The God Culture: 100 Lies About the Philippines: Lie #31 The Santa Cruz Junk is of Philippine Design

Welcome back to 100 lies the God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns a the Santa Cruz Junk shipwreck which was found off the coast of Zambales. Timothy Jay Schwab says the ship is of Philippine design and is a Philippine Junk. 

Of course, that is pure junk.

In his book the Search for King Solomon's Treasure Tim writes:

The Search for King Solomon's Treasure, pgs. 142-143

However, there is a shipwreck of what appears to be a returning Philippine-built junk dating prior to the Spanish.

“Due to the extent of the vessel’s preservation, the archaeologists have also been able to understand how the ship was loaded and what kind of goods were stored in its different compartments.”

“...clear evidence that this ship was built in the Philippines.”

– Marine Archaeologist Franck Goddio

The renown French archaeologist says the evidence is clear this was built in the Philippines even according to the way the ship was loaded. Unfortunately, The National Museum of the Philippines suggested this as a Thai ship based largely on Thai artifacts found in the lower cargo holds and the construction both speculation easily challenged. However, that is the published consensus in “suggestion.” The Santa Cruz Junk discovered in 2001 off of Zambales is documented to the 1400s. 

In a now deleted comment on one of his videos Tim elaborates further claiming Marine Archaeologist Franck Goddio said the Santa Cruz is of Philippine design and a Philippine Junk.

A perfect example we cover in The Search For King Solomon's Treasure is the Junk ship found off the coast of Zambales dating to the 1400s. The French Marine Archaeologist who was brought in to study and assess the ship determined it was of Philippine design and a Philippine Junk. Then, the National Museum idiot got ahold of these obvious, proven findings wrapped in a bow as one of the greatest finds in Philippine history and published in a science journal that the ship was a Thai ship because he is part of those who think only shame belongs to the Philippines uneducated in the slightest of ancient history as are most.

None of that is true. The French Marine Archaeologist, Franck Goddio, never said the "Junk was of Philippine design and a Philippine Junk." That is pure junk. What he actually said is the Junk is of Chinese design and was likely built by a Chinese community in the Philippines because it was made of wood found in the Philippines and shipbuilding at that time was forbidden by the Ming Dynasty.

Vessel architecture, date and nature of unearthed material as well as shipwreck location (west of the island of Luzon), make it highly to be a “Chinese” wreck – in the broadest sense of the term, namely travelling to or from China. Certainly built outside of China – most likely in the Philippines – it was loaded with an eclectic cargo of goods from all the major production centres of the Celestial Empire, collected in the harbour warehouses of southern China, but also Siam, Vietnam and elsewhere, before travelling to their final markets .The junk was as “Chinese” as the ships in the western Mediterranean from the imperial era were “Roman”.

The junk was also “Chinese” in its construction, with a hull shaped as a piece of split bamboo, transverse bulkheads with a compartmented hold serving as frame, hull planks joined with iron nails but also, following the traditional hybrid Southern China Sea style, with the keel playing an essential structural role, and using timber of tropical origin. All the wood species used in the construction of the Santa Cruz are found in the Philippine archipelago and most of the islands in the South China Sea, but not in China. The merchants who had chartered it therefore could not belong to the provinces of Fujian and Guangdong, sailing on ships built in China. The essentially “Chinese” architecture seems to rule out the possibility that it was chartered by the peoples of South East Asia, very active on the eastern route between Melaka and Manila Bay (Reid, 1996: 34-35), but who sailed on craft built with local traditional techniques (Manguin, 2001).

Ultimately, given the assumed departure port of the ship, wrecked off the coast of Luzon, and the fact that its ceramics all date from a period when the prohibition to build ships and trade abroad was strictly applied by the Ming, it is highly unlikely that the ship and its charterers were of continental origin. It is much more likely that they belonged to a Chinese community located in the commercial towns of the archipelago. Certainly made in collaboration with local shipbuilders, the junk benefited from their particular expertise. Its construction is consistent with a “tendency to crossing, identified in shipbuilding technology evolution, with a new type of ship in archaeological sites from between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, probably coinciding with the increasing role played by Chinese trade and ‘merchant adventurers’ in Southeast Asia” (Manguin, 2001: 15). 

http://www.themua.org/collections/files/original/d983306f20edca8a8e0889272ba30e0b.pdf

The problem is Tim did not read the whole paper. He stopped at the part he liked and went no further. Tim's citation of Goddio is found on page 134 of his Sourcebook.

Tim appends a rather interesting note to this citation.

