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@bookstardust Truth.

Here in the Philippines, we were taught that gunpowder was invented in the West. This was 80s to mid-90s. It was only when we got the Internet close to late-90s it changed. Gunpowder was invented by ancient Chinese.

Like, “wow”. I think that was the first time I noticed the Western-centric pattern in how history was told.

A decade ago, I learned that before the Spaniards conquered what we call today the Philippines, according to Antonio Pigafetta himself, when they first “discovered” the archipelago, they noticed:
1. They raise their hands to pray to a being they call “Abba”.

2. Gold is so abundant. They wear it on them. They just leave gold anywhere and everywhere and no one steals it because everyone owns gold.

And YET, schools and supposedly “official history” taught:
* Ancient Filipinos were idol worshippers (“anito”).
* Were “uncivilized” and “poor”.

Pigafetta even recorded how they almost did not return alive because ships as big as Spanish ships chased them throughout the archipelago after they kidnapped a prince of a certain “kingdom”. The ships came from the North (traced to be ancient Ilokanos). He further said that when they dropped the prince at some island in the South (traced to be Mindanao today), that was the only time the ships stopped chasing them. He recorded that they kidnapped the prince so no one will attack them anymore, but only the reverse happened.

Sure, “history is written by the victors”. Still, it just shows how much was intentionally hidden from us to justify actions of the past.

Someone even asked me, “Do you seriously want to believe that we are not better from the ancient peoples?”

And I just said, so what if we are not? How can we move forward if we are not going to acknowledge ancient civilisation might have been as advanced, if not more, than us? We can learn a lot from them. Knowledge we have forgotten for some reason.

Like, the Greek Fire. If we can unlock that, that knowledge can change a lot in modern thinking.

If the ancients did know how to levitate, and we unlock how they did it, it will accelerate our attempts to create levitation and antigravity.