Thursday, July 18, 2013

The lost tribe of ISRAEL is found -- THE FILIPINO.



Whoever shall not remember to look back their origin; Hence, they cannot reach their destination - this applies the law of attraction and physics any multiplication of energy should observed always the origin. People don't observe this law in life, instead they just pre-occupied by thoughts for Nothing and continue whatever they want. When we get old at the time will come to us to return to the source that we are coming from "GOD"

In the midst of my being my thought is tilted about the past of my homeland "WHAT IS THE ANCIENT NAME OF THE PHILIPPINES?" as with the other countries has its Renaissance name example of that is in IRAQ his previous names are BABYLON until it comes to another generation then its called MESOPOTAMIA   this research is never taught in school nowadays, perhaps almost of the subjects now is occupied with the latest sciences. Do you know that we FILIPINOS are part of the biblical history during the period of KING SOLOMON in the old testament of the holy bible, 

The ancient name of my beloved HOMELAND PHILIPPINES IS: OPHIR 

Ophir is found mainly in Tarshis which is called now the whole Philippines not to confuse, Ophir is the Luzon island of the Philippines when it is first discovered by the Portuguese then finally the Spaniards. Until they called it OPHIR THE WHOLE PHILIPPINES.

To unlock the secrets of the Spaniards in voyage is to search mainly the land of OPHIR indeed, because of its abundance of GOLD and other precious stones and metals as described by King Solomon in the old testament of the holy bible to continue my blog, here are some of my findings.



What the Spaniards believed

After the death of King Solomon, Ophir was abandoned and soon forgotten. After the passage of hundreds of years nobody would know where or what is Ophir. The other word associated with Ophir is the word "Tarshish." Nobody also knew what it meant. In old translations of the Bible it was Supposed also to be a place. However, in new translations of the Bible, it is Used to refer to the fleet that went to Ophir.

What happened to the Hebrew or Jewish settlements that were established Process the gold before they were shipped back to King Solomon? Nobody also knew. However, we knew that because of their religious beliefs the Hebrews tend to survive as a separate enclave wherever they settled.

Historical facts

In Spain there is a book called Coleccion General de Documentos Relativos a las Islas Filipinas. It is found in the Archivos de Indias de Sevilla. It was reprinted in 1920 in Barcelona, Spain by the Compania General de Tabaccos de Filipinas. Its Tomo III (1519-1522), pages 112-138, contains Document No. 98 describing how to locate the land of Ophir.

This same volume also contains the official documents regarding the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan. It also contains the logbook of Francisco Albo, the chief pilot of the ship Victoria. This logbook is also one of the main references regarding the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan.

Since this book contains important documents, we can discern that the Spaniards did not really believe that Ophir was in India. In fact the Cabot expedition that left Spain on April 3, 1526 had a secret mission, "to search for a route to Tarsis, OPHIR, Oriental Cathay (China), and Japan."

Document No. 98 describes how to locate the land of Ophir. The travel guide started from the Cape of Good Hope in Africa to India, to Burma, to Sumatra, to Moluccas, to Borneo, to Sulu, to China, then finally Ophir.

Ophir was "in front of China towards the sea, of many islands where the Moluccans, Chinese, and Lequios met to trade…"

This group of islands could not be Japan because the Moluccans did not get there. It could not be Taiwan because it is not "of many islands." Only the present day Philippines could satisfy the description.

Jewish Settlements

Along the route described by Document No. 98 are locations of old Jewish settlements.

It would not be surprising for that was the procedure used by King Solomon's fleet.

Settlements were established at selected places to trade and process the gold and silver. The ships will collect the gold and silver and bring it to King Solomon. To the credit of the Hebrew people, their settlement remained true to the Jewish faith even for thousands of years. Settlements were found in India, Burma, Sumatra, and Vietnam (Annam and Cochin China).

Who Were the Lequios?

Spanish records mention of a mysterious people known as Lequios. Modern historians variously identified them as Okinawans, Koreans, or Vietnamese. They were favorite targets of Spanish ships during the time of General Miguel Lopez de Legazpi because the ships of the Lequios were always laden with gold and silver.

According to Documents 98, the Lequios were big, bearded, and white men. They were only interested in gold and silver when trading at Ophir. Okinawans, Koreans, and Vietnamese people are not big nor are they white. Their beards are just small goatees and could not satisfy the word "bearded". Therefore they were not the Lequios. So who could the Lequios be but the remnants of Hebrews and Phoenicians who have made some enclaves along the Southeast Asian shores?

The Hebrew word "LEQOT" or "LIQQET" means to gather, to glean. It resembles closely the word Lequios. It will fit the men of King Solomon's fleet who gathered gold and silver. (Note: The Hebrew alphabet has no small letters.)

Where Was Ophir?

There is no doubt that the group of islands in front of China towards the sea is the present day Philippines. The question is where was Ophir located in the Philippines?

Ancient Chinese records say that the ancient trading places in the Philippines were Ma-yi and Pulilu. Dr. Otley Beyer identified Ma-yi as Mindoro. Dr. Jose Rizal, Blumentrit, Robertson, and Stangl say that it was Luzon in part or in whole.

Dr. Jose Rizal identified "Pulilu" as Bo-ol or Bohol. Nobody disputed Dr. Jose Rizal. So there are only three possible places in the Philippines that could be identified as Ophir, they are Luzon, Mindoro, and Bohol.


OPHIR 


The Ancient-Name of the Islands of the Philippines

(Only the descendants of Levites Datu Gerson, Datu Merari and few descendants of Datu Cohat reached the island of Ophir, but the High Priest comes in the lineage of Aaron left in Yahrushalom)

People in the Islands of Ophir speaks Ancient-Hebrew Language

Who is Ophir ?

Ophir written in the Old Testament of the Bible 1 Kings 22:48, 9:28 and 22:49,
Psalms 45:9, Isaiah 13:12, Job 22:24, 28:16, 1Chron. 24:4, 1:23, Genesis 10:25-26.
In Genesis 10:25-30 “ And Heber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for his days was the earth divided and his brother’s name was Yoktan. And Yoktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Yerah, and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, and OPHIR, and Havilah, and Yobab; all these were the sons of Yoktan. And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the EAST”.

The language of Ophir


The language of Heber is the same language of Adam and when the language was confused, only Heber retained the original language of Adam and was called Hebrew from Heber’s name and therefore the language of his two sons Peleg and Yoktan will be Hebrew and the language of Ophir the son of Yoktan will be Hebrew also.

The language of Abraham

Peleg son is Reu, reu son is Serug, Serug son is Nachor, Nachor son is Thare, Thare had tree sons Abram become Abraham, Nahor and Haran the father of Lot. Abraham is Hebrew in Genesis 14:13.

Historians said about Ophir

The western writers garlanded the Philippine land with more names such as Maniolas, Ophir, Islas del Oriente, Islas del Poniente, Archipelago de San Lazaro, Islas de L*****s (Island of Mortars), Archipelago de Magallanes and Archipelago de Legaspi. The western writers and ocean navigators called the islands Ophir before the Western people arrived and re-named it as Felipinas from the name of King Felipe of Spain.

When the first European historian set their foot in the land of Ophir, it was written by historian Gregorio F. Zaide in page 2 and page 24 of History of the Filipino People, that Padre Chirino an eminent Jesuit historian found in Tagalog language that “it has the Mystery and obscurities of the Hebrew language”.
Therefore in the islands of Ophir the people speaks Ancient-Hebrew language.

Reference Sources: http://addiebantug.blogspot.com/2012/08/ophir-ancient-name-of-islas-del-oriente.html



"Where is Tarshish and Ophir" 

During the early period of European colonization, the Biblical lands of Tarshish and Ophir, or Tarsis and Ofir, as they were called, held the imagination of European explorers. Not only was it believed that the "lost tribes" of Israel were to be found in these lands, but also untold wealth. To these kingdoms King Solomon and King Hiram of Tyre sent ships for trade that "brought from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones," (I Kings 10:11). Concerning Tarshish it is written: "Fro the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Hiram: every three years once came the shop sof Tarshish bringing gold and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacock." (II Chronicles 9:21)
In Samuel Purchas's well-known travel compendium Purchas His Pilgrim, he devotes the entire first chapter to a discussion of Tarshish and Ophir. In particular, he argues strenously that it is beloved Britain and not Spain that deserved the title as the modern Tarshish and Ophir. Curiously, in Careri's journal of his visit to the Philippines, he mentions that he would not go into the argument raging in Europe at that time over whether the Philippines was originally populated by the descendants of Biblical Tarshish.
In modern times, scholars have attempted to relate Tarshish and Ophir with a number of areas, none of which include the Philippines. However, things were different in Europe prior to the discovery of the Philippines. There, they believed that Tarsis and Ofir were some lands far to the east of biblical Israel. Their reasoning was actually quite logical. King Solomon built the port from which ships departed for Tarsis and Ofir at Ezion-Geber on the coast of the Red Sea. The return journey took about three years, so obviously the location must be somewhere far to the East. In modern times, some scholars have tried to suggest that Solomon's navy circumnavigated 
Africa to reach the Mediterranean, but the seafaring Europeans of those times would not consider such nonsense. Tarsis and Ofir were unknown lands beyond the Golden Chersonese of Ptolemy. Their discovery would undoubtedly bring untold wealth and great fame in the minds of the people of those times.
But what, one may ask, has this to do with the Philippines? The truth is that the search for Tarsis and Ofir was directly related to the "discovery" of these islands by Magellan!


