soon, this legacy will be reawakened, and will change the course of history and empower the Maharlikan towards a more exciting Future where once dreams, visions, hopes will fruition into a great Maharlikan Reality.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-4898817371871955790?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/4898817371871955790/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=4898817371871955790' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/4898817371871955790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/4898817371871955790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/08/maharlika-nation.html' title='Maharlika Nation'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-6250114507542011646</id><published>2009-08-03T16:07:00.023+08:00</published><updated>2009-08-14T12:24:23.145+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mahabharata'/><title type='text'>Mahabharata</title><content type='html'>Finally, I have found a more, er, convenient way to know about the Hindu classic Epic, the Mahabharata, where else but through, uh, &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/"&gt;http://www.youtube.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I once encountered the Masterpiece that inspired nations and creeds for centuries and millennia, while browsing in a secondhand bookstore. I could still vividly recall the impact of its profound presence amid those shelves of human endeavors. The sheer size of the books however, excacerbated by its awesome number of volumes had left me aghast. Reading though all those vast pages seemed too 'overwhelming' even to contemplate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to the individual who downloaded these videos through youtube, the typical mortal on the street is transported back to the eon ages as one glimpses a seeming part of him/her in the ancient era of Indian civilization, back to the olden city of Hastinapur. Here one encounters Bhishma (also known as Dyaus), Krishna and the seeming, eerie similarity of his life and teachings with Jesus more than three millennia before his birth; it also portrayed the noble and heroic Pandava brothers and their common fiery wife Draupadi, the cunning and treachery of Shakuni and Duryodhan and the aftermath the great war of Kurukshetra from where narrated the classic masterpiece Bahagavad Gita.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here one observes the Power of the Human Phenomenon amid his/her strength and weaknesses, which I found profoundly and intellectually refreshing to compare with imposed conventionalities that instead portrayed the human seemingly likened to an unknowing sheep.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never mind the mediocre quality of the film, the dull cinematography, or the clumsy acting. Brace instead the profoundness of its ageless message that simply transcend beyond the film's shortcomings as it confounds one's bigotry, awakenes the dormancy, and speaks through one's very own Human soul.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brace also the sheer length of it. It composed more than 90 episodes approximately averaging 43-45 minutes each. (As of this writing, I'm still in the episode 70's.).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Link:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySSw8CdjIYk"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Mahabharat, Episode 1 (w/ English subtitles)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ySSw8CdjIYk&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ySSw8CdjIYk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-6250114507542011646?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/6250114507542011646/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=6250114507542011646' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/6250114507542011646'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/6250114507542011646'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/08/mahabharata.html' title='Mahabharata'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-7536906194397829561</id><published>2009-07-30T15:16:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T15:54:23.135+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christ'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Krishna'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Diyos'/><title type='text'>Christos</title><content type='html'>It may also be noted that the Greek translation of the Sanskrit name Krishna, was actually &lt;em&gt;Christos&lt;/em&gt;.  The English word "Christ" originated from the Greek term.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Tagalog term &lt;em&gt;Diyos&lt;/em&gt; supposedly originated from the Greek "Zeus" and the Sanskrit &lt;em&gt;Dyaus&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-7536906194397829561?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/7536906194397829561/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=7536906194397829561' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/7536906194397829561'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/7536906194397829561'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/07/christos.html' title='Christos'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-5367775753491573544</id><published>2009-07-20T08:05:00.029+08:00</published><updated>2009-07-28T07:13:22.768+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mindanao'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christ'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Council of Nicaea'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Krishna'/><title type='text'>Pre-Christianity</title><content type='html'>I once discoursed with a &lt;em&gt;Datu&lt;/em&gt; (the head of an indigenous tribe) somewhere in the ranges of Mt. Kitanglad (Mindanao island's highest peak next to Davao's Mt. Apo) who revealed to me that the reason it made them easier to convert to Christianity was due to its similarity with the ancient religion that their ancestors had once practiced centuries ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He narrated that like Christianity, their olden religion also believed in Trinity of the Godhead.  Amazingly, they also believed of their God-Son who, like the Christian's Jesus, also performed miracles, suffered and died, and ultimately resurrected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The remarkable parallelism was confirmed when I did my personal research years later on the creation of the Christian doctrine by the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD during the reign of Rome's Constantine the Great.  For the Council, the Roman emperor ordered the best and brightest intellectuals from around the known world to draft the Christian doctrine that became the creed of mainstream Christian Church even up to the present. It revealed that the life of the historical Jesus was a fusion of other major religious figures, which incorporated with it the virgin birth, slaughter of innocents, miracles, suffering and death, resurrection from the narratives of the Egyptian deity Mithra and the Hindu god Krishna who lived thousands of years before the first Christian churches were built.  This actually shattered conventional paradigms especially of fanatical Christian fundamentalism.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SmPBaV9qz-I/AAAAAAAAAvw/C8rsy6zjqMI/s1600-h/krishna-christ%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 286px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SmPBaV9qz-I/AAAAAAAAAvw/C8rsy6zjqMI/s320/krishna-christ%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360340639817584610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It may instead be possible that more ancient narratives had been preserved by Mindanao's indigenous tribes that dated back with the olden religious figures, and tracing its links, possibly originated with the deity Krishna of ancient India who reincarnated as a human and once lived around 3228 BC as narrated by the Hindu Epic, the Mahabharata.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-5367775753491573544?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/5367775753491573544/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=5367775753491573544' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/5367775753491573544'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/5367775753491573544'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/07/pre-christianity.html' title='Pre-Christianity'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SmPBaV9qz-I/AAAAAAAAAvw/C8rsy6zjqMI/s72-c/krishna-christ%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-132960526117044630</id><published>2009-06-18T10:16:00.018+08:00</published><updated>2009-07-24T01:35:36.344+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vimana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flying car'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spacedrive'/><title type='text'>vimana</title><content type='html'>Years ago, I told our househeld helper who belonged to one of the indigenous tribes of Davao, that I met a European friend who has been inventing a futuristic spacedrive vehicle with a technology that literally lets the car "float."  