Ramayana, Diwata, Maharlika

This is a sculpture located in Ubud Botanical Gardens in Bali, Indonesia that featured ape warriors in battle against Ravena, the demon king of Lanka from the Hindu epic RAMAYANA.

In the classic Epic, RAMAYANA hero Rama together with his allies and aided by Hanuman the mighty leader of Varana's (ape-like humanoids) built a man-made (or ape-made) bridge that linked mainland India with the island of Lanka (present day Sri Lanka) popularly known as the Ram Setu Bridge, to save his beloved wife Sita from the bondage of Ravena.

Intriguingly, the Ram Setu Bridge actually existed, and still completely above sea level until it broke after a cyclone in 1480, even to this day!

The undeniably created (even curved elegantly so) Ram Setu Bridge, believed to have taken place during the Hindu timeline Tredha Yuga about 1,750,000 years ago, not contradictory for Humanity's ancestors were yet evolving from apemen by then.

Bali in Indonesia, is also known as Pulau DEWATA or "island of gods".  The ancestors of the Balinese people were citizens of the Hindu influenced Majapahit Empire of East Java when the kingdom's priests, royalty, craftsmen, artists transplanted with the psread of influence of the Malacca Sultanate in 1478.  The Maharajahs and Rajahs, the royal Family of the Majapahit Empire hoever, returned into the kingdom of MAHARLIKA (present day Philippines).  By the 16th Century the kingdom of MAHARLIKA was a prosperous and flourishing country with the ruling Maharajah Luisong Tagean (of whom the term Luzon originated from) with his sons Rajah Soliman of Manila and Rajah Lapulapu of Mactan, and to the south the Rajah Kulambu of Mazzaua and Rajah Siagu of  Butuan and Caraga in Mindanao, and their relative Rajah Humabon of Sugbu in the Visayas, the Sultanate of Sulu, and furthermore the prosperous and ancient, highly civilized peoples of Zamal island that the Spanish fleet of Portuguese navigator, Magellan first encountered by 1521.

The discovery of the Laguna Copperplate dated 900 AD mentioned of the Chief of  Medang, Indonesia being a representative of the Chief of DIWATA in Butuan, Mindanao.  By that time, Medang or Mataram Kingdom was a Hindu-Buddhist Kingdom that fluorished in the 8th-10th Century based in Central Java and later in East Java that preceded the Majapahit Kingdom.

It becomes very interesting that the name DIWATA signified important role during the reigns of the Medang, Majapahit, and Maharlika Kingdoms.