Magellan and the Search for Ophir
Magellan's contemporary, Duarte Barbosa, wrote that the people of Malacca (in modern Malaysia) had described to him an island group known as the Lequios whose people were as "rich and more eminent than the Chins (Chinese)," and that traded "much gold, and sliver in bars, silk, rich cloth, and much very good wheat, beautiful porcelains and many other merchandise."
However, Barbosa was not the only one to mention the Lequios during Magellan's time. About a decade after Magellan's voyage, Ferdinand Pinto had wrote in his journal of the experience of his crew and himself after being shipwrecked on the Lequios! Pinto was traveling through the Malay Archipelago at the time and he describes the Lequios islands as belonging to large group of islands many of which were rich in gold and silver. He mentions that at that time the Portugese were familiar with Japan and China, and also with the island of "Mindanaus" or Mindanao, so the Lequois islands must have been somewhere between these two areas. Furthermore, Pinto even goes as far as to give the exact latitude of the main Lequios island. He states that is was situated at 9N20 latitude and that the island was on a merdian similar to that of Japan.
Now, in Magellan's time all exploration was done by latitude sailing and dead reckoning, as no navigational clocks were in use. Latitude sailing required fixing one's latitude precisely by means of an astrolabe. Longitude could only be approximated roughly by using a patent log to track the distance the ship has travelled in any particular direction. When Magellan began to suspect he was nearing the region of the Moluccas he deliberately steered on a north course and then turned westward at a latitude of 13 degrees North according to both Pigafetta and Albo. Pigafetta states that the reason was to get near the port of "Gaticara" which was the Cattigara mentioned by Ptolemy. In the book, Magellan's Voyage around the World, the author, Charles E. Nowell, offers another possible reason for Magellan steering so far to the north of the Moluccas. He notes that Magellan himself had rewrote part of Barbosa's book referring to the Lequios, and in his version Magellan substituted "Tarsis" and "Ofir" for the world "Lequios."
Although these lands are not mentioned in Magellan's contract, less than six years after his voyage, Sebastian Cabot signed a contract with Spain which did have as one of its objectives the "lands of Tarshish and Ophir." Magellan had been to Malacca himself, and probably many have heard of the community of Filipino workers and merchants that lived there under the protection of the king of Malacca. Probably many of you already know of the theory that Black Henry, the slave Magellan purchased at Malacca, may have belonged to the Filipino community of Malacca as he was able to speak with the natives at Limasawa. Whatever the case, we know from his own pen that Magellan thought the Lequios islands might be the same as the Biblical Tarsis and Ofir, and it may be that his idea of the position of the Lequios was partly shaped by Barbosa's book, and partly by information he may have received from Filipinos in Malacca. Was the fact that Black Henry was able to converse with the people living at the latitude given by Pinto (but not with the people of Samar or Leyte) a coincidence, or something planned in advance from information gleaned in Malacca?
Even after their discovery, many still regarded the Philippines, rich in gold and silver, to be the same as ancient Tarsis and Ofir. Father Colin, referred to them as such in the early 1600's and even at the turn of the century, the Philippine historian Pedro Paterno, still claimed that the Philippines were really Tarshish and Ophir! Whatever one thinks of these claims though, the search for the Biblical El Dorado appears to have played an important role in the European discovery of the Philippines.

Chryse, the "Golden One," is the name given by ancient Greek writers to an island rich in gold to the east of India. Pomponius Mela, Marinos of Tyre and the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea mention Chryse in the first century CE. It is basically the equivalent of the Indian Suvarnadvipa the "Island of Gold." Josephus calls it in Latin Aurea, and equates the island with biblical Ophir, from where the ships of Tyre and Solomon brought back gold and other trade items.

Chryse is often coupled with another island Argyre the "Island of Silver" and placed beyond the Ganges. Ptolemy locates both islands east of the Khruses Kersonenson the "Golden Peninsula" i.e. the Malaya Penisula. North of Chryse in the Periplus was Thin, which some consider the first European reference to China.

In addition to gold, Chryse was also famed for having the finest tortoise shell in the world according to the Periplus. Large ships brought trade goods back and forth between Chryse and the markets at the mouth of the Ganges.

Chin-lin

In ancient Chinese literature, a mysterious region beyond their southern border in Annam was known as Chin-lin "Golden Neighbor" and the Southeast Asian border was also called the "Golden Frontier."

When China invaded Annam (northern Vietnam) in the first century BCE, the kingdom of Champa fortified villages along the old caravan trail. This path became Route Colonial 9 during the French colonial period, and it was used by the Americans to build the McNamara Line of fortified bases during the Vietnam War.

With this fortified line, the rugged Central Highlands and a policy of constant piracy, the Champa kingdom held the Chinese at bay for a thousand years. After the fall of the Chin dynasty in the 5th century, Cham raids on Tongking became so frequent that the governor appealed to the emperor for assistance. A war of attrition between China and Champa began that lasted until the rise of the T'ang dynasty.During this time though, China was well aware of the golden lands far to the south. The Buddhist pilgrim I-Tsing mentions Chin-Chou "Isle of Gold" in the archipelago south of China on his way back from India.

Zabag and Wakwak

The kingdoms of Zabag and Wakwak, famed among the medieval Muslims as rich in gold, referred to the eastern islands of the Malay archipelago i.e. the Philippines and Eastern Indonesia.

Zabag was based in what would later become the kingdom of Lusung. In this sense, the Philippines fits the bill as a gold-rich realm. The country has consistently ranked second in the world behind only South Africa in gold deposits per land area. The Philippines has historically been the largest producer of gold in Asia despite its relatively small size and the fact that until 1980 most gold was obtained only through small alluvial deposits.

Although some ancient gold artifacts have been found in this region, they don't match the age suggested by linguistic reconstruction. Gold may have been mostly handed down from generation to generation rather than being used as a burial good item.

In about the second century CE, there arose a practice of using gold eye covers, and then, gold facial orifice covers to adorn the dead resulting in an increase of ancient gold finds. More than a millennium later, the popularity of dental gold to decorate the teeth significantly increased the amount of gold found at archaeological sites.

When the Spanish came they discovered an abundance of gold used among the people of the Philippine islands. Here are some relevant quotes:

Pieces of gold, the size of walnuts and eggs are found by sifting the earth in the island of that king who came to our ships. All the dishes of that king are of gold and also some portion of his house as we were told by that king himself...He had a covering of silk on his head, and wore two large golden earrings fastened in his ears...At his side hung a dagger, the haft of which was somewhat long and all of gold, and its scabbard of carved wood. He had three spots of gold on every tooth, and his teeth appeared as if bound with gold.

--- Pigafetta on Raja Siaui of Butuan during Magellan's voyage

For brass, iron and other weighty articles, they gave us gold in exchange...For 14 pounds of iron we received 10 pieces of gold, of the value of a ducat and a half. The Captain General forbade too great an anxiety for receiving gold, without which order every sailor would have parted with all he had to obtain this metal, which would have ruined our commerce forever.
--- Pigafetta on gold trade in Cebu

Sailing in this manner, for some time, in 16° of north latitude, they were obliged by continual contrary winds, to bear up again for the Philippine islands, and in their way back, had sight of six or seven additional islands, but did not anchor at any of them. They found also an archipelago, or numerous cluster of islands, in 15 or 16 degrees of north latitude, well inhabited by a white people, with beautiful well-proportioned women, and much better clothed than in any other of the islands of these parts; and they had many golden ornaments, which was a sure sign that there was some of that metal in their country.

--- Antonio Galvão in 1555 describing the journey of Bartholomew de la Torre in 1548
"...the ore is so rich that I will not write any more about it, as I might possibly come under a suspicion of exaggerating; but I swear by Christ that there is more gold on this island than there is iron in all Biscay."