It was far from a naive conversation for I had been doing personal research and some of my sources revealed that in the ancient of days, there were indeed eras when such level of advancement did occur prior to Humanity's downfall into lower dimension, and then its supression and eventual loss of such knowledge from among the unknowing mainstream. I surmised that the indigenous peoples of Mindanao with their culture and legacy that survived (and still thrives) for centuries, may actually be preserving knowledge about these forgotten eras, unlike what conventional history books inform to the supposed "modern" society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her face somehow lit up, not out of surprise but rather out of seeming familiarity, and she replied in vernacular (paraphrased): &lt;em&gt;"Ingon ana man ang ginasakyan sa among mga katigulangan 'tong unang panahon&lt;/em&gt; (That's what our ancestors drove during ancient times)." Actually, I half-expected her reply. The knowledge must have been reserved only for her tribe and not intended, for the meantime, for those outside who may mock or ridicule such knowledge due to ignorance of the once grandiose, but long forgotten past.  She desisted from further sharing details about it when I inquired again, and I let her be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From my research, ancient texts and narratives did mention about these otherwise highly advanced contraptions.  In the Vedic literature of India (considered to be the oldest of all indian texts), these flying machines were even detailed into two categories, those that were manmade crafts that resembled airplanes, and those mysterious crafts not generally made by humans, and were identified into at least four different types replete with detailed descriptions.  These were called the &lt;strong&gt;vimana&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is an image of a vimana:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/Sjmz277F4EI/AAAAAAAAAuY/_WT6buSYSYw/s1600-h/vimana.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/Sjmz277F4EI/AAAAAAAAAuY/_WT6buSYSYw/s320/vimana.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348503788859023426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The vimana had intrigued me, for I suspected that some temples from mainland Asia whom our Maharlikan ancestors originated from, seemed to be shaped like a sort of 'rocket' launching into space.  Observe these temple images from India and Thailand and notice the eerie similarity with that of the soaring vimana above:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/Sjm5Bq6Nu_I/AAAAAAAAAug/wjp1Kb_8N-4/s1600-h/nandhi+temple.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/Sjm5Bq6Nu_I/AAAAAAAAAug/wjp1Kb_8N-4/s320/nandhi+temple.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348509470828641266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/Sjm5PeY_TQI/AAAAAAAAAuo/9TphVizr04U/s1600-h/thai+temple.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/Sjm5PeY_TQI/AAAAAAAAAuo/9TphVizr04U/s320/thai+temple.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348509707986226434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ironically, some of these temples were also called "vimana."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-132960526117044630?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/132960526117044630/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=132960526117044630' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/132960526117044630'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/132960526117044630'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/06/vimana.html' title='vimana'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/Sjmz277F4EI/AAAAAAAAAuY/_WT6buSYSYw/s72-c/vimana.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-358277892085839457</id><published>2009-06-07T23:45:00.012+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-08T08:06:12.075+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='free energy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viking'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science fiction'/><title type='text'>past and future</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SivrIe70v5I/AAAAAAAAAuI/klSkb5izpgE/s1600-h/future+city.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344623913780690834" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 262px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SivrIe70v5I/AAAAAAAAAuI/klSkb5izpgE/s320/future+city.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My researches about the country's past was partly culled from personal requirement for the composition of some of my science fiction stories. It gives personal proof and inspiration to my endeavors. Another is through the mentoring of my inventor friend from a small country in Europe. We established rapport since year 2000, and since then had been in communication for about 9 years now. He has prepared the blueprint for a vehicle that I considered my ideal 'dream car,' a futuristic contraption capable of 'levitation' by magnetic propulsion thereby using, virtually, "free energy". It was from him that I noticed firsthand attempts at deliberately supressing ideas and technologies like his by the political agenda of the vile opposite force. I vowed to be an 'internet activist' and confront those forces that supressed my otherwise quaint dream car with advocacies through internet forums and chatrooms, and witnessed the drastic stirring of world politics unfold before me, as intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The legacy of his nation's Viking heritage still managed to thrive with more preserved ancient insights to compare with other European places, although we both shared sentiments about threats to such legacies from infiltrating influences to our countries. I have noticed that his country's history had similarity with ours, being seafarers, especially with the Maharlikans, and even in contemporary in time as to the early stages in the creation of our nations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This rings with a quote I composed nearly a year ago and posted at my other &lt;a href="http://ricvilhori.blogspot.com/2008/07/measure.html"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;"The measure of how deep you probe the past will determine how high you aim for the future."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; -&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Ric Vil Hori&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-358277892085839457?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/358277892085839457/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=358277892085839457' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/358277892085839457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/358277892085839457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/06/past-and-future.html' title='past and future'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SivrIe70v5I/AAAAAAAAAuI/klSkb5izpgE/s72-c/future+city.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-54225771129409401</id><published>2009-05-24T07:48:00.015+08:00</published><updated>2009-05-28T05:08:49.150+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mindanao'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ancient artifacts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sarangani'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hermaphrodite'/><title type='text'>Mystery of Mindanao vases and ancient hermaphrodite ancestors</title><content type='html'>This article from the column "Bisag Unsa" written by multi-awarded historian and writer, Prof. Macario Tiu for MindaViews, narrated some interesting insights about the theories as to the origin of the anthropomorphic figures found in Southern Mindanao, specifically in Sarangani Province.  He also narrated about a very intriguing creation mythology of the Blaan, one among many indigenous groups fluorishing and preserving their ancient culture for centuries in the hills and mountains of Mindanao, about the very ancient humans who used to be hermaphroditic, i.e. having both male and female organs.  However, he has written his article in the local dialect, Bisaya.  Individuals interested to know more about the article may contact him through his email.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The myth about this very olden ancestry was also mentioned by the Greek philosopher Plato in one of his writings.  Based on my personal research, Mindanao's Blaan mythology especially pertaining to hermaphroditic ancestry, may actually be one of the most ancient accounts of human origins, in fact more ancient than the Sumerian mythology, considering the Sumerians were known as the most ancient of civilizations in the known world.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/ShiZsrP2OQI/AAAAAAAAAtg/lkPtfQkRXZs/s1600-h/sarangani+artifacts.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 215px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/ShiZsrP2OQI/AAAAAAAAAtg/lkPtfQkRXZs/s320/sarangani+artifacts.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339186351050209538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(ancient artifacts found in Sarangani, Southern Mindanao, photo courtesy of noelbynature)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Misteryo sa mga Banga sa Maitum&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ni Macario D. Tiu&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DAKBAYAN SA DABAW (MindaNews/10 Mayo) -- Dihang nadiskubre niadtong 1991 ang&lt;br /&gt;antigong mga banga sa Langob sa Ayob, Pinol, Maitum, Probinsya sa Sarangani, naukay pag-ayo ang mga arkeyologo ug ubang siyentipiko. Talagsaon man ugod kaayo ang porma sa banga nga ginama sa kulonong yuta ug giluto sa hinayng kalayo. Ang mga taklob sa banga hulmag nawong sa tawo nga naay mata, ilong, dalunggan, ug baba. Ang ibabaw sa ulo gipinturahan og itom. Naa say mga ulo nga gibuslot-buslot ug makapangutana ka kon gisuksokan ba nig lanot o unsa kahang butanga aron mosilbing buhok.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Naay mga taklob nga hulmag tawo gikan ulo hangtod pusod. Buot ipasabot, hasta ang abaga ug duha ka kamot ug mga tudlo apil sa hulma. Ang mga babaye mailhan kay gibutangan og mga tutoy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Segun sa radiocarbon test nga gihimo sa National Museum, ang mga banga nahimo sa mga tuig 5 WMK (wala pa matawo si Kristo) hangtod 400 HMK (human matawo si Kristo). Buot ipasabot, kining mga bangaa nag-edad nag 2,000 ka tuig.