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Majesty of the Malay Race
« on: March 23, 2008, 12:45:32 PM »

The Banaue Rice Terraces

The ancient and regal power of the proud Malays,

Who can turn mountains to rice lands,






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« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2008, 12:53:09 PM »
No machine was used to carve mountain sides to flat plains for rice. Rock, stone, and dirt were removed.
It was raw, and pure man power, and a rugged determination to survive that drove our ancient forefathers to do this.
No temple, building, ship, or decorations can compare this kind of impact.


To change nature itself to suite the needs of man








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« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2008, 02:05:16 AM »
hala ka nice ba ..  jao unta ka anha ko dinha pohon

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« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2008, 02:41:36 AM »

The Banaue Rice Terraces

The ancient and regal power of the proud Malays,

Who can turn mountains to rice lands,








Amazing!

i want to live in there! tan awa naay mga balay2x!

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« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2008, 05:01:14 AM »
No machine was used to carve mountain sides to flat plains for rice. Rock, stone, and dirt were removed.
It was raw, and pure man power, and a rugged determination to survive that drove our ancient forefathers to do this.
No temple, building, ship, or decorations can compare this kind of impact.


To change nature itself to suite the needs of man








Amazing and wonderful!  Thanks for sharing this picture, Dong!  Someday I will be able to visit this place...

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« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2008, 07:33:05 AM »
Thanks Pare for those wonderful/beautiful Philippine natural views.  This place is our next target for a visit one day.

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« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2008, 11:02:16 AM »
Northern Luzon was  considered the unconquered lands by the Spanish Conquistadores.
Try as they might, every legion that was raised, every native war party they hired to bid their will in conquering the Kingdoms of the Ifugao peoples, all failed.

The Ifugao, the living remnant of the ancient proto-malay race (these people are the first asiatic mongoloids to cross the frigid temperatures of siberia, of northern china, down the valleys of south east asia, and crossed the land bridge that once connected south east asia eons upon eons ago. Till they arrived in what is now present day Luzon. These Ifugao displaced the negritos, and with their dog willed determination, claimed overlordship of these lands).

The Ifugao people were alive in the days of the wooly mammoth, the siberian saber tooth tigers, the giant sloths, the giant birds. The Ifugao were hunters and nomads, and for eons upon eons, they survived on the meat of these great beasts. Until, they mastered agriculture and sedentiary farming. They are as Ancient as the islands of the Philippines. They are the Masters of these Islands.

They are an indomitable people. They have survived and retained their ancient forms of culture that goes over 5 thousand years. Before the Pharaohs of Egypt built the pyramids of Egypt, before Christ Jesus was born in Judea, before the Chinese Empire was even concieved, these humble, yet determined Malay peoples already carved these terraces.

Defying the test of time. They have survived the waves of Spaniards, of Americans, of Japanese, and even the present day secular Filipino.


They are the link to our past. An ancient and proud people. Humility and survival is in their blood. 








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« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2008, 12:00:13 PM »
 Basak on top of a Mountain,

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« Reply #9 on: April 15, 2008, 08:25:53 AM »
Basak on top of a Mountain,

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Wow, this is so beautiful, Dong!  I can live here jud basta lang naay internet connection!

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« Reply #10 on: April 15, 2008, 08:29:34 AM »
haha, 'te. So long as maka log in ta sa TB! :P

OT: These ifugao people probably are so used to breathing thin air of the mountains no?


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« Reply #11 on: April 15, 2008, 08:32:42 AM »
Basak on top of a Mountain,

 :D



Aguy ka nice sa picture.I can't imagine If I'm in this place, feel seguro hapit na makab-ot ang langit.

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« Reply #12 on: April 15, 2008, 08:39:30 AM »
haha, 'te. So long as maka log in ta sa TB! :P

OT: These ifugao people probably are so used to breathing thin air of the mountains no?