NOTE: Archaeologist Goddio above writes that there was "clear evidence that this ship was built in the Philippines." He could be wrong yet he continues to publish this 19 years later on his website indicating he did not see evidence which changed this perhaps. It leads us to question this. Using a bit of logic the conclusion already seems to have no basis. If Thai cargo was found in the lower cargo holds, it means they were the first stop on this very clear extensive International route of the Far East. Trade cargo from the nation of origin would not likely be found on the bottom as they would off-load it at every port from the furtherest point which sounds inefficient to us logically. It makes far more sense we are looking at a fully loaded ship returning to the Philippines in which it likely got caught in a storm and could not make it to shore. It is very odd that all the junks found in the Philippines are dismissed away as belonging to other countries and the Philippine history ignored by their own community of archaeologists it appears. It begs whether they have accurately attributed most of these in fact including the Lena Shoal. WE HAVE NOT EXAMINED THESE BUT THIS IS WORTH FURTHER RESEARCH. This is a discipline which typically sticks in it's paradigm and interprets only based on such paradigm. This is how they lost Ophir and cannot find it nor will they ever until one comes along outside of the box and thinks things through outside of such false paradigms. Good news, that someone is here. 

Tim says outright he has not even fully examined the case of the Santa Cruz or the Lena Shoal Junks. Then, after saying these archaeologists operate within a false paradigm and someone is needed to think outside of the box, with an air of pride he proclaims: 

Good news, that someone is here. 

How ridiculous.

What is needed is not someone who thinks outside the box but someone who can actually take the time to research everything related to his thesis and someone who actually reads through the papers he cites. Tim is not that person. He reads and quotes selectively and does not bother to thoroughly research anything. We see this time and again which is why I am convinced there is no God Culture team. 

The fact is French Marine Archaeologist, Franck Goddio says the Santa Cruz Junk is of Chinese design. Though it was likely built in the Philippines it was not built by natives but by a Chinese community located in the Philippines. It is not only more bad research but one more lie about the Philippines taught by Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture. 

The God Culture: 100 Lies About the Philippines: Lie #30: The Philippine Flag and National Anthem are Bible Prophecy

Welcome back to 100 lies The God culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns the Philippine flag and national anthem. Timothy claims they contain biblical prophecy but as we shall see that is a lie. 

In one of his videos Tim explains the alleged biblical prophecy contained in the Philippine flag and the words of the national anthem. 

Revelation 12: The Land That Protects The Woman. Solomon's Gold Series 13D

28:56 So let's look here at the national flag of the Philippines. Notice the symbol of the Sun. Are there other countries that have such? Certainly there are many in fact but take a look at their national anthem Lupang Hinirang or chosen land, interesting. Land of the morning. Why? Well the Sun rises in the east and has been considered the Far East as far back as history goes really. The Orient is well recorded, even Japan is also known as the Land of the Rising Sun and it sits parallel to the Philippines but it is not a Lost Tribe territory thus it does not fit this. But the Philippines is. 

Now read the next line though. Very odd. "Child of the Sun returning." Wow! The first time we saw that we thought well it must be Sun God symbology yet in lieu of these findings in Revelation 12 perhaps not.

"Never shall invaders trample thy sacred shores." Sacred shores. Funny. 

Understand this anthem is written after the Spanish had invaded in about 1898. They were invaded by the U.S. in the very next year in fact and also Japan in World War 2 so that did not come true then, right? Or did it? Actually if in fact this is a reference referring to Satan attacking as the enemy it would be accurate a minor point but we look at everything that we see here. However, is the Philippines the land of the Sun that's the symbology we're looking for. The answer yes. 

And look at the Greek word used here. The word is Helios which means Sun but also actually means East. Why? Because the Sun rises in the east you see that with Hebrew and Greek words often nothing abnormal about that. But literally one could replace the word East in the passage and it would be accurate. A woman clothed in the east. And we know it's Jacob and Jacobs descendants in the East are in the Philippines.

We looked up all the words in this passage basically in Greek but they are really translated pretty appropriately as things like clothes is pretty much clothed each time it's used or arrayed which is maybe a better word but pretty much the same thing. The anthem continues to mention the nation's radiance, again more sun language, but "thy banner dear to all hearts its Sun and stars." Alright so yes we see star symbology here too but we'll get there. 

"Oh never shall it's shining fields be dimmed by tyrants might." There have been tyrants but they have not lasted in the Philippines, Remember that. 

Again they were attacked but they have gained their independence just after World War two in fact and they remain so and even now we begin to see the prophecy of Messiah in Matthew 12:42 as Sheba, Ophir, Philippines begins to rise against corruption, against the New World Order, the Beast whichever you wish to call it which is also exactly what this land which protects the woman is really doing when you look at the passage. They are taking a stand against the dragon. In our opinion this is far too much to overlook. 

So, "land of the morning child of the Sun returning." Child of Jacob the Sun returning. Hmm. The hundred and forty-four thousand. Hmm.

