The God Culture: Was There A Greek Colony In The Philippines Or Not?

Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture is all over the place. The man cannot keep his theories straight. In a new video Tim claims Pliny the Elder places Chryse, the land of gold, in the Philippines. That is totally wrong but what concerns us here is the comment section of that video. 

🌏 Pliny the Elder’s Lost Map to the Philippines: The Real Chryse and Argyre Exposed (77 A.D.)

@TheVineOfChristLives: I wish. Until Roman or Greco-Roman materials pop up in some dig in the Philippines, I can’t be convinced of the correlation.

@TheGodCulture: When we handcuff thought, things tend to fail. Start with your narrative which is not found in any text. Chryse was not a Roman nor Greek society as they just went there for gold, and the thinking the Spanish would not obliterate such record when the written history recorded to exist is gone, you set yourself up to fail. When hundreds of maps and historical references over a 6,000-year period align and you ignore that because you are looking for archeology that was wiped out you shouldn't require, and no one is looking for, of course it fails your false test. Your test is false however, the data is not. Pliny, Mela, etc. said what they said. Where is your Roman and Greek archeology in any other area making false claims? There is none. It's like the US interview we had where after 2 hours of data, the illiterate dude came back into the conversation saying "it's a shame you couldn't find archaeology of the Garden of Eden. So, what was he looking for? Fruit? Though a smart guy, he fell for stupid unacademic thought that controls. You can do better. Yah Bless.

This commenter says he wants to believe the Greeks knew about the Philippines but there is a distinct lack of archaeological evidence to support that thesis. Tim comes in like Darth Vader saying, "I find your lack of faith disturbing." You see, the commenter has handcuffed his mind by attempting to look for archaeological evidence. Tim says all that evidence has been obliterated and remains only in ancient maps and itineraries. 

There is a reference to a US interview which seems to be Tim's appearance on the Jon Pounders show. That video is only an hour long so it could be the wrong video. The video has been deleted but you can read about it here. In that interview Tim could not provide archaeological proof for the Philippines being the Garden of Eden except for the existence of untapped gold deposits.

52:26 Have you found any like, uh, archaeological evidence or anything that would suggest or would add to this, um, idea of the Garden of Eden being the Philippines? Have you seen any any finds or anything that just kind of suggests that it's possible?

Um, more, more of it being the land of gold which is everywhere. There's gold deposits all over, uh, not on every island of the 7000 but all over the archipelago and a massive vein, uh, running through throughout.

Schwab substitutes actual evidence with speculative interpretations of resources, adding to the pattern of his unsubstantiated claims.

Tim says "Chryse was not a Roman nor Greek society as they just went there for gold" asserting that this means no archaeology would exist, and any that did was wiped out by the Spanish. This is a 180° turn from what Tim has said in the past. 

Did The Ancients Sail Around Africa? Bible Evidence. Solomon's Gold Series 16A

32:11 So, here we have history, yes history, that in 800 BC the ships of Tarshish, the Greek ships yes from the Greek colony over in the Philippines, were able to show up in Joppa Israel on the Mediterranean. How about that? There was no Suez Canal yet and the Red Sea port was out of commission. They circumnavigated Africa it was the only option and it's documented right here in 800 BC.

In his video series about Greeks circumnavigating Africa to trade with the Philippines Tim says there was a Greek colony in the Philippines. A colony is by definition a society. Why is Tim now denying the existence of a Greek colony in the the Philippines? In his book The Search for King Solomon's Treasure Tim says the Greeks sailed to the Philippines to trade for 650 years.

The Greeks traded with the Philippines for gold and silver from roughly around 800-150 B.C. and Mela retained this from the “olden writers” of Greece. This further affirms the claim that the Philippines was mining gold in 1000 B.C. as the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology alludes and author, researcher and historian Paul Kekai Manansala, author Scott Walker, Wikipedia and others stake. [10] The Greeks were merely continuing the Phoenician routes of Solomon’s navy. One cannot ignore the origin of the Greek language and marine acumen being Phoenicia who were Solomon’s navy.

