Awesome archaeological findings. I hope Philippines discover their roots, their ancient pride and ancient links with other Hindu Buddhist civilizations in the region. I believe ancient Philippines somehow have links and relationship with ancient Indonesians in Java (Medang Kingdom) and Sumatra (Srivijaya kingdom). Cheers from Indonesia.
But there's a problem, if filipinos are called maharlika MARK MY WORDS BROTHERS those neighboring sea asian countries will also claim that they too are maharlika! Kayo lang ang maharlika mga gwapo kaya mga pilipino.
YES philippines were once maharlika BUT being noble must also be physically gorgeous, like having green eyes. The indians were also noble people, with gorgeous green eyes, that's the reason why they are also refffered as arya.
Hell...if it werent for fuckin Europeans....the Philippines wouldve a whole lot different....pretty much better! now itz filled desperate blood sucking prostitutes and wannabe Hispanics.
@deeeEeEEEeEee33eem you have a choice,, either be a wannabe hispanic or a wannabe arab since manila used to be an islamic kingdom... but unfornately filipinos are wanna be whites now with skin bleaching soap
@SKULLxSNAPS dont forget Chinese too. we had Chinese, Rajhanates, Sultanates, Cheiftanes.
Chinese/Malays, thats were we got the gong from, my family in the Philippines has one. its been passed on and they simply didn;t just buy it from Chinatown. our hopia came from the mooncake.
I agree. As a fellow Asian, I too wish that Spain had never invaded and plundered the Asian cultural identity there. The "Philippines" is even named after a Spanish king. Hence the name "Filipinos" to name the inhabitants. I don't blame you for not wanting to call yourself a Filipino. As much as you may hate it, calling yourself "Filipino" would be like calling yourself a product of European imperial hegemony or "a product of the white man's crimes." The harsh truth.
The mestizos, illustrados, and the politicos of the past and present are the ones responsible for the oppression of the common Filipino. All the riches of the country, they plundered. That is why there is a huge disparity of wealth among its' people. Until this is corrected and the common people are educated and empowered, this dire situation will go on...
I am a Pilipino and the real name of Philippines is Mahalika/Maharloka meaning "Noble" the 7th Loka "Great Plane/World" or Heavens of Gods. And this is the over protected area of ancient sunken continent of Mu.
@MaharlokanSovereign MAHARLIKA is a sanskrit word i'm not sure of the meaning because according to sirach there is no such thing as "lika" in sanskrit. Filipino is a good, perfect and beautiful language i do not consider it as austronesian NOR malay language.
Butuan City, Cebu City, Sulu, Maynila (Lalo na sa Tondo) at Panay Islands. Dito naunang nanahan ang mga progresibong kaharian ng bansa bago pa man dumating ang mga Kastila. Talagang nakakalungkot. Pero hindi pa huli ang lahat. Puwede pa nating maibalik ang dating ginintuang panahon ng Pilipinas.
Butuan City, Cebu City, Sulu, Maynila (Lalo na sa Tondo) at Panay Islands. Dito naunang nanahan ang mga progresibong kaharian ng bansa bago pa man dumating ang mga Kastila. Talagang nakakalungkot. Pero hindi pa huli ang lahat.
Nakakalungkot.. An dami daming resources.. ginto.. mga bakal.. agham kaalaman.. Pero sa dami daming dekadang dumaan.. $3500 lang ang GDP/capita PPP ng Pilipinas Nung 1960.. Doble ang kinikita ng Pilipino sa average Chinese sa Red China.. at kalahati naman ang kinikita ng Pilipino kumpara sa average Japanese which is not bad Sino po ang nakakaalam kung bakit sa dami dami ng dekada maliban nalang sa mga ginawa ni Marcos ay walang progresso?.. tanggalin na natin ang corruption ano pa po kaya?
@miongwulong yes correct my factor din yun make us ignorant...but i will added infos to you that whole philippines never ben conquered and under by spain
The Philippines is one of the best countries to vacation. I have never seen or met people as nice as the Filipinos. I recall my mother years ago telling me to be very careful going to The Philippines yet one night in Baltimore where she resides I was afraid to use the cash machine twice in the same night...Viva Filipinas !
Another domesticated animal in India is the cattle called Zebu ( Bos Indicus ), some would think that it was the Vedic Aryans who brought them there. But again this was refuted by Mr. Manansala & other experts in this field. They believe that the cattles of India is related to the wild Banteng of southeast asia. Because these cattles are well adapted to the warm tropical climate, they are also found and domesticated in Indonesia since ancient times.
The Harrappan sites, which is one of the earliest Indian cities, did not represent horses in their art, which according to Paul Manansala is not very supportive in the Aryan Invasion theory. The horse that been domisticated in India is similar to Equus Sivalensis which is commonly found in southeast asia. This horse has zebra like dentition & 17 pairs of ribs compared to central asia, european, & iranian horses which have 18 pairs of ribs.
According to colonial western point of view India's ancient civilization was a result of the Aryan Invasion, which according to them brought writing argriculture and art to India. A study made by Paul Manansala suggest a different view, according to him there is no mention in the Rgvida of wheat, the staple diet of the Aryans, but instead mention rice. No horse remains found in the Harrappan sites, which is odd because the Vedic Aryans were nomadic and depend on horses.
The term indianized kingdoms that was first used by George Coedes is rejected by some contemporary scholars. They believe that the ancient kingdoms of S.E. Asia are indigenous and not influenced by Indian merchants. In my opinion if there was any influence that occured it would be from S.E. Asia to India. Because in ancient times only S.E. Asians were capable of venturing long distance sea voyage. The baybayin script is from Srivijaya, which we were once part of it, and not from India.
maharloka or maharlika aN old name sa country philippines. when spanish came it name change called la Filipinas but change to philippines which is in honor of king philipp of spain
I would just like to clarify my comment before about ancient filipino houses adorn with gold, I know I was ridiculed by another comment and said that there is no such thing. Actually if that fool would go to Bangkok Thailand in Wat Phra Kaew, there he would see Stupas and statues plated with gold. There are also some edifice there that have intricate carvings on the sides, plated with gold. If some of you have seen the video, that is what I'm talking about.
we even create da POWDER FOR GUNS AND CANNONS BUT ben claim made by chinese...actually we filipinos in past history we create make those powders and ben exported to china and japan... thats why THE FILIPINOS BIRTHRITE BEN STOLEN
PHILIPPINE HAS BUILLIOONS OF GOLD RESERVE from 1.yamashita treasure 2.European countries ben borrowed 3.American states ben borrowed 4.China also borrowed gold cut this 100 plus of foriegn countries borrowed golds from the philippines. 5.GOLD from MU 6.OIL AND GAS FROM PALAWAN 7.OIL AND GAS FROM MINDANAO 8. OIL AND GAS FROM SABAH 9 philippine is rich in natural resources we can use timber mines rocks and other natural resource 10 GOLD ben still recovered in ancient dynasty
when are the asian goig to stop shuning ther black african origins. one need only to look st REAL early photos or drawing , or for that fact read acutual accounts that distribe all the people of asian as black peroid. stop discounting the contribution of the so called negritos whom are the true builders of all asia , althoungh historians lie and attribate the builders to thier appelations MALAYS < DAVIADS . ok were did the malays originate ? i will tell you : AFRICA
only 15% of pinoys are mesitzo/mixed blood,20% are chinese immigrants, theres even a whole bunch of chinese influence in the fillippines, including china towns, and the influence of the food known as balut,"aborted duck fetus" and 65% are origanal fillipinos"malayo polynesians"
I imagine that maybe another uniquely Filipino kudlit would been developed for indicating final consonant sounds, seperate letters and kudlits for e and i, o and u and a letter for ra as well as combination letters for kha, gha, tsa, nya, ngka, ngga, ntsa, tha, dha, ndya, nta, nda, pha bha, mpa, and mba plus letters for some Sanskrit and Arabic sounds would of been developed.