And more language, "beautiful land of love, oh land of light." Now, there are three lights in Genesis that were placed in the firmament. What are they? The Sun, the Moon, and stars. Hmm. 

"In thine embraced 'tis rapture to lie." Huh. Rapture? The manchild is from the woman Israel and is birthed in heaven and raptured, the actual Greek word used there is harpazo. No every time you see that word mean in Scripture it does not mean that is the rapture doctrine. You first have to prove the rapture doctrine is scriptural and then you can start applying the word in such a way but you can't do it the other way around. This is not the rapture. It cannot be the rapture of the rapture doctrine absolutely not. So, raptured to the throne room of Yahuah think about it. 

"But it is glory ever when thou art wronged for us, thy sons to suffer and die." No doubt could be a military reference there and that's fine but it's a very interesting choice of words especially throughout the entire national anthem. 

We find these kinds of things all over the Philippine history. But the main point here is is the Philippines a land of Jacob? Ye,s Lost Tribes migrated there thus it is the Sun and even uses sun symbology. It just piles on top of all of this to just confirm the Philippines is the land that clothes the woman in the Sun. So does it fit here? We believe it does.

Tim also mentions this alleged prophecy in his book The Search for King Solomon's Treasure.

One of the greatest mysteries in prophecy which has eluded scholars is Revelation 12. Most immediately migrate to astrology and there is no biblical precedence to interpret His prophecy through the paradigm of star patterns named for His adversaries. In fact, we examine every scripture that appears to classify constellations in the English and studying out the Hebrew and Greek, there is not one which even refers to a star cluster which commemorates the Watcher Fallen Angels and their Nephilim offspring. Talk about “doctrines of demons.”

Instead, with this restored geography in mind, we now understand the Philippines to be far more important than once perceived. To ignore this, would be a huge oversight. Understandably, scholars are unaware largely of this thinking thus they will never interpret this prophecy with accuracy in our opinion.

Remember, this is prophecy and we are simply attempting to examine one which no scholar has ever explained with precision. This is a future event as all of Revelation is according to John in his opening. We see dual symbology here in which the woman appears physically in Heaven but these symbols which surround her distinguish a land as well which will protect her and she will flee into it’s wilderness. This land is described asclothing the woman in the sun, the moon at it’s feet, twelve stars in it’s crown, having a wilderness or desert, likely an island or on the coastline in the ocean where a great tsunami could form and it has the great eagle. Do any of these seem familiar? We believe so.

The Philippines is known in it’s National Anthem, “Lupang Hinirang,” as the “Land of the morning” or sun. Some English translations then render “child of the sun returning.” It is well known geographically as the area in which the sun rises in the Far East just as Japan is the “Land of the Rising Sun” in almost parallel longitude to the Philippines. The Philippines would envelope this woman in the warmth of the sun.

pg. 265-266

Whether knowingly or unknowingly Tim is interpreting the Bible through Freemasonic symbology! The flag of the Philippines was designed by Emilio Aguinaldo and is replete with masonic symbols.

The Hong Kong designed flag that Aguinaldo brought with him from his exile on board the US dispatch boat McCullock, and which became the official flag of the first Philippine Republic, consisted of two horizontal stripes, blue on top and red below. It had a white equilateral triangle at the hoist that is smaller than that in our flag today. Within the triangle, at its center, a mythological sun was depicted with eyebrows, eyes, nose and mouth in black, bearing eight rays without any minor ray for each, and three five-pointed stars, one at each angle of the triangle. All these devices were in gold or yellow colour.

Among the more credible assertions relied upon to establish the tie between masonry and the flag are the following:

In October 1899, Ambrocio Flores, Grand Master of the Gran Consejo Regional and at that time a general in the army of Aguinaldo, wrote letters to the Grand Lodges in the United States appealing to them to employ their influence to help the fledgling Philippine Republic. In these letters he compared the Philippine flag to the masonic banner saying, "...this national flag resembles closely our masonic banner starting from its triangular quarter to the prominent central position of its resplendent sun surrounded in its triangular position by three 5-pointed stars. Even in its three coloured background, it is the spitting image of our Venerable Institution’s banner so that when you see it in any part of the world, waving with honor amidst the flags of other nations and acknowledged by these nations, let us hope that with this flag, and through it, our common parent, Freemasonry will likewise be so honored."

In his beautiful Grand Oration pronounced in 1928, historian Teodoro M. Kalaw, Sr., uttered these words: "And the triangle appearing on the Philippine flag, the loftiest symbolism of the struggles of the Filipino people, was put there, according to President Aguinaldo, as an homage to Freemasonry."

https://freemasonry.bcy.ca/symbolism/philippine_flag.html

The original flag designed by Freemason Aguinaldo had a sun with a face on it inside a white triangle and the design was a tribute to the lodge to which he belonged! In fact the entire independence movement was freemasonic in origin and spirit. Even the national anthem came about due to the Freemasons. From The Cabletow, the official magazine of Philippine Freemasonry:

https://grandlodge.ph/sites/default/files/cabletow/Cabletow2005-1.pdf

The untold story of our National Anthem is that the music and the lyrics came into being because of the inspiration and prompting of Freemasons.

