THE PHILLIPINES Before Magellan
A sequel comment to The Phil Before Magellan
By Aleph Haorh
In fact when Magellan arrived (here) he was astonished to learn that our forefathers were highly literate having 13 alphabets. And two of the alphabets were Arabic and Hebrew. When you study the bisayan vernacular and you have some modicum of knowledge about the Hebrew tongue, you will notice that various bisayan words contained the Hebrew shoresh (root).
Personally l would side with Lapu-lapu. He knew full well that our ancestors have the purest form of faith in the Creator. They addressed Him as Abba (Hebrew for Father), Bathala, Panginoon. The antiquated history of addressing the Creator as Dios would bring us back to the time of Alexander the great, the Grecian emperor who conquered most of Europe. The Grecian idolatrous practices were eventually adapted by the countries they subdued including Spain and Portugal. One thing we need to note is our forefathers never used the name Dios before Magellan's arrival. Dios was actually the god of the Greeks which was translated as Zeus or Jupiter in English.
This truth was hidden from many christian for centuries. And it is amazing that the name of Dios can only be found 'hidden' in the New Testament bible (not in the Old). You may ask why? New Testament was actually created by the Greco-Romano scribes. If you have time to read the Book of Acts 14:13, depending what version you're reading) you'll find, "And the priest of (either Zeus or Jupiter), and when you refer it to the original Greek (NT was originally written in Greek koine), it says "Ho te heireus tu Dios" [delta, iota, omicron, sigma). And their Dios was shoved in the throat of the Pinoy 'indios'. Notice that Dios became famous to all Spanish-
speaking nations including this country which was ruled by Spain for 400 years.