Basak on top of a Mountain,

 :D



Aguy ka nice sa picture.I can't imagine If I'm in this place, feel seguro hapit na makab-ot ang langit.

Korek Aya san, 10 pesos na lang pamasahe padulong sa panganod!

Dong, yes, being able to connect to Tubag Bohol is the only condition so I will live in a place like this!  Very beautiful!  But wait, we also got to have helicopter so we can have fresh catch of nokus and isda! hahahahaha

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« Reply #13 on: April 15, 2008, 08:40:50 AM »
hahahaha! no need for nokus when we can eat fresh fresh killed langgam and ducks, 'te! hahahaha
And freshly caught bats! I always wanted to try that, Kinilaw Bat!

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« Reply #14 on: April 15, 2008, 08:47:17 AM »
What?!? Kinilaw na bat?  I will just eat butong, Dong! ;D

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« Reply #15 on: April 15, 2008, 08:55:05 AM »
Aguy niabot sa taas bukid ang nukos ug bat.Makagutom man jod mo oy.

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« Reply #16 on: April 15, 2008, 09:13:34 AM »
Aguy niabot sa taas bukid ang nukos ug bat.Makagutom man jod mo oy.

Aya san, bisan unsaon pa mo lagbas jud tag pagkaon ba?  Wa jud tuyua na oi! hahahahah

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« Reply #17 on: April 15, 2008, 09:22:26 AM »
Hahaha mao ni gahum sa TB,sige lang ug kumbira.

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« Reply #18 on: April 15, 2008, 12:18:53 PM »
Basak on top of a Mountain,

 :D



Wow! looks like paradise to me...

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« Reply #19 on: April 15, 2008, 12:36:51 PM »
Basak on top of a Mountain,

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Wow! looks like paradise to me...

I agree with you Sheilah, it is so beautiful. A humble and lofty place in the mountains. It's as if we can touch heaven from up there.

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« Reply #20 on: April 15, 2008, 01:11:01 PM »
It's hard to wait for something you know might not happen, but it's harder to give up when you know it's everything you wanted.

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« Reply #21 on: April 15, 2008, 01:16:10 PM »
Wa pa jud, Sheilah. Pero, hopefully someday I can make a pilgrimage up to their lofty mountain :)

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It's hard to wait for something you know might not happen, but it's harder to give up when you know it's everything you wanted.

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« Reply #23 on: April 15, 2008, 01:42:52 PM »
Bran, after cleaning my computer, I run through my old archives and I found many topics about Philippine Ancient history. There are several topics and I will post it one by one here.

I found one interesting topic about a female ruler in Luzon, a warior princess pretty much like old TV show Zena the Warior princess.

I will put a link of it here later.

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« Reply #24 on: April 15, 2008, 01:45:20 PM »
One thing I realized about the Ifugao people is that they have very strong Mongoloid features. No?
I just realized it how not only do they have very prominent eye folds as typical of east asians, but they are also very fair skinned. Pure Malay beauty jud ni sila, me-thinks.


Ifugao youth


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« Reply #25 on: April 15, 2008, 01:45:50 PM »
Bran, after cleaning my computer, I run through my old archives and I found many topics about Philippine Ancient history. There are several topics and I will post it one by one here.

I found one interesting topic about a female ruler in Luzon, a warior princess pretty much like old TV show Zena the Warior princess.

I will put a link of it here later.

Aww, I can't wait to read it, Mr. Ferniz!

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« Reply #26 on: April 15, 2008, 02:05:36 PM »
Bran, since this topic is related to Igorots, I will post it here:

As I said, this topic is about a princes warrior; however, this historical account is controversial and subject to historical scrutiny

In Search of a Princess
By Chit Balmaceda Guiterrez

Princess Urduja ancient accounts say, was a 14th century woman ruler of the dynastic Kingdom of Tawalisi in Pangasinan, a vast area lying by the shores of the Lingayen Gulf and the China Sea. Pangasinan was an important kingdom then, and the sovereign was equal to the King of China. Known far and wide, Princess Urduja was famous for leading a retinue of woman warriors who were skilled fighters and equestrians. They developed a high art of warfare to preserve their political state. "These womenfolk took to the battlefields because the male population was depleted by the series of wars which came with the rise and prominence of the Shri-Visayan Empire in the sixth to the 13th centuries," the accounts said. Strong and masculine physique, they were called kinalakian or Amazons.