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ang sulod sa mga banga mga bukog sa tawo. Gihimo kining ikaduhang lubnganan sa mga patay, usa ka praktis nga ginahimo sa daghang kultura kaniadto. Human madugta ang lawas sa patay, ibalhin ang mga bukog sa banga ug ilubong pag-usab.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sumala sa taga National Museum, ang mga dagway sa banga naghulagway og mga indibidwal nga tawo. Lahi-lahi sila pagkahimo, morag tagsa-tagsa ka larawan. Naay nawong nga payat ug talinis og suwang, naay mga edaran na ug walay ngipon, ug naa say mga nawong nga nagngisi ug nagpakitag kompletong ngipon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ug ang dakong pangutana: Kinsa man kining mga tawo o tribu nga naghimo sa banga? Kining pangutana nahimong dakong talinghaga nga wala pay kasulbaran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Milalom ang misteryo kay niadtong Abril 2008, naa na say nakit-an nga susamang mga banga sa Langob sa Sagel pipila lang ka metro gikan sa Langob sa Ayob. Nadugangan ang kahingangha sa mga siyentipiko dihang narekober ang daghang mga tipak sa banga nga hulmag tawo niadtong Setyembre 2008. Sumala sa imbestigasyon, nakuha ang mga hulmag-tawong banga sa Maguid, Palembang, pipila ka kilometro gikan sa Maitum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Segun sa unang mga pakisusi, lahi kuno ang mga dagway sa banga sa Maguid tandi sa mga dagway sa banga sa Maitum. Naa sab silay pagkapareho, apan lagmit kuno, laing grupo sa tawo ang naghimo sa banga sa Maguid kaysa mga banga sa Maitum. Hinuon kining managkalahing grupo sa tawo dunay koneksyon. Dugang pa, morag mas karaan kuno ang mga banga sa Maguid kaysa mga banga sa Maitum segun sa pagkahimo niini.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ug ang dakong pangutana nagpabilin: kinsa man ang naghimo niining mga banga? Asa na man sila, kining “lost tribe?” Nakapangutana ang taga National Museum niini kay ang mga netibong Manobo, Teduray, ug Blaan nga nagpuyo dinhang dapita dili nagalubong sa ilang mga patay gamit ang mga pininturahang banga.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kanang pangutana kon kinsa ang naghimo sa mga banga sa Maitum akong gisulayag tubag niadto pang 2003 kalabot sa akong panukiduki sa kasaysayan sa Dabaw. Nganong nakaabot kos Maitum nga sakop na man ni sa Sarangani? Kana tungod kay sa pagsubay nako sa prehistory sa Dabaw, nagduda ko nga ang naghimo sa mga banga sa Maitum mao ang mga Blaan, usa ka tribu nga nagpuyo usab sa habagatang-kasadpang bahin sa Dabaw. Ang ubang kandidato nako nga&lt;br /&gt;maoy naghimo sa mga banga mao ang Tboli ug layo na kaayo, ang Teduray. Wala nako giapil ang mga Manobo (Dulangan) tungod kay nagtuo ko nga kini sila mga manunulong sa maong lugar, ug maoy hinungdan nganong naundang ang paghimo sa mga banga.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aduna koy pipila ka rason nganong Blaan ang naghimo sa mga banga. Ang akong mga argumento akong giapil sa akong libro “Davao: Reconstructing history from text and memory” (Research and Publication Office, Ateneo de Davao University, 2005). Karon, nausab na ang akong hunahuna. Ang akong nag-unang kandidato sa naghimo sa banga mao na ang Tboli. Nganong nausab man ang akong tubag? Ug mas una pa, nganong Blaan man ang akong tubag kaniadto?&lt;br /&gt;Una sa tanan, ang mga Tboli ug Blaan dug-ol kaayo nga tribu. Dili lang kay managsilingan silag teritoryo, halos managsama silag kultura. Mas daghan ang ilang pagka managsama kay sa ilang pagka managlahi. Magkasinabot silag sinultian kay ang ilang mga dila nahisakop sa usa ka pamilya sa lengwahe (lakip ang Teduray ug Giangan sa Dabaw!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unta ang mga timailhan pabor sa mga Tboli nga sila ang naghimo sa hulmag-tawong banga. Ang ilang teritoryo duol sa Maitum. Sa pagkakaron sa Cotabato, sila lang ang tribu nga nagahimog tawo-tawong bronse. Hangtod karon daghan kag mapalit ani sa Aldevinco. Nako pa, kon tighimo silag tawo-tawo nga bronse karon, dili ba posible nga kanang ilang katakos nakuha  ila sa ilang katigulangan nga tighimog hulmag-tawong banga? Apan sa akong pangusisa, naay miingon nako nga kahibalo man usab kuno mohimog pigurin (figurine) ang mga Blaan. Mas sikat lang kuno ang produkto sa mga Tboli. Busa mikiling ko sa mga Blaan tungod kay nasayod ko sa ilang mitos ug leyenda mahitungod sa paghimo sa unang mga tawo. Mao kini ang mubong bersyon:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sila si Fyuwe ug Sawe naghimog unang tawo gikan sa kulonong yuta. Naglalis silang duha kay gusto ni Sawe nga ang buslot sa ilong ipaatubang sa taas. Malumos ang tawo niana, matod pang Fyuwe, apan nagmatinumanon si Sawe. Dihang mitalikod si Sawe, giliso ni Fyuwe ang ilong paubos, apan sa iyang pagdali-dali, naduot niya ang ilong sa tawo. (Mao na nga pango ta, hahaha!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sa akong pagtuo, kining karaang mitos nagpamatuod nga ang mga Blaan dunay tradisyon nga tighimog tawo gikan sa kulonong yuta. Sa usa ka bersyon sa ilang mitos, gimando sa Diwata nga tipigan nila ang ilang buhok tungod kay mao kini ang materyal nga gamiton sa pagpasanay sa ilang kaliwat. Aha, sa hunahuna ko pa, mao diay nga gihatagan nilag espesyal nga atensyon ang buhok sa ilang hulmag-tawong banga. Ilang gibuslot-buslotan ang ulo sa ilang hulmag-tawong banga! Ug busa mihukom ko nga mga Blaan ang naghimo sa mga banga sa Maitum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eksayted ko sa akong linya sa paghunahuna tungod kay nasayod sab ko sa ilang mitos mahitungod sa kinatawo sa tawo. Sa unang panahon kuno, ang kinatawo sa mga tawo nahimutang sa ilang tuhod. Ang utin naa sa tuong tuhod, samtang ang bilat naa sa walang tuhod. Wala kunoy mahimo ang mga tawo kay magsige na lag palami, ug busa giusab ni Fyuwe ang gikahimutangan sa mga kinatawo. Mao na ni ang resulta karon, naay lalaki, naay babaye. Mao tingali ni nga lahi ang banga nga lalaki, ug ang banga nga babaye!? Matag analisis nako sa mga mitos sa Blaan, misamot ko kakombinsido nga ang mga Blaan ang naghimo sa mga banga sa Maitum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karong tuiga, nakahigayon kog estorya og mga Tboli ug nausab ang akong panlantaw mahitungod sa mga banga sa Maitum. Taudtaod na sab ko nga nakig-interaksyon sa mga Tboli apan ang akong nasayran sa ilang binaba nga literatura (oral literature) mao ang ilang bayaning si Tod Bulol ug ang iyang kabayo nga si Kaunting. Dihang mipokus ko sa ilang mitos sa pagmugna sa tawo, dako ang akong sorpresa dihang akong nasayran nga susama diay silag estorya sa mga Blaan! Sumala sa usa ka bersyon sa Tboli, ang naghimo sa unang tawo gikan sa kulonong yuta mao sila si Hyuwe ug Sedekwe! Sama sa bersyon sa Blaan, naglalis sab ni silang duha mahitungod sa pagpahimutang sa ilong ug kinatawo. Kamatikdan nga halos susamag ngalan kining mga tighimog tawo, si Hyuwe sa Tboli, Fyuwe sa Blaan; ug Sedekwe sa Tboli, Sawe sa Blaan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Girebyu nako ang gilangkobang teritoryo sa mga Tboli. Gikan sa mga interbyu ug karaang dokumento sama sa taho sa mga katsilang pari kaniadto, akong napamatud-an nga mga Tboli ang netibung tribu nga nagpuyo liyok ug luyo sa Maitum. Dihang nabasa nako nga ang mga Tboli nagapraktis og tamblang – ang paglimbas sa ngipon ug bangkil aron motupong ang tanang ngipon – akong gisusi ang mga retrato sa mga antigong hulmag-tawong banga ug nakita nako nga kadtong nagngisi morag tupong og mga ngipon! Miswak na sab sa akong teyoriya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ang hinungdan nganong tupongon sa mga Tboli ang ilang mga ngipon mao nga gusto nilang ipanaglahi ang ilang kaugalingon isip tawo gikan sa mga hayop nga bangkilan. Karaang praktis nila ni nga dili na ginasunod sa mga bag-ong tubo. Unya, akong gisusi ang mga tawong pigurin nga bronse nga gihimo sa mga Tboli karon, ug akong namatikdan nga kadaghanan, kondili man tanan, nagnganga, morag gusto nilang ipakita ang ilang mga ngipon. Gagmay lang ang gidak-on sa mga tawo-tawong bronse ug lisod gyod tingali ang paghimog ngipon gamit ang “lost wax process.” Busa hangtod na lang sila sa pagnganga.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daghan pag angay susihon sa mga hulmag-tawong banga aron hingpit ang akong pag-analisis ani. Sayang wala pa koy higayon nga makita sa personal ang mga hulmag-tawong banga aron unta ni mabutingting pag-ayo. Hangtod lang ko sa mga retrato. Namatikdan nakong buslot silag dalunggan, samtang ang mga babaye nagsuot og pulseras ug kulintas. Ang ubang banga naay mga dekorasyon nga nagkulot nga linya, susama gyod sa makita sa modernong tawo-tawong bronse sa mga Tboli.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas molig-on pa gyod unta ang akong teyoriya nga ang mga Tboli ang naghimo sa mga hulmag-tawong banga sa Maitum kon madugangan ang reserts didto mismo sa Maitum ug makainterbyu kog mga Lumad didto. Basin duna silay ikadugang mga datos. Aw, hinuon, andam sab ko mapamatud-ang sayop ang akong teyoriya ug nga ilabay ni sa Bankerohan River.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Ang “Bisag Unsa” regular nga kolum ni Macario D. Tiu para sa MindaViews, ang seksyon sa opinion sa MindaNews. Si Mac usa ka Palanca awardee ug National Book awardee. Usa usab siya ka propesor sa Ateneo de Davao University. Puyde nimo ma-email si Mac sa mac_tiu@yahoo.com.ph)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mindanews.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=6356"&gt;Minda News: Bisag Unsa by Macario Tiu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-54225771129409401?