We Filipinos should start digging more into our rich, ancient culture. Take a look at our Malay and Indonesian siblings, they present a more exotic culture than us. We have a country that is heavily influenced by Western culture more than our neighbors. A country that has mix-cultures of European, Western, Native, and Eastern cultures. We nearly have any identity. Here in the US, we are an invisible minority and yet we're the second largest Asian-Americans.
It's so ironic that the Mongols swept Europe in the 13th century like they were nothing, was not able not able to get a foothold in S.E Asia, nor the Chinese who had a mighty empire. This is where i am basing my observation in why our ancestors had fallen into Spanish rule, coz if they were not using missionaries to persuade our ancestors they probably had no way to control us, coz our fighting skills are far more superior than theirs and we do have metalcanons during those times called lantaka.
They fell for a variety of reasons not just because of friars. A lot of it had to do with the Spanish being able to manipulate local rivalry just as they did to the Aztecs. For example, they used Cebuano troops to dislodge Tausugs then had the Pampanguenos dislodge Tagalogs then Tagalogs dislodge Bicolanos then Ilocano soldiers dislodge Ilonggo, etc, and kept it up for the next 300 years. Then they solicited the local elite renamed them from datu to kapitan. Divide and conquer.
It's about time that S.E. asians particuarly filipinos should know their past. They should also know that metallurgy started here in S.E. asia when the whole world was still using stone tools we were already using bronze. The oldest bronze artifacts was found in BanChiang Thailand, that dates nearly 5,000 yrs old. Some historians still holds the belief that bronze started in the middle east, others doubt because of the lack of Tin reserves. While S.E. Asia has abundance both Tin & Copper.
You have done a great job gintongrajah i hope more people will see this. It is true that the spaniards have distorted our perception of ourselves. Long before westerners came to S.E. ASIA our ancestors already had the concept of a supreme being and after life. The spaniards took advantage of this, these foreigners were not able rule us because we're weak or that they have superior fighting skills and firearms, NO! but because of the fear of god our ancestors let them.
God(s). Many of the early Filipinos were animists but were influenced by Hindu-Buddhism. The word Bathala itself comes from Sanskrit. When the Spanish arrived, Islam had already reached Manila. Fr. Pedro Chirino, an early Spanish writer notes that there was mosques in Sapa (Sta Ana/Mandaluyong) and in Tondo. Maynila was under Tausugs and Tondo under Pampanguenos but they ruled Tagalog subjects. The Spanish exploited this. It wasn't about God. And it took 4 attempts to conquer the Phil.
Yes it is true that ancient filipino beliefs were similar to that of hindu and buddhism. But what i don't agree is when westerners see similarities in our culture to India or china, they would always assumed that it came from this two nations. Hinduism for instance, some attribute the Aryans for this, but nobody really knew when and where this religion started. The funny thing also is the faces of ancient statues of hindu gods don't resemble an Aryan or a Dravidian to me but Southeast Asian.
yes it wasn't about god when the Philippines fell under spanish rule, it was about manipulating the minds of my ancestors. making them believe that the only way for their soul to enter the kingdom of heaven was to serve the Pope and the King of Spain. why do you think the spaniards were able to use cebuano troops to dislodge the tausug. i don't believe that it was all the doing of spain, since they're the ones writing our history naturally they get all the credit and glory for it.
No I'm saying it wasn't about "salvation" or "manipulation" which is what you're saying. The Cebuanos went with the Spanish because they were annoyed with putting up with Bruneian, Maranao and Tausug rulers. Initially they thought the Santo Nino was a new rain god--as Fr. Pedro Chirino says. They felt they had a better deal--same way that some Indian nations supported Cortez against the Aztecs. You're still buying into the colonial history and those are also my ancestors you're talking about.
I am not buying any of that colonial history at all. It's very unreliable, like the alibata, according to spanish historians, we visayans just started to learn this during the time of Legaspi, when Magellan arrived in our shores we were illeterate. I find it very hard to believe, considering that there is already evidence that we were making intricate, fine jewelries hundeds of yrs before Magellan's arrival, and we can't make simple scribbles to indicate a meaning?
No, it wasn't the Spanish historians. The Spanish recorded that most Filipinos even women were literate and spoke Malay as a lingua franca. It was anthropologists in the 20th century that thought that the "alibata" was recently introduced and sure enough, its probably true because the writing system used in the Laguna Copper Plate is different from the alibata script--though both originated from India--and from the notes of Rizal who thought that the alibata didn't match Tagalog phonetics.
I just think that ancient filipinos were very superstetious, and it's human nature to seek it's true purpose in this world that is why it was easy for them to be converted into christians. I do not believe that there was any rivalry among ancient filipino kingdoms. Because if there were, there would have been forts and walled cities built, but there were none. It is an indication that there was no hostility, this things only appeared during the time of the spaniards.
Hm yes there were walled forts and fortified cities. Where Ft. Santiago is today in Manila was a walled fort built under Rajah Matanda. There is lots of Spanish accounts of forts throughout the Philippines and there are still some remnants of old pre-Hispanic forts in old Jolo and Palawan. There was lots of rivalries in pre-Hispanic Philippines. Sheesh. look at some of the tribal wars among the Igorots--who were head hunters--and Moros that happen just in the last 5 years.
Sheesh even where Luneta is today there was a walled fort. The difference between the walled forts of the Spanish and the Filipinos in those days was that the Filipinos used wood--often nara--instead of stone because it was more practical due to the earthquakes and flooding. I guess you haven't read the accounts of the expeditions of Legazpi or heard of the Battle of Bankusay. Legazpi did not conquer the Philippines. He used other Filipino groups to conquer each other than seized the loot.
i didn't say that they lived in peace and harmony all the time. that is why we have our own martial arts to maintain peace and order. these filipino groups that Legaspi used, are they really doing it because they're pissed at the tausugs or is there another reason why they're risking their lives and taking orders from a foreigner who they hardly knew? and why did they end up ruled by spaniards? why did churches started to sprout all over Manila and other parts of the Philippines?
Hm its called the polo tax which is part of encomienda system. All Filipinos were required under the Spanish to commit to a certain amount of labor per year--all depending on the encomiendero and/or the friar who acted as local representative of the Crown (since no separation of Church and State existed in Spain at the time). Filipinos were forced to build churches as part of their polo tax to the Spanish Crown . I guess you didn't hear about the Cavite Mutiny or the Dahogoy revolt.
none of that really matters to me, all that boring details doesn't impress me, the point is most ancient filipinos got converted into christians and fell on one of the biggest scams in the world. they served spain, got their gold looted, end of story.
That's a very ignorant thing to say. It shows that you don't actually love the history of the Filipino people. If you did, you would try to understand the social and economic aspects of our history. Those btw are not details. Those are intricate parts of why Catholicism became so strong and how much we were exploited as a people--not because your fairy tale reasons. I think your reading of Philippine history is very colonial. You make Filipinos out to be naive.
no, it's not that i don't love the history of the filipino people, it's just that we heard that story over and over again in our history class and it does not glorify our people or uplift our spirits. what i'm interested in more is what our culture was before the arrival of this foreign devils. you wouldn't know that because your polynesian.