The Search for King Solomon's Treasure, pg. 43

Then he says it was customary on such long voyages to purchase land and plant crops as well as cut timber and mine to prepare for the long return voyage.

King Solomon built many ships, a navy or fleet of likely 50. Based on Phoenician merchant ships of that time, they were large with at least two rows of rowers carrying 450 tons of cargo and travelling at 6 miles per hour. Let us understand a little context about the habits of these Phoenician Merchant Ships and we can calculate this journey based on these capabilities. The Phoenician merchants were very conservative which is why they were the best in their era. They did not wreck often because they hugged the coasts and only sailed in the daytime avoiding obstacles hard to see at night.

“The navigation of the Phoenicians, in early times, was no doubt cautious and timid. So far from venturing out of sight of land, they usually hugged the coast, ready at any moment, if the sea or sky threatened, to change their course and steer directly for the shore. On a shelving coast they were not at all afraid to run their ships aground, since, like the Greek vessels, they could be easily pulled up out of reach of the waves, and again pulled down and launched, when the storm was over and the sea calm once more. At first they sailed, we may be sure, only in the daytime, casting anchor at nightfall, or else dragging their ships up upon the beach, and so awaiting the dawn. But after a time they grew more bold.”

–George Rawlinson [112]

In addition, on extremely long explorations in this era, it was customary to purchase land upon arrival in order to plant one’s own crops for the return trip. Along with trading, timbering, mining and other preparations for the return, we have calculated in one year for this. 

The Search for King Solomon's Treasure, pgs. 130-131

While that section is about the Phoenician method of sailing Tim is adamant the Greeks inherited their  shipping routes. Are we to suppose that the Greeks did not also inherit the Phoenician methods of purchasing "land upon arrival in order to plant one’s own crops for the return trip?" If the Phoenicians and Greeks were trading with the Philippines in such a manner for centuries, it is inconceivable they left no trace. Yet, while he mentions gold production in India, not even Herodotus discusses a trade route circumnavigating Africa to the Far East.

While Tim denies physical artifacts such as weapons or pottery were left behind by the Greeks, or destroyed by the Spanish, he does not totally deny any trace of a Greek presence in the Philippines. There are several passages in Tim's book where he claims Filipino place names are actually Greek. Here is just one passage. 

Not only did the Hebrews of Ophir and brothers migrate to the Philippines but also the Greek Tarshish supplied the ships for their journey. We find references to him on Mindanao especially but none more fascinating than the Greek loan word Apo.

Most point to Apo as a Greek loan word not originating in the Philippine languages. How does Greek enter the Philippines in use especially in naming it's highest mountain and used in language Grandparent/elder or grandchild? Tarshish left his family migrating far away from his elders and likely some of his grandchildren. It makes sense. 

Part of Tim's underlying myth the Philippines is Ophir and Sheba is that Tarshish provided them ships to sail to the Philippines. Tarshish's reward was Mindanao. Therefore Mindanao is Greek.

Therefore, Ophir and Sheba needed ships and Tarshish provided them. His payment for this endeavor carrying them back to their homeland would be to inherit a piece of that land logically as he certainly did according to scripture in order to have land in that region especially since Tarshish’s territory is no where near there otherwise but the Greek isles. David mentions ships and kings of Tarshish two times before Solomon’s reign before his navy even began construction (Ps. 48:7, 72:10). Both are prophesies that Tarshish will bring gifts to Messiah with Ophir and Sheba and it’s ships destroyed.

Rome did not benefit from this knowledge so easily as this was established by Israel with Phoenicia managing the route. Greece inherited this and, as they represent Tarshish’s family. That makes sense.

Tarshish is Mindanao, Philippines as it is mapped as the Greek land of silver, Argyre (The Hebrew Tarshish) especially on the 1492 Portuguese globe of Behaim just South of Luzon/Chryse. Mindanao also tests as the only place in the Philippines which fully aligns with Tarshish in resources especially due to tin.

The Search for King Solomon's Treasure, pg. 125

All of this points to a Greek society or colony which Tim is now denying ever existed. Where is the evidence of that Greek colony? According to Tim it lies in the local Filipino languages at least. If that is the case then this points directly to a sustained presence, potentially a settlement, or at least a highly integrated and long-term interaction that would absolutely constitute a "society" or leave archaeological traces.