--- Hernando Riquel et al., 1574
In this island, there are many gold mines, some of which have been inspected by the Spaniards, who say that the natives work them as is done in Nueva Espana with the mines of silver; and, as in these mines, the vein of ore here is continuous. Assays have been made, yielding so great wealth that I shall not endeavor to describe them, lest I be suspected of lying. Time will prove the truth.

--- Hernando Riquel et al. on island of Luzon, 1574

There are some chiefs in this island who have on their persons ten or twelve thousand ducats' worth of gold in jewels--to say nothing of the lands, slaves, and mines that they own. There are so many of these chiefs that they are innumerable. Likewise the individual subjects of these chiefs have a great quantity of the said jewels of gold, which they wear on their persons--bracelets, chains, and earrings of solid gold, daggers of gold, and other very rich trinkets. These are generally seen among them, and not only the chiefs and freemen have plenty of these jewels, but even slaves possess and wear golden trinkets upon their persons, openly and freely.

--- Guido de Lavezaris at al., 1574

About their necks they wear gold necklaces, wrought like spun wax, and with links in our fashion, some larger than others. On their arms they wear armlets of wrought gold, which they call calombigas, and which are very large and made in different patterns. Some wear strings of precious stones--cornelians and agates; and other blue and white stones, which they esteem highly. They wear around the legs some strings of these stones, and certain cords, covered with black pitch in many foldings, as garters.

-- Antonio de Morga, 1609

"... the natives proceed more slowly in this, and content themselves with what they already possess in jewels and gold ingots handed down from antiquity and inherited from their ancestors. This is considerable, for he must be poor and wrethced who has no gold chains, calombigas, and earrings."

-- Antonio de Morga, 1609

The Portugese explorer Pedro Fidalgo in 1545 found gold so abundant on Luzon the inhabitants were willing to trade two pezoes of gold for one pezo of silver.

When the Portuguese first arrived, most of the gold traded into Brunei came from Luzon. That island was known as Lusung Dao or "Golden Luzon" to the Chinese who also traded for gold in this region.

References:
Legeza, Laszlo. "Tantric Elements in pre-Hispanic Philippines Gold Art," Arts of Asia, July-Aug. 1988, pp.129-136. (Mentions gold jewelry of Philippine origin in first century CE Egypt)
Peralta, J.T. "Prehistoric gold ornaments from the Central Bank of the Philippines," Arts of Asia 1981, no.4, p.54.Villegas, Ramon N. Ginto: History Wrought in Gold, Manila: Bangko Central ng Pilipinas, 2004.


Mines Dating Back to at Least 1,000 B.C. Have Been Found in the Philippines
According to De Morga: (1,000 B.C. is when King Solomon's navy of ships going to Ophir for gold)
Mines dating back to at least 1,000 B.C. have been found in the Philippines. When the Spanish arrived the Filipinos worked various mines of gold, silver, copper and iron. They also seemed to have worked in brass using tin that was likely imported from the Malay Peninsula. The iron work in particular was said to be of very high quality in some cases, and occasionally in some areas, even better than that found in Europe.
When the Spanish arrived, the Philippines was so gilded with gold that most of the gold mines had been neglected. "... the natives proceed more slowly in this, and content themselves with what they already possess in jewels and gold ingots handed down from antiquity and inherited from their ancestors. This is considerable, for he must be poor and wrethced who has no gold chains, calombigas, and earrings."
As the missionary Francisco Colín wrote in 1663:
In the punishment of crimes of violence the social rank of the slayer and slain made a great deal of difference. If the slain was a chief, all his kinsfolk took the warpath against the slayer and his kinfolk, and this state of war continued until arbiters were able to determine the amount of gold which had to be paid for the killing… The death penalty was not imposed by public authority save in cases where both the slayer and slain were commoners, and the slayer could not pay the blood price.
Blair and Robertson, Vol. II, p. 116.
Legazpi describes one of the "Moro" pilots captured from Butuan:
"...a most experienced man who had much knowledge, not only of matters concerning these Filipinas Islands, but those of Maluco, Borney, Malaca, Jaba, India, and China, where he had had much experience in navigation and trade."
According to Pigafetta:
However, things seem to already diminished from Pigafetta's time:
"On the island [Butuan] where the king came to the ship, pieces of gold as large as walnuts or eggs are to be found, by sifting the earth. All the dishes of the king are of gold, and his whole house is very well set up."
Pigafetta goes on to describe the huge gold ornaments, gold dagger handles, tooth plating and even gold that was used to decorate the outside of houses! On the gold work of the Filipinos is this description of the people of Mindoro: ( copied by Israel recorded in 1Chronicles 29:4 Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal)
"...they possess great skill in mixing it [gold] with other metals. They give it an outside appearance so natural and perfect, and so fine a ring, that unless it is melted they can deceive all men, even the best of silversmiths."
Arts of Asia, Jul-Aug 1988, p. 131
Arts of Asia 1981, no.4, p.54
Apparently, even foreigners desired Filipino gold products. Recent discoveries show that gold jewelry of Philippine origin was found in Egypt near the beginning of the era. These finds are mentioned in Laszlo Legeza's "Tantric elements in pre-Hispanic Philippines Gold Art," (Arts of Asia, Jul-Aug 1988, p. 131) along a discussion of Philippine Tantric art. Some outstanding examples of Philippine jewelry, which included necklaces, belts, armlets and rings placed around the waist, are showcased in J. T. Peralta's "Prehistoric gold ornaments from the Central Bank of the Philippines," Arts of Asia 1981, no.4, p.54.
Luzon Empire
LUCOES or LEQUIOS ISLANDS
Luzon Empire according to Chinese historians
Luzon Empire (1279-1571 AD) was an ancient empire once located around Manila bay region of the Philippines. Its capital was Tondo, its territories covered most of what is now Central Luzon, extending from delta region that surrounds Manila Bay, all the way into the interior along head waters of the surrounding rivers in the province of Pampanga, Bulakan (covered part now Rizal).
The history of Song Dynasty was compiled under Mongol Prime Minister Toktoghan in 1345 AD. In it the Mongols recount tha final and complete destruction of Nan song (southern song Empire) (1127-1279 AD), where in 1279 AD the Mongol Fleet crushed the Nan Song Navy at the Naval battle of Yamen. The loyal Minister of the Left Liu Xiufu committed suicide with last Na Song Emperor, the children Songdi Bing rather than be captured by the Mongols.
The Grand Admiral Zhang Shijie escaped with his grand armada but were later annihilated by a typhoon while crossing the seas.
Alternative source refute the accounts of the destruction of Zhang Shijie's grand armada as nothing more than Mongol propaganda since there were no eyewitness accounts of its destruction nor were there traces left of its remains. For most historians, the fate of Zhang shijie and his grand armada remains a mystery.
Contemporary Chinese historians in Guangdong are now even questioning the Mongolian accounts regarding Emperor Bing's death. Even though Mongol sources claimed that the corpse of the last emperor has been found washed ashore along the coast of Shenzen, his actual grave is yet to be found. Cantonese folklore expressed in the ttraditional Cantonese opera narrates an alternative account where the loyal Minister Liu Xiufu tricked the Mongols by committing suicide with his own son disguised as the young emperor. The real emperor was said to have been smuggled out of the scene of battle by Grand Admiral Zhang Shijie, who will eventually return to redeem the empire from the invaders. The Travel of Marco Polo also recounts the escape of the last song emperor across the ocean. Zhang Shijie's fleet and the last song emperor may have escaped to pre-colonial Philippines and established the Luzon Empire or the 'Lesser Song Empire".
Despite the conjectures regarding its origins, the Ming Annals are clear on the actual existence of the Luzon Empire. It records that in 1373 AD, the Luzon Empire sent its first among the many succeeding diplomat mission to the Great Ming Empire (1368-1644 AD), accompanied by the embassies of India's Chola Empire.
The Ming chroniclers added the character for "kingdom"of "empire" (pinyin: GuU) after Luzon (Lusong), indicating that it was once an independent and sovereign kingdom. Her rulers were acknowledged as king and not mere chieftains. The Ming empire treated the Luzon Empire more favorably than Japan by allowing it to trade with china once verey two years, while Japan was only allowed to trade once every 11 years.
Luzon empire flourished during the latter half of the Ming Dynasty when China closed its doors to foreign trade. Foreigners were forbidden to send trade missions to China. Chinese merchants were likewise forbidden to trade beyond the borders of the Ming Empire. Yet clandestinely, merchants from Guangzhou and Quanzhou regularly delivered trade goods to Tondo. Luzon merchants then traded them all across Southeast Asia and were considered "Chinese" by the people they encountered.
The Portuguese who came to Asia much earlier than the Spaniards recorded their encounter with the inhabitants of the Luzon empire and called them 'Lucoes'. The Portuguese records that the Luzon Empire played an active role in the politics and economy of the 16th century Southeast Asia, especially in controlling the trade traffic at the Straits of Malacca.
The Luzon Empire's powerful presence in the trade of Chinese goods in 16th century East Asia was felt strongly by Japan, whose merchants had to resort to piracy in order to obtain much sought after Chinese products such as silk and porcelain. Famous 16th century Japanese merchants and tea connoisseurs like Shimai Soushitsu and Kamiya Soutan established their branches here. One famous Japanese merchant, Luzon Sukezaemon, went as far as to change his name from Naya to Luzon.
Tondo (Tungdu in Cantonese) or the 'Eastern Capital' has always been the traditional capital of the Luzon Empire. Its traditional rulers were the lakandula (Kapampangan: 'Lord of the Palace'). During the reign of Paduka Sri Baginda Rajah dan yang di Pertuan Bulkiah (1485-1521) the Kingdom of Brunai decided to break the Luzon Empire's monolpoly in the China trade by attacking Tondo and establishing the city state of Mainl'l, as a Burneian satellite. Anew dynasty under tha Salalila was established in Manila to challenge the House of Lakand'l, in Tondo.
When the Spaniards arrived in 1571 AD, the unity of the Luzon Empire was already threatened by the uneasy alliance of the Three Kings of Luzon: the Rajah matanda of Sapa, the Lakandula of Tondo and Rajah Suliman III, the 'rajah muda' or "crown prince" of Mainl'l and 'laxamana' or "grand admiral" of the Macabebe Armada. Powerful states like Lubao, Betis and Macabebe become bold enough to challenge the traditional leadership of Tondo and Mainl'l. the Spaniards took advantage of the chaos, played favourites with one ruler and pitted them against the other.
Rumor has it that the Spaniards had poisoned the Rajah Matanda of Mainl'l, so as to win the support of Lakandula of Tondo. Disregarding the legitimacy of Rajah Suliman III as 'rajah muda', the Spaniards installed the child Rajah Bago as the new king of Mainl'l.
In 1571, Rajah Suliman III, the 'rajah muda' of mainl'l and laxamana of the Macabebe armada, challenged the Spaniards to a naval battle at the estuary of bangkusay. The Spaniards were able to crush Rajah Suliman III and his Macabebe armada due to the lack of support from the other rulers of the empire. The Luzon Empire was quickly overtaken by the Spaniards. Its territories were carved out and distributed as spoils among themselves. The province of Pampanga was the first Spanish colonial province carved out of the Luzon Empire and the people who spoke one language from Tondo to the rest of Pampanga are now called Kapampangan.
After the collapse of the Luzon empire, the Spaniards were finally able to create their first colony in Asia, the Philippines, named in honor of Spanish King Philip II of Spain. The name Luzon was given to the entire northern Philippine island, in memory of the former Luzon empire.
The Luzon Empire was said to have finally ended in 1571 AD according to Spanish records.Yet the fortified cities of Lubao and Betis continued to thrive as independent principalities of the Luzon Empire till 1572 AD.
In 1575 AD,the Spaniards executed the child king Rajah Bago and his cousin Lumanlan. The Lakandula of Tondo also died in the same year.
In 1586 AD, the Spaniards crushed the revolt of former nobles of the Luzon Empire, in the province of Pampanga. The revolt was based in Candaba under the leadership of Don Nicolas Mananquete and Don Juan de Manila.
In 1588 AD, the Spaniards crushed the revolt of the nobles of the Luzon Empire in Tondo. It was led by the descendants of the Lakandula and their kinsmen with the assistance of Japanese merchants. Many of them executed or exiled and their properties confiscated.
In 1590 AD, the King Sattha of Cambodia sent two elephants to the "King of Luzon" through his Portuguese ambassador and requested the Luzon Empire's assistance in their battle against Siam. In the same year the "lords" of the Luzon Empire were said to have been corresponding with theTaikou-sama of Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, begging for assistance to help liberate the Luzon Empire from Spaniards. Hideyoshi responded by sending a letter to the Spanish Governor of Manila, demanding that the Spaniards leave Luzon quietly or else face a full scale invasion that would force them out. I'll prepared for a Japanese invasion, the Spanish Governor of Manila decided to appease Hideyoshi by sending gift from the Americas, including the two elephants sent by the King of Cambodia. The rulers of the old Luzon Empire who cooperated with the Spanish overlords became the principalia of the new Spanish colony. To this day, their descendants still play an influential role in Philippine society.
The study of Philippine history has for many years been Eurocentric, most Philippine historians have gone as far back at the earliest Spanish records but have failed to look into the archives of neighboring countries, such as Brunei, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan and China. Their dependence on the English language limits the majority of Philippine historians from accessing volumes of materials written in Chinese and other Asian languages. As a result, the history of the Luzon empire remains mythical in their scholastic psyche and still virtually non-existent in mainstream Philippine History.
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(Ming Annals) original Chinese 
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(Shinsho Taiko-ki) by (Yoshikawa Eiji)
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Morga, Antonio de, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, obra publicada en Mejico el aOo de 1609 nuevamente sacada a Luz y anotado por Jose Rizal y precedida de un prologo del Prof. Fernando Blumentritt, Impresion al offset de la Edicion Anatada por Rizal, Paris 1890. Manila: Historico Nacional, 1991.
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Conclusive evidence as per collective research based on the facts and findings of the historians as:

