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by Tatay Jobo Elizes Pub (Editor), Emmanuel Ikan Astillero (Author)
Preface This modest book came to be written because of Facebook exchanges between Filipino friends: Tiz Wezza of Australia, Joey Miguel of New Zealand, and myself. Our conversations in FB revealed that we are not just "Filipinos", a name given to us by Spanish colonizers in 1564, when Miguel Lopez de Legazpi occupied Maynila and declared the whole territory, as "owned" by the Spanish monarch (Phillip or Felipe), and all peoples within it, as subjects of the Spanish crown. Tiz and Joey sent me a lot of materials since October 2017 which I kept and now use them for a sketch history of us Filipinos - as part of a larger Austronesian rfamily of peoples in the Pacific. We share customs, traditions, culture, artifacts, textile weave designs, houses of nipa, family-closeness, remembrance of ancestors, food types, traits, language, food, herbs, boat-designs, our brown skin and our physiognomy - with our cousins spread over 54 billion square miles of the Pacific Ocean and its adjacent seas and islands. Our cousins are in the farthest west in Madagascar, adjacent to the "black continent" of Africa, easternmost to "Rapa Nui" or the Easter Islands where a remnant of Polynesians remain under the governance of Chile, a South American government. We are cousins to the Hawaiians to the north of the Pacific who, themselves, came from Tahiti, in the middle of the Pacific, and southernmost to New Zealand - the Maoris. Our closest relatives are in the ASEAN (Association of SouthEast Asian Nations). There are four parts: An Overview, Part One about Austronesians in general, Part Two are sketches of particular countries, and the last Part is a pictorial of "Old Philippines, capped by a "fast-forward" to 2015, when a beautiful Filipina Austroneisan with European blood, won the title of Miss Universe. Emmanuel ikan Astillero 1592 Camino de la Fe, Guadalupe Nuevo, Makati City, 1212 PHILIPPINES e-mail astilleroe@gmail.com, noelastillero@yahoo.com Facebook: "Emmanuel Ikan Astillero" October 6, 2017 (my 78th birthday) ----------- Table of Contents Preface .................................................................. Page 1 Introduction ............................................................. Page 2 Very Important Notice ................................................ Page 3 Overview ................................................................. Page 6 Pasipika Festival .............................................. Page 7 Name Change ................................................. Page 7 Religion Change .............................................. Page 8 Part One. The Widespread Austronesian Family .............. Page 10 Austronesian Language Speakers ........................ Page 10 Migration Flow from Taiwan to the Pacific .............. Page 12 Filipino Balangay Boat ....................................... Page 13 Austronesian Lineage Graphics ........................... Page 14 ASEAN ........................................................... Page 15 Polynesia ........................................................ Page 18 Melanesia ....................................................... Page 22 The Sweet Potato .................................... Page 29 Malays: the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia . Page 30 Austronesian Numerals/Similarity of "Dog"..... Page 31-32 Phonetic Comparison between Filipino-Cebuano, Borneo-Kadazan, and Bahasa Melayu ......... Page 32-33 Micronesia ....................................................... Page 34 Part Two. Sketches of Major Austronesian Locations..... Page 35 Brunei Darusalaam ............................................ Page 37 Cambodia - Cham People .................................. Page 39 Chile - Rapa Nui - Easter Island .......................... Page 44 China-Taiwan-Formosa ...................................... Page 47 Cook Islands .................................................... Page 51 East Timor - Timor Leste .................................... Page 54
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