Yeah I like how you switch to Bisaya because you can't respond in English or Filipino. It shows that you don't know what you're talking about and you can't articulate anything based on research, critical thinking and facts.
so if i speak in visaya, it means i don't know anything. i didn't criticize you when you were speaking in tagalog. well the reason why i believe that it did not came from India and why i believe that S.E. asian civilization go further back in antiquity is because there has been research made in Ankor wat, according to graham hancock this temple base it's pattern from the constillation draco, the time when draco was directly above ankor was around 10,500 b.c.
Tagalog? Filipino ang wikang pambansa natin. WIKANG PAMBANSA. Hindi regional language like Bisaya. I was using Filipino because you criticized my "Western" sources-- even though it has been validated by Filipino historians, anthropologists, and written records on three continents--and you stereotyped me which is racism.
according to Dr. sunil prasannan, sundaland might be the lost continent of Atlantis, on his essay he was making a comparison to the description of platos account and sundaland. when i read it, it surely convinced me.
what they are trying to suggest here, is that Ankor wat might have been originally built during this time 10,500 b.c. suggesting that there might have been an advanced civilization in S.E. Asia, and i don't think it's fairy tale that Sundaland also existed, it is known that there was a period in the world called the ice age which during this time sea levels were much lower and thus revealing the surface of the southeast asian continental shelf. the site of ankor is just a few kilometers away.
And where is your sources for this? You keep on asking me for my sources yet you don't bother to give any.
As for civilization, yeah we know that AUSTRONESIAN civilization--the mother civilization for most of the Pacific--goes back to at least 5,000 years ago by archaelogy and 11,000 by DNA. Now we have real evidence (not fairy tales like you provide) from Malaysia that it might go back older. But I would be wasting my time telling you this since you are magically talking to your ancestors.
10,500 b.c.?... Really? That really old like the end of the ice age old...There is SO many clues that are right in your face of Indian influence on the Ankor wat and the kings the ruled it...
cambodia is not that far away either from the Philippines, people in S.E. asia could easily go in and out and share knowledge, after all according to wilhelm solheim, there was already a maritime trading network which he calls the nusantao, this network existed around 5,000 b.c. or much further back .
I guess you don't know Cambodian history either. Look up "Champa". FYI before you make up more kwento, Champa was an Austronesian kingdom in southern Vietnam and Cambodia that predated and/or coexisted with the Thai, Khmer, and Viet Nams nation states and made tributary missions to China during the same season as Mindoro, Butuan, and Sulu. Note: there are no Chinese or Malay records of Cebu, Panay, or Negros but they have records of Luzon, Mindoro, Palawan and Mindanao kingdoms.
note: thai and lao never existed during the kingdom of champa, there were just chinese rejects lving in the nanzhao province of southern china, the kingdom of champa was really a split khmer division,who became bitter rivals, note because whhen you look at modern cambodia most of the cham population lives in cambodia and are never discramted against, and the chams used the same moderneized javenese script as the khmers
And don't you tell me about fairy tale reasons, you're the one who's posting a video about autronesian unity. as far as i know your poly family does not want to associate with us S.E. asians. I've read a lot of bad comments coming from your poeple, there's even one who warned us not to claim that we're related to them, he even mention that an Indonesian was stabbed in Australia because of it. you people are so arrogant and have too much pride, you have underestimated us S.E. asians
First off, you're making huge generalizations and many have comment positively. I get emails Samoans, Tongans, Hawaiians DAILY commenting positively on that video. Secondly, pinoy din ako. Thirdly, you are just as bad as the Spanish friars. You are making up kwento and making wide generalizations without ANY evidence to support it except some fairy tales you thought you probably made up pretending its "ancestral". I have scientific and historical evidence to back up everything I say unlike you.
Also we know that the Baybayin comes from India because we have archaeological evidence to support it and even Rizal said the same thing. Heck even Filipinos themselves in the 16th century said it was introduced abroad but it was modified to match Filipino orthography. So again, what sources do you have to support your comments? I think I will not call your comments fairy tales but rather lies.
No from written records. That's a really stupid question. You clearly don't know what you're talking about and sadly you lack the humility and are too lazy to actually research. You pass off your laziness to know our history as being "from your ancestors". I could retort the same question--where you there when the Spanish arrived? How are you basing your evidence? You talk about alibata but are clueless about the script used in the Laguna Copperplates. You're just making up info.
and where are you basing all these information from, spanish written accounts? it's all western point of view. it's all garbage to me, that is why i do not believe our ancient writing was recently introduced during the time of legaspi, but has been used even before the time Sundaland was finally flooded, and it did not came from India. just because civilization started 4,000 yrs ago in the west, it doesn't mean that the whole world also did. S.E. Asian civilization go further than that.
Noooo, I'm basing this on several decades of research from a variety of sources including Chinese, Rizal, and Filipino. It wouldn't kill you if you actually read an Filipino archaelogy book instead of Bob Ong once in a while. So all of these Western, Japanese, Chinese, AND FILIPINO doctors who spent their lives researching these things, the UP Anthro Department, the National Museum are all wrong and you're miraculously correct? Saan ka nakatira? Sa loob ng Mandaluyong?
This does not mean they were barbaric but all cultures have various interpretations of their own history and have local rival political clans. To say that Filipinos did not have forts or to say they lived in harmony hugging each other for 25000 years is ridiculous and fantasy.
Hm you also ignore the role of Islam in the Philippines like how the last rajah of Manila was Rajah Tarik Sulayman or how Lapulapu first name was Kalipulaka (from Caliph Pulaka) . The nobility was aware of the idea of a single god before the Spanish. Sta Ana, Manila had over 6 mosques before they were burned in 1571. You also are forgetting that Catholicism was imposed by forced under the Spanish Inquisition. That's why not even Protestants were allowed in the Philippines until 1898.
My goodnesss. Its mentioned in a number of accounts from Legazpi to modern books including Ambeth Ocampo's "Centennial Countdown". Its a well known fact that the site of Fort Santiago was a wooden fort NEXT to a royal residence. There's a argument between who's residence it was since some say it was Sulayman others Matanda. Several years ago some at the National Historical Institute wanted to dig up parts of Intramuros to look for the older fort. Unlike some, I don't rely on Wikipedia for info.
no, i don't rely on wikepedia alone, i listen to stories of my people which have been handed down from generation after generation. according to one of their stories. the houses of our ancestors were designed with detailed carvings, often times covered with gold even the exteriors and nobody would dare steal it. unless it was a foreigner.
That's also not totally true. Filipinos did not decorate their houses with gold. There has never been any artifact of a house ornamentation made of gold. Gold was always used in ritual items as well as for jewelry and trade. Sorry dude but you really need to take an anthropology class from a university because you're just making up info. I suggest you actually read a book like PreHispanic Source Materials by Scott before making your ridiculous statements.
I Really appreciate you posting this video. It's about time that we filipinos, specifically visayans, realize that we were part of one the greatest empires in Asia, and that Our ancient culture is what spawned the Da viet, siamese and Khmer empires.
Great stuff! Thanks gintongrajah! Really opens people's eyes at the richness and sophisticated cultures that graced most of the ancient Philippines. I find it absolutely heinous (and sinister) for people to claim that the pre-hispanic Philippine people were nothing more than "primitive tribesmen", the proof is there that they were highly civilized!
I wonder whether or not the standard syllabus of Philippine history put in by stubborn Spain-centric lecturers will change to reflect the truth...
Thank you, Im glad you liked my video. Its true what you said, the colonial mentality of the Philippines is sickening and saddens me. The Spanish succeeded in distorting our perception of our selves and to belittle us in order to rule us like dogs. Its important for us to look back and dig up our past to erase this colonial mindset.