However the reality is it doesn't exist in any shape or form. There are no artifacts, there are no writings, there is nothing to support that claim. Maybe that's why Tim has changed his theory. Tim dumps all over the idea that one should be looking for archaeological evidence to prove such an extraordinary claim.

When hundreds of maps and historical references over a 6,000-year period align and you ignore that because you are looking for archeology that was wiped out you shouldn't require, and no one is looking for, of course it fails your false test. Your test is false however, the data is not.

If there was no Greek society or colony in the Philippines then what exactly was wiped out by the Spanish? You can’t destroy something that didn’t exist. If there was an ancient Greek colony in the Philippines there should be evidence of its existence. From written records to artifacts, the theory demands proof Tim cannot provide. While Tim says archaeological evidence does not exist he contradicts himself by asserting linguistic evidence exists. Positing there was a Greek colony in the Philippines without proof and then saying, we don't have proof because it has been wiped out, is illogical reasoning. One cannot make a positive affirmation about an ancient Greek society existing in the Philippines in the absence of evidence. It's an admission Tim has no proof for his claims. As Carl Sagan wrote:

Your inability to invalidate my hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true. Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value they may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder. What I'm asking you to do comes down to believing, in the absence of evidence, on my say-so.

http://people.whitman.edu/~herbrawt/classes/110/Sagan.pdf

Every single one of Tim's theories regarding the Philippines is unfalsifiable. There is simply no hard, tangible evidence to validate his claims.

Tim will say the evidence is in the maps but he continues to misinterpret Pliny, Pomponius Mela, and every other historian and map he comes across. No Greek or Roman travelogue or map refers to the Philippines. I have written about this before. It's a wonder Tim didn't mention the "Greek armor" found in Mindanao. 

Tim's claim the Greek history of the Philippines was completely wiped out does not hold up. In Vietnam evidence has been found of a Roman presence. 

Óc Eo (Vietnamese) is an archaeological site in modern-day Óc Eo commune of Thoại Sơn District in An Giang Province of southern Vietnam. Located in the Mekong Delta, Óc Eo was a busy port of the kingdom of Funan between the 2nd century BC and 12th century AD and it may have been the port known to the Romans as Cattigara.

The remains found at Óc Eo include pottery, tools, jewelry, casts for making jewelry, coins, and religious statues. Among the finds are gold jewellery imitating coins from the Roman Empire of the Antonine period. Roman golden medallions from the reign of Antoninus Pius, and possibly his successor Marcus Aurelius, have been discovered at Óc Eo, which was near Chinese-controlled Jiaozhou and the region where Chinese historical texts claim the Romans first landed before venturing further into China to conduct diplomacy in 166. Many of the remains have been collected and are on exhibition in Museum of Vietnamese History in Ho Chi Minh City.

Funan was part of the region of Southeast Asia referred to in ancient Indian texts as Suvarnabhumi, and may have been the part to which the term was first applied.

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

How did this evidence of a Roman presence in Vietnam survive while every shred of evidence of a Greco-Roman presence in the Philippines was wiped out?

Óc Eo has something the Philippines does not, actual archeological evidence of the presence of Romans.  How about that? Archeological evidence is something which Timothy Jay Schwab's theory about the Philippines being Ophir, Tarshish, The Garden of Eden, Sheba, Seba, Havilah, Antilia, and Cattigara is sorely lacking.

Tim's theory is so ridiculous that not even he can keep up with it. Either there was a Greek colony in the Philippines or there wasn't. Now Tim is saying such a colony never existed. Yet, the assumptions lying behind the claims in his book, the existence of Greek loan words in local Filipino languages and Tarshish inheriting Mindanao, contradict him. Most damning of all is his claim Greeks were trading with the Philippines from 800 - 150 B.C. That is 650 years of interaction and yet there is no archaeological evidence while any alleged linguistic evidence is so paltry, subjective, and an etymological fallacy based on superficial resemblance as to be nonexistent. 650 years of history doesn't simply disappear. 