The saga of this unique princess was the stuff of legend. Parents and teachers tell her story like they would a fairytale, or the biography of Gabriela Silang, an 18th-century revolutionary, or Tandang Sora, a granny who fed members of the Katipunan.

The legend of Princess Urduja can be attributed to the famous story of Mohammedan traveler, Ibn Batuta of India. In 1347 he was a passenger on a Chinese junk, which has just come from the port of Kakula, north of Java and Sumatra and passed by Pangasinan on the way to Canton, China.
Urduja, who had a particular fascination for the renowed "Pepper Country"--pepper being considered black gold then--was quoted by Batuta as saying, "I must positively go to war with that country, and get possession of it, for its great wealth and great forces attract me."

For a time, feminists tried to revive the Urduja story but were discouraged to learn that Batuta's account of the voyage to Tawalisi was labeled as either an intrigue or a fantasy. Scholars, considering the story absurd, declared Urduja a myth.

The Philippines' national hero Dr. Jose Rizal, in Dr. Austin Craig's 1916 paper
"Particulars of the Philippines' Pre-Spanish Past" was quoted as saying in one of his letters: "While I may have doubts regarding the accuracy of Ibn Batuta's details, I still beleive in the voyage to Tawalisi". He went as far as to calculate the distance and time of travel from the port of Kakula. Rizal's commentary was triggered by a scholar, Sir Henry Yule, who wrote in his time that: "Tawalisi may be found only in a Gulliver geography."

Today, years after scholars have passionately debated whether the 14th-century heroine is a product of mythology or history, Princess Urduja continues to fascinate Filipinos. In Pangasinan, the Governor's office building in the coastal town of Lingayen is called the Urduja Palace. So is a hotel along the highway.

Urduja's name still has great resonance among the Ibaloi, one of the major ethnolinguistic tribes in the Cordillera region. Dr. Morr Tadeo Pungayan, a respected scholar of Ibaloi culture and professor at the St. Louis University of Baguio City, said, "Linguistically, Urduja is Deboxah (pronounced Debuca) in Ibaloi. We've always had a woman named Deboxah from time immemorial among the genrations of Ibaloi. The name usually describes a woman of strong quality and character who's nobly descended. That name is an Ibaloi name. That's why Ibaloi trace their ancestry from Urduja".

The Cordillera tribes, also known collectively as Igorots, pride themselves as being the only ethnic group that doesn't talk about the origin of man according to Spanish chronicles. Among the tribes, genealogy and family history are orally passed history. The Ibaloi, just like other highland tribes, could easily trace their ancestry. This is ensured by their custom of naming newborns after ancestors to help keep their memory alive and evoke affection and protection.
"No Ibaloi will bear the name of an ancestor unless she's related," Dr. Pungayan explained. While the Bontoc tribe bestows the name of an ancestor to a grandchild, the Ibaloi style is namesaking the great-grandchild, he added.

A book on the history of Benguet province, written by Anavic Bagamasbad and Zenaida Hamada-Pawid, shows the Benguet genealogy tracing tribal family lines from the year 1380 to 1899. The book says, "The extent of inter-settlement alliances is climaxed in the memory of Tublay informants with the reign of Deboxah, Princess Urduja, in Pinga. She's acknowledged as the granddaughter of Udayan, an outstanding warrior of Darew. Her death signaled continuous decline of kinship and alliance between highland and lowland settlements."