@anak1 i believe that the spaniards erased our history which made us filipinos look like poorly civilized country and made us look like more hispanic than asian because of the erasure they've done to our history filipinos now have culture crisis and are so colonial minded.anyways if we are really a great nation before we can do that again by making new history for a new philippines an asian philippines and not hispanic would make us an exotic and interesting country like other asian neighbors!
@joesel19 Mindanao is not hispanic they still have their original culture and religion.... like the tiboli, moros, lumads...etc...etc.. that is only in the Luzon that is brainwashed which is you can blame by the brainless tv shows from abs-cbn
@SKULLxSNAPS Mindanao people's tend to go here in LUZON or either VISAYAS for their BREAD AND BUTTER which makes them also influenced by the HISPANIC CULTURE both LUZON AND VISAYAS got from the SPANIARDS but let's not just blame the SPANIARDS for that let's also blame the GOVERNMENT!!!
@joesel19 you can't stop the blaming on the goverment since it is the "people" who is doing the voting.. and its not the government that is throwing garbage into the manila bay.... there is even a sign that prohibits swimming in the water because of diseases and still people don't obey and swim which later they end up being sick..
blame the people for not voting wisely... .. because the stupidity will it reveals itself when Manny Pacquiao becomes president and rebellions if RH bills past
@SKULLxSNAPS you are not the only one feeling sorry on why our KABABAYANS keep on VOTING the FOOLS to be the PRESIDENT just like PNOY he was the LESS PERFORMING SENATOR when he was running for president he had the POOREST PERFORMANCE out of all and her MOTHER didn't even make such changes for the country to be a better place i they promised it to be when she was running for presidency it's because of the MEDIA it is run by the OLIGARCHS who benefited LARGE AMOUNTS of LAW's AND GOVERNMENT--------
@SKULLxSNAPS POLICIES the TIME MRS.AQUINO took over and the PEOPLE POWER happened against our GREATEST PRESIDENT who was also like GHADAFI AND HUSSEIN DEMONIZED w/ the help of AMERICAN MEDIA for the PEOPLE to rage and not think of what that president did for their country and for them to the point that only ANGER would rise in the people's HEART's and BRAIN's.The OLIGARCHS are WEALTHY families in the PHILIPPINES who SUPPORTS the AQUINO's because of THE 60% ownership on any FOREIGN INVESTMENTS---
@SKULLxSNAPS in the COUNTRY which is also why most FOREIGN INVESTORS prefer other COUNTRIES and which is also why we are left laggard by our ASIAN NEIGHBORS because of what MS.AQUINO did which is most importantly the reason why most FILIPINOS GO ABROAD TO WORK LEAVING BEHIND THEIR FAMILIES.The MEDIA is FALSE when it comes to any PEOPLE POWER RELATED EVENT's specially when it's about MARCOS even if they say "SERBISYONG TOTOO LAMANG WALANG KINIKILINGAN BLAH3x" making FILIPINOS IGNORANT on the ISYU
grabe tlga mga espanyol sila nag pamana ng corrupsyon..
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Awesome archaeological findings. I hope Philippines discover their roots, their ancient pride and ancient links with other Hindu Buddhist civilizations in the region. I believe ancient Philippines somehow have links and relationship with ancient Indonesians in Java (Medang Kingdom) and Sumatra (Srivijaya kingdom). Cheers from Indonesia.
gunjakarta 1 month ago
Once even called Nusantao ~ Please check out this book called "the Quest of the Dragon and the Bird Clan" author Paul Kekai Manansala
ZenWAR222 4 months ago
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FIlipino or Philippines is a slave name....we need to recognize our true name...Lemurian from the land called Lemuria - predates Atlantis.
ZenWAR222 4 months ago
FIlipino or Philippines is a slave name....we need to recognize our true name...Lemurian from the land called Lemuria - predates Atlantis.
ZenWAR222 4 months ago 4
But there's a problem, if filipinos are called maharlika MARK MY WORDS BROTHERS those neighboring sea asian countries will also claim that they too are maharlika! Kayo lang ang maharlika mga gwapo kaya mga pilipino.
joey143anna 5 months ago
YES philippines were once maharlika BUT being noble must also be physically gorgeous, like having green eyes. The indians were also noble people, with gorgeous green eyes, that's the reason why they are also refffered as arya.
joey143anna 5 months ago 2
Very informative... this is the kind of education that we must learn in our school.
bench08mdl 5 months ago 26
Hell...if it werent for fuckin Europeans....the Philippines wouldve a whole lot different....pretty much better! now itz filled desperate blood sucking prostitutes and wannabe Hispanics.
deeeEeEEEeEee33eem 6 months ago 25
@deeeEeEEEeEee33eem you have a choice,, either be a wannabe hispanic or a wannabe arab since manila used to be an islamic kingdom... but unfornately filipinos are wanna be whites now with skin bleaching soap
SKULLxSNAPS 4 months ago
@SKULLxSNAPS dont forget Chinese too. we had Chinese, Rajhanates, Sultanates, Cheiftanes.
Chinese/Malays, thats were we got the gong from, my family in the Philippines has one. its been passed on and they simply didn;t just buy it from Chinatown. our hopia came from the mooncake.
deeeEeEEEeEee33eem 3 months ago
@deeeEeEEEeEee33eem Chinese been in the Islands way long before Spaniards as well as Japanese people... they are depicted in the Boxer Codex
SKULLxSNAPS 3 months ago
A message to Spain: FUCK YOU!
deeeEeEEEeEee33eem 6 months ago 35
pang-17 kaya ang philippines sa pinaka-malaking gold deposit!!!!!!!!!!!!! di nag-research ng maigi!!!!!!!!!
jartyjart 6 months ago
I wish Spain never came :/ some times I don't want to call myself Filipino because of them.
poofkaboom 6 months ago 205
@poofkaboom
I agree. As a fellow Asian, I too wish that Spain had never invaded and plundered the Asian cultural identity there. The "Philippines" is even named after a Spanish king. Hence the name "Filipinos" to name the inhabitants. I don't blame you for not wanting to call yourself a Filipino. As much as you may hate it, calling yourself "Filipino" would be like calling yourself a product of European imperial hegemony or "a product of the white man's crimes." The harsh truth.
nts4rfer 6 months ago 82
@poofkaboom i hate spanish
HesDaryl 1 month ago 9
Good thing nobody hate the sultans. Too bad for mestizos LOL!
joey143anna 7 months ago
The mestizos, illustrados, and the politicos of the past and present are the ones responsible for the oppression of the common Filipino. All the riches of the country, they plundered. That is why there is a huge disparity of wealth among its' people. Until this is corrected and the common people are educated and empowered, this dire situation will go on...
DuraRaj 7 months ago
I am a Pilipino and the real name of Philippines is Mahalika/Maharloka meaning "Noble" the 7th Loka "Great Plane/World" or Heavens of Gods. And this is the over protected area of ancient sunken continent of Mu.
MaharlokanSovereign 7 months ago
@MaharlokanSovereign MAHARLIKA is a sanskrit word i'm not sure of the meaning because according to sirach there is no such thing as "lika" in sanskrit. Filipino is a good, perfect and beautiful language i do not consider it as austronesian NOR malay language.
joey143anna 7 months ago
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i want to be an aryan.
joey143anna 8 months ago
Butuan City, Cebu City, Sulu, Maynila (Lalo na sa Tondo) at Panay Islands. Dito naunang nanahan ang mga progresibong kaharian ng bansa bago pa man dumating ang mga Kastila. Talagang nakakalungkot. Pero hindi pa huli ang lahat. Puwede pa nating maibalik ang dating ginintuang panahon ng Pilipinas.