Tim might say it's a case of evolving research but how is the research which compelled him to assert there was a Greek colony in the Philippines now found to be lacking? If Tim categorically affirms there was no Greek colony or society in the Philippines he will have to fundamentally re-write his book. It's just more proof that pseudo-history is the milieu of Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture. 

The God Culture: Jesus is Evil

Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Cultre is not a Christian. He has made that very clear. But now he has gone a step further by agreeing Jesus is evil. 

Lost Isles of Gold LIVE Series - Part 13: End Times Prophecy of the Ophir Philippines

@rosecalero7369 Jesus is evil. Christ is evil. Messiah is not Jesus. It’s the God of Catholic Church and Christianity. Ophir is a Hebrew country.

@TheGodCulture Yah Bless.

There is no way to put a positive spin on that. A commenter says Jesus is evil and is the God of Christianity. Instead of rebuking this person Tim says Yah Bless indicating he agrees Jesus is evil. 

That is blasphemy of the highest caliber. The future is looking eternally hot and fiery for Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture.

The God Culture: Only the Philippines Has Resources

Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture does not do history. He does myth-making. The most persistent myth in all of Tim's oeuvre is that the Philippines was the centre of all trade and commerce because it has been blessed with every valuable resource under the sun. That includes mineral wealth, botanical wealth, and animal wealth. In comparison to the Philippines every other nation is a desert which is why the Greeks, Romans, Phoenicians, Arabs, Chinese, and Israelites sailed vast distances to trade with the archipelago. That includes circumnavigating Africa at a time when no one was circumnavigating Africa. Japan doesn't have any resources which is proof it is not Cipangu. 

📖 Nippon on the Behaim Globe 

What about the islands north of the Tropic of Cancer? They’re on the map too—but they are not Zipangu. 

Nippon (or Nihon), known as Rìběn in Chinese, was the name used in the Grand Khan’s letter to the King of Japan—not Zipangu. The nation we now call Japan has no linguistic connection to “Zipangu” whatsoever—a fact acknowledged even by several Japanese scholars. 

Yes, Japan does appear on the Behaim Globe—but without honor or distinction. 

• It is merely identified as part of “Indies Cathay”, i.e., the Indies east of China. 

• There is no special annotation, no gold, no pearls, no spices. 

• No mention of Zipangu, Lequios, or the legendary wealth described by Marco Polo. 

In other words, Japan is not the target of Columbus, Magellan, or the explorers of the Age of Discovery. 

Columbus, in his own journals, clearly places Zipangu at 20°–22°N—coordinates that perfectly match Luzon in the Philippines, not a single Japanese island. 

Anyone claiming that Japan lies south of the Tropic of Cancer—displacing Luzon to do so—is not a scholar. 

They are a propagandist. 

📍The Geographic Problem: 

• Japan’s major islands fall far north of Zipangu’s mapped location. 

• The large, richly annotated island below the Tropic of Cancer on Behaim’s globe matches Luzon—in both latitude and description. 

• Attempts to conflate tiny Ryukyu into that island have no scholarly merit. Ryukyu is clearly marked elsewhere on historical maps—and never as Zipangu.

https://thegodculturephilippines.com/the-true-cipangu-how-gebhard-s-behaim-globe-places-zipangu-in-the-philippines-not-japan/

That's right. Cipangu or Zipangu on older maps was not Japan but Luzon, the Philippines. While Luzon was depicted on Behaim's 1492 Globe as being loaded with resources, Japan was depicted as just a few teeny-tiny islands "without honor or distinction." Tim knows Cipangu is not Japan because it is located in the general area of Luzon on Behaim's map. Get the idea out of your head that European maps were wrong for many years and needed correction based on evolving knowledge because that is "colonial revisionism." 

Let’s be clear: 

• Japan is on the map—labeled as Indies Cathay, without distinction.

• There is no Zipangu label on Japan.

• There is no note of gold, spice, or resource wealth. 

Any modern attempt to move Zipangu northward and displace Luzon with Japan is not academic work—it is colonial revisionism dressed in scholarly robes.