The Darew mountain range is remembered as the earliest settlement in the mining town of Tublay. The close relations between the Cordilleras and Lingayen are well-accounted for in Batuta's chronicle. It said that the Kingdom of Tawalisi was very extensive, including the vast areas up to the fringes of the Benguet mountains and the Cordillera ranges in the east of Luzon.
Th ruler, Batuta further said,"possesses numerous junks with which he makes war upon the Chinese until they sue for peace and consent to grant him certain concessions."

Despite recent research, however, most academicians remain cold to oral history, saying that such accounts still have to pass through stringent rigors of scholarship.

Today, some historians consider the issue of Urduja's historicity as closed. Compounding the issue is the lack of archaelogical evidence on the existence of the Shri-Visayan Empire. In fact, other aspects of Philippine history are being doubted,too, especially since the late William Henry Scott, an American historian in the Cordillera, proved that the so-called pre-Hispanic laws--the Kalantiaw and Maragtas Codes--were faked or invented by psuedo historians who only wanted fame or riches for themselves.

Dr. Jaime Veneracion, the University of the Philippines head of history department, said that the old Chinese scripts which may have chronicled Urduja's kingdom have remained inaccessible for their archaic language and calligraphy.

But history buffs like writer Ed Reyes remain undaunted. He says: "The researchers aren't conclusive, given the fact that the Philippine history has only been covered in writing for the last 500 years".


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« Reply #27 on: April 15, 2008, 02:26:48 PM »
Bran,

As you can see on the below map of Ancient Spice Route, somewhere between Panggasinan and Pampangga is a major port and stop-over for Cinamon Trade. The names and places used therein is ancient.



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« Reply #28 on: April 17, 2008, 04:20:08 PM »
Bran, since this topic is related to Igorots, I will post it here:

As I said, this topic is about a princes warrior; however, this historical account is controversial and subject to historical scrutiny

In Search of a Princess
By Chit Balmaceda Guiterrez

Princess Urduja ancient accounts say, was a 14th century woman ruler of the dynastic Kingdom of Tawalisi in Pangasinan, a vast area lying by the shores of the Lingayen Gulf and the China Sea. Pangasinan was an important kingdom then, and the sovereign was equal to the King of China. Known far and wide, Princess Urduja was famous for leading a retinue of woman warriors who were skilled fighters and equestrians. They developed a high art of warfare to preserve their political state. "These womenfolk took to the battlefields because the male population was depleted by the series of wars which came with the rise and prominence of the Shri-Visayan Empire in the sixth to the 13th centuries," the accounts said. Strong and masculine physique, they were called kinalakian or Amazons.

The saga of this unique princess was the stuff of legend. Parents and teachers tell her story like they would a fairytale, or the biography of Gabriela Silang, an 18th-century revolutionary, or Tandang Sora, a granny who fed members of the Katipunan.

The legend of Princess Urduja can be attributed to the famous story of Mohammedan traveler, Ibn Batuta of India. In 1347 he was a passenger on a Chinese junk, which has just come from the port of Kakula, north of Java and Sumatra and passed by Pangasinan on the way to Canton, China.
Urduja, who had a particular fascination for the renowed "Pepper Country"--pepper being considered black gold then--was quoted by Batuta as saying, "I must positively go to war with that country, and get possession of it, for its great wealth and great forces attract me."

For a time, feminists tried to revive the Urduja story but were discouraged to learn that Batuta's account of the voyage to Tawalisi was labeled as either an intrigue or a fantasy. Scholars, considering the story absurd, declared Urduja a myth.

The Philippines' national hero Dr. Jose Rizal, in Dr. Austin Craig's 1916 paper
"Particulars of the Philippines' Pre-Spanish Past" was quoted as saying in one of his letters: "While I may have doubts regarding the accuracy of Ibn Batuta's details, I still beleive in the voyage to Tawalisi". He went as far as to calculate the distance and time of travel from the port of Kakula. Rizal's commentary was triggered by a scholar, Sir Henry Yule, who wrote in his time that: "Tawalisi may be found only in a Gulliver geography."