91jipper 9 months ago
Butuan City, Cebu City, Sulu, Maynila (Lalo na sa Tondo) at Panay Islands. Dito naunang nanahan ang mga progresibong kaharian ng bansa bago pa man dumating ang mga Kastila. Talagang nakakalungkot. Pero hindi pa huli ang lahat.
91jipper 9 months ago
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kit2ng219 10 months ago
so BUTUAN CITY can be called as the PRECIOUS CITY????
cyndirelleful 1 year ago
technical010 1 year ago
americans stole our wealth and savage our dignity
MrLol66 1 year ago 40
@miongwulong yes correct my factor din yun make us ignorant...but i will added infos to you that whole philippines never ben conquered and under by spain
09092214584 1 year ago
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09092214584 1 year ago
spanish invaders ruined rich culture of lovely phllipeans .
india has almost same story .
mayankaranya 1 year ago
can we imagine butuan known before as''THE LAND OG GOLD''!!!?
yt532em 1 year ago
The Philippines is one of the best countries to vacation. I have never seen or met people as nice as the Filipinos. I recall my mother years ago telling me to be very careful going to The Philippines yet one night in Baltimore where she resides I was afraid to use the cash machine twice in the same night...Viva Filipinas !
erikinhawaii 1 year ago
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yt532em 1 year ago
the philipinnes is not a republic before its monarch!
yt532em 1 year ago
galing...
jasonspnd 1 year ago
see how rich we are...most of the golds were ben put stored to BSP and keep it secret for the coming of BACK UP CURRENCY para sa entire world
09092214584 2 years ago 3
templars GOLDs from GOLDEN FLEECE OF SPAIN we have also there golds.
09092214584 2 years ago
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VendPrekmurec 1 year ago
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VendPrekmurec 1 year ago
@VendPrekmurec tell me bro why do they do that by spanish?erasing da history of the philippines?
09092214584 1 year ago
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VendPrekmurec 1 year ago
Another domesticated animal in India is the cattle called Zebu ( Bos Indicus ), some would think that it was the Vedic Aryans who brought them there. But again this was refuted by Mr. Manansala & other experts in this field. They believe that the cattles of India is related to the wild Banteng of southeast asia. Because these cattles are well adapted to the warm tropical climate, they are also found and domesticated in Indonesia since ancient times.
subangdako 2 years ago
The Harrappan sites, which is one of the earliest Indian cities, did not represent horses in their art, which according to Paul Manansala is not very supportive in the Aryan Invasion theory. The horse that been domisticated in India is similar to Equus Sivalensis which is commonly found in southeast asia. This horse has zebra like dentition & 17 pairs of ribs compared to central asia, european, & iranian horses which have 18 pairs of ribs.
subangdako 2 years ago
According to colonial western point of view India's ancient civilization was a result of the Aryan Invasion, which according to them brought writing argriculture and art to India. A study made by Paul Manansala suggest a different view, according to him there is no mention in the Rgvida of wheat, the staple diet of the Aryans, but instead mention rice. No horse remains found in the Harrappan sites, which is odd because the Vedic Aryans were nomadic and depend on horses.
subangdako 2 years ago
The term indianized kingdoms that was first used by George Coedes is rejected by some contemporary scholars. They believe that the ancient kingdoms of S.E. Asia are indigenous and not influenced by Indian merchants. In my opinion if there was any influence that occured it would be from S.E. Asia to India. Because in ancient times only S.E. Asians were capable of venturing long distance sea voyage. The baybayin script is from Srivijaya, which we were once part of it, and not from India.
subangdako 2 years ago
maharloka or maharlika aN old name sa country philippines. when spanish came it name change called la Filipinas but change to philippines which is in honor of king philipp of spain
09092214584 2 years ago
I would just like to clarify my comment before about ancient filipino houses adorn with gold, I know I was ridiculed by another comment and said that there is no such thing. Actually if that fool would go to Bangkok Thailand in Wat Phra Kaew, there he would see Stupas and statues plated with gold. There are also some edifice there that have intricate carvings on the sides, plated with gold. If some of you have seen the video, that is what I'm talking about.
subangdako 2 years ago
we even create da POWDER FOR GUNS AND CANNONS BUT ben claim made by chinese...actually we filipinos in past history we create make those powders and ben exported to china and japan... thats why THE FILIPINOS BIRTHRITE BEN STOLEN
09092214584 2 years ago
How did you know this? is this true? tell me where i can read about this?
member163 2 years ago
filipino culture before are more likely to indian culture......not spanish nor americans
09092214584 2 years ago
09092214584 2 years ago
when are the asian goig to stop shuning ther black african origins. one need only to look st REAL early photos or drawing , or for that fact read acutual accounts that distribe all the people of asian as black peroid. stop discounting the contribution of the so called negritos whom are the true builders of all asia , althoungh historians lie and attribate the builders to thier appelations MALAYS < DAVIADS . ok were did the malays originate ? i will tell you : AFRICA
7troding 2 years ago
only 15% of pinoys are mesitzo/mixed blood,20% are chinese immigrants, theres even a whole bunch of chinese influence in the fillippines, including china towns, and the influence of the food known as balut,"aborted duck fetus" and 65% are origanal fillipinos"malayo polynesians"
DAYOUNGFAB 2 years ago
Most of filipinos are malays alright.
alphamain 2 years ago
malays are malayo-polynesian -__- next time actually think before you text -_-
DAYOUNGFAB 2 years ago
melayu/malayo/malayu...refers to the same race...what is your point?
alphamain 2 years ago
sya
skanthavelu 2 years ago
I imagine that maybe another uniquely Filipino kudlit would been developed for indicating final consonant sounds, seperate letters and kudlits for e and i, o and u and a letter for ra as well as combination letters for kha, gha, tsa, nya, ngka, ngga, ntsa, tha, dha, ndya, nta, nda, pha bha, mpa, and mba plus letters for some Sanskrit and Arabic sounds would of been developed.
skanthavelu 2 years ago
I almost forgot. a letter for dya
skanthavelu 2 years ago
The dresses of the ancient Filipino women portrayed in this video look almost Indian. They very closely resemble saris.
skanthavelu 2 years ago
Please forgive me if my previous post caused any offewnse.
I have always wondered how the baybayin would of appeared today if the Spanish did not disturb its evolution.
skanthavelu 2 years ago
We Filipinos should start digging more into our rich, ancient culture. Take a look at our Malay and Indonesian siblings, they present a more exotic culture than us. We have a country that is heavily influenced by Western culture more than our neighbors. A country that has mix-cultures of European, Western, Native, and Eastern cultures. We nearly have any identity. Here in the US, we are an invisible minority and yet we're the second largest Asian-Americans.
