Fact #9: The Maharlikans Have No Social Classes or Titles

9. Titles like rajah, datu or lakan were of Hindu-Malayan origins. Maharlikan people have no titles except being “maharlikans” which means men of renown, great men or men from the great plane.

Recent archaeological findings suggests that the history of the Philippines could have begun as early as 67,000 years ago with the discovery of Callao Man and believed to have reached the Islands using primitive rafts or boats. Callao Man predated the arrival of the Negritos 37,000 years earlier. Indonesians arrived more or less between 6,000 to 5,000 years ago.

These groups then stratified into: hunter-gatherer tribes, warrior societies, petty plutocracies and maritime-oriented harbor principalities which eventually grew into kingdoms, rajahnates, principalities, confederations and sultanates. States such as the Indianized Rajahnate of Butuan and Cebu, the dynasty of Tondo, the august kingdoms of Maysapan and Maynila, the Confederation of Madyaas, the sinified Country of Mai, as well as the Muslim Sultanates of Sulu and Maguindanao. These small maritime states flourished from as early as the 1st Millenium. These kingdoms traded with what are now now called China, India, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia.[1]

Titles such as datu, raha, lakan or sultan in the early Pre-Spanish Philippines were of colonial influences and origins introduced during the spread of Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam. The pure Muian Maharlikans have no social classes, statuses or titles as they were created equally in reference to their original purpose and nature. They simply called themselves the maharlikans meaning men of renown, great men, or men from the great plane, a name which exemplifies their sublime and pure origin, their level of consciousness, and their purpose in accordance with the divine plan of creation. In Tagalog terminology, in the Philippine history, maharlika became commonly referred to as “freemen” (malaya) or sometimes called the “noblemen” (maginoo). The first term implies an acquired status free from being a slave or a subject of a master while the second one implies nobility, high regard or respectable status in the society. However, these definitions of terms are misnomers.

The following descriptions should further clarify these terms:

·              Datu - The word Datu is a cognate of the Malay terms Dato' or Datuk, which is one of many noble titles in Malaysia, and to the Fijian chiefly title of Ratu.

·              Raha - Raha; also spelled Raja or Rajah (from Sanskrit Rājan), is a title for a monarch or princely ruler in South and Southeast Asia. The female form Rani (sometimes spelled ranee) applies equally to the wife of a Raja (or of an equivalent style such as Rana), usually as queen consort and occasionally as regent.

·              Lakan - Lakan originally referred to a rank in the pre-Hispanic Filipino nobility in the island of Luzon, which means "paramount ruler." It has been suggested that this rank is equivalent to that of Raha, and that different ethnic groups either used one term or the other, or used the two words interchangeably.

·              Sri - Sri, also transliterated as Sree, Shri, Shree, Si or Seri is a word of Sanskrit origin, used in the Indian subcontinent as a polite form of address equivalent to the English "Mr." or "Ms."

·              Sultan – Sultan is a title of the ruler of a Muslim country, especially of the former Ottoman Empire.

·              Dayang – Dayang or Dayang Dayang means "princes", and is a title given only to the daughters of the Sultan.

So far, the oldest known written record in the Philippine history discovered in the Philippine soil is the Laguna Copperplate Inscription dating back in the year 822 AD, written in the Indonesian script called Kavi. Navigators, sailors and traders of the Srivijayan Empire started their influences by 9th until 12th century. The Chinese had established a commercial contact with the Pre-Hispanic Filipinos as early as the year 982. By 14th century, Islam started to spread in the Philippines. Majapahit Empire replaced Srivijayan Empire until the early 15th century and occupied a Maharlikan territory thereafter.

With that being said, from the pre-colonial times until 822 AD, there were no surviving records have been found to consult what exactly happened during those missing years. Henceforth, the claim by many that the Muslims were the first to populate the Philippine archipelago is a lie, a baseless claim that should not be entertained at all levels. That statement is a blatant disrespect to the first inhabitants in the Philippines propagated by those Muslims who are trying to give credit to their religion or to their unfounded claim that they belong to the bloodlines of the sultan and the entire archipelago belongs to them.

Source:
[1] History of Philippines

Facts About the Maharlikan Race

Unfortunately, most of the Maharlikan consciousness movements nowadays are tracing the wrong lineage of information in their presentations of "who the real Maharlikan people were".

First and foremost, the real Maharlikan people were a race of spiritually advanced civilization whose level of consciousness surpasses the level of our spirituality. They were the descendants of the Muian people.

Second, the real Maharlikans lived earlier, in the pre-historic times, when the world was much younger, before and after the last great upheaval until after the last ice age.

Third, the Maharlikans were not warriors contrary to prevailing notions because during their times they have no enemies or in conflict with other races, except with nature's law of balance and restoration that destroyed the grandeur of their civilization.

Fourth, the later descendants of the Maharlikan race were those "Ylayas" (Isidro Escare Abeto, 1989) in a land called Ophir, from whom King Solomon obtained ships of gold. During that period the Ylayas have already well established their communities after the cataclysmic event that destroyed the Muian civilization.

Fifth, the Kalantiaw Code (be it a hoax or not) was a later version of a much older code observed during the times of Ophir.

Sixth, the Srivijayan Empire was the later silent assimilator of this land of Ophir bringing with them their Hindu-Malayan culture. This leads to the gradual banishment of the remnants of the Maharlikan people (Ylayas) and their culture as they gradually were assimilated into the Indo-Malayan culture. Those who maintained the Muian ways found the comfort of nature in the hinterlands. The indigenous people (in the Philippines) are now their living descendants.

Seventh, the Srivijayan or Majapahit Empires were aware of the golden age in the history of the Maharlikan people. They themselves inclined to believe they were also descendants of the Maharlikans so they adopted almost everything pertaining the Maharlikan civilization.

Eighth, the nation's treasury of the Maharlikan people were so abundant that when under the Srivijayan-Majapahit Empire these were accumulated and taken as part of the empires’ treasury being the custodians of those wealth meant (only) for the Maharlikan nation.

Nineth, titles like rajah, datu or lakan were of Hindu-Malayan origins. Maharlikan people have no titles except being “maharlikans” which means men of renown, great men or men from the great plane.

Tenth, the Hindu-Malayan people or empires retained the former's title maharajah of the maharlikan from the mahar-loka which later gave rise to what others are now claiming as the Maharlikans (the Filipinos).

NOTE: The Tagean-Tallano clan who are claiming to be the sole owners of the entire archipelago based on a document known as the Original Certificate of Title No. T-01-1, do not belong to the genuine maharlikan lineage. Like the late Pres. Ferdinand E. Marcos, the Tagean-Tallano clan were only among the custodians, by virtue of obligations, of the wealth of the Maharlikan kingdom meant for the Filipino people.