The God Culture: 100 Lies About the Philippines: #13 Pigafetta Says the Lequios Are From Luzon

Welcome back to 100 lies the God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns the identification of the Lequios and Lucoes. Because this lie is so intricately weaved I will be breaking it down into several smaller articles. The gist of it is that Timothy Jay Schwab identifies the Lequios and Lucoes people groups as being the same. They are Filipinos from Luzon.

As I showed in lie #2 Ferdinand Pinto visited the Lequios islands and charted them at 29 degrees north. That means the Lequios islands are not the Philippines but the Ryukyu Islands. However Tim teaches something completely different which needs to be broken down. The first aspect of this lie comes from Tim's total misunderstanding of Pigafetta's Journal. 

The Lequios of Luzon: Key to Finding Ophir and Chryse. Clue #52 

13:31 While in Visayas Antonio Pigafetta who traveled with Magellan, historian who chronicled everything, writes from Visayas: Towards the Northwest is the island of Luzon which is at two days distance a large island indeed. To which come to trade every year six or eight junks of the people called Lequii, Lequios, Lucoes same people it's there Pigafetta says they are in Luzon. Not in Taiwan not in Malaysia and Magellan says they are Ophir and Tarshish. Done.

15:19 So, the Lequios are from Luzon. This is settled. Magellan tells us they are Ophir and Tarshish.

Can Tim not read? At no point does Pigafetta say the Lequii or Lequios are FROM Luzon. He says they come to Luzon to trade. 

Tim gets this even more wrong in his book The Search for King Solomon's Treasure. 

However, Antonio Pigafetta tells us where the Lequios originated.

[From Visayas] “Towards the North-west is the island of Lozon, which is at two days’ distance; a large island, to which come to trade every year six or eight junks of the people called Lequii.” “...One of these junks carries as much cargo as our ships.” – Antonio Pigafetta, 1521

This clearly reads that the Lequios, who originate in Luzon, journey to Cebu regularly to trade in their six or more, large junk ships just as Pinto describes.

Solomon's Treasure, pgs. 162-163

This is totally wrong. Read carefully. He says Luzon is a large island TO WHICH the people called Lequii came to trade. He is not saying the Lequii came to Cebu from Luzon to trade. Pigafetta is not even writing from Cebu but from Butuan fifty leagues from Cebu!! He is saying that Northwest of Butuan is an island called Luzon and the Lequii came there every year to trade. Therefore the Lequii are not the Lucoes who actually do inhabit Luzon. How does Tim get this wrong except on purpose?

This is one lie among many concerning the Lequios people that Tim propounds. It is a totally false reading of Pigafetta. How did he get this wrong? Can he not read? It's not a complicated passage. 

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  1. AnonymousFebruary 28, 2024 at 2:28 PM

    This is just an extension of number #2. You saw what I wrote on that.

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