Where to find ophir

In a book found in Spain entitled Colección General de Documentos Relativos a las Islas Filipinas (General Collection of Philippine Islands related Documents), the author has described how to locate Ophir. According to the section "Document No. 98", dated 1519-1522, Ophir can be found by travelling from the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, to India, to Burma, to Sumatra, to Moluccas, to Borneo, to Sulu, to China, then finally Ophir. Ophir was said to be "[...] in front of China towards the sea, of many islands where the Moluccans, Chinese, and Lequios met to trade..." Jes Tirol asserts that this group of islands could not be Japan because the Moluccans did not get there, nor Taiwan, since it is not composed of "many islands." Only the present-day Philippines, he says, could fit the description. Spanish records also mention the presence of Lequious (big, bearded white men, probably descendants of the Phoenicians, whose ships were always laden with gold and silver) in the Islands to gather gold and silver. Other evidence has also been pointed out suggesting that the Philippines was the biblical Ophir.

FURTHER CONCLUSIONS:


When the Spanish came they discovered an abundance of gold used among the people of the Philippine islands. Here are some relevant quotes:

Pieces of gold, the size of walnuts and eggs are found by sifting the earth in the island of that king who came to our ships. All the dishes of that king are of gold and also some portion of his house as we were told by that king himself...He had a covering of silk on his head, and wore two large golden earrings fastened in his ears...At his side hung a dagger, the haft of which was somewhat long and all of gold, and its scabbard of carved wood. He had three spots of gold on every tooth, and his teeth appeared as if bound with gold. --- Pigafetta on Raja Siaui of Butuan during Magellan's voyage

For brass, iron and other weighty articles, they gave us gold in exchange...For 14 pounds of iron we received 10 pieces of gold, of the value of a ducat and a half. The Captain General forbade too great an anxiety for receiving gold, without which order every sailor would have parted with all he had to obtain this metal, which would have ruined our commerce forever.  --- Pigafetta on gold trade in Cebu

Sailing in this manner, for some time, in 16° of north latitude, they were obliged by continual contrary winds, to bear up again for the Philippine islands, and in their way back, had sight of six or seven additional islands, but did not anchor at any of them. They found also an archipelago, or numerous cluster of islands, in 15 or 16 degrees of north latitude, well inhabited by a white people, with beautiful well-proportioned women, and much better clothed than in any other of the islands of these parts; and they had many golden ornaments, which was a sure sign that there was some of that metal in their country.  --- Antonio Galvão in 1555 describing the journey of Bartholomew de la Torre in 1548 
"...the ore is so rich that I will not write any more about it, as I might possibly come under a suspicion of exaggerating; but I swear by Christ that there is more gold on this island than there is iron in all Biscay."  --- Hernando Riquel et al., 1574 
In this island, there are many gold mines, some of which have been inspected by the Spaniards, who say that the natives work them as is done in Nueva Espana with the mines of silver; and, as in these mines, the vein of ore here is continuous. Assays have been made, yielding so great wealth that I shall not endeavor to describe them, lest I be suspected of lying. Time will prove the truth.  --- Hernando Riquel et al. on island of Luzon, 1574

There are some chiefs in this island who have on their persons ten or twelve thousand ducats' worth of gold in jewels--to say nothing of the lands, slaves, and mines that they own. There are so many of these chiefs that they are innumerable. Likewise the individual subjects of these chiefs have a great quantity of the said jewels of gold, which they wear on their persons--bracelets, chains, and earrings of solid gold, daggers of gold, and other very rich trinkets. These are generally seen among them, and not only the chiefs and freemen have plenty of these jewels, but even slaves possess and wear golden trinkets upon their persons, openly and freely. --- Guido de Lavezaris at al., 1574

About their necks they wear gold necklaces, wrought like spun wax, and with links in our fashion, some larger than others. On their arms they wear armlets of wrought gold, which they call calombigas, and which are very large and made in different patterns. Some wear strings of precious stones--cornelians and agates; and other blue and white stones, which they esteem highly. They wear around the legs some strings of these stones, and certain cords, covered with black pitch in many foldings, as garters. -- Antonio de Morga, 1609

"... the natives proceed more slowly in this, and content themselves with what they already possess in jewels and gold ingots handed down from antiquity and inherited from their ancestors. This is considerable, for he must be poor and wrethced who has no gold chains, calombigas, and earrings." -- Antonio de Morga, 1609 





Great to Know we are the descendants of ISRAEL! YAHUWAH BLESS AND PROTECT MY HOMELAND  OPHIR!