HomedudePedroski 2 years ago 2
It's so ironic that the Mongols swept Europe in the 13th century like they were nothing, was not able not able to get a foothold in S.E Asia, nor the Chinese who had a mighty empire. This is where i am basing my observation in why our ancestors had fallen into Spanish rule, coz if they were not using missionaries to persuade our ancestors they probably had no way to control us, coz our fighting skills are far more superior than theirs and we do have metalcanons during those times called lantaka.
subangdako 2 years ago
They fell for a variety of reasons not just because of friars. A lot of it had to do with the Spanish being able to manipulate local rivalry just as they did to the Aztecs. For example, they used Cebuano troops to dislodge Tausugs then had the Pampanguenos dislodge Tagalogs then Tagalogs dislodge Bicolanos then Ilocano soldiers dislodge Ilonggo, etc, and kept it up for the next 300 years. Then they solicited the local elite renamed them from datu to kapitan. Divide and conquer.
hokulani78 2 years ago
It's about time that S.E. asians particuarly filipinos should know their past. They should also know that metallurgy started here in S.E. asia when the whole world was still using stone tools we were already using bronze. The oldest bronze artifacts was found in BanChiang Thailand, that dates nearly 5,000 yrs old. Some historians still holds the belief that bronze started in the middle east, others doubt because of the lack of Tin reserves. While S.E. Asia has abundance both Tin & Copper.
subangdako 2 years ago
ya...i agree with you subangdako.
kumakaun 2 years ago
You have done a great job gintongrajah i hope more people will see this. It is true that the spaniards have distorted our perception of ourselves. Long before westerners came to S.E. ASIA our ancestors already had the concept of a supreme being and after life. The spaniards took advantage of this, these foreigners were not able rule us because we're weak or that they have superior fighting skills and firearms, NO! but because of the fear of god our ancestors let them.
subangdako 2 years ago
God(s). Many of the early Filipinos were animists but were influenced by Hindu-Buddhism. The word Bathala itself comes from Sanskrit. When the Spanish arrived, Islam had already reached Manila. Fr. Pedro Chirino, an early Spanish writer notes that there was mosques in Sapa (Sta Ana/Mandaluyong) and in Tondo. Maynila was under Tausugs and Tondo under Pampanguenos but they ruled Tagalog subjects. The Spanish exploited this. It wasn't about God. And it took 4 attempts to conquer the Phil.
hokulani78 2 years ago
Yes it is true that ancient filipino beliefs were similar to that of hindu and buddhism. But what i don't agree is when westerners see similarities in our culture to India or china, they would always assumed that it came from this two nations. Hinduism for instance, some attribute the Aryans for this, but nobody really knew when and where this religion started. The funny thing also is the faces of ancient statues of hindu gods don't resemble an Aryan or a Dravidian to me but Southeast Asian.
subangdako 2 years ago
yes it wasn't about god when the Philippines fell under spanish rule, it was about manipulating the minds of my ancestors. making them believe that the only way for their soul to enter the kingdom of heaven was to serve the Pope and the King of Spain. why do you think the spaniards were able to use cebuano troops to dislodge the tausug. i don't believe that it was all the doing of spain, since they're the ones writing our history naturally they get all the credit and glory for it.
subangdako 2 years ago
No I'm saying it wasn't about "salvation" or "manipulation" which is what you're saying. The Cebuanos went with the Spanish because they were annoyed with putting up with Bruneian, Maranao and Tausug rulers. Initially they thought the Santo Nino was a new rain god--as Fr. Pedro Chirino says. They felt they had a better deal--same way that some Indian nations supported Cortez against the Aztecs. You're still buying into the colonial history and those are also my ancestors you're talking about.
hokulani78 2 years ago
I am not buying any of that colonial history at all. It's very unreliable, like the alibata, according to spanish historians, we visayans just started to learn this during the time of Legaspi, when Magellan arrived in our shores we were illeterate. I find it very hard to believe, considering that there is already evidence that we were making intricate, fine jewelries hundeds of yrs before Magellan's arrival, and we can't make simple scribbles to indicate a meaning?
subangdako 2 years ago
No, it wasn't the Spanish historians. The Spanish recorded that most Filipinos even women were literate and spoke Malay as a lingua franca. It was anthropologists in the 20th century that thought that the "alibata" was recently introduced and sure enough, its probably true because the writing system used in the Laguna Copper Plate is different from the alibata script--though both originated from India--and from the notes of Rizal who thought that the alibata didn't match Tagalog phonetics.
hokulani78 2 years ago
your right most of our scriptures came from india writings...
09092214584 2 years ago
I just think that ancient filipinos were very superstetious, and it's human nature to seek it's true purpose in this world that is why it was easy for them to be converted into christians. I do not believe that there was any rivalry among ancient filipino kingdoms. Because if there were, there would have been forts and walled cities built, but there were none. It is an indication that there was no hostility, this things only appeared during the time of the spaniards.
subangdako 2 years ago
Hm yes there were walled forts and fortified cities. Where Ft. Santiago is today in Manila was a walled fort built under Rajah Matanda. There is lots of Spanish accounts of forts throughout the Philippines and there are still some remnants of old pre-Hispanic forts in old Jolo and Palawan. There was lots of rivalries in pre-Hispanic Philippines. Sheesh. look at some of the tribal wars among the Igorots--who were head hunters--and Moros that happen just in the last 5 years.
hokulani78 2 years ago
Sheesh even where Luneta is today there was a walled fort. The difference between the walled forts of the Spanish and the Filipinos in those days was that the Filipinos used wood--often nara--instead of stone because it was more practical due to the earthquakes and flooding. I guess you haven't read the accounts of the expeditions of Legazpi or heard of the Battle of Bankusay. Legazpi did not conquer the Philippines. He used other Filipino groups to conquer each other than seized the loot.
hokulani78 2 years ago
that's exactly what i'm saying
subangdako 2 years ago
yes, i know that wood was prefered over stone by ancient filipinos because we are located in an earthquake built area.
subangdako 2 years ago
i didn't say that they lived in peace and harmony all the time. that is why we have our own martial arts to maintain peace and order. these filipino groups that Legaspi used, are they really doing it because they're pissed at the tausugs or is there another reason why they're risking their lives and taking orders from a foreigner who they hardly knew? and why did they end up ruled by spaniards? why did churches started to sprout all over Manila and other parts of the Philippines?
subangdako 2 years ago
Hm its called the polo tax which is part of encomienda system. All Filipinos were required under the Spanish to commit to a certain amount of labor per year--all depending on the encomiendero and/or the friar who acted as local representative of the Crown (since no separation of Church and State existed in Spain at the time). Filipinos were forced to build churches as part of their polo tax to the Spanish Crown . I guess you didn't hear about the Cavite Mutiny or the Dahogoy revolt.
hokulani78 2 years ago
none of that really matters to me, all that boring details doesn't impress me, the point is most ancient filipinos got converted into christians and fell on one of the biggest scams in the world. they served spain, got their gold looted, end of story.
subangdako 2 years ago
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hokulani78 2 years ago
That's a very ignorant thing to say. It shows that you don't actually love the history of the Filipino people. If you did, you would try to understand the social and economic aspects of our history. Those btw are not details. Those are intricate parts of why Catholicism became so strong and how much we were exploited as a people--not because your fairy tale reasons. I think your reading of Philippine history is very colonial. You make Filipinos out to be naive.
hokulani78 2 years ago
no, it's not that i don't love the history of the filipino people, it's just that we heard that story over and over again in our history class and it does not glorify our people or uplift our spirits. what i'm interested in more is what our culture was before the arrival of this foreign devils. you wouldn't know that because your polynesian.
subangdako 2 years ago
Excuse me? Pinoy din ako. Nag-grad ako sa UP Diliman. You don't know anything.
hokulani78 2 years ago
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subangdako 2 years ago
oh because I speak in English and not in bad Bisaya like you?
hokulani78 2 years ago
hoy ingat ka sa panalita mo bata baka ma tsugi ka sa salita mong mahalang.
masyado mo namang minaliit ang mga Bisaya. Tsk..tsk..tsk..
kumakaun 2 years ago
walay nangutana ug asa ka ni graduate
subangdako 2 years ago
Yeah I like how you switch to Bisaya because you can't respond in English or Filipino. It shows that you don't know what you're talking about and you can't articulate anything based on research, critical thinking and facts.
