Magellan first saw Samal, Davao on March 16,1521??

quotes written by Pigafetta, from book "First Voyage Round the World by Magellan":

Saturday, the 16th of March, 1521, we arrived at daybreak in sight of a high island, three hundred leagues distant from the before-mentioned Thieves Island, This Isle is called Zamal(1). The next day the general wished to land at another uninhabited island near the first , to be in greater security and to take water, also to repose there a few days.

1. Samar? Or Samal?

The next day the general wished to land at another uninhabited island near the first,

Talikod Island??


These people became very familiar and friendly with us(1), and explained many things to us in their languageand told us the names of the islands which we saw with our eyes before us(2). The island where they dwelt is called Zuluam, and is not large.(3).

1. Samal Tribe?


2. Talikod Island, Davao City area, Davao del Sur, Compostela Valley, Davao Oriental?


3. Other name for Zamal or Samal Island?

The island we were at was named Humunu(1); nevertheless because we found there two springs of very fresh water we called it the Watering place of good signs, and because we found here the first signs of gold. there is much white coral to be found here, and large trees which bear fruit smaller than an almond, and which are like pines. There are also many pine tress both good and bad. In this place there were many circumjacent islands, on which account we named them the Archipelago of St. Lazarus, because we stayed there on the day and feast of St. Lazarus(2).

1. Talikod Island?


2. Davao Gulf area?

That same day (March 25,1521) we took the course between West and Southwest(1) and passed amist four small islands, that is to say, Cenalo, Huinanghar, ibusson and Abarien.(2)

from Samal, Davao they changed course "west and southwest" or 1. Northernmost tip of Mindanao in present day Surigao City?


2. Cluster of islands along Surigao del Norte area, Siargao, Dinagat, Liloan in Leyte, Limasawa?(When viewed on their trip from Samal, Davao, these islands, esp. leyte did look "small" as the expedition viewed these islands by its tip!)

Thursday, the 28th of March, having seen the night before fire upon an island, at the morning we came to anchor at this island; where we saw a small boat which they call Boloto, with eight men inside, which approached the ship of the captain-general. Then a slave of the captain's who was from Sumatra(1), otherwise named Trapobrana, spoke from afar to these people, who understood his talk (2), and came near to the side of the ship, but they withdrew immediately, and would not enter the ship from fear of us.

1. from Sri-Vijayan empire?

2. "Lumad Visayan" - mixture of Old Malay, Dravidian Kavi, Sanskrit?

The island of this king was called Zaluan and Calagan(1), and when these two kings wish to one anotherr they come to this island where we were(2). Of these kings the painted one is called Raia Calambu, and the other one Raia Siani.

1. Butuan and Caraga?


2. Masao, Butuan?

It seemed that the Spanish expedition of Magellan, lacking in accurate geographical description of the area, tend to identify land masses surrounded by bodies of water as "island," Masao in Butuan seemed to be carved out from river delta that was perhaps misunderstood as "island."

If based on the mainstream historical claim that the first mass was held in Limasawa, Leyte, it's ridiculous for the Raja's of Butuan and Caraga to sail all the way to Limasawa to attend the first mass, unless of course if they chartered a fastcraft ferry for the special occassion, and for Pigafetta and Magellan's crew to visit his kingdom, for both Raja's to meet cordially for gamehunting, there must be regular schedules of fastcraft ferries for the Limasawa - Kingdoms of Butuan and Caraga route since 1521!! LOL

repost on the Samal People and Giants

Samal Island, or PU located in Davao Gulf  indeed had a very long history. In the ancient of times it had been said (partly read from researches by UP Prof. Fe Mangahas)  the island was once inhabited by giants called the Dinagat. These giants were abusive for they would raid villages (most likely along mainland Davao) and steal, vandalize (like defecating on their kitchen), and kidnap women and made sex slaves. Babies out of such abuse that were born giants were assimilated, those that remained human-size were rejected and separated with the kidnapped women to be their slaves.

The humans, fed up with the abusive giants, gathered together to device ways on how to get rid of them. They decided to deceive the giants by sending them delectable foods laden on a small boat. the giants upon seeing the boat, surmised it as offering of submission by the tiny humans and that the humans had finally conceded to their "superiority." The food however, was laced with poison.



The Dinagats only allowed all their fellow giants to partake of the food and prohibited human-sized slaves and the kinapped women to partake of the feast whom they treated as inferior class. All the giants were ultimately killed, except for the human-sized slaves, now Free. Thus the survivors called themselves "Samal," which said to be meant as dregs, or left-over.

However, there were indeed accounts of first-hand witnesses (local inhabitants, construction workers, treasure hunters) who discovered skeletal remains in Samal. Most of these discovered remains were stolen and unaccounted for. Even foreign scientists investigated the phenomenon. but mediocre nartional historical authorities (as they had, until recently, ignored the role of Mindanao legacy in mainstream history lessons ) outrightly dismissed these priceless gems of local history that could otherwise spell the difference to the dysfunctional state of this oligarch-dominated state and society.

Even the Sama's creation myth is very old, and eerily similar with the myths of the ancient Sumerians (Abraham's father was a Sumerian priest) supposedly the oldest civilization in the World, according to western historians that is. It was also intriguing that the bible mentioned about such giants most probably borrowed from Sumerian accounts, known as Nephilims, borne of angel (read: Extraterrestrial) and human parents.

the Bagobo People's shall be vindicated

The ancient knowledge of the Bagobo Peoples of Davao and Mindanao, preserved and nurtured through the ages their ancient claim that Cibolan River of Apo Sandawa, was the cradle of Human civilization, SHALL BE VINDICATED.