Rafael Palma, who became Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the Philippines in 1920, wrote how the lyrics of the National Anthem came about, thus:

“During the leisure hours allowed by the daily and especially at night after the day’s work, the members of the staff of La Independencia, seeking to amuse themselves and to be relieved from their physical weariness, used to assemble together and sing or play on musical instruments. Their souls afflicted by the military situation, which was growing worse every day, needed spiritual elation, and they found it in singing war tunes and martial songs which made them forget the bitterness of a sad reality....

“It was in one of those occasions that Jose Palma saw the necessity of writing a poem for the words of the Marcha Nacional Filipina. Although this march was known since the beginning of the revolution and was hummed by everybody, it had not yet then any words accompanying it. To suit its music, he wrote a poem Filipinas, which was published for the first time in the issue of the first anniversary of La Independencia on Sept. 3, 1899. the spirit of his verses glowed with an optimistic faith in the future because (then) it was the general belief that it would be impossible for the American forces to dominate the entire archipelago.”

The music and the lyrics of our National Anthem no doubt came about when our forebears fought for their freedom and independence, but its patriotic message transcends their time. Patriotism is in the heart of the nationalists who love their country.

The involvement of Freemasons in the development of our National Anthem is more than a coincidence. The message is clear: Freemasons love Freedom. and the National Anthem bears the imprint of their devotion.

The fact is the Philippine National Anthem is thoroughly steeped in Freemasonry. It is absolutely not a bible based prophecy.

Unbelievably Tim is basing his interpretation of Revelation 12 on symbols rooted in and originating from Philippine Freemasonry! Is he really this dumb? Yes, he is. Timothy Jay Schwab is interpreting Bible prophecy through the lyrics of the Freemasonic Philippine national anthem which is irrational, insane, and is simply another lie The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. 

The God Culture: 100 Lies About the Philippines: Lie #29: Jason and the Argonauts Sailed to the Philippines

Welcome back to 100 Lies The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts. Timothy Jay Schwab claims Jason and his men sailed the Argo all the way to the Philippines. 

In his video "Greek Oceanus World River and Rivers From Eden lead to the Philippines" Tim says the following:

Greek Oceanus World River and Rivers From Eden lead to the Philippines? Solomon's Gold Series 16F

1:00:17 And this one is extremely curious check this out once again very ancient 7th Century BC folks. From Mimnermis Aeetes' city, now that's odd, uh, Aitis, Atus hmm hmm hmm, that's a tribe in the Philippines. How about that? Now that's very curious. Also there's a fruit there, uh, in the Philippines called atis so also that could be invoked but just curious. Uh, we don't know for sure can't make that connection hundred percent but boy we keep seeing such possible ties which don't seem to be coincidence. "Where the Rays of Swift Helios the sun lie in a golden store room." Why is it a golden store room? Because it basically encloses the Garden of Eden. The walls are lined with gold which is why Solomon did such with the temple. He was copying the Garden of Eden, wow! The land of gold literally being invoked right there. "At the edge of Oceanus Where God like Jason went." So Jason and the Argonauts is a story that goes geographically at some point as far as the Philippines which means they circumnavigated Africa because they left from Greece and they didn't fly helicopters.

1:13:54 Even the Aeetes mentioned could be very well the tribe from the Philippines likely. Ends in the land of gold and Garden of Eden Philippines firmly. From Africa goes to the Far East where Prometheus, Gadreel, stole knowledge of Good and Evil giving it to the man while that happened in the Garden of Eden. It all fits, it all ties and they had to circumnavigate Africa all these many times okay? These characters especially in the Odyssey and The Iliad they're going there physically in their ships even Jason and the Argonauts went to the Philippines. That's what it says.

There are quite a lot of unbelievable claims being made in these two clips. First let's deal with the citation of Mimernus which situates Aeetes in Oceanus which is far away from Greece. The fragment of Mimnermus to which Tim is referring is discussed by Strabo in his geography. He says placing that city so far away outside the inhabited world makes the quest of the Golden Fleece implausible because "the expedition is supposed to have taken place in well-known and populous regions."

https://archive.org/details/Strabo08Geography17AndIndex/Strabo%2001%20Geography%201-2/page/170/mode/2up?q=jason

Accordingly, it is by availing himself of some such basis of fact that Homer tells his story, agreeing in some respects with matters of history, but adding to them an element of myth, thus adhering to a custom that is not only his own but one common to poets. He agrees with history when he uses the name of “ Aeétes,” when he tells of Jason and the Argo, when, with “ Aea”’ in mind, he invents “ Aeaea,” when he establishes Euneos in Lemnos, when he makes the island of Lemnos beloved of Achilles, and when, with Medea in mind, he makes the sorceress Circe “own sister to the baleful Aeétes.” 

