Do we have any ancient ruins or treasures from any of our prehispanic civilizations?
Because I was reading up the histories of the Kingdom of Champa & the Khmer and they have lots of ruins and treasures even though they are now a bunch of lost civilizations. How come we can’t find any ruins from our lost civilizations?
But we indeed had them…
We had:
Sultanates: Maguindanao and Sulu.
Rajahnates: Butuan and Cebu
Dynasties: Tondo & Seludong
Confederations: The Confederation of the Datus of Panay.
Kingdoms: Sanfotsi & Zabag
But how come we don’t have any ruins and scant little treasures or evidences of them?
Except for merchant records from the Chinese & Muslims or early Spanish chroniclers we didn’t even know what our ancestors did.
It doesn’t make sense. It seems as if thousands of years of development and progress has been erased from our collective memories.
Surely, civilizations would leave a great deal of documentation. What happened to all the ancient structures, treasures, scholarship and etc. of our pre-hipanic civilizations? What happened to the legends, epics, tales?
What happened to all the stories of past Kings, Sultans, Princesses, Rajahs, Scholars, Prophets, Soldiers and etc?
How come most people don’t even remember, know or refuse to acknowledge that we had any prehispanic states?
And the scant info about them has to be culled from foreign sources, like Chinese merchant accounts, Kartillas from the Brunei Sultanate or early diaries from Hispanic missionaries…
It really irks me how we unexplicably know nothing about the perhispanic past.
I mean hell. What happened to the physical evidence of their existence? The Mexicans have Aztec ruins, the Cambodians have the Khmer ruins & the Indonesians have the ruins of Borubudor and they actually remember the previous states which used to exist in their land
How come it seems as if we don’t have any ruins or whatsoever?
How come lots Filipinos forget that we even had a past before Spain?
It’s as if thousands of years have been wiped off the memory of Philippine history forever.
Please if you know, we somehow have any ancient ruins or treasures or anything at all.
Please share your knowledge with us.
If only to plug the gaping black hole of the Philippine identity crisis due in part to a huge lack of a sense of pride for culture or history brought about by mass amnesia of the past.
Since it seems as if we had zero or nill cutlure before the Spaniards came which I know is false because I have nagging feeling that we were NOT spear chucking naked savages into cannibalism and we really did have civilizations.
Please fill my empty heart.
I really really yearn for ancestral heritage or any shred of ancient tradition.
WHO AGREES WITH ME????? JAMES YAP ON NBA??JUST WTF WAS THAT.?
ok, here’s the thing, i don’t mean to offend anyone esp that particular person who just posted something like, is there a possibility that a filipino player could make it on NBA? i was ok with the question until he mentioned that he thinks JAMES YAP COULD BE A POSSIBLE PROSPECT. I mean, wake up, there’s no chance of him getting into the nba, and the worst part is, stupid commentators and i mean REAL STUPID commentators of PBA are even calling him KING JAMES, i mean c’mon, if LeBron James would see and hear that he was just being compared with some goofball with probably no good D, (and yes it goes to all the PBA teams) no good gold digger whatever you call him bullshit, i think he wouldn’t even consider it as a humor or aspiration to his greatness – king james himself. Philippines couldn’t even beat China in Fiba, how is it possible that any of them could make it on NBA? I’m a filipino and i admit that i’m a b-ball fan but not the PBA certainly. This is not about patriotic bullshit so to those who would react that i’m not being “makabayan” GTFO. if you understand what i meant by that, it’s just that i’m being factual, realistic. And yes, how could someone refuse to play on NBA? WHO ON EARTH WOULD DO THAT WHEN EVERY BALLER DREAMS ON MAKING IT BIG SOMEDAY?? I’m sorry but i just don’t believe the Johnny A. story, plus this james yap thread. If ever NBA would accept yap, that’s the time i believe that Kobe and the like should really play on Euroleague and yes, you call james yap a clutch player? do you even know what you are talking about, a “clutch player”?? omg. Nate Rob would school his ass all day, even the worst benchwarmers in NBA could school anybody in PBA. take it from me. Hate me or curse me for this thread i don’t give a damn, but to those who have the same ideas like me, feel free to post your comments, anyway, i expect some of the rude feedback from dumb people, so enjoy hating me. Let’s just stick to boxing where undeniably Filipinos are DOMINATING. that’s an A grade right there.
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