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/54225771129409401/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=54225771129409401' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/54225771129409401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/54225771129409401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/05/mystery-of-mindanao-vases-and-ancient.html' title='Mystery of Mindanao vases and ancient hermaphrodite ancestors'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/ShiZsrP2OQI/AAAAAAAAAtg/lkPtfQkRXZs/s72-c/sarangani+artifacts.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-2417995658700590117</id><published>2009-05-16T09:48:00.040+08:00</published><updated>2009-12-20T11:07:42.442+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giants'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nephilims'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dinagat'/><title type='text'>Did the Nation's ancient history originate from Southern Mindanao?</title><content type='html'>The country's mainstream history lessons vaguely narrate about its people's ancestry dated to as far as 50,000 BC. The remains of a skull cap was discovered however, in the Tabon caves of Palawan and was carbon dated at about 22,000 BC. Centuries later, waves of migrants with their swift wooden boats called 'balangays' (from which came the basic government unit termed as "barangay") then settled in the archipelagic islands where they established small towns and colonies. But informations relative to these were not as preserved, owing to the fact that most of the legacies were destroyed due to religious bigotry exhibited by Spanish colonizers who arrived by the 16th century. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More extensive informations however, were made available primarily from documents by the colonizers and from whose sources most of the country's conscious history had based itself. In the Filipino psyche the making of the nation's history were mostly dependent on Spanish documents, and conventional national consciousness dictated that the nation's extensive history began in the islands of Visayas and Luzon (although some historians argue that first mass held between the locals and the Spanish explorers began somewhere in Masau, Butuan in Mindanao and not in Limasaua, Leyte in the Visayas).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still, the country's pre-colonial history remained vague. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(255,204,102)"&gt;However, there were research that among the earliest migrants, a wave of settlers had arrived in the southern shores of Mindanao, in present day Palembang, Sultan Kudarat (ironically, Palembang was also the name of ancient Sri-Vijayan Empire's capital city based in Sumatra, Indonesia) from as early as 500 AD&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. From there the early peoples spread towards the whole of the island. It was only later that other waves of migrants arrived in other parts of Visayas and Luzon during the 11th and 13th century by small groups that resisted the Islam faith and political systems of the mainlands, or seeking freedom and better sustenance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, the history of Southern Mindanao may even be much older than that. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(255,204,51)"&gt;As if plucked out from myths and legends, old tales narrate of ancient tribes of giants known as Dinagats that once lived in Samal island that now faces the modern city of Davao, south of Mindanao. Except that these enigmatic, extinct race were neither myths or legends, for archeological evidences and skeletal excavations were documented even by foreign French and German scientists, and local resarchers as well, and even by construction workers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Despite an otherwise gem of history that any self-respecting nation would have treasured, these did not register much to the national consciousness, probably because some mediocre Filipino historians and closeminded academicians bluntly stifled it off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/Sg5xMFhd6hI/AAAAAAAAAsw/O2Upt8CQ12E/s1600-h/nephilim+skeleton.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 269px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336327060935535122" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/Sg5xMFhd6hI/AAAAAAAAAsw/O2Upt8CQ12E/s320/nephilim+skeleton.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The giants were eventually eliminated through poisoning by neighboring groups (they drifted a raft filled with delectable food) in retaliation for their misdeeds (which the giants mistook as offerings in submission to their 'superiority'), for the giants would often raid and steal from these villages, and kidnap their women. Some children borne out of it retained the gargantuan features and they were assimilated with the tribe, while those borne of small stature were given less attention and segregated with the women. These however, proved fatal for the giants as they were the only ones allowed to feast on the poisoned food. Eventually the giants died, leaving only the smaller people as survivors. To differentiate from the giant Dinagats, they called themselves Samal, meaning "leftovers" or "dregs."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These giant races had been mentioned in Biblical passages and known as "Nephilims," or by more historical sources, from the documents of the Sumerians, the most ancient of civilizations in Post-Deluvian human history that were once based in present day Iraq and dated to as far as 6000 BC but mysteriously vanished about 2000 BC. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(255,204,51)"&gt;It should also be noted that the creation mythology of the Samals was intriguingly similar with that of the ancient Sumerians.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The giants were known to be hybrid offsprings, being borne out from the union of "gods" and humans. there were also other giant skeletal remains excavated in many parts of the world such as the Euphrates Valleys and in Europe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/ShN97CvPL-I/AAAAAAAAAs4/xH-agvXff-g/s1600-h/giant+turkey.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 161px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337748436664922082" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/ShN97CvPL-I/AAAAAAAAAs4/xH-agvXff-g/s320/giant+turkey.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;("Human" skeletal femur found in Turkey and exhibited in Texas)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(A part of my personal research about the Samal giants were sourced from a narrative by &lt;a href="http://www.upmin.edu.ph/ojs/index.php/banwa/article/viewFile/32/37"&gt;Maria F. Mangahas&lt;/a&gt;, the others were from actual accounts narrated by an acquaintance who met with the natives of Samal, but both accounts confirmed similarities)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-2417995658700590117?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/2417995658700590117/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=2417995658700590117' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/2417995658700590117'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/2417995658700590117'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/05/did-nations-ancient-history-originate.html' title='Did the Nation&apos;s ancient history originate from Southern Mindanao?'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/Sg5xMFhd6hI/AAAAAAAAAsw/O2Upt8CQ12E/s72-c/nephilim+skeleton.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-3017115203718779669</id><published>2009-05-02T18:29:00.016+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-21T06:46:26.354+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maharlikan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maharlika'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Manny Pacquiao'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='boxing'/><title type='text'>Manny the Maharlikan</title><content type='html'>A few days ago, I noticed considerable increase of readership in the blog that prodded me to trace its origins.  I discovered that most of these came from surfers around the world who typed in search engines the word, "maharlikan."  It seemed unusual since many of the researchers didn't come from the country, until I found a recent article about Manny Pacquiao entitled &lt;a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gareth_a._davies/blog/2009/04/21/video_exclusive_is_pacquiao_a_symbol_of_the_return_of_the_maharlikan_"&gt;"Is Pacquiao a Symbol of the Return of the Maharlikan?"&lt;/a&gt; by Gareth Davies of telegraph.co.uk.  It is most likely this article that prodded world curiosity about the term Maharlikan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is an excerpt:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"The Philippines has lost the essence of being a true Maharlikan nation. Long before the Spanish conquered the island [and renamed it after the Spanish royal Felipe]  the Maharlikans were a great nation. The spirit of the Maharlikan was imbued with a sense of royalty, and one of divinity. Manny has that parallel in his life. He has the truism of a real national hero."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Incidentally, among the individuals interviewed by Mr. Gareth was Mr. Granville Ampong, editor and publisher of the Maharlikan Times, and he was the first to post comment in this blog.  It's an honor indeed, Sir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manny Pacquiao has become a household name in this country.  So endeared was Manny that he was given such titles as "Pambansang Kamao" (National Fist) and became the first Filipino boxer to be printed on postage stamps.  