{"id":205,"date":"2023-04-29T10:43:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T09:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loretobagio.com\/?p=205"},"modified":"2023-05-17T03:21:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T02:21:55","slug":"the-chinese-ma-i-or-austronesian-maya-or-maaya-is-the-better-name-for-the-philippine-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loretobagio.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/29\/the-chinese-ma-i-or-austronesian-maya-or-maaya-is-the-better-name-for-the-philippine-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chinese &#8220;Ma-i&#8221; or Austronesian &#8220;Maya&#8221; or &#8220;Maaya&#8221; is the better name for the Philippine Islands&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'>\n                <div class=\"twp-read-time\">\n                \t<i class=\"booster-icon twp-clock\"><\/i> <span>Read Time:<\/span>3 Minute, 28 Second                <\/div>\n\n            <\/div><p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6099493501428665\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The topic on what should be the correct name which may collectively include most of the Philippine archipelago has always been controversial from time to time.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Of course, most Filipinos barely care much these days. For them they are Filipinos, the national name they&#8217;ve already accustomed to ever since they were born.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>But it is not for small circles of so-called academe-scholar-historians and of course nationalist priders.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Nationalist Priders (close to Hitler&#8217;s Nazis) have the tendency to choose the term &#8220;Maharlika&#8221; over all others. Maharlika being the name for the so-called pre-colonial Philippine nobility class.<\/strong> It suits the Nazi purpose of greatness and of class superiority.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>As a name &#8220;Maharlika&#8221; may mean &#8220;great men&#8221; based on related Austronesian\/Indic word contexts.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>However, the main problem with Maharlika is that it actually would not cover many of Philippine minority groups who doesn&#8217;t have stratified class hierarchies within their tribes. Examples of those are the Muslims and Lumads of Mindanao, the Mountain people of Northern Luzon and other scattered tribesmen. Especially so-called Aeta groups all over the Islands. <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Aside from the one I mentioned already. That is Maharlika being a term that is considered to be catering to right-wing groups particularly those identified with the Marcoses.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I<strong>n my created Facebook group,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/250222191804092\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\" Amangpulo\"> Amangpulo<\/a>, I too plunged on the subject and put out a few of my candidate names. <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>My first one would be <\/strong>Kapuluan<strong> or Islands\/Archipelago. That is just rightly because it is obvious!!<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>And then of course the name of the group itself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/250222191804092\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"&quot;Amangpulo\">&#8220;Amangpulo<\/a>&#8221; which means Father-Island or Original Island. From the latter I received some protests from feminists who argued &#8220;Inang-Bayan&#8221; is better :).<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>However, over the years my views have been changing from motifs I&#8217;ve been seeing from some other places and readings. Many of those aren&#8217;t even considered Filipino or Austronesian (the general cultural and language subgroupings where Filipinos and other Malayo-Polynesians are now grouped according to linguists and anthropologists).<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>I was particularly intrigued by what I read from history books pertaining to the name allegedly given by the Chinese to the Islands and some say in particular to Mindoro Island. That name is &#8220;Ma-i&#8221;.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>For many years already I&#8217;ve been obscenely connecting Greeks, other European mythologies and all other mythologies with pre-Hispanic Philippine belief systems and with the Philippine itself.  Now, there are and there would be a tremendous amount of academic people who have zero adherence to that style.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">B<strong>ut as you see my previous articles connect Atlas or Atlantis with Taal, perhaps saying Taal is Atlas or Bathala is Zeus\/Jesus. Also, that Atlantis or Eden could be non-other than Taal itself. And Taal could actually be a goddess of some sort and not precisely a male deity. Maybe an Athena or the female form of Tala (star). Word and name puns are confusing! Of course, they may actually have no connection whatsoever at all.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>But come to think of it, Atlas has a daughter named &#8220;Maia&#8221; one of the Pleiades. And from Maia and Zeus was born Hermes- the Messenger of the Gods. In Austronesian, Japanese and other cultures you may find many gods and goddesses which has a form something like xM-ya. Samples are Kapampangan Mayari, Japanese Amaterasu, Hindu Maia, Latvian Mara.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"749\" src=\"https:\/\/loretobagio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1280px-Hermes_Maia_Staatliche_Antikensammlungen_2304-1024x749.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/loretobagio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1280px-Hermes_Maia_Staatliche_Antikensammlungen_2304-1024x749.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/loretobagio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1280px-Hermes_Maia_Staatliche_Antikensammlungen_2304-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/loretobagio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1280px-Hermes_Maia_Staatliche_Antikensammlungen_2304-768x562.jpg 768w, https:\/\/loretobagio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1280px-Hermes_Maia_Staatliche_Antikensammlungen_2304-600x439.jpg 600w, https:\/\/loretobagio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1280px-Hermes_Maia_Staatliche_Antikensammlungen_2304.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Maia is also sometimes referred to as a mother-goddess. Related names are Gaea, Rhea, Juno, Demeter, Medea etc. It is very probable the names Maria and\/or Maryam is related as a Mother of God or The Mother of All.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>In Maori there is a saying that the Earth or the Land is a mother that never dies. Ma-i or Maya or Maia does not just refer to the mother but also and more aptly with Earth or the land itself.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Chinese has heard that the people they met in the islands call their land &#8220;Ma-i&#8221; or of that sort. 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