Maharlikan amid PNoy presidency

My post to an online forum entitled "If you have the chance, do you want to change your citizenship?" especially in an era where this country is beset by an incompetent presidency (whom I didn't vote anyway).



"I would rather change my perspective as MAHARLIKAN, not disregarding, but transcending beyond that of calling one's self as Filipino.

I have done personal research about it because the mainstream educational system in this country manipulated by oligarchic interest suppresses such knowledge, limiting the Filipino perspective merely in the colonial era because that was where the oligarchs gained their podium, unwittingly reducing instead the Filipino identity as susceptible to colonial mentality and reducing the country to its mediocre, unoriginal cultural state susceptible to oligarchic whims as manifested nowadays, even to the point of subliminally identifying their puppet president as P-NOY who manifested the ineptness, mediocrity associated with it.

The Maharlikan is the true embodiment of FREEDOM and the will to fight for it, and its ancient root is much deeper and more profound than perceiving one's self as Filipino that's traced merely in the colonial era. To be Maharlikan is to change, not just by name, but to bring change from within, awakening the ancient rootedness upon each individual in defining one's self in this part of our Planet."

Maharlikan and Freedom

Reposting my post from the facebook page "Change the name 'Philippines' to 'Maharlikan' " (with some revisions):

Kabayan, from my research I discovered that description on Maharlika was written according to Paul Morrow, which runs contradictory to my previous research that Maharlikans were actually "Freemen." The logic that he seem to try to impose was that Maharlikan's were less free citing they had to pay for their own weapons, which is flawed because it only showed that by principle, it proved they were not tied up to the Datus as they provide their weapons independently, and it was only a fitting relation that Datu's pay for their services, and vice versa, exposing that the foreign writer didn't grasp the "utang-na-loob" inherent in our culture. During times of war, it was more an honorable duty for a warrior to fight for his people and his Freedom, it's more profound than "bound to serve" obviously due to his lack of grasp with our culture of "Karangalan," and dismally mimicked it with shallow paradigm on commercialism.

There also seemed a systematic attempt to erase this integral part of our ancient identity as Free People i.e. Maharlikan by whoever these ulterior forces are. Most generations of students today were not even aware of the word "Maharlika" and it showed the mainstream education system of this country is being infiltrated by those who prefer to keep our people merely subservient and hypnotized to inferior colonial mentality.

It was later that I discovered that Maharlikans were also warriors taken from the word MAHARLOKA," meaning GREAT LAND, one of the ancient subcontinent of LEMURIA and the most powerful of them, for it was also a warrior nation, and our archipelago islands were remnants of this Great Nation many, many millennia ago.

The MAHARLIKANS shall once again awaken MAHARLOKA, our GREAT LAND.

refuting an erroneous description

I am reposting my comment (with some additions) on a facebook discussion board refuting an article that described the word Maharlika according to Paul Morrow. It merely reflected his lack of grasp as to the inherent local culture that only locals could comprehend more than what he was merely taught of. Definitely for the sake of ethics he should not impose his foreign viewpoints to innate local perspectives as it will only expose its limitation. Here is his attempted portrayal:

Maharlika – Members of the Tagalog warrior class known as maharlika had the same rights and responsibilities as the timawa, but in times of war they were bound to serve their datu in battle. They had to arm themselves at their own expense, but they did get to keep the loot they won – or stole, depending on which side of the transaction you want to look at. Although they were partly related to the nobility, the maharlikas were technically less free than the timawas because they could not leave a datu’s service without first hosting a large public feast and paying the datu between 6 and 18 pesos in gold – a large sum in those days.

However, I strongly believe his viewpoints that attempted to portray the Maharlikan were ridiculously erroneous:

"I believe the description of Maharlika in this article is inaccurate,
most likely a foreigner, the writer merely attempts to tailor fit his
pespective about the ancient social system of the Nation by relating it
with some kind of 20th century western capitalist society. Even in
ancient Japan, unlike the present 20th century society, warriors were
definitely of higher rank than merchants, who were even considered less
than their peasant subjects.