it is even written in the country's law that the Army will go to Pacquiao's aid in the event of danger to his family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manny's early life was one of hard poverty that his family even lived in dwelling made of cardboard boxes. Manny's mother raised the future hero with belief in God and at first wanted him to be a priest. A crucial event happened in Manny's life one day when he brought home a stray dog. Enraged, his drunk father cooked and ate the stray dog to punish him.  Horrified, Manny packed his bags and stowed away in a boat bound for Manila, about 500 miles from his home in Southern Mindanao.  From then on, he has continually made unprecedented mark in world boxing history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SfwpYh2ELaI/AAAAAAAAAsA/PZtZZMMr19g/s1600-h/manny.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 219px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SfwpYh2ELaI/AAAAAAAAAsA/PZtZZMMr19g/s320/manny.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331181560278560162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-3017115203718779669?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/3017115203718779669/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=3017115203718779669' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/3017115203718779669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/3017115203718779669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/05/manny-maharlikan.html' title='Manny the Maharlikan'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SfwpYh2ELaI/AAAAAAAAAsA/PZtZZMMr19g/s72-c/manny.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-3236715058762300957</id><published>2009-05-02T06:27:00.016+08:00</published><updated>2009-05-03T11:43:00.509+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='talaingod'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arakan valley'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='north cotabato'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='davao'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='burma'/><title type='text'>Arakan</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/Sft4-cWCNsI/AAAAAAAAArw/d0zmHkRquIk/s1600-h/arakan+luca+tettoni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 208px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/Sft4-cWCNsI/AAAAAAAAArw/d0zmHkRquIk/s320/arakan+luca+tettoni.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330987598078949058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;Arakan, Burma&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Burma (presently known as Myanmar), there is a place called Arakan.  Among its inhabitants were an indigenous tribe known as "Mon."  The other name for these people are "Talaing."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Marilog, Davao City, a vantage roadside overlooks a scenic, panoramic landscape known, "coincidentaly," as the Arakan Valley.  It is a municipality of North Cotabato that borders the city.  Many indigenous and migrant inhabitants settle in the area.  Among them were the tribes known, also "coincidentaly," as "Talaingod," which means "mountain people" and a sub-group of the Ata-Manobo tribe that inhabit the Arakan Valley. A certain municipality in nearby Davao del Norte was also known as Talaingod.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/Sft6nwnADNI/AAAAAAAAAr4/gzNwvsxbkEE/s1600-h/arakan+valley.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/Sft6nwnADNI/AAAAAAAAAr4/gzNwvsxbkEE/s320/arakan+valley.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330989407405083858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Arakan Valley, North Cotabato as seen from Davao City boundary&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are discussions as to the origin of the word Arakan.  in Burma, it was locally known as Rakhine, and among its versions the possibility that it originated from Rakkhapura meaning the people of Rakhasa in honor of preservation of national heritage or ethics.  The Arakan Valley in North Cotabato, Mindanao was supposedly derived from the Manobo words "Ara," which means abundance of resources, and "Kan" that means bravery, valor, and also referring to one of the rivers of the valley.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-3236715058762300957?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/3236715058762300957/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=3236715058762300957' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/3236715058762300957'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/3236715058762300957'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/05/arakan.html' title='Arakan'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/Sft4-cWCNsI/AAAAAAAAArw/d0zmHkRquIk/s72-c/arakan+luca+tettoni.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-3216155091859938826</id><published>2009-04-26T17:52:00.014+08:00</published><updated>2009-04-28T08:49:41.178+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inanna'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mother'/><title type='text'>Inanna</title><content type='html'>I recently discovered that the Sumerian artifact posted from the previous blog was the image of the Sumerian goddess Inanna.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SfQvjITPEGI/AAAAAAAAArI/cEPgjcvDnUM/s1600-h/sumerian+face.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 208px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SfQvjITPEGI/AAAAAAAAArI/cEPgjcvDnUM/s320/sumerian+face.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328936539656228962" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inanna, according to Sumerian account was given dominion over the Indus Valley region (now presently located in Pakistan, but the region had been very prominent in ancient Hindu narratives).  Akkadians and Babylonians called her Ishtar.  In ancient times she was addressed as Queen of Heaven.  Although she was not considered a "mother goddess," she headed a long line of female deities identified with feritlity of the natural world.  The Babylonians however, call Ishtar as "High-Mother-Goddess."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SfQ8T68hKZI/AAAAAAAAArQ/i7sJCMAo-C0/s1600-h/inanna3.gif%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 220px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SfQ8T68hKZI/AAAAAAAAArQ/i7sJCMAo-C0/s320/inanna3.gif%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328950572024408466" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Could it be possible that the Tagalog words &lt;em&gt;Ina&lt;/em&gt; and the Visayan &lt;em&gt;Inahan&lt;/em&gt;, which means "mother," originated from the Sumerian goddess Inanna?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-3216155091859938826?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/3216155091859938826/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=3216155091859938826' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/3216155091859938826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/3216155091859938826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/04/inanna.html' title='Inanna'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SfQvjITPEGI/AAAAAAAAArI/cEPgjcvDnUM/s72-c/sumerian+face.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-5759443400910365250</id><published>2009-04-25T08:55:00.009+08:00</published><updated>2009-05-07T16:42:00.744+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dinagat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Moncado'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='island garden city of samal'/><title type='text'>enigmatic Samal</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SfJtBWfnN8I/AAAAAAAAArA/07xwTuxQifc/s1600-h/Samal_paradise%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SfJtBWfnN8I/AAAAAAAAArA/07xwTuxQifc/s320/Samal_paradise%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328441179118188482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even for locals living in Davao City, nearby Samal (that's only about 7 minute ride by barge from the mainland) is an island now gradualy revealing not just her beauty, but also her mystery.  It is a paradise-like island we thought we knew. We thought the island was just the next byword for tourism destination owing to its pristine beaches with even some areas having powdery white sand so fine that its shore could diffuse heat of the tropical sun as one walks over it, an island of breathtaking sceneries and unspoilt wonders that Davao region hopes to keep that way while balancing with progress.  Just a few years ago, it was also discovered that the island's batcave shelters the world's largest fruit bat colony (Geoffrey's Rousette species).  It turned out there's even more to the island.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From my recent personal research posted in the previous blog, enigmatic Samal may also have one of the country's oldest history, with its rich past even inhabited by legendary giants of yore (well, not necessary "legend," there were actual discoveries of giant skeletal remains that unfortunately were looted or neglected, add up the Philippines authorities' lack of enthusiasm in archiving these otherwise valuable legacies).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It also made me recall of another enigmatic religious group in Samal, the Moncadistas.  They are a religious colony known for their tradition of eating uncooked and raw food with no fish or meat.  The group was founded by Hilario Camino Moncado (1898-1956).  At nine years of age, he graduated with honors from the College of Mystery and Psychics in Calcutta, India.  During earlier times, many of the group's male members sported long hairs and beards.  The Moncadistas are known to be peaceful and law-abiding citizens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another personal observation that I tend to notice while in Samal, were the local dogs, yup, the local canines.  