15th and 16th century European maps of East Asia were 100% correct and did not need any revisions according to Tim. Behaim's 1492 globe showed everything in its right place. Cipangu is placed in Luzon's location ergo it is Luzon. No backsies or corrections allowed. How did a map from 1492 depict discoveries from 1521? Stop scoffing, you agitator!

Compare that to a fake scholar who claims to know all about European cartography as it relates to Japan.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3634221

By the middle of the sixteenth century the Pacific was gradually taking its correct shape as more expeditions course the seas between the Philippines and more traders and missionaries penet great Oriental kingdoms. In 1549, Francis Xavier began his famous mission in Japan. Yet it was a long time before correct concept and the northern Pacific appeared on European maps. The main reason was, of course, the false concepts inherited from Marinus, Ptolemy, and  Marco Polo which made the earth too small and Asia too big. Other factors entered into it, however. For one thing, these missionaries were generally poor cartographers. Furthermore, the situation was complicated by the dispute that arose when the advance of Spain and Portugal in opposite directions east and west from Europe met on the other side of the globe. This dispute centered around the ownership of the Moluccas. Both Spain and Portugal claimed the islands as in their portion of the world between the two Lines of Demarcation. Before the position of these islands became a subject of controversy, the Portuguese had always placed them much further east (from the Cape of Good Hope) than their actual position warranted, apparently as a result of a continuing error by Portuguese navigators. 

pg. 233-234

But while such map makers were continuing to misplace Japan, others were producing the first maps based on systematic cartographical material from persons who were well acquainted with Japan. The Portuguese were naturally the leaders in this field, having maintained the most intimate connections with the island kingdom in the early period of European acquaintance. Diogo Homem's map of 1558, although very defective in its depiction of the islands, at least puts them in their true relation to the continent of Asia and gives the coast of the southernmost island, Kyushu, in great detail. 

pg. 234

The rest of the story consists of an uneven but effective progress in the delineation of Japan's boundaries and her location with respect to Asia. 

p. 235

It was not until the expeditions of Vitus Bering, 1725-1728 and 1742, for the Russian government, that some semblance of geograp accuracy was obtained in the northern Pacific. Bering demonstrated the existence of a strait between North America and Asia, reduced Yezo to its true size, and charted much of the Kurile chain. Japan had lost her last hiding place.

Thus, finally, did "the shuttlecock of the Pacific" come to rest. The eye of inquiring, hypothesizing, Western cartographical science had variously placed her according to rumor, hope, or knowledge. Tied by lines of longitude and latitude, Marco Polo's mystery isle was finally subjected to the stare of the Western world. The early maps enable us to see in capsule form the whole history of the age of discovery. We see the Japan described on these maps luring Europeans to discovery and conquest by her proximity to Europe and by her great wealth. We find her ability to avoid the fate of the island first mistaken for her foreshadowed on these maps by their conceptions of her size and power. Here, in brief, captured in the few lines and letters of these early maps, is the picture of a past age.

p. 236

Suck it Washburn. You're a colonial propagandist. European maps placing Cipangu in the south were correct until the Jesuits conspired to alter them and remove the name of Cipangu from Luzon north to Japan. Oh, and if you think Cipangu was never a name for Luzon, you're also a colonial propagandist. Chinese history be damned!