To portray the Maharlikan as "less free" than the Timawa is an utter contradiction as the Maharlikan warrior fights for his freedom and for his people. His gesture of respect for the Maginoo was to keep pace with the social order, the fact that the Maharlikan armed himself at his expense proved his sense of noble independence and not necessarily bounded to a master, although, just as the rest of the community he honored higher ranks or the elderly with respect (hence the word "opo, po"), and vice versa.

The subjective portrayal of the Maharlikan bounded to "pay" or host a
large feast seems the foreign writer being unaware of the unwritten code of ethics on generosity of our ancestors and our culture, for even in the present a Pinoy traveler is expected to bring in some "pasalubong," or may even race with each other as who pays first for his/her companion on a jeepney ride.

The modern Maharlikan pledges allegiance to no one but for for HUMANITY and for FREEDOM."

( image courtesy of http://pagodkanaba.blogspot.com )

awaken, Maharlikan Warrior

During my research about Maharlika, there awakened in me an innate knowledge of martial arts that suddenly sprang up! Previously, I had not been particular about martial arts even up to early last year and neither did I have interest of it back then, yet it seemed I already knew about it, like some DNA data in me being triggered by the word MAHARLIKA, like a mantra. It had awakened about late last year. Presently I'm with a local group that is into Kali or Arnis , our nation's ancient martial arts because I observed that the moves that was awakened in me was similar to it.

Here is a video created by our Davao group, the Mandirigmang Kaliradman:



Soon I discovered from personal research that our country, presently known as Philippines, other than the remnant of the ancient continent of MU (Lemuria), that our land's ancient name was MAHARLOKA and it was known as a warrior nation and said to be the most powerful nation of MU during those times. Now there's the warrior side within that is awakened by the word MAHARLIKA.

Awaken yours.

I got back up

For my personal research "Ric Vil Hori's Cibolan Theory :)" now there are supports that back me up!

(courtesy of albertus magnus of PEx :)

http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/showpost.php?p=46841204&postcount=115

further proofs for my Cibolan Theory :)

Here are further proofs that will reconfirm my "Ric Vil Hori's Cibolan Theory" that supports the claim of the Bagobo Peoples, one of our indigenous tribes here in Davao, Mindanao that supposedly ALL of the World's tribes originated from Cibolan River in the foothills of Mt. Apo, Davao through my theory in fusing it with the lost continent of MU, or Lemuria, the linking of the legendary lost city of Cibola among American Indian tribes, and fitting other pieces of the puzzle.



The discovery of a submerged, ancient city in Yonaguni, Japan that showed striking similarity with the ancient ruins of American Indian cities, even replete with an awesome, mysterious stone-etched image of a human face with feather head gear!









HISTORY CHANNEL: JAPAN'S MYSTERIOUS PYRAMIDS









The natural geological movement of Earth's crust in the Pacific area, the original site of the sunken continent of MU, is continually moving between the underwater mountain ranges of the East Pacific Ridge down to the Marianas Trench, the ocean's deepest part in a process known as Subduction, at a rate of about 3 inches a year, and had been doing so for millions of years. The crust is continually dragged down into the Marianas Trench at the edge of the Philippine tectonic plate as the moving crust goes deeper into the mantle (which may partly explain the sinking of the ancient MU continent), causing magma to rise into the surface and thus forming volcanic islands. But the rising islands of the presently known Philippines, especially Mt. Apo in the island of Mindanao were large enough to possibly host survivors of this ancient tragedy, and on its foothills the beautiful, mysterious river of Cibolan so venerated by the Bagobo peoples claimed to be the origin of ALL tribes (possibly remaining survivors of the ancient sunken continent of MU) in the World!

HISTORY CHANNEL: THE DEEPEST PLACE ON EARTH





Further evidence of the existence of MU also includes the strange, mysterious rock faces of Easter Islands, said to be remnants of the lost civilization of Lemuria. Notice the eerie similarity of these rock faces and other remnants to those found in the the submerged ancient city in Yonaguni, Japan and the stone ruins of American Indian cities! And should I also mention the seemingly similar physical features of Filipinos, Eskimos, and American Indian tribes?

I made this personal initiative because the mainstream history in in this country especially pertaining to its otherwise awesome pre-colonial Past, was dismally insufficient in providing such knowledge to those seeking for it.