Unlike their counterparts in the mainland, it seemed that most local dogs in Samal do not have the habit of barking at strangers. Perhaps it was due to the geographical confines of the island, but I least expected that even these creatures could create a " canine culture" that is uniquely Samal.  I wonder if other visitors had noticed it too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It makes one wonder, even with locals, what enigmatic character would this beautiful island reveal next.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-5759443400910365250?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/5759443400910365250/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=5759443400910365250' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/5759443400910365250'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/5759443400910365250'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/04/enigmatic-samal.html' title='enigmatic Samal'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SfJtBWfnN8I/AAAAAAAAArA/07xwTuxQifc/s72-c/Samal_paradise%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-4773732220279384924</id><published>2009-04-15T07:50:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-08T08:23:46.121+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sumerian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sri vijayan empire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='davao'/><title type='text'>ancient Sumerian links?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I read before in a newspaper article that some of the earliest settlers in the country arrived in the shores of Southern Mindanao and landed particularly in the present municipality of Palembang, Sultan Kudarat (Palembang was also the name of the capital city of the ancient Sri-Vijayan empire based in Sumatra, Indonesia)sometime in the 5th century. This was somehow reconfirmed by this report that I read a while ago wherein stolen artifacts were discovered that could lead to a lost tribe:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE49N01120081024?feedType=RSS&amp;amp;feedName=scienceNews&amp;amp;sp=true"&gt;Artifacts discovery may lead to lost tribe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://forums.yellowworld.org/showthread.php?t=35565&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, I find the faces of these anthropomorphic artifact intriguing:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SeUnlV-RxGI/AAAAAAAAAqg/mQde5GxaL7Q/s1600-h/anthropomorphic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324705656942478434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SeUnlV-RxGI/AAAAAAAAAqg/mQde5GxaL7Q/s320/anthropomorphic.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As anyone may notice it seemed to have striking similarity, particularly with the distinct "eyebrow" pattern, with that of an ancient Sumerian artifact:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SeUpC4P378I/AAAAAAAAAqo/JREfjPB5Ax8/s1600-h/sumerian+face.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324707263870922690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 208px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SeUpC4P378I/AAAAAAAAAqo/JREfjPB5Ax8/s320/sumerian+face.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SixZpIhh9SI/AAAAAAAAAuQ/H16dcvo4RAI/s1600-h/2007_11_16TellAsmar%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344745420979565858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 234px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SixZpIhh9SI/AAAAAAAAAuQ/H16dcvo4RAI/s320/2007_11_16TellAsmar%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not surprisingly, I had once read about the creation mythology of another indigenous group, the Samal tribe in Davao hours away from the find but still south of Mindanao, having similarity with the creation mythology of the ancient Sumerians. Ancient stories also narrate about a certain giant race known as the "Dinagat" that once inhabited Samal Island. But these giants were rude and bullying, and would often raid neighboring mainland villages, stealing and violating their women. The giants were eventually eliminated by the opressed villagers by drifting a boatload of poisoned food, in retaliation for their offenses. Skeletal remains of these giants were said to be discovered in some parts of the island, but some of these were looted through the years. These reminded of the biblical giants of yore that were offsprings of nephilims, part 'god' and part humans. It is evident that biblical accounts borrowed their sources from ancient Sumerian knowledge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Sumerians were considered to be the oldest yet strangely advanced civilization that existed in the Fertile crescent (present day areas in Iraq) during the post-deluvian era (after the Flood). The father of biblical Abraham (his name was changed from Abram after converting to monotheism, supposedly from the Sanskrit word "Brahma") was a Sumerian priest. The Sumerian civilization mysteriously vanished thousands of years ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-4773732220279384924?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/4773732220279384924/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=4773732220279384924' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/4773732220279384924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/4773732220279384924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/04/ancient-sumerian-links.html' title='ancient Sumerian links?'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SeUnlV-RxGI/AAAAAAAAAqg/mQde5GxaL7Q/s72-c/anthropomorphic.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-3623632782713595355</id><published>2009-01-20T22:34:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-05-04T17:26:29.736+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='visigoth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tisoy'/><title type='text'>If tisoy, chances are your great great grandparents invaded Rome</title><content type='html'>Chances are if you're Pinoy na tisoy (slang for spanish word &lt;em&gt;mestizo&lt;/em&gt;, or of mixed lineage) with Spanish blood, your great, great and great grandfather may be a terrible invader of, what else but the magnificent, mighty, ancient city of Rome. They were known as the Visigoths.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As Roman historians claimed, this dreadful, hideous, wandering tribe entered the formidable walls of the great city between the years 408-410 AD. The horrible "barbarians" pillaged and looted the once mighty capital of its wealth and splendour. According to them, that was. But heck, the credibility of some of the paid hacks may as well be compared to the puppet corporate media of today that duped you to non-existent WMD's for the oil blessings war. At least though, they didn't mention much about raping and grudgingly admitted that the "barbarians" murdered, but just a little bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obviously, history classes at school didn't mention everything either. The root of the historical conflict may be probed due to the corrupt and unreliable Roman leaders of that time. For many years the Visigoths waited for the promise of Rome to give them land in exchange for the service of fighting against a common barbaric enemy, the Huns. But corruption, prejudice and the unfulfilled promise caused much resentment among the Visigoths who finally threatened to lay siege to Rome. The Visigoth king, Alaric I, an admirer of the city's magnificence, made ways to avoid destroying it by agreeing to withdraw upon payments of gold and silver. When the exiled emperor, Honorius, refused to sign the treaty, Alaric I demanded the surrender of Rome and the terrified inhabitants opened its gates (courtesy of Visigoth 'slaves'). He then appointed another emperor for Rome, but the bloke ruled so badly. Amazingly, Alaric I decided to restore Honorius, but the emperor's barbarian chief treacherously attacked Alaric, which proved unsuccesful. The angered Visigoth King finally laid siege to Rome, and, after the previously botched attempt at appointing another individual, crowned himself and sat at the emperor's throne (parang si Bonifacio).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Curiously, Alaric I made clear his command to spare the Christian churches. Modern historians theorize that the Visigoths may not necessarily be "barbarians" as the olden Roman historians wanted people to believe, but rather they may be a Christianized tribe that had to deal with a decaying and corrupt Roman Empire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eventually, the Visigoths proceeded westwards and created a powerful Kingdom with boundaries that stretched into what are now the modern regions of France, and, the home of the country's colonizers, Spain.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-3623632782713595355?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/3623632782713595355/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=3623632782713595355' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/3623632782713595355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/3623632782713595355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2009/01/if-tisoy-chances-are-your-great.html' title='If tisoy, chances are your great great grandparents invaded Rome'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-4901965700092974153</id><published>2008-06-29T08:37:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-04-22T10:19:22.941+08:00</updated><title type='text'>a comment</title><content type='html'>A comment I posted at a Philippine forum that discussed about phenomenons that my occur in this planet as 2012 approaches:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Being skeptical may be beneficial, but it remains to be seen whether one has enough discernment amidst the hoaxes, the fragility of the truth would be noticed and preserved when the valuable moment finally comes. In this case, especially in this country with a naive people subliminally manipulated to servitude of outside 'masters' seen or otherwise, so obviously glaring by name of country itself yet they do not even notice it, the lack of discernment could result to destroying and loosing certain fragile truth such that the damage could be tragically wasted like pearl thrown to a pig stye.