WE ARE THE LOST TRIBE OF ISRAEL.





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36 comments:

Unknown said...

Please read in www.scribd.com"-Revised New Pre-Hispanic History of Philippines" you will find more evidences that we come from Levites SaserDatu (Yahshear-Dawth) Saserdote in Latin, Presbitter in Greek, Priest in English, Pare in Tagalog, Kaya pala ang tawagan natin ay PARE, lahi pala tayo ng Pari.

Unknown said...

Please read in www.scribd.com"-Revised New Pre-Hispanic History of Philippines" you will find more evidences that we come from Levites SaserDatu (Yahshear-Dawth) Saserdote in Latin, Presbitter in Greek, Priest in English, Pare in Tagalog, Kaya pala ang tawagan natin ay PARE, lahi pala tayo ng Pari.

Unknown said...

Please read in www.scribd.com"-Revised New Pre-Hispanic History of Philippines" you will find more evidences that we come from Levites SaserDatu (Yahshear-Dawth) Saserdote in Latin, Presbitter in Greek, Priest in English, Pare in Tagalog, Kaya pala ang tawagan natin ay PARE, lahi pala tayo ng Pari.

Unknown said...

Characteristics of people called Yahshurun about 1900 BCE later called Israel found in Merneptha Stele dated 1200 BCE

1. Male Circumsized at age 13 years old Genesis chapter 17
2. Kayumanggi or Tan not Black the color of Solomon skin Song of Solomon 1:5-6
3. Priest Forever Exodus 29:9 for the Lost 10 Levites Priest of 10 tribes
4. Calling each male as PARE KUMPARE of Priest
5. Tagalog has mistery and obscurities of Hebrew by Gregorio Zayde
6. In Prayer Calling on Abba (see Revised New Pre Hispanic History of Philippines) scribd.com
7. Calling on YAH (Ya-wa means Devil, wa means not in you) (Piste means stupid)
8. Observed Jubilee Year Leviticus 25 Laguna Copperplate Inscription

Unknown said...

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Unknown said...

To add more info please read www.scribd.com "Revised New Pre-Hispanic History of Philippines"

Unknown said...

The study of Philippine history has for many years been Eurocentric, most Philippine historians have gone as far back at the earliest Spanish records but have failed to look into the archives of neighboring countries, such as Brunei, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan and China. Their dependence on the English language limits the majority of Philippine historians from accessing volumes of materials written in Chinese and other Asian languages. As a result, the history of the Luzon Empire remains mythical in their scholastic psyche and still virtually non-existent in mainstream Philippine History.
Ang pag-aaral ng Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas sa nakalipas na maraming taon ay naka tuon sa Maka-Kanlurang Pinagbasehan, ang mga Tigapag- say-say ay nag base sa pinaka unang Talaan ng mga Kastila ngunit nakaligtaan na tingnan ang mga kasulatan ng mga kalapit bansa na Brunei, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan at China. Nag base sila at sa wikang English lamang na nagresulta ng pagka-limita ng mga Tigapag-say-say ng Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas na malaman ang Talaan ng Kasaysayan nakasulat sa Chinese at Asian na Wika.
Biblical Ophir ang tawag na ibig sabihin ay nasa Biblia ang Ophir at dahil ang tinawag na Pilipinas ay ang Ophir ayon sa mga Historian ay kailangan ipakita ang kasaysayan sa Biblia ng taga Ophir. Una dapat alamin ang nauna sa kasaysayan sa Biblia na si Abraham, Ano ang Religion o Pananampalataya ni Abraham?

Unknown said...

Ang Jewish Religion ay naitatag sa panahon na ang mga Israelita ay nahati sa dalawang pangkat ang (Yisraw-ale) Israel at Yahuwdah (Jew), sa panahon nang pagkaalipin ng mga taga Samaria na Yisraw-ale (Israel) sa Bansang Assyria (2 Hari 17:24-41) ay nahaluan sa kanilang pananampalataya ng mga taga Abba, Cutha, Separvaim, Hammath at Babylonia na tinawag na ‘Samaritans’ (aklat na Old Samaritans Syrian Aramaic sa 4th column ng Hexapla ni Origen), at sa pagkatapon naman ng mga Yahuwdah sa Bansang Babylonia mga 2,600 taon palang ang lumilipas. Samakatwid ang religion na nabanggit ay religion ng mga apo ni Abraham ngunit hindi iyan ang religion o pananampalataya ni Abraham. Ang sinamba ng mga Samaritans at tinatawag sa kanilang pagsamba ay ang pangalang ‘Adonai’ na siyang pangalang ipinalit sa pagbigkas sa pangalan ni Yahweh sa kapanahunan ng pagkaalipin sa Assyria at maging sa Babylonia. Ang mga Samaritans na halo ng mga taga ibang bansa ay hindi na purong Israelita, ganoon din ang mga Yahuwdah sa Babylonia, NehemiYah 7 : 61-65. Ang Roman Catholic Religion naman ang sinasamba nila at tinatawag sa kanilang pagsamba ay ang pangalang ‘Diyos’ na hango sa alamat na sinamba ng mga Griego at Romano na istatwa ni Theos. Ang Griego at Romano ay hindi mga Israelita. Ang Islam naman ng mga Arabo at Muslim ang sinasamba nila at tinatawag sa kanilang pagsamba ay ang pangalang ‘Allah’ na itinawag ng mga Egypto (Exodus 3:15) sa kanilang maraming istatwa ay Elohim (plural) at kapag isa lamang (singular) ang tawag ay ‘El’ na binibigkas na ‘Eloah’, na bigkas sa salitang Arabo ay Aloah o Allah, ang mga Arabo at Egypto ay hindi mga Israelita. Ang mga Protestante naman ang sinasamba nila at tinatawag sa kanilang pagsamba ay ang pangalang ‘LORD’ (King Ieyacoubo I Bible of A.D.1611) na siyang ipinalit sa apat na letrang Tetragrammaton na hindi mabasa ng mga taga England. Ang mga taga England ay lahing Anglo-Saxons at Normans ay hindi mga Israelita, (When the Normans invaded England in A.D.1066 they brought with them the French Language. Since neither the Anglo-Saxons nor the Normans would surrender their language to the other, the two become wedded and eventually evolved into Modern English, excerpt from ‘How Yeshu’a Become Jesus’). Ang mga pangalan na sinasamba at tinatawag ng mga Religion na iyan ay HINDI tinawag at HINDI sinamba ni Abraham at hindi rin tinawag o sinamba ni Propeta Moses. Katunayan nagbilin si Moses sa Exodus 23:13 na mag-ingat at huwag babanggitin o mamutawi sa labi ang mga pangalan ng mga sinasamba ng mga taga ibang bansa. Ang Israel na Bansa ni Moses ay ang sinasamba at tinatawag sa kanyang pananampalataya ay ang pangalang YAHWEH. Si Abraham din ay ang sinasamba at tinatawag sa kanyang pananampalataya ay ang pangalang YAHWEH. Dahil ang Bansang Israel bago pa sila masakop ng Bansang Assyria at ng Babylonia ay ang tinatawag na Makapangyarihan at sinasambang pangalan ay ang pangalang Yahweh na pinalitan ng tawag na Adonai nang masakop ang Israel ng taga ibang bansa. Ang ibang bansa na kalaban ng Isarel ang bansang Canaan na naging Palestino ay ang sinasamba at tinatawag na pangalan ay si Adonai na hango sa pangalan ng dating Hari ng Canaan na si Adonai-Bezek Judges 1:5. Ang bansang Egypto na nagpahirap sa bansang Israel ay ang sinasamba at tinatawag na pangalan ay ‘El’ o ‘Eloah’. Ang mga Arabo naman ang ‘El’ sa kanila ay katumbas ng “Al” kaya ang Eloah ay bigkas nila ay Aloah o Allah. Ang promotor ng pagkaka-imbento ng LORD ay si King Ieyacoubo I (King James I) ng England noong 1611 lamang o 404 taong lumilipas. Ang LORD ay hinango sa pangalang Adonai na tawag kay Baal na kalaban ni Yahweh, Hosea 2:16 footnotes..Lord is Baal.