hokulani78 2 years ago
so if i speak in visaya, it means i don't know anything. i didn't criticize you when you were speaking in tagalog. well the reason why i believe that it did not came from India and why i believe that S.E. asian civilization go further back in antiquity is because there has been research made in Ankor wat, according to graham hancock this temple base it's pattern from the constillation draco, the time when draco was directly above ankor was around 10,500 b.c.
subangdako 2 years ago
Tagalog? Filipino ang wikang pambansa natin. WIKANG PAMBANSA. Hindi regional language like Bisaya. I was using Filipino because you criticized my "Western" sources-- even though it has been validated by Filipino historians, anthropologists, and written records on three continents--and you stereotyped me which is racism.
hokulani78 2 years ago
according to Dr. sunil prasannan, sundaland might be the lost continent of Atlantis, on his essay he was making a comparison to the description of platos account and sundaland. when i read it, it surely convinced me.
subangdako 2 years ago
thank you for having this conversation, but i have to go.
subangdako 2 years ago
what they are trying to suggest here, is that Ankor wat might have been originally built during this time 10,500 b.c. suggesting that there might have been an advanced civilization in S.E. Asia, and i don't think it's fairy tale that Sundaland also existed, it is known that there was a period in the world called the ice age which during this time sea levels were much lower and thus revealing the surface of the southeast asian continental shelf. the site of ankor is just a few kilometers away.
subangdako 2 years ago
And where is your sources for this? You keep on asking me for my sources yet you don't bother to give any.
As for civilization, yeah we know that AUSTRONESIAN civilization--the mother civilization for most of the Pacific--goes back to at least 5,000 years ago by archaelogy and 11,000 by DNA. Now we have real evidence (not fairy tales like you provide) from Malaysia that it might go back older. But I would be wasting my time telling you this since you are magically talking to your ancestors.
hokulani78 2 years ago
10,500 b.c.?... Really? That really old like the end of the ice age old...There is SO many clues that are right in your face of Indian influence on the Ankor wat and the kings the ruled it...
monsterhunterindia 2 years ago
cambodia is not that far away either from the Philippines, people in S.E. asia could easily go in and out and share knowledge, after all according to wilhelm solheim, there was already a maritime trading network which he calls the nusantao, this network existed around 5,000 b.c. or much further back .
subangdako 2 years ago
I guess you don't know Cambodian history either. Look up "Champa". FYI before you make up more kwento, Champa was an Austronesian kingdom in southern Vietnam and Cambodia that predated and/or coexisted with the Thai, Khmer, and Viet Nams nation states and made tributary missions to China during the same season as Mindoro, Butuan, and Sulu. Note: there are no Chinese or Malay records of Cebu, Panay, or Negros but they have records of Luzon, Mindoro, Palawan and Mindanao kingdoms.
hokulani78 2 years ago
note: thai and lao never existed during the kingdom of champa, there were just chinese rejects lving in the nanzhao province of southern china, the kingdom of champa was really a split khmer division,who became bitter rivals, note because whhen you look at modern cambodia most of the cham population lives in cambodia and are never discramted against, and the chams used the same moderneized javenese script as the khmers
DAYOUNGFAB 2 years ago
if cebu is not included also mactan and its ruler lapu2x didnt also exist?
09092214584 2 years ago
o.k yes what ever Yaya!
kumakaun 2 years ago
Funny you speak about uplifting yet you keep on making personal attacks against me based on "race". You learned well from the American colonizers.
hokulani78 2 years ago
And don't you tell me about fairy tale reasons, you're the one who's posting a video about autronesian unity. as far as i know your poly family does not want to associate with us S.E. asians. I've read a lot of bad comments coming from your poeple, there's even one who warned us not to claim that we're related to them, he even mention that an Indonesian was stabbed in Australia because of it. you people are so arrogant and have too much pride, you have underestimated us S.E. asians
subangdako 2 years ago
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hokulani78 2 years ago
First off, you're making huge generalizations and many have comment positively. I get emails Samoans, Tongans, Hawaiians DAILY commenting positively on that video. Secondly, pinoy din ako. Thirdly, you are just as bad as the Spanish friars. You are making up kwento and making wide generalizations without ANY evidence to support it except some fairy tales you thought you probably made up pretending its "ancestral". I have scientific and historical evidence to back up everything I say unlike you.
hokulani78 2 years ago
Also we know that the Baybayin comes from India because we have archaeological evidence to support it and even Rizal said the same thing. Heck even Filipinos themselves in the 16th century said it was introduced abroad but it was modified to match Filipino orthography. So again, what sources do you have to support your comments? I think I will not call your comments fairy tales but rather lies.
hokulani78 2 years ago
filipinos themselves in the 16th century? why, were you there and heard them say that?
subangdako 2 years ago
No from written records. That's a really stupid question. You clearly don't know what you're talking about and sadly you lack the humility and are too lazy to actually research. You pass off your laziness to know our history as being "from your ancestors". I could retort the same question--where you there when the Spanish arrived? How are you basing your evidence? You talk about alibata but are clueless about the script used in the Laguna Copperplates. You're just making up info.
hokulani78 2 years ago
and where are you basing all these information from, spanish written accounts? it's all western point of view. it's all garbage to me, that is why i do not believe our ancient writing was recently introduced during the time of legaspi, but has been used even before the time Sundaland was finally flooded, and it did not came from India. just because civilization started 4,000 yrs ago in the west, it doesn't mean that the whole world also did. S.E. Asian civilization go further than that.
subangdako 2 years ago
Noooo, I'm basing this on several decades of research from a variety of sources including Chinese, Rizal, and Filipino. It wouldn't kill you if you actually read an Filipino archaelogy book instead of Bob Ong once in a while. So all of these Western, Japanese, Chinese, AND FILIPINO doctors who spent their lives researching these things, the UP Anthro Department, the National Museum are all wrong and you're miraculously correct? Saan ka nakatira? Sa loob ng Mandaluyong?
hokulani78 2 years ago
that's why you don't know history. You want history to be a fairy tale, something to be "uplifting" instead of truthful.
hokulani78 2 years ago
This does not mean they were barbaric but all cultures have various interpretations of their own history and have local rival political clans. To say that Filipinos did not have forts or to say they lived in harmony hugging each other for 25000 years is ridiculous and fantasy.
hokulani78 2 years ago
Hm you also ignore the role of Islam in the Philippines like how the last rajah of Manila was Rajah Tarik Sulayman or how Lapulapu first name was Kalipulaka (from Caliph Pulaka) . The nobility was aware of the idea of a single god before the Spanish. Sta Ana, Manila had over 6 mosques before they were burned in 1571. You also are forgetting that Catholicism was imposed by forced under the Spanish Inquisition. That's why not even Protestants were allowed in the Philippines until 1898.
hokulani78 2 years ago
i just wonder where you got the info, because fort Santiago was once the palace of Rajah sulayman, and not a fort.
subangdako 2 years ago
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hokulani78 2 years ago
My goodnesss. Its mentioned in a number of accounts from Legazpi to modern books including Ambeth Ocampo's "Centennial Countdown". Its a well known fact that the site of Fort Santiago was a wooden fort NEXT to a royal residence. There's a argument between who's residence it was since some say it was Sulayman others Matanda. Several years ago some at the National Historical Institute wanted to dig up parts of Intramuros to look for the older fort. Unlike some, I don't rely on Wikipedia for info.