Today, years after scholars have passionately debated whether the 14th-century heroine is a product of mythology or history, Princess Urduja continues to fascinate Filipinos. In Pangasinan, the Governor's office building in the coastal town of Lingayen is called the Urduja Palace. So is a hotel along the highway.

Urduja's name still has great resonance among the Ibaloi, one of the major ethnolinguistic tribes in the Cordillera region. Dr. Morr Tadeo Pungayan, a respected scholar of Ibaloi culture and professor at the St. Louis University of Baguio City, said, "Linguistically, Urduja is Deboxah (pronounced Debuca) in Ibaloi. We've always had a woman named Deboxah from time immemorial among the genrations of Ibaloi. The name usually describes a woman of strong quality and character who's nobly descended. That name is an Ibaloi name. That's why Ibaloi trace their ancestry from Urduja".

The Cordillera tribes, also known collectively as Igorots, pride themselves as being the only ethnic group that doesn't talk about the origin of man according to Spanish chronicles. Among the tribes, genealogy and family history are orally passed history. The Ibaloi, just like other highland tribes, could easily trace their ancestry. This is ensured by their custom of naming newborns after ancestors to help keep their memory alive and evoke affection and protection.
"No Ibaloi will bear the name of an ancestor unless she's related," Dr. Pungayan explained. While the Bontoc tribe bestows the name of an ancestor to a grandchild, the Ibaloi style is namesaking the great-grandchild, he added.

A book on the history of Benguet province, written by Anavic Bagamasbad and Zenaida Hamada-Pawid, shows the Benguet genealogy tracing tribal family lines from the year 1380 to 1899. The book says, "The extent of inter-settlement alliances is climaxed in the memory of Tublay informants with the reign of Deboxah, Princess Urduja, in Pinga. She's acknowledged as the granddaughter of Udayan, an outstanding warrior of Darew. Her death signaled continuous decline of kinship and alliance between highland and lowland settlements."

The Darew mountain range is remembered as the earliest settlement in the mining town of Tublay. The close relations between the Cordilleras and Lingayen are well-accounted for in Batuta's chronicle. It said that the Kingdom of Tawalisi was very extensive, including the vast areas up to the fringes of the Benguet mountains and the Cordillera ranges in the east of Luzon.
Th ruler, Batuta further said,"possesses numerous junks with which he makes war upon the Chinese until they sue for peace and consent to grant him certain concessions."

Despite recent research, however, most academicians remain cold to oral history, saying that such accounts still have to pass through stringent rigors of scholarship.

Today, some historians consider the issue of Urduja's historicity as closed. Compounding the issue is the lack of archaelogical evidence on the existence of the Shri-Visayan Empire. In fact, other aspects of Philippine history are being doubted,too, especially since the late William Henry Scott, an American historian in the Cordillera, proved that the so-called pre-Hispanic laws--the Kalantiaw and Maragtas Codes--were faked or invented by psuedo historians who only wanted fame or riches for themselves.

Dr. Jaime Veneracion, the University of the Philippines head of history department, said that the old Chinese scripts which may have chronicled Urduja's kingdom have remained inaccessible for their archaic language and calligraphy.

But history buffs like writer Ed Reyes remain undaunted. He says: "The researchers aren't conclusive, given the fact that the Philippine history has only been covered in writing for the last 500 years".


Mr. Ferniz,

Thank you for the article, it was a great read bitaw. After reading this article, it only supports the general consensus I have of the very matriarchal society of the Philippines. Women have a strong say in policy, as compared to other countries where women do not have a say at all.

Bran,

As you can see on the below map of Ancient Spice Route, somewhere between Panggasinan and Pampangga is a major port and stop-over for Cinamon Trade. The names and places used therein is ancient.



Thanks for the map, Mr. Ferniz.

Its amazing how the Pangasinan region/ central coastal Luzon has always been the target of inter-regional trade. From the days of Pre-Hispanicum to classical Hispanicum to the present.

 

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