Unknown said...

Noong 1998 Centennial Calendar ng Shell ay ipinakita ang larawan ng Laguna Copperplate Inscription na natagpuan noong 1987 sa Laguna na may nakasulat sa lumang wika ng ating mga Kababayan na sulat ‘Kawi’. Itong Kawi (kavi) ay nawala na (extinct), lumang wika ng mga taga Javan (Jakarta, Indonesia). Ito ay naisulat noong ika-9 na Siglo (April 21, 900 C.E.) na nagsisimbulo ng Jubilee Year ni Yahweh sa Leviticus 25 na nagpapatawad sa lahat ng utang sa Jubilee Year ni Yahweh. Sa parehas na panahon ang umiiral na kaharian ay ang Sri-Visjaya Kingdom na mababasa sa ‘Colliers Encyclopedia’ 1991 edition, vol 3 p.50, na natagpuan kailan lang ng mga Makabagong Eskolars noon lamang ika-20 Siglo (20th century). Ayon dito ang kaharian ng orihinal na Sri-Visjaya noong ika-7 Siglo ay nasa Palembang sa Sumatra na kumokontrol ng lahat ng nabigasyon sa karagatan sa Straits of Malacca. Katunayan natagpuan ang maraming kasulatan na naka-ukit sa bato na nag-uutos ang hari ng Sri-Visjaya sa pangkalahatang katapatan sa kanyang mga taga-sunod at sa kanyang interes at kanyang mga kalakal. Ang mga dumadaang mangangalakal ay napipilitang dumaan sa Sri-Visjaya upang magbayad ng buwis sa pagdaan sa Straits of Malacca na ipinatutupad ng Hari ng Sri-Visjaya. Ang orihinal na Sri-Visjaya ng ika-7 Siglo ay nakarating sa pangangalakal hanggang sa Borneo, Cambodia, Sulu Mindanao at ang iba ay mga nanirahan na roon. Ang mga Mohammedans naman ay dumating noong ika-14 na Siglo (1400 C.E.) ay dinatnan na ang mga Sri-Visjaya sa Kabisayaan. Ang mga Sri-Visjaya na naiwan sa Silangan ng Sumatra na nasa Javan ay nasakop naman ng Kaharian ng Mataram noong ika–8 Siglo (800 C.E.). Ang lahi ng Sailendra na Mahayana Buddhist na siyang nagtatag nang Kaharian ng Mataram na nasa Javan ay tinalo naman ng mga Hindung sumasamba kay Shiva noong 856 C.E. Ang huling prinsipe ng Sailendra na isang Mahayana Buddhist sa Javan ay tumakas pumunta sa Sumatra at nanirahan doon ay siyang naging Hari ng Sri-Visjaya sa Sumatra sa hindi maipaliwanag na dahilan. Ang Sri-Visjaya na pinaghaharian ni Sailendra ay tuluyang dinurog ng mga Javanese (Hindung sumasamba kay Shiva noong ika-14 na Siglo (1400 C.E.). Ayon naman sa Maragtas na Balita sa Kabisayaan, si Datu Puti kasama sa sampung Datu ay nanirahan sa Panay. Si Datu Puti at dalawa pang Datu ay nagpunta sa Mindoro at Taal (Batangas). Ang Tatlong Datu si Datu Puti, Datu Dumangsil at Datu Balensusa na pinaniniwalaan na pinagmulan ng wikang Tagalog. Ang Pito sa Sampung Datu naman sa Panay ay ang pinaniniwalaan namang pinagmulan ng wikang Bisaya ay tinawag silang Visaya na galing sa pangalang ‘Sri-Visjaya’ na lahi ng orihinal na Sri-Visjaya ng ika-7 Siglo. Ang Sri sa Sri-Visjaya ay titulo na ‘Prinsipe-Kabanalan Kagalang-galang’ kagaya ni ‘Si’-Agu (Siago o Tiago) at ni Raha ‘Si’-Lapu-lapu. Ayon naman sa Merriam-Webster-International Unabridged Dictionary na ang wikang Tagalog at ang wikang Bisaya ay nanggaling sa isang grupong wika na tinatawag na ‘TAGALA’ na kapatid na wika ng sina-unang Malay-Javanese na wikang ‘KAWI’. Ang salitang Tagalog at ang salitang Bisaya ay may malaking porsiento na magkatulad, na nagpapatunay na ang tatlong Datu sa Mindoro at Taal at ang Pitong Datu sa Panay ay nagmula sa isang wika na ito ay ang lumang wikang ‘Kawi’ ( KAWI pinanggalingan ng salitang WIKA). Sa wikang Hebreo ang ‘Higaynon’ ang ibig sabihin ay ‘Banal na tunog’, ang tawag naman sa wika ng Kabisayaan ay Hiligaynon.

Unknown said...

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Anonymous said...

Well said. There's no doubt that the Land Ophir refers to the Philippine Islands itself.Since during precolonial times the Chinese traders come to our shores to trade for their items to the Local Filipino Chieftains or Datu's in exchange for our precious golds also known as Barter System.

Regards,
John

Unknown said...

...at nalutas na ang misteryo bakit tayo tule.

clinging ivy said...

This blog is educational, interesting and humbling. Thank you for sharing.

ann roxas said...

I have heard about this few years ago, that Ophir refers to the Philippines. Other belief system said it is Spain or Tarshis. That's where it lies, Spain conquered Las Islas Filipinas to justify that Spain was the land of gold!

I ALSO heard another legend that the original Israelites flee for countries outside Canaan or middle east during prophet Jeremiah's time; they went to what came to be Europe. In one of these migrations of the original tribes after the Assyrian captivity, they passed by the country of Greece and found that some of their kin had settled there many years before the Assyrian Captivity of Israel.

The ten tribes of Israel (which in the Bible composed the Israel), after the captivity, never returned to Canaan, and dispersed in what is now Europe. The European monarchies were said to be Israelites of origin. The Jews, that composed of the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin became the Judah of the Bible. Judah was also captured by Babylonians, but after it was freed, the people returned to Canaan and established the Jewish religion, with the construction of the Second Temple by Zerubabel (an ancestor of Lord Jesus Christ). All Jews are Israelites but not all Israelites are Jews.

I was fond of the idea of the characteristics of the Yashurun tribe.. that as you said it was what came to be known as the country Israel. But this generalization is tricky, I would rather say that Jacob or Israel, Isaac and Abraham came from the Yashurun tribe or race... with tan skin, with the tradition of tule at the age of 13.. we never knew what happened to the ancestors of Israel, whether they inhabited the Ophir thousand of years prior to the birth of Jesus Christ or they just simply settled in the surrounding of the boundaries of the Assyrian and Babylonian empires. We cannot assume that the Yashurun settled in the Philippines that is why when Solomon sent his men the Lequios to collect gold it came naturally easy for them to secure those mineral elements... We need more written evidence of this assumption. Or maybe the evidence is there already.. we just do not understand it???

When I was a child, I learned this legend of Kabunyian, the origin of the white, black and brown races. Basically, the message is that our race, the kayumanggi race is the race that was cooked in the stove for the ample amount of time. The whites are said to be hilaw, and the black are said to be overcooked. This origin story was funny as I recall it now, because I do not believe in racial superiority.

Jose Rizal was known in Europe as the pride of Malayan race. Definitely, there is something about this brown skin color that we have. Simply put, we should be proud of our skin.

And, I want to leave you this question too, what is the race of the Lequios? As per description, they were tall white bearded men. Does it mean to say that Solomon of the Bible ruled also whites, not just his own kayumanggi race?

Rickghil Varilla said...

Spanish records mention of a mysterious people known as Lequios. Modern historians variously identified them as Okinawans, Koreans, or Vietnamese. They were favorite targets of Spanish ships during the time of General Miguel Lopez de Legazpi because the ships of the Lequios were always laden with gold and silver.

According to Documents 98, the Lequios were big, bearded, and white men. They were only interested in gold and silver when trading at Ophir. Okinawans, Koreans, and Vietnamese people are not big nor are they white. Their beards are just small goatees and could not satisfy the word "bearded". Therefore they were not the Lequios. So who could the Lequios be but the remnants of Hebrews and Phoenicians who have made some enclaves along the Southeast Asian shores?