hokulani78 2 years ago
no, i don't rely on wikepedia alone, i listen to stories of my people which have been handed down from generation after generation. according to one of their stories. the houses of our ancestors were designed with detailed carvings, often times covered with gold even the exteriors and nobody would dare steal it. unless it was a foreigner.
subangdako 2 years ago
That's also not totally true. Filipinos did not decorate their houses with gold. There has never been any artifact of a house ornamentation made of gold. Gold was always used in ritual items as well as for jewelry and trade. Sorry dude but you really need to take an anthropology class from a university because you're just making up info. I suggest you actually read a book like PreHispanic Source Materials by Scott before making your ridiculous statements.
hokulani78 2 years ago
have you ever know that an low class filipino even a slave wear a gold
09092214584 2 years ago
you know what even in Butuan river you can see gold nuggets before Spanish Came.
ya i agree also the slaves wears Gold.
kumakaun 2 years ago
aha we got da best government before.... even slaves wear golds and has free to roam around
09092214584 2 years ago
this really solve many questions in my head thank you for posting this ^_^
simpatic14 3 years ago
I Really appreciate you posting this video. It's about time that we filipinos, specifically visayans, realize that we were part of one the greatest empires in Asia, and that Our ancient culture is what spawned the Da viet, siamese and Khmer empires.
gundamzeta209 3 years ago
woot i need to learn/study the Da viet,siamese and khmer empires!! so i will know the history more ^_^ goodluck to me and HEY COOL VIDEO!
simpatic14 3 years ago
I agree
HomedudePedroski 2 years ago
Great stuff! Thanks gintongrajah! Really opens people's eyes at the richness and sophisticated cultures that graced most of the ancient Philippines. I find it absolutely heinous (and sinister) for people to claim that the pre-hispanic Philippine people were nothing more than "primitive tribesmen", the proof is there that they were highly civilized!
I wonder whether or not the standard syllabus of Philippine history put in by stubborn Spain-centric lecturers will change to reflect the truth...
anak1 3 years ago 2
Thank you, Im glad you liked my video. Its true what you said, the colonial mentality of the Philippines is sickening and saddens me. The Spanish succeeded in distorting our perception of our selves and to belittle us in order to rule us like dogs. Its important for us to look back and dig up our past to erase this colonial mindset.
gintongrajah 3 years ago
@anak1 i believe that the spaniards erased our history which made us filipinos look like poorly civilized country and made us look like more hispanic than asian because of the erasure they've done to our history filipinos now have culture crisis and are so colonial minded.anyways if we are really a great nation before we can do that again by making new history for a new philippines an asian philippines and not hispanic would make us an exotic and interesting country like other asian neighbors!
joesel19 1 year ago 232
@joesel19
Masakit ang Spanish erasing Filipino culture.. Kesa sa Japanese altering Korean culture.. baket?
Kase sa scenario ng Hapon at Koreano.. wala gaanong pagkakaiba ang ichura.. matindi nalang talaga
ang pagmamahal ng mga Koreano sa bansa nila..
Sa Pilipinas naman.. matindi.. sinunog ang Baybayin. original na Tagalog
ginawang Kastila.. kaya tingnan nyo ngayon.. kahit saan ka pumunta sa Pilipinas may maririnig ka
at maririnig kang tao na nagsasabi ng salita na galing sa Kastila
technical010 1 year ago
@joesel19
Bute pang hindi na tayo sinakop ng Kastila.. ngayon magtatanong ang mga Pilipino
aba.. kung wala sila.. walang Kristiyanismo..
Teka Teka.. nung dumating ang mga Amerikano..
Ang relihiyon na pinromote nila Biblia din naman ang dala nila diba??.
Bute nga ang Amerikano.. pinamper nga lang tayo.. at natuto tayo maging tamad
Sa Kastila.. natuto tayong maging tamad.. ginamit pa nila ang relihiyon sa maling paraan para kontrolin
ang bawat aspeto ng buhay natin..
Hindi ba kagaguhan?
technical010 1 year ago
@joesel19 Mindanao is not hispanic they still have their original culture and religion.... like the tiboli, moros, lumads...etc...etc.. that is only in the Luzon that is brainwashed which is you can blame by the brainless tv shows from abs-cbn
SKULLxSNAPS 4 months ago
@SKULLxSNAPS Mindanao people's tend to go here in LUZON or either VISAYAS for their BREAD AND BUTTER which makes them also influenced by the HISPANIC CULTURE both LUZON AND VISAYAS got from the SPANIARDS but let's not just blame the SPANIARDS for that let's also blame the GOVERNMENT!!!
joesel19 4 months ago
@joesel19 you can't stop the blaming on the goverment since it is the "people" who is doing the voting.. and its not the government that is throwing garbage into the manila bay.... there is even a sign that prohibits swimming in the water because of diseases and still people don't obey and swim which later they end up being sick..
blame the people for not voting wisely... .. because the stupidity will it reveals itself when Manny Pacquiao becomes president and rebellions if RH bills past
SKULLxSNAPS 4 months ago
@SKULLxSNAPS you are not the only one feeling sorry on why our KABABAYANS keep on VOTING the FOOLS to be the PRESIDENT just like PNOY he was the LESS PERFORMING SENATOR when he was running for president he had the POOREST PERFORMANCE out of all and her MOTHER didn't even make such changes for the country to be a better place i they promised it to be when she was running for presidency it's because of the MEDIA it is run by the OLIGARCHS who benefited LARGE AMOUNTS of LAW's AND GOVERNMENT--------
joesel19 4 months ago
@joesel19 ah the media......Kamaganak - politics Kapamilya - media (abs-cbn)
you better head on over to Pinoymonkeypride's channel and watch his videos..or just paste this link after the slash
watch?v=DciGJuvDFNE&feature=channel_video_title
SKULLxSNAPS 4 months ago
@SKULLxSNAPS of couse i know about his PAGE im so proud that there are still LOYALIST's ALL OUT AND PROUD revealing THE TRUTH TO OUR PEOPLE!!!
joesel19 4 months ago
@joesel19 his not a loyalist.....head on over to PangulongMarcos and visit antipinoy
SKULLxSNAPS 4 months ago
@SKULLxSNAPS for some reason's i think he is but if his not it's okay because his not DEMONIZING the former president but just showing the TRUTH!!!
joesel19 4 months ago
@SKULLxSNAPS POLICIES the TIME MRS.AQUINO took over and the PEOPLE POWER happened against our GREATEST PRESIDENT who was also like GHADAFI AND HUSSEIN DEMONIZED w/ the help of AMERICAN MEDIA for the PEOPLE to rage and not think of what that president did for their country and for them to the point that only ANGER would rise in the people's HEART's and BRAIN's.The OLIGARCHS are WEALTHY families in the PHILIPPINES who SUPPORTS the AQUINO's because of THE 60% ownership on any FOREIGN INVESTMENTS---
joesel19 4 months ago
@SKULLxSNAPS in the COUNTRY which is also why most FOREIGN INVESTORS prefer other COUNTRIES and which is also why we are left laggard by our ASIAN NEIGHBORS because of what MS.AQUINO did which is most importantly the reason why most FILIPINOS GO ABROAD TO WORK LEAVING BEHIND THEIR FAMILIES.The MEDIA is FALSE when it comes to any PEOPLE POWER RELATED EVENT's specially when it's about MARCOS even if they say "SERBISYONG TOTOO LAMANG WALANG KINIKILINGAN BLAH3x" making FILIPINOS IGNORANT on the ISYU
joesel19 4 months ago
@joesel19 all the things you are telling, i already know about.......did you visit Pinoymonkeypride's channel?
go there because you are missing out on these quality videos
SKULLxSNAPS 4 months ago