But he adds an element of myth when he transfers to Oceanus the wanderings that follow the voyage to Aeétes’ country. For if the facts above-mentioned be assumed, then the words, “the Argo that is in all men’s minds,” are also properly used, inasmuch as the expedition is supposed to have taken place in well-known and populous regions. But if the facts were as Demetrius of Scepsis maintains, on the authority of Mimnermus _ (Mimnermus places the home of Aeétes in Oceanus, outside the inhabited world in the east, and affirms that Jason was sent thither by Pelias and brought back the fleece), then, in the first place, the expedition thither in quest of the fleece would not sound plausible (since it was directed to unknown and obscure countries), and in the second place, the voyage through regions desolate and uninhabited and so out-of-the-way from our part of the world would be neither famous nor “in all men’s minds.”

But why would Mimnermus add "an element of myth" to the well known story of Jason and the Argonauts? Because as a poet he he adapted and embellished it to fit his own artistic needs. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimnermus

Like other archaic poets, Mimnermus adapted myths to his own artistic needs and Aelian recorded that he attributed twenty children to Niobe, unlike Homer, for example, who attributed twelve to her. According to Sallustius, Mimnermus was just as creative in his poetical account of Ismene, representing her as being killed by Tydeus at the command of the goddess, Athena, in the very act of making love to Theoclymenus—an original account that was soon accepted by an international audience, being represented on an early Corinthian amphora (pictured below). Imaginative accounts of the sun, voyaging at night from west to east in a golden bed, and of Jason the Argonaut voyaging to "Aeetes' city, where the rays of the swift Sun lie in a golden storeroom at the edge of Oceanus", survive in brief quotes by ancient authors.

Secondly let's take a look at Aeetes' City. Tim attempts to connect this word linguistically with the Aeta tribe as well as the atis fruit which is not even native to the Philippines but was introduced during the Spanish occupation nearly 2,000 years after Mimnermus lived! Both connections are wrong. Take a close look at the punctuation of the citation. 

Aietes' (Aeetes') city

Is Tim illiterate or did he simply miss that apostrophe which indicates possession? Aeetes is not the name of the city but the name of the ruler of that city. Aeetes is the son of the sun God Helios.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeëtes

Aeëtes was the son of Sun god Helios and the Oceanid Perseis, brother of Circe, Perses and Pasiphaë, and father of Medea, Chalciope and Absyrtus. 

It is from him that Jason stole the Golden Fleece. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Fleece

In Greek mythology, the Golden Fleece is the fleece of the golden-woolled, winged ram, Chrysomallos, that rescued Phrixus and brought him to Colchis, where Phrixus then sacrificed it to Zeus. Phrixus gave the fleece to King Aeëtes who kept it in a sacred grove, whence Jason and the Argonauts stole it with the help of Medea, Aeëtes' daughter. The fleece is a symbol of authority and kingship.

The Golden Fleece was found in Colchis which is also where Aeetes lived. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeëtes

Later, Aeëtes gave his kingdom to Bounos, a son of Hermes and Alkidameia, and went to Colchis, a country in western Caucasus. 

Colchis is by no means anywhere near the Philippines. It is located on the coast of the Black Sea next to Georgia. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colchis

In classical antiquity and Greco-Roman geography, Colchis was an exonym for the Georgian polity of Egrisi located on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, centered in present-day western Georgia.

Here is a map detailing the travels of Jason and the Argonauts.

http://www.argonauts-book.com/maps.html

Jason and the Argonauts did not sail to the Philippines to find the Golden Fleece. Tim's ridiculous interpretation does not fit the facts of the story at all. 

Aside from the Argonauts Tim also mentions the "characters especially in the Odyssey and The Iliad" as visiting the Philippines. Again, this is more nonsense. The Iliad is all about the Trojan war which occurred in Turkey and not about epic traveling around the world. The Odyssey is about the wanderings of Ulysses after the end of the war. Here is a map of his travels. 

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/837042097440686080

Tim's claims about Jason and Ulysses sailing to the Philippines are preposterous. The travels of the Argonauts and the Odyssey are poetic and mythical and the action of those stories takes place nowhere near the Philippines. Tim points to these tales as absolute historical proof that the Greeks were circumnavigating Africa to sail to the Philippines. That is because there is no actual history to support his claims so he is grasping at anything he can get his deceitful paws around. That Jason and the Argonauts sailed to the Philippines is merely one more lie about the Philippines being taught by Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture.