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The issue does not rely whether you or I believed it or not when such mysteries in the universe will always exist and extend and it will always be there in the great vastness that starkly contrasts arrogant but myopic, narrowminded opinions like tiny irrelevant speck.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-4901965700092974153?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/4901965700092974153/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=4901965700092974153' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/4901965700092974153'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/4901965700092974153'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2008/06/comment.html' title='a comment'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-2456712654341496755</id><published>2008-06-26T10:31:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-06-26T21:12:42.047+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Pinoy ka kapag...</title><content type='html'>This is my recent post to a pinoyexchange thread entitled "Pinoy ka kapag.." (You're Pinoy if...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A poster commented on his/her professor who mentioned that Maharlikan meant royal blood. I believe however, that Maharlika is a state of mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Ok. Maari rin namang maging kadahilanang ang isang tao ay Maharlikan sa sinaunang panahon sa dugo kung ipinanganak ka ng Maharlikan na magulang. Pero ang wastong kahulugan talaga ng Maharlikan sa mga ancestors natin ay isang Malayang Tao. Marahil naging Maharlikan siya dahil sa mga magulang niya. Nguni't maari ring Maharlikan siya dahil sa noble act or great effort upang makamtan ang kalayaan. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Siguro kung alipin ang isang tao sa isang imperyo malayo sa bansa natin at nanaiisin niyang maging malaya, tatawirin niya ang malawak na karagatan tungo sa bansa natin at kapag makaligtas sa mapanganib na paglakbay, tumpak maging malayang tao siya at makapagbagong-buhay sa bansang ito. O di kaya pinalaya siya ng kanyang amo dahil sa kabutihang nagawa. Kaya noong sinaunang panahon napakaganda bansaging Maharlika ang isang tao (na binastos ng isang pilipinong 'iskolar kuno' centuries later).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I believe being Maharlikan is a state of mind dahil sa Sanskrit na maha lekha na ibig sabihin ay Noble Creation or Great Effort. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Matindi kasi ang Sanskrit, ang quality nito ay maihahambing sa Greek at Latin na malalim ang definition ng mga salita.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ang kinaiinisan ko lang bakit ang mga educational institutions ng bansang ito hindi gaanong nag research sa pre-colonial history ng bayan. Kaya pala when compared to other countries' universities palaging kulelat sa quality, kahit magaling pa kuno sa ingles. Kasi sa ibang bansa tinuturuan sila on building their very own countries, strengthening its culture, fostering its creativity as a nation. Eh dito sa Pilipinas tinuturuan lang how to be efficient commodities for the economic machinery at dinidisregard ang pagpapalakas sa kultura natin bilang isang bayan at palaging naka inculcate sa mga estudyante to serve efficiently the foreign masters, and that the struggle against them only results to futility. Eh karamihan nga hindi marunong mag appreciate ng Art sa nation building. Kaya kahit yang mga premiere schools pa ipinagmamalaki ninyo, kulelat pa rin mga yan to compare with other countries' educational institutions (kahit hindi magaling mag-ingles mga teachers) pagdating sa survey kasi sa kanila they empower their very own countries, unlike dito sa pinas. Dapat magdemand kayo ng pagbabago sa mga schools ninyo at iba pang govt insitutions, magdemand kayo sa mga professors ninyo na mag research sila sa pre-colonial history natin dahil hindi pa nila ginampanan ang dapat matagal nang ginawa nila, at naging kulelat ang bayan dahil sa kakulangan nila bilang educational institutions.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Para hindi OT, sasabihin ko na lang na pinoy ka kapag ganyan ginawa sa inyo ng educational institutions ninyo.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Very sad, but I must say it."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?t=350490&amp;amp;page=3"&gt;http://pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?t=350490&amp;amp;page=3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-2456712654341496755?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/2456712654341496755/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=2456712654341496755' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/2456712654341496755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/2456712654341496755'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2008/06/pinoy-ka-kapag.html' title='Pinoy ka kapag...'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-4746299721056632754</id><published>2008-06-20T19:23:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2008-06-20T19:32:36.102+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Maharlikan individuals</title><content type='html'>I have discovered in the internet search engine some indivudals who also prefer to call themselves as Maharlikan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will differentiate them over the rest of typical, mediocre Filipinos who are content at even naming themselves as mere subjects of a foreign colonizer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://pagodkanaba.blogspot.com/2007/12/maharlika-ang-dakilang-lahi.html"&gt;http://pagodkanaba.blogspot.com/2007/12/maharlika-ang-dakilang-lahi.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://eksite.com/x.html?http://eksite.com/osmubal.080115.html"&gt;http://eksite.com/x.html?http://eksite.com/osmubal.080115.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://kaligutpay.meemax.net/2006/06/20/maharlika-ating-bayan/"&gt;http://kaligutpay.meemax.net/2006/06/20/maharlika-ating-bayan/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-4746299721056632754?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/4746299721056632754/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=4746299721056632754' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/4746299721056632754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/4746299721056632754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2008/06/maharlikan-individuals.html' title='Maharlikan individuals'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-6320138247949105561</id><published>2008-06-09T18:21:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-04-26T20:59:59.160+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maharlika'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alipin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marcos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='philippines'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dictator'/><title type='text'>of dictators and idiocy</title><content type='html'>The Cold War Era back in the 70's and 80's was a time of turmoil and conflict in the country. The despised dictator ruling the Philippines, protected by alien interest as most 3rd world despots during those times were, wielded with iron hand against an unruly people, where civil disobedience was deemed fashionable as a way to combat the rise of his unholy powers and of his cronies, in the same manner that they deemed it fashionable to ape the culture of outside influences while trashing their very own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But then, it seemed not everything he did was dictated straight from alien devils. The dictator sponsored the International Rice Research Institute that experts unanimously agreed had actually helped resolve the threat of worlwide food shortage during that time. Many countries actually benefited from it, and its headquarters still stood proudly in the ricefields of Laguna, Philippines. Except that, ironically, at this very moment, the host country itself is actually experiencing an acute rice crisis with blasphemous prices, courtesy of alien multi-national corporations with their sky-rocketing costs for chemical-laced fertilizer and pesticide products (for decades they managed to suppress and humiliate the advocates for organic farming over hybrid rice that rely heavily on their chemical products), criminal rice hoarders, and inept land conversion policies. And this is long after the dictator was kicked out of the country. Strange, Makes one wonder who the devils turned out to be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SE0e5_nR-_I/AAAAAAAAASg/TrK1ipjskEY/s1600-h/ferdinandmarcos0hx.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209854325615098866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SE0e5_nR-_I/AAAAAAAAASg/TrK1ipjskEY/s320/ferdinandmarcos0hx.