The Hebrew word "LEQOT" or "LIQQET" means to gather, to glean. It resembles closely the word Lequios. It will fit the men of King Solomon's fleet who gathered gold and silver.

The Lequios are the Hebrew and Phoenicians descendants of the Biblical trade missions to Ophir.

Unknown said...

Totoo lahat na sinabi nyo... Ako ay naniniwala na ang dapat itawag natin sa may likha ay yahuwah, ngunit pinalitan ito ng mga jews ng diyos para kung magdasal tayo ay ang kanilang pangalan ang mababanggit natin instead na yahuwah. At pinaniwala nila tayo na ang yahuwa ay masama kaa tuloy hanggang ngaun pag nagagalit ang mga bisaya ay yawa or yahuwah ang binabanggit. At kapag may hinihingi tayo ay diyos or jews ang ating dadasalan. Ang totoong dapat nating panginoon ay yahuwah, hindi diyos or jews. Yan ang totoo. Pinilit lang tayo ng mga jews.

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erpgomba said...

Tunay... hahahahahahahaha naiibang lahi sa Silangan tunay na mula sa angkan ni Adan at Eva ng Havilah, ang Ophir pagkatapos ng baha...na mula sa lahi ni Yuktan...na anak ni Heber kaya mga sinaunang mga Hebreo...

erpgomba said...

Kapatid si YAHUAH ang tunay na Manlilikha...at si YAHUSHA ang Mesiyas...walang iba ang Diyos at Hesus mga huwad...

Anonymous said...

This article explains that we were never just a bunch of natives running around in the nude but a sophisticated civilization that could read, write and create the finest art works in metallurgy. To me, his-story is the story of Christ and history are his footprints and the marks his left behind in the progression of the human species. Us Filipinos are God's chosen, we were given gold in abundance so that it could be taken away by a civilization of men pretending they came to restore us in the name of Christ but in reality it was for sheer greed in the name of a Church. We are the true Church each and every Filipino being a pillar of the Universal Church, we were made poor by the actions of greedy men so that we may become rich in Christ with the mission of raising up our beloved countrymen from their material poverty to their true fruition. To realize that the true gold is his-story the story of the redemption of Christ, and us Filipinos were given this gift of internal knowledge eternally instilled within us. The gift of love and when we see this love through the love for our own families and kapwa. As a people we willingly approved the teachings of Christ and readily placed our faith in him even through the harshest treatments of God's Presbyterians because the foundations of the teachings of the Catholic faith is the love for family and this teaching is ingrained in our culture since the beginning and so we piously subdued and saw the goodness of faith rather than the evil. The Chinese and Spaniards bred with us to produce the creole oligarchs, a pretentious fake gold that has luster but with no value. The true gold is the Filipino ingrained in Christ and know his-story, our heritage and history is the gold's luster and shine whilst Christ the Redeemer gives all of us and our lives value. Cheers, Lazarus Paul.

Unknown said...

The white race were lebanese from king hiram's men. King hiram was the king of tyre. And his men were the leqous. Also: hiram in tagalog means to borrow. Therefore borrowing for king solomon.

Anonymous said...

Ganun pala land of OPHIR tapos yung mga ibang language natin galing Hebrew simula kay Heber at galing tayo sa 10 lost tribes isa din si Levi dun pala tayo santa ng lahi nila, kaya mga kaugalian tulad ng pag circumcise eternal covenant of Abraham at ng Diyos.kaya na mention din sa bible many times ang OPHIR as describe mga maraming pulo na laganap ng Chin (China) ma mayaman sa Gold at silver na nagkalat lng sa lupa sa bahay ng isang hari hazelnut at itlog ga laki or ornaments lng sa katawan ng mga tao either royalty,freemen and slave. tulad ng ratings, anklets, necklace, bracelet minsan palamuti sa ngipin, sword o dagger or mismo sa bahay

Ruel said...

Hi,

Matagal ko na din po tanong sa sarili ko "ano ang sinaunang pangalan ng Pilipinas?" Meron po sa youtube pinapanood ko. Type nyo "godculture". Meron sila mga videos from 1 to 12 bukod sa "Flood series" nila. I hope makatulong ito..

Maraming salamat po

Samson Pagunsan said...

I have a high interest in looking for the land of Biblical Ophir. It is very interesting based on history prior to the arrival of the Spaniards that long before they change the name to Philippines, we are people from Ophir. we should have been called Ophirians and not Filipinos. I think the Spaniards was trying to hide our identity and the truth about Tarsis and Ophir for during that time (16th century), the world was divided by the Spain and Portugal in matter of sea routes. The location of Ophir is under Portugal under the "Treaty of Tordesillas where it divided the world into two areas of exploration and colonization between the Castilian and the Portuguese. It proclaimed a meridian in the Atlantic Ocean that the areas west of the line was exclusive to Spain, and east of the line to Portugal. Ophir (Philippines) is situated east of the line. As both colonizers met at the waters of the "islands of the seas" they made war and most of the time the Portuguese won. This was the reaon for the "Treaty of Zaragosa." A peace treaty between the two crowns of colonizers. The Philippines was still under the Portuguese but when it was colonize by the Spaniards, the Portuguese made no more contest because they are more convenient with the "spice islands" in the Moloccas (Malacca) rather than the gold of Ophir (the Philippines).
Interestingly, to hide our real identity and name, the called the Ophirians, Filipinos.

Unknown said...

Grabe sali pala Ang salita namin. Hiligaynon Ang salita namin sa antique.

Unknown said...

We are not just a bloodline of adam through ophir,sheba,havila and tarshish but also of the One who grave adam from the dust of ground.

Magenelli said...

Hello kabayan! Ang paksang ito tungkol sa tunay na pinagmulan ng mga Pilipino ay Hindi itinuturo sa atin ng mga manunulat sa kasaysayan sa dahilang malaki ang kasalanang Nagawa nila sa ating mga ninuno. Ginagawa nilang tanga at mababang uri ang pinagmulan ng lahi natin subalit pinakinabangan nila ang yaman at karangalan Mula sa lupaing ito. Pagpalain ang Israel sapagkat sa lahi nya May mga Taong nagpahayag ng tunay na mga kaganapan at wastong pagpapakilala sa lahi natin at kung ano nga ba ang lupaing ito sa Panahon ng paglikha. Ayon sa The God Culture na maraming videos o palabas tungkol sa lupaing Ophir. Ang unang lupain Kung saan naitaboy ang unang Tao sina Adam at Eba ay sa Elda! Ang Elda na ito ay unang lupain na pinanahanan nang unang lalake at babae ay pinaniniwalaang nasa gilid lang ng Palawan! Sa madaling salita ang Elda ay lupain sa ating pinakamamahal na Bayan. Sa panahong mula sa paglikha hanggang sa malaking Baha, ang Elda ay tirahan ng maraming Tao at kasama sina Propeta Enoch at Noah. Nagtatanong ang Isip ko kayumanggi marahil sina propeta enoch at Noah! At ang salita nila ay tunog ng sina unang Tagalog at ang Sulat ay Baybayin? Ayon sa kasaysayan ang ginto ay tunay na marami sa lupaing Elda at ang mga iyon ay Karaniwan lang sa kapaligiran at ano pat nadadampot lang ng mga sina unang Tao iyon! Heto na ang malaking pagbabago! Dumating ang mga Anak ng Dios na tawagin nating rebeldeng anghel ay nag anyong Tao at nakisiping sa mga babaeng Tao. Duon nagpasimulang magkaroon ng dambuhalang mga Tao o Higante . Nephilim sila ayon sa banal na kasulatan sa aklat ng Genesis. Ang Pakay ni Satanas ay sirain ang Taong nilikha ng Maykapal na YHWH. Dumami ang mga nephilim at nahawa ang mga Tao sa mga ugali niyaon kaya nga nagpasya ang Lumikha na lipulin Ang Lahat ng nilalang sa ibabaw ng lupa at iyon ay sa panahon ni Ninunong Noah na May UNAWA sa sinasabi sa kanya ng Maykapal. Pinagawa ng Daong si Noah at sa Daong na yon sila ng Asawa niya tatlong lalake na anak niya at pati asawa ng mga ito. Dumating ang baha at pinadpad sila sa Bundok Ararat na ngayon ay Himalaya . Duon nagpasimulang dumame ang mga Tao at yung naka Alala sa Elda ay nagsipaglakbay pabalik duon. Nang matunton na nila ang Elda ay binansagan nila itong Ophir! Lupaing pinagpala ng Maykapal! - Taong sa pagitan ng 1000 at 1300 May naganap sa daigdig na matinding delubyo na ikinasira ng maraming kaharian- ang Ice age o paglamig ng panahon. Duon Natapos ang yugto ng isang kasaysayan ng lahat ng sina unang kaharian at ang daigdig ay nagmula uli sa Pagka sunauna o primitivo. Ang kalakalan ng ophir ay maraming kaharian ay nagpapatuloy hanggang sa dumating ang colonianismo ng Yuropa. Ang nasa likod ng expedition para hanapin ang spice island ay ang paghahanap sa lupain ng Ophir dahil sa taglay nitong ginto! ............, kaya ang lahi ng kayumanggi ay pinagpala na ng Maykapal nuon pa man. Ginagago lang tayo ng mga sakim na mga Banyaga. Kaya ang wika natin ay kaunahan ang Baybayin natin ay kaunahan ay Ang lahi ng Elda na Pilipino ngayon ay siyang pinagmulan ng lahat ng mga lahi ng Tao! Nang magalit ang Dios dahil sa pagmamataas ni Nimrod ay nilito nya ang mga tao binigyan nya ng ibat ibang wika at ang Tagalog Elda ay nanatiling Elda sa diwa at pangungusap ay nagbalik sa lupaing pangako na ngayon ay Pilipinas!

