Monday, September 6, 2010
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.
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2 comments:
Ric, Is there any word like 'maharloka' in Filipino Languages?
pardon for delayed reply, Maharloka was said to originate from Sanskrit, which means Great Land from the words Maha and Loka. the nearer word in local language would be "mahal" meaning valuable, beloved, expensive, etc. and "lugar" pertaining to a land area, location.
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