sambali.blogspot.com
Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan: Spice merchants and Sea Kings
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2005/01/spice-merchants-and-sea-kings.html
Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan. How the Nusantao maritime trading network influenced the world. Sunday, January 02, 2005. Spice merchants and Sea Kings. The early term for "merchant" in Austronesian. Is *dagang (Dempwolff) and this word is very similar to one of the terms for "ocean.". That the word for merchant might be derived from the word for ocean would make sense in light of archaeological evidence showing the earliest Nusantao. The movement of spices from Southeast Asia. By the time the spice.
sambali.blogspot.com
Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan: Catalan surnames, Y-DNA and the Sayabiga?
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2015/02/catalan-surnames-y-dna-and-sayabiga.html
Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan. How the Nusantao maritime trading network influenced the world. Wednesday, February 25, 2015. Catalan surnames, Y-DNA and the Sayabiga? An interesting new study may have some bearing on the theories discussed on this blog on the Sayabiga. Connection of the Agotes and Cagots. Of Spain, France and other areas of Western Europe. The study Y-chromosome diversity in Catalan surname samples: insights into surname origin and frequency. Studies. Here is the entry for "Llac...
sambali.blogspot.com
Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan: Menzies' maps explained
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/08/menzies-maps-explained.html
Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan. How the Nusantao maritime trading network influenced the world. Tuesday, August 01, 2006. Below is a copy of a recently sent press article. Meet Menzies' real mystery map-makers. Gavin Menzies went off-course when he failed to consider Southeast Asia's influence on the age of discovery, contends researcher and sambali.blogspot.com blogger Paul Kekai Manansala. The story starts many centuries before the time of Zheng He with the establishment of the. Trade in spices dat...
sambali.blogspot.com
Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan: The Philippines and the sandalwood trade in the late pre-colonial and colonial periods
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-philippines-and-sandalwood-trade-in.html
Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan. How the Nusantao maritime trading network influenced the world. Saturday, February 01, 2014. The Philippines and the sandalwood trade in the late pre-colonial and colonial periods. Video presentation for the Inaugural National Conference of the Philippine Association for the Study of Culture, History and Religion (PASCHR) on Feb.1, 2014 at Holy Angel University in Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines. Also called white sandalwood. The Philippine archipelago sat along th...
sambali.blogspot.com
Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan: Turtle Island
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2005/01/turtle-island.html
Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan. How the Nusantao maritime trading network influenced the world. Friday, January 14, 2005. Ainu totem pole collection in British Columbia. Totem pole, Alaska. The cultures of the Pacific Northwest Coast and Austronesia shared many similarities. They both used communal longhouses. Built similiar war canoes and possessed complex dual. Prehistory of this region. Oral records have some advantages over written ones. There are cases of oral traditions that survive written...
sambali.blogspot.com
Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan: Myths and Legends of Pinatubo and Arayat
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2009/10/myths-and-legends-of-pinatubo-and.html
Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan. How the Nusantao maritime trading network influenced the world. Saturday, October 10, 2009. Myths and Legends of Pinatubo and Arayat. Mention of name "Arayat" and its main deity "Sinukuan" that I have been able to uncover is the travel diary of Gemelli Careri in 1696:. As for Sinukuan's opposite - Apo na Malyari (Apung Mallari) and Mt. Pinatubo - the earliest reference I have found so far comes from a manuscript titled "Relation of the Zambals" by Domingo Perez in ...
sambali.blogspot.com
Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan: Nicolo de Conti (Glossary)
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/07/nicolo-de-conti-glossary.html
Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan. How the Nusantao maritime trading network influenced the world. Thursday, July 27, 2006. Nicolo de Conti (Glossary). Ca1395-1469), a Venetian merchant, traveled either 36 or 25 years, depending on which account you believe, throughout much of the Indian Ocean and the adjoining regions of Asia and Africa. With good reason it is believed that de Conti's views influenced such persons and cartographers as Fra Mauro and. Menzies rightfully notes that Conti had great influen...
sambali.blogspot.com
Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan: Svetadvipa (Glossary)
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/08/svetadvipa-glossary.html
Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan. How the Nusantao maritime trading network influenced the world. Sunday, August 13, 2006. Svetadvipa's spiritual importance in Hinduism and especially among the Vaisnava sect is found in its description as the home of Narayana. Narayana is the manifestation of the god Visnu linked with the avataras, or worldly descents of Visnu. Narayana is said to live on Svetadvipa, and to sleep floating on the Milky Ocean that surrounds the island. East of Sumeru (Mt. Meru) is th...
sambali.blogspot.com
Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan: The Borneo Route
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-borneo-route.html
Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan. How the Nusantao maritime trading network influenced the world. Friday, December 26, 2014. Has a new book out co-written with Ian Hudson entitled Who Discovered America: The Untold History of the Peopling of America. While I haven't read it yet, the summary and samples indicate that it follows the same theme as his Menzies' previous works. Here's a posting I did on the subject on Facebook:. December 26, 2014 at 4:12pm. And the third northwards by the Sea of Cathay.
sambali.blogspot.com
Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan: Pampangos and Luzons in Sumatra
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2014/12/httpswww.html
Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan. How the Nusantao maritime trading network influenced the world. Thursday, December 25, 2014. Pampangos and Luzons in Sumatra. Https:/ www.facebook.com/notes/paul-kekai-manansala/pampangos-and-luzons-in-sumatra/10152572341218687? Pampangos and Luzons in Sumatra. November 12, 2014 at 9:26pm. In the text below from Blair and Robertson's we see a translation from Father Francisco Colin's Labor Evangelica. Another explanation is that the inhabitants of the lake came from Pa...