Magenelli said...

Elda ang tawag sa lupain na katabe ng Eden. Nang dumating ang malaking baha , ang naligtas na Tao ang May anak ni Noe ay nakarating sa Mt Ararat. Mula duon dumami Luna ang Tao tapos yung nakaalala sa Elda ay naglakbay pabalik duon saka naging Ophir ang katawagan sa nasabing. Kapuluan. Ang lahi ng kayumanggi ang unang Tao sa Daigdig at ang proto Tagalog ay siyang unang Wika!

Anonymous said...

Please Read this Blog..... Philipines is the True location of Garden of Eden https://mystery921886015.wordpress.com/2018/04/17/the-journey-begins/

and Philippines is Ophir
https://nationallib.page.tl/Philippines-is-Ophir.htm

Anonymous said...

Anong lipi sa 12 tribo ng Israel ang tagalog? Kung ang lahi ng mga ilokano ay galing sa lahi ni manases (manang o manong) ayon sa research

Unknown said...

Wow., Muntik Nako mahilo, and dami ko natuklasan. Una Kong napanuod Yung God culture mga nka hanggang 9 ako. Yung may binabanggit Na Yung nag apload Ng video Aniya;Yung mga salita daw Ng mga Filipino ay may mga mix Ng Hebrew at Ilan duon ay hindi nabago Ng mga kastila. Katulad Ng Nara Na puno sa hebrew ay "Narra" Na binanggit din sa bible Na ginamit ni haring Solomon sa pag build Ng temple. Nang mabasa ko Yung blog sa taas nadagdagan pako Ng interes sa history naten lalo Na Yung binanggit na nung nakita Ng mga kastila Na nagkakagulo Ang mga raja ng Luzon ay nag take advantage Sila at hndi Na nila tinigilan hanggang tuluyan nila tayong masakop. Sarap pakinggan Na tayo ay Isa sa mga tribe Ng Yisrael Na nagmula pa daw kala Hawa at adam(Adam & eve). Kumbaga ancient of ancients tayo Ng lahat ng lahi. Ou nga tayo lang Ang lahi Na naiiba sa mga nakapaligid satin na mga bansa, sa Kamila maging Tuli o hndi Tuli Ang mga lalaki ok lang pero sa mga Pinoy culturaly and moraly hndi pwede Ang hindi Tuli. Nakakahiya satin Yun. Pero Ang hndi naten Alam ay may mas malalim pa pala itong pinagmulan kaya ganon tayo ka strong magpatupad Ng Tuli at minsan pa nga ay parang nakakadiring pakinggan kapag hindi Tuli may explanation man o wala. Sa mga hudio technically simula pa sa mga Hebreo ay karimarimarim o kasuklamsuklam Ang pagiging Hindi Tuli at hndi nakapagtataka sapagkat si Yahweh nga naman Ang nagutos nito Kay Moises at anumang hindi pag sunod sa utos nya ay ituturing Na kasuklamsuklam, lalo Na Ang pag Samba sa mga diyos diyusan. And speaking of diyos diyusan. Marahil Tama nga Ang teorya ko Na Ang Pangalan ni Yahweh ay Yan Na mismo din Ang pangtukoy Ng mga hebreo para sa lumikha dahil base narin sa wikipedia Ang Jehovah o Ya-Hawah or 'Hawah ay nangangahulugan Ng 'To be' or 'To become' Na kung uunawain ay- "Ang Sanhi" Ng lahat ng bagay o pinagmulan. So kung babanggitin ng mga hebreo nuon sa pakikipagusap Ang salitang lumikha (creator) intentionally man o not intentional ay mababanggit nila si Yahweh Kasi Yun mismo Ang Pangalan nya "Ang Lumikha". Eh hetot ibinigay Kay Moises Ang ten commandments o Pentateuch at naka Saad duon Na 'wag babanggitin Ang Pangalan ng Lumikha sa walang kabuluhan'. Kaya siguro nag hanap Sila ng ibang mga salita Na pang alternate sa titulong "Ang Lumikha" o "Yahweh" para hindi nila Ito mababanggit sa mga pangkaraniwan nilang usapan.

Unknown said...

Jesus the highest PRIEST YOU DONT KNEW THAT

PilipinaSirikitiya said...

Amazing. This is a worthy masterpiece. Thank you for investing your time compiling the fragmented records of ours and the world history.

Bathaq Iberein of Samaria said...

The Lequios is a group of ancient Hebrews who settled around Ophir, which the Spaniards considered the Philippine islands. Some historians are saying that the Samar Island of the Philippines could be the seat of the Ophir because the island was named after Samaria, the ancestral homeland of Datu Iberein of the Lakanate of Lawan. In Spain there is a 16th Century Book entitled "Coleccion General de Documentos Relativos a las Islas Filipinas." It is found in the Archivos de Indias de Sevilla.(findwords.info/term/lequios).
When 17th-century Spanish missionary Francisco Colin came to the Philippines, he was surprised to discovered that Filipinos, commoners and nobility alike, wore gold jewelry or clothing as everyday accessories. Historian William Henry Scott describes the regality of a certain Datu Iberein of the Lequios Tribe, and his entourage in 1543. Upon seeing a Spanish vessel anchored off the coast of Samar, the datu wearing golden earrings and chains rowed to the Spanish boat. His oarsmen wore gold necklaces.Iberein is merely an example of some of the wealthy and influential rulers of the Philippines in pre-colonial times. (esquiremag.ph )
Women of the Lakanate of Lawan populated by the Lequios Tribe are known from far away lands as pretty and faithful.This long generations of pretty women are instrumental in the growing prosperity and influence of the Lequios Tribe’s Lakanate of Lawan among far away settlements -- in Albay, indianized settlement of Datu Buntuan, gold rich settlement of the Kalagan people, civilized settlement of Mulanay, battle - tested settlement of Mangatang and even settlement in Tundok. There are even historical research which suggests that the Otley Bayer Theory of the Philippine Migration towards the direction of the Lakanate of Lawan from as far as Judea, India, China, Muslim settlements, and lately, Spain -- is primarilly driven by these romanticised legends and seafarer stories of gold, spices, prosperous life and beautiful women. These intermigration from elsewhere in the direction of Lawan ended, in most of them, in other places which started new settlements, in addition of the settlements all over the archipelago initiated by the Lakanate of Lawan in their search for precious gold to be traded in their ancient homeland in Samaria. With the recent French discovery of the 700,000 year old rhinoceros man in the Philippines, the findings that the ancient alphabet of the Philippines called Baybayin came from a settlement in the Lakanate of Lawan called even today as Baybay, and the Australian study which says that the Philippines is the homeland of the polynesians including findings that it could be the seat of the biblical Ophir, the Lequios Tribe (now called in vernacular as Waray) sparked the golden age of the Philippine ancient history. To paint a picture this golden age, an account of Fr. Alcina, as written by Henry Scott, talked about a pretty princess named Bingi of Lawan. This lady, according to what they recount, was endowed with many fine virtues and ready celebrated for her beauty among these natives, so much so that, moved by the fame of her beauty, the Datu, or ruler, of Albay got ready a hundred ships. This chief was called Dumaraug. Datu Dumaraog went back to Albay, failing to win the heart of Princess Bingi of the Lequios Tribe. (archive.org/stream/BarangaySixteenthCenturyPhilippine)

Unknown said...

Is Bohol part of Tarshish or Ophir? Or where are those Visayan Island belong to Tarshish or Ophir?

Unknown said...

Thank you for the info God bless