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The dictator, it turned out, also happened to have enough foresight over the rest of the hollywood-enthralled masses. He attempted to make a move to change the country's name from the glaringly obvious, colonial undertoned "Philippines" into the noble "Maharlika." With its invaluable benefit at inculcating nationalism and strengthening the psyche of an otherwise strife-torn country thanks to alien meddling, double-whammied with its own weakened identity, it was a move not just to empower himself, but the rest of his countrymen as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, the people too embittered with hardships and atrocities committed against them courtesy of worlwide manipulation by alien interests like the CIA (you mean, up to now you still didn't get it ?!?!), immediately held him suspect, convincing it a ploy for selfish aggrandizement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SE0hz01552I/AAAAAAAAASw/bxtBj8umLWI/s1600-h/marcos2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209857518179313506" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SE0hz01552I/AAAAAAAAASw/bxtBj8umLWI/s320/marcos2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most destructive damage done against the movement to rename the country came from a supoposedly Filipino academic "scholar". Re-echoed by a puppet corporate media (Time Magazine, 19 June 1989) to give weight to its "credibility" in the mindset of puppeteered hoardes, the supposed "scholar" convinced the gullible that &lt;em&gt;Maharlika&lt;/em&gt; stemmed from the Sanskrit word &lt;em&gt;maha lingam&lt;/em&gt;, which means "great phallus." Deeming it fashionable to disobey the alien supported dictator, the rest sucked up to it hook-line-and-sinker, no questions asked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That was before the Internet Era. Research any Sanskrit dictionary search engines today and you will discover that &lt;strong&gt;Maharlika&lt;/strong&gt; may have originated from the words &lt;em&gt;Maha Lekha&lt;/em&gt;, in which &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;Maha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; means &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;"great, noble,"&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;and&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;Lekha&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;/em&gt;meaning&lt;strong&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;"work, creation, writing."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Even the Tagalog language also incorporated it with &lt;em&gt;"likha"&lt;/em&gt;, which means 'create'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The use of Internet had virtually exposed the "scholar" to be the usual crab-minded dork for the otherwise irreparable damage he had done, and the 'credibility' of that magazine should be held in question.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ask anybody from what term Maharlika would come close into, whether &lt;em&gt;maha lekha&lt;/em&gt; (great work, noble creation) or &lt;em&gt;maha lingam&lt;/em&gt; (great phallus) and idiocy will unanimously choose the latter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the Philippines remained named up to this day, still brittle in its divisive state, lacking in national pride while the rest of its Asian neighbors race in stride with their much nourished cultural legacies (and Filipinos had the gall to wonder why).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Filipinos have chosen to be named as they are, as colonial 'Alipin' to invisible alien masters, glaringly gullible to the puppeteer's invisible strings, rather than as a free people, rather than as Maharlikans.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-6320138247949105561?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/6320138247949105561/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=6320138247949105561' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/6320138247949105561'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/6320138247949105561'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2008/06/of-dictators-and-idiots.html' title='of dictators and idiocy'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SE0e5_nR-_I/AAAAAAAAASg/TrK1ipjskEY/s72-c/ferdinandmarcos0hx.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-735517279875440134</id><published>2008-05-20T23:13:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-04-15T09:25:10.443+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maharlikan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maharlika'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='philippines'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='King Philip II'/><title type='text'>naming the country</title><content type='html'>The word "Philippines" came from the name of a Spanish King, Philip II. In 1543 the explorer Ruy Lopez de Villalobos coined the term by referring to this archipelagic cluster of islands as "Las Islas Filipinas" (Philip's Islands) in deference (perhaps even with affection) to the child heir of Spain's reigning monarch at that time, King Charles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hence, from the name of King Philip II, the word "Philippines" came into being.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wasn't it a relief for the unquestioning subjects that King Charles did not name his son as "Procopio."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SDL2c4vg8vI/AAAAAAAAANw/P8TGh4eE0yQ/s1600-h/Philip+II.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202491495694791410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SDL2c4vg8vI/AAAAAAAAANw/P8TGh4eE0yQ/s320/Philip+II.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-735517279875440134?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/735517279875440134/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=735517279875440134' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/735517279875440134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/735517279875440134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2008/05/naming-country.html' title='naming the country'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SDL2c4vg8vI/AAAAAAAAANw/P8TGh4eE0yQ/s72-c/Philip+II.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529756171189152832.post-8001877077404478624</id><published>2008-05-19T12:29:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-05-04T17:29:10.152+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maharlikan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maharlika'/><title type='text'>Maharlikan</title><content type='html'>I remembered back in history classes, during otherwise boring lectures about Manila-centric colonial past, defeated battle heroes, and a poem hinting about Filipinos being hostages to an uncertain future, a certain topic jolted me out from stealing a nap in the middle of an afernoon lecture under a hot tropical sun (to this day, I remained baffled why some school administrators see to it that history classes be held right smack during siesta time, as if to instigate a personal revolt in the name of one’s body clock).  The lecture classified the early pre-colonial society of native Malayan ancestors as the &lt;em&gt;Datu&lt;/em&gt; (the ruling elite), the &lt;em&gt;Alipin&lt;/em&gt; (in a stroke of seeming sophistication, these were further classified into &lt;em&gt;aliping sagigilid&lt;/em&gt; who served and lived in their masters’ houses for a lifetime, and the &lt;em&gt;aliping namamahay&lt;/em&gt; who served for a certain time and also independently owned houses.  Then, there was the &lt;em&gt;Maharlika&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Maharlika&lt;/em&gt; was a freeman.  Perhaps he was freed from the bondage of his previous master, perhaps he fought his way in becoming one, or he must have, as most of our Malay ancestors did, crossed the wide perilous seas on a swift and sleek outrigged boat called &lt;em&gt;balangay&lt;/em&gt; and dashed away for freedom towards an archipelagic cluster of islands far in the outskirt of the Pacific Ocean in which his confused, colonial brainwashed, culturally clueless, art unappreciative, advertising puppeteered offsprings now called – the Philippines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SDL7QYvg8wI/AAAAAAAAAN4/gCpKono0qVo/s1600-h/balangay.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SDL7QYvg8wI/AAAAAAAAAN4/gCpKono0qVo/s320/balangay.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202496778504565506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will decide to go against the flow of mediocrity and decadence prevalent in this naive society.  Even if need be, I can choose to travel alone and not fear solitude, but I will never be lonely.  I am with the stars and the stars with me, just as the &lt;em&gt;Maharlika&lt;/em&gt; must have felt when he gazed on them as he escaped with his balangay with nothing but the vast ocean in his midst, in the name of freedom.  I will do the seemingly formidabe and daunting task, i.e. free oneself.  And since decades of Americanized education resulted to seeming proficiency in using the English language, I will call myself &lt;strong&gt;Maharlikan&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why don't you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5529756171189152832-8001877077404478624?l=maharlikan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/feeds/8001877077404478624/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5529756171189152832&amp;postID=8001877077404478624' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/8001877077404478624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5529756171189152832/posts/default/8001877077404478624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maharlikan.blogspot.com/2008/05/maharlikan.html' title='Maharlikan'/><author><name>Ric Vil Hori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00816478748501059732</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ga5YhU9cmwk/SDL7QYvg8wI/AAAAAAAAAN4/gCpKono0qVo/s72-c/balangay.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry></feed>
