Sadyang napakarami ng dapat ipagmalaki ng mga Pilipino bago pa man tayo tinawag na Las Islas Filipinas, sa isang artikulo ng wikipedia ay malaki ang posibilidad na tayo ang tinutukoy na bansang Ophir na naghahatid ng maraming ginto at pilak every three years kay haring Solomon, take a look at this article; In a book found in Spain entitled Collecion General de Documentos Relativos a las Islas Filipinas, the author has described how to locate Ophir. According to the section "Document No. 98", dated 1519-1522, Ophir can be found by travelling from the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, to India, to Burma, to Sumatra, to Moluccas, to Borneo, to Sulu, to China, then finally Ophir. Ophir was said to be "[...] in front of China towards the sea, of many islands where the Moluccans, Chinese, and Lequios met to trade..." Jes Tirol asserts that this group of islands could not be Japan because the Moluccans did not get there, nor Taiwan, since it is not composed of "many islands." Only the present-day Philippines, he says, could fit the description. Spanish records also mention the presence of Lequious (big, bearded white men, probably descendants of the Phoenicians, whose ships were always laden with gold and silver) in the Islands to gather gold and silver.[15] Other evidence has also been pointed out suggesting that the Philippines was the biblical Ophir.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 03:13:19 +0000
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