The God Culture: 100 Lies About the Philippines: Lie #28: Sinbad the Sailor Sailed to the Philippines

Welcome back to 100 Lies The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns Timothy Jay Schwab's claim that Sinbad the Sailor sailed to the Philippines.

In his video series Did the Ancient Greeks Sail Around Africa Tim relates the story of how Sinbad sailed to the Philippines and found sandalwood.

Did The Ancient Greeks Sail Around Africa? To Ophir, Philippines? Solomon's Gold Series 16B

43:58 But one last one and this is from Persia. It's not actually circumnavigating Africa but more the continuation of the journey to Ophir and Tarshish  This is the famous story of Sinbad the Sailor from Arabian Nights. He left Persia and set sail for the Indies. We all know where that is. That's Malaysia Indonesia and the Philippines. It includes the Philippines in their perspective and even if you go and look it up it will tell you today that the Philippines is part of the Indies, the East Indies, the islands in the East but this is really going to be a wow when you see it. Again, this is about 800 BC and he'll sail from the Persian Gulf, yes, not from even the Red Sea, and no he doesn't circumnavigate in Africa but he goes to this land and we'll see. They write, "We continued at sea for some time," they were lost in the Indies somewhere but where were they? Well, the answer becomes very obvious here. "Touched several islands and at last landed at that of Salabat where Sandalwood is obtained." 

Oh, wait a minute I think I just heard bell sound for our Filipino viewers? Yeah, you read that right, Salabat. That is a Tagalog word for their famous ginger tea Salabat. Wow! Now we know why most Filipinos drink it though not because it's good although it is. No, no, no. They drink it because it's widely believed to improve a person's singing voice. Ah, indeed. Just teasing but anyway. "And this is where Sandalwood is obtained." Oh that's also just so happens to be the Philippine national tree the narra which is red or yellow Sandalwood. Wow! Oh, Sinbad the famous sailor was in the Philippines, likely. Who would have known?

In this video segment Tim says it is "likely" that Sinbad the Sailor sailed to the Philippines but in a comment he claims it is definite history. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE3jc4oLbXw&lc=UgxrEqBIZtP1KfJfQ5d4AaABAg.9xDfHSfLuP89xEpdZkWKz_

You make an unsupported assumption you cannot. The East Indies in name never required them to be vassal states of a nation of India. They were the islands East of it. History has no such requirement. Even the Persian sailor Sinbad in about 700 AD, records the Philippines as part of the East Indies as did many. Again, not as a vassal state of India.

Is Timothy Jay Schwab out of his mind? Does he not know that Sinbad the Sailor is a fictional character from the 1001 Arabian Nights? 

Sinbad the Sailor is a fictional mariner and the hero of a story-cycle. He is described as hailing from Baghdad during the early Abbasid Caliphate (8th and 9th centuries A.D.). In the course of seven voyages throughout the seas east of Africa and south of Asia, he has fantastic adventures in magical realms, encountering monsters and witnessing supernatural phenomena.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinbad_the_Sailor

Sinbad does not exist! And yet Tim refers to his story for support that the Greeks were circumnavigating Africa to the Philippines for a thousand years from the time of King Solomon to the time of Jesus Christ. It's complete and utter nonsense. 

Not only is Sinbad the Sailor fictitious but Tim is lying about where Sinbad sailed. In the first part of the clip where Tim says Sinbad sailed to the Indies he is citing from Sinbad's first voyage. 

The part about landing on Salabat where sandalwood can be found is from Sinbad's third voyage. 

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081836466&seq=138&q1=Salabat

Why cobble these two very different voyages together? What is the point of lying about the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor? 

Tim makes a big to-do about the island of Salabat noting it is a Tagalog word for ginger tea and sandalwood is the national tree of the Philippines. But the story mentions an island named Salabat not a tea. In a different translation it is Salahat. Sandalwood is not exclusive to the Philippines but is also found in India and in other islands in Southeast Asia such as Sumba and Timor.

The sandalwood is indigenous to the tropical belt of peninsular India, the Malay Archipelago and northern Australia. The main distribution is in the drier tropical regions of India and the Indonesian islands of Timor and Sumba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandalwood

In fact, one editor of this story notes that Salabat is possibly Timor.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t2988ds9j&seq=52&q1=salabat

But where exactly is Salabat or Salahat? Ultimately it is irrelevant because the entire story is fictitious. 

Now, lest Tim cavil and say that Sinbad the Sailor is based on a real person that does not matter. Tim did not cite that real person who's name is Soleiman Siraf. He even wrote a book about his travels titled "An Account of India and China."

https://archive.org/details/ancientaccountso00sira/page/n3/mode/2up

But Tim did not cite this book in this video nor does he mention it elsewhere. The fact is he claims the fictional Sinbad sailed to the Philippines as a matter of historical record. It's not true in the slightest. It is simply one more lie about the Philippines from Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture. 