I had discovred from personal research that the term "Cibolan," remembered just as our Bagobo brethrens said they would, by its scattered children from Negros to as far as the American continent by the Native Americans, was a word not even originating from the latter, but from the language of the Dravidians of southern India and of our Pilipino ancestors!

"Cibolan" comes from the Dravidian / Pilipino root words civ-pola, meaning "golden city" or "city of reds."

The ancient Laguna Copperplate Inscription revealed that our ancestors had used the ancient, old Javanese language of Kavi.

The mystery is finally revealed, the distant liink between the Native Americans of the American continent, the Bagobo People's of Southeast Asia, and ancient India of South Asia are finally meet and my personal research has turned full circle, through the ancient languages of the Sri Vijaya Empire, Kavi!

Kavi, or Old Javanese is a branch of language that developed from the Dravidian languages of southern India!

Pola in Pilipino language, means "Red". Gold in its state of high quality, is reddish in color.


Dravidian languages are spoken by about one-fourth of all Indians, overwhelmingly in southern India. Dravidian speakers among tribal peoples (e.g., Gonds) in central India, in eastern Bihar, and in the Brahui-speaking region of the distant Pakistani province of Balochistan suggest a much wider distribution in ancient times. The four constitutionally recognized Dravidian languages also enjoy...

•Indic writing systems (in Indic writing systems)
A southern form of Brahmi developed into the Grantha alphabet, from which in turn the writing systems of the Dravidian languages of southern India (e.g., Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, and Kannada) as well as the writing systems of the Sinhalese language of Sri Lanka, the Khmer and Mon languages of Southeast Asia, and the Kavi, or Old Javanese, system of Indonesia were developed. The Thai writing...









However, the Native Americans pointed the direction to the Spanish Conquistadores that ancient Cibola, the City of Gold, the fabled El Dorado, to the north of presently known Mexico. How could the Bagobo Peoples dare to claim that ALL tribes in the World originated from Cibolan River of Mt. Apo, when Davao is riduculously too far away from "north of Mexico" ?!?

Ridiculous indeed, or so it seemed...


...Until one clicks on the previous blogs:

Did ancient Humanity Originated from the Foothills of Mt. Apo?
Of Davao's cibolan River, American Indians, and "Golden City"
Further Proofs for my "Cibolan Theory"

repost of my research on Ophir

Been a long time since I last posted, having to be with a mediocre society that put in position an incompetent oligarch puppet as national leader out of mudslinging, ignorance and hypocrisy can be so uninspiring. However, we shall go on.

This is a repost from another website, of my research on Ophir:


This is what I discovered culled from personal research about the ancient land of Ophir and how I had it traced in our archipelagic islands, possibly in Mindanao.

During the bloody Crusades with the capture of Jerusalem by the Knights Templars on the 11th Century, the Knights while searching for relics from the ancient city discovered the treasure map of Solomon that detailed the location of the gold mines of biblical Ophir whose gold were said to be used in the building of Solomon's temple.

By the 14th Century the Templars, declining in influence with unsuccesful campaigns against the Muslim world and the recapturing of Jerusalem by the Turks in the 13th century, were persecuted by the King of France and the Pope and were eventually destroyed during the Inquisition, with their Grand Master Jacques de Molay burned at the stake on March, 1314 defiant to the end as to utter against those who wronged him, in which the Pope died a month later, and the French king died in a hunting accident before the year ended.

The surviving Knights Templars escaped, hiding with them treasures and the relic of the ancient map of Solomon discovered from Jerusalem hundreds of years ago. They traced the location of Ophir from Solomon's ancient map, and the European warriors ultimately arrived in the shores of this archipelagic islands, most likely somewhere in the Northeastern Mindanao in Butuan-Surigao area (about 200 years even before Magellan's fleet arrived (the illustrious navigator also held the first mass in Masao (Mazaua) , Butuan; some of the country's conventional historical beliefs biased to Luzon-Visayas are erronous and must be rectified, the first mass must have been held not in the Visayas but in MINDANAO)

In this land they buried their treasures with the aid of the Indigenous Peoples, their leaders known among the learned as Lemurian priests (some Templars who were left behind to guard the treasures later intermarried with their daughters), the treasures protected from greedy and vile hands even to this day by powerful deities of our pre-colonial ancestors known as Diwatas (better not be myopic when dealing with this, trash bigoted colonial biased paradigms down the bin!).

In my personal research I discovered that it amazingly fit like jigsaw puzzle as to my questions why some Indigenous Peoples esp. in Mindanao and Davao exhibit caucasian features, as well as clues to the unearthed excellently crafted antique pre-colonial gold jewelries dated 10th-13th Century (had been suspecting of European influence in its intricate details upon seeing it in the Ayala Museum in Makati) that were discovered also in Butuan-Surigao area in Mindanao.


Many years before I had heard that it was said the place where the gold used in Solomon's Temple came from Butuan area in Mindanao. At first it seemed preposterous and shrugged it off, until recently when my personal research (found the mainstream history education to be contemptuously incomplete) led me to this.