The God Culture: 100 Lies About the Philippines: Lie #27: Aparri is A Hebrew Word

Welcome back to 100 Lies The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns the town of Aparri in Cagayan Province. Timothy Jay Schwab claims it is an ancient Hebrew word. As we shall see that is a lie. 

In his video Tim says:

Ancient Entrance to Ophir / Aupir, Philippines. Solomon's Gold Series 6K

13:26 Yet another version says that the town's name comes from the locals, the Ibanag word Aparrian. Oh, that makes sense that looks like the same word and wait they live there. Hmm. That makes much better sense and it actually in meaning a place where there are many priests. Oh, you mean the the local tribe actually named their own land long before the Spanish? Duh. Who would think otherwise, really?  

Tim is getting his information about the etymology of Aparri solely from Wikipedia which states:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aparri

The origin of the name Aparri has been disputed. One version says that the town was named by Spanish conquistador Juan Pablo Carreron, who upon landing there in 1581, named the town after the colloquial word for supper in his hometown. Another version claims that the name comes from the Spanish word aparte, or "separate", referring to the town's separation from Camalaniugan and Buguey in 1680. Yet another version says that the town's name comes from the Ibanag word apparian, a place where there are many priests.

That information is as good as it goes but there is more to the story. The reference at the end of the paragraph is to a book titled "Cagayan and Her People" by Ed de Rivera Castillet.

As far as I can tell this book is not available online in full. However Google does allow one to search little snippets of the text. The following is what Castillet writes about the origin of the name Aparri. 

Cagayan Province and Her People

Cagayan Province and Her People

That is essentially the content of the Wikipedia article. But there is more to this story. Why were there priests in the area? Because a church was erected in 1604 and priests moved to the area to evangelize the natives. Aparri was officially made a town in 1680. 

It is believed that Aparri got its name when the civil and religious authorities in Nueva Segovia (now Lallo) decided in 1604 to erect a church there for the evangelization of the natives. The many priests who celebrated the first mass there remained to supervise the construction of the church and continued their evangelization work; subsequently, the natives referred to their place as “Aparrian,” an Ybanag word meaning “where priests resided.” On May 11, 1680, Aparri was officially inaugurated and was granted ecclesiastical recognition having for patron saint, Peter Thelmo.              

https://asat-edu.com/index.php/2021/05/07/aparri-my-hometown/

This is contrary to Tim's false assertion that Aparri was named as such long before the Spanish arrived. It also once again showcases his poor research as he has relied only on a Wikipedia article rather than search for original sources and get to the bottom of the matter. 

As for his Hebrew etymology of Aparri it makes no sense. According to him the word breaks down into "Apar" meaning dust of the earth and "ri" meaning moisture or watering. 

19:54 That's all appropriate to the land of Creation in the Garden of Eden indeed. The land where Adam was formed from "apar," dust, and "ri" the first watering. Wow!

What sense does "dust watering" make? Why would a town in Cagayan be named for the watering of the Garden of Eden when Tim teaches that the Garden of Eden is buried beneath the floor of the Sulu Sea? That is no where near Cagayan and does not make sense within his own false teachings. 

The fact is Aparri is not a Hebrew word. It is an Ibanag word. The Hebrew etymology is a total figment of Tim's imagination. It is simply another lie about the Philippines being taught by Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture.

The God Culture: 100 Lies About The Philippines: Lie #26: The Butuan Ivory Seal Has Hebrew Writing

Welcome back to 100 Lies The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns the Butuan Ivory Seal. This artifact was found in 1970 and dates back to 1,000 AD. Tim says the scholarly interpretation of the seal is wrong and that the writing on it is actually Hebrew. More than that he claims the seal is concrete evidence the Lost Tribes of Israel arrived in the Philippines. 

Tim concludes his interpretation of the Butuan Ivory Seal saying:

Lost Tribes Series Part 2F: Decoding the Butuan Ivory Seal - Evidence

19:24 These letters are about as clear as it gets. They are Hebrew. So, what does all of this mean? Again, read right to left: "The Rechabites who live in tents in the land of creation as the Zadok priests where the scattered tribes are yoked at the ends of the earth." Wow dude! This is awesome and concrete evidence, we believe, that the Lost Tribes arrived in the Philippines.

Despite Tim's conviction that the Butuan Ivory Seal has Hebrew writing and is concrete evidence the Lost Tribes of Israel arrived in the Philippines he does not mention this tidbit in his book The Search for King Solomon's Treasure. There is only a single picture of the seal on page 157.

The Search for King Solomon's Treasure, pg. 157

It is important to note that in this video Tim admits he is not a linguist. 

5:06 We are not linguists nor do we care to be but you will find no linguist is necessary in this case because come along with us and we'll interpret this together.

For someone who uses linguistics to prove that there are Hebrew place names in the Philippines Tim is quite proud and satisfied to not actually be a linguist. In effect Tim is admitting he has no idea what he is talking about. Why would there be Hebrew carved into an ivory seal in the Philippines dating back to 1,000 AD? For Tim it's because he believes that members of the Lost Tribes of Israel made their way to the Philippines. That is the fact he starts with and then he interprets everything in light of that false paradigm.

The fact is this seal has already been examined and interpreted by actual linguists. Tim rejects their interpretations full stop. 

0:35 Are we crazy? Can we actually claim to have deciphered the writing on the Butan Ivory Seal as we do in the intro? Well, we do indeed with all confidence because all of these years we believe the professors and scholars have been using the wrong language. They don't know any better. It's okay but you and I do.

According to the National Museum of the Philippines Dutch linguist Antoon Postma the script on the seal is stylised Kawi and translates as But-ban which is the same as Butuan.   

This week we are featuring the Butuan Ivory Seal, which is dated A.D. 10th-13th c. (Age of Contact and Trade), measuring 6 cm long and 4 cm diameter.

The Butuan Ivory Seal was recovered by pothunters in a prehistoric shell midden site in Ambangan, Libertad, Butuan City in the 1970s. It was eventually donated to the National Museum.  

According to Dr. Antoon Postma, the inscription is an ancient Javanese or stylized Kawi script referring to “But-ban”. A Dutch Scholar in ancient Indonesian scripts, Johannes Gijsbertus de Casparis, decoded it as “But-wan”. These words refer to Butuan, the present name of the site where it was found.

The ivory seal as well as other archaeological materials recovered in Ambangan archaeological sites are proof that Butuan was an important trading center whose official seal marked the source of commodities it produced and exported. 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1247343325289983&set=the-nm-continues-the-celebration-of-buwan-ng-wika-through-its-collectionthis-wee

It is a rather straightforward interpretation. But Tim rejects it by asking the following question.

20:10 Notice the letter sounds are BT. Could be Butuan, maybe. Perhaps. But why would it need to say Butuan anyway? That's a rush to judgment scholars are trying to stretch out of it unsuccessfully. None of them have proven that it says that for reason.

Well, why does the seal have to say "The Rechabites who live in tents in the land of creation as the Zadok priests where the scattered tribes are yoked at the ends of the earth?" What practical use is having that on the seal? The museum tells us the seal says Butuan because "Butuan was an important trading center whose official seal marked the source of the commodities it produced and exported." 

Aside from translating the Butuan Ivory Seal Antoon Postma also deciphered the Laguna Copperplate Inscription. 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42633308

It is interesting that Tim rejects Postma's interpretation of the Butuan Ivory Seal but accepts his interpretation of the Laguna Copperplate.   He even includes it in his book. 

The Search for King Solomon's Gold, pg. 156

The Laguna Copperplate Inscription, one of the oldest historical records in the history of the Philippines, demonstrates early connections between the early inhabitants of Luzon and Java in Indonesia by the 10th century as well as proving a literate people executing an extensive legal agreement inscribed on a sheet of copper, an abundant native resource. Natives in loin clothes do not draft such significant legal agreements on copper. 

And in what language is the Laguna Copperplate Inscription? Kawi!

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42633308

The very same script on the Butuan Ivory Seal. 

 5:20 We've read a book a while ago and have picked it back up again recently from one of our viewers it's called Philippines, I Thee Wed which is a beautiful way to describe the relationship between the Lost Tribes and the ekklesia the bride of Messiah as scripture references many times over and we have found a former name in fact of the Philippines this is gonna blow you away that is actually Hebrew as well and we will share this soon not in this video but one of the upcoming ones and you're gonna love it because it ties to all of this as well the book makes outrageous claims that Philippines might actually be Ophir maybe even the Garden of Eden and the location of the Lost Tribes hmm can you imagine that?

This book does not give an interpretation of the writing on the seal. That stems wholly from Tim's imagination. But the idea that the seal has any Hebrew is something Tim lifted directly from this book. 

Philippines, I Thee Wed, pg. 60

It is simply not true that the Butuan Ivory Seal has Hebrew writing on it. It is in Kawi the same as the Laguna Copperplate inscription. Both have been translated by Antoon Postma who, unlike Tim, was an actual linguist. The fact that Tim is unaware that Antoon Postma deciphered both the Laguna Copperplate Inscription and the Butuan Ivory Seal using the same language is more evidence of his poor research skills.  The claim that the Butuan Ivory Seal has Hebrew writing on it is just one more lie Timothy Jay Schwab teaches about the Philippines.