• Ma-i. According to the Zhao Rugua's (趙汝适) book Zhu Fan Zhi (诸蕃志/諸蕃誌) written around the 13th century during the Song dynasty, there was a group of islands found in southern South China Sea called Ma-i (麻逸, Hokkien POJ: Mâ-i̍t, Mandarin Pinyin: Máyì). The islands groups were later invaded and renamed and identified by the Spanish to be the island of Mindoro. This was further proved by Ferdinand Blumentritt in his 1882 book, Versuch einer Ethnographie der Philippinen (An Attempt to the Study of Ethnography of the Philippines) that Ma-i was the Chinese local name of present-day Mindoro.On the other hand, historians claimed that Ma-i was not an island, but all the south of South Sea islands groups and Manila itself, which was known to be an overseas Chinese settlement which was in constant contact with the Chinese mainland as early as the 9th century AD.
  • Ma-i consists of the 三洲 (Hokkien POJ: Sam-chiu, Mandarin Pinyin: Sānzhōu, lit. "Three islands") group of islands: Kia-ma-yen (卡拉棉, Hokkien POJ: Khá-la-miân, Mandarin Pinyin: Kǎlāmián, "Calamian"), 巴拉望 (Hokkien POJ: Pa-la-bāng, Mandarin Pinyin: Bālāwàng, "Palawan") and Pa-ki-nung (布桑加, Hokkien POJ: Pò͘-song-ka, Mandarin Pinyin: Bùsāngjiā, "Busuanga").
    • Aside from 三洲, Ma-i also consists of the islands of Pai-p'u-yen (巴布延, Hokkien POJ: Pa-pò͘-iân, Mandarin Pinyin: Bābùyán, "Babuyan"), P'u-li-lu (波利略, Hokkien POJ: Po-lī-lio̍k, Mandarin Pinyin: Bōlìlüè, "Polillo"), Lim-kia-tung (林加延, Hokkien POJ: Lîm-ka-iân, Mandarin Pinyin: Línjiāyán, "Lingayen"), Liu-sung (呂宋, Hokkien POJ: Lū-sòng, MandarinPinyin: Lǚsòng, "Luzon") and Li-ban (盧邦, Hokkien POJ: Lô͘-pang, Mandarin Pinyin: Lúbāng, "Lubang").^[23] It was said that these islands had contacts with Chinese traders from Canton (Guangdong) as early as 982 AD.
  • Liusung (呂宋, Hokkien POJ: Lū-sòng, Mandarin Pinyin: Lǚsòng) was the name ascribed by the Chinese to the present-day island of Luzon. It originated from the Tagalog word lusong, a wooden mortar that is used to pound rice. When the Spanish produced maps of the Philippines during the early 17th century, they called the island Luçonia which was later respelled as Luzonia, then Luzon.

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

Not only is Wikipedia in on the cover-up but so is the 13th century book Chau Ju-Kua: his work on the Chinese and Arab trade in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, entitled Chu-fan-chï."

https://archive.org/details/cu31924023289345/page/n185/mode/2up

The country of Wo is to the north-east of Ts'uan-(chou). It is at present called Ji-pon (日本), which name has arisen from the fact that this country is situated near the place where the sun rises. Some people say that they changed the old name because they disliked it.

There are some who would say Zipangu is Marco Polo's mispronunciation or transliteration of Ji-pon (日本).

 Marco Polo called Japan 'Cipangu' around 1300, based on the Chinese enunciation of the name, probably 日本國; 'sun source country' (compare modern Min Nan pronunciation ji̍t pún kok).

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

They are wrong!! Zipangu is Zipangu. Marco Polo wrote what he meant. There is no such thing as Europeans mispronouncing or transliterating foreign words. Duh! The Pangu in Zipangu identifies it as the Philippines. 

On the chapter cover pages, we offered Marco Polo’s description of the amazing island of gold he refers to as the Chinese words Zi Pangu. These already identify much one can test settling this debate which academia seems incapable of simple logic. Let us begin with the word. What does it mean? For this is two words and one is a god in their pantheon which gets overlooked by most.

“Pangu (Chinese: 盤古, PAN-koo) is a primordial being and creation figure in Chinese mythology and Taoism who separated heaven and earth, and his body later became geographic features such as mountains and rivers.” 2

Is it really possible that academics are so incapable? Not likely. Their forgetting who Pangu is to the Chinese demonstrates they are committing propaganda. Pangu is the creator god in their religion and legends. After he created, he literally became the land. We are not Taoists, and this is a twisting of the Genesis Creation account but one can quickly observe how such a legend can gain its origin. Yahuah, the actual Creator, went into the Earth with His physical presence in His Holy of Holies in the Garden of Eden. Genesis is clear on this and Jubilees very directly. For when one locates this land of gold and Garden of Eden, they also pinpoint ground zero for the Creation event itself.

Pangu is geography. He became geographic features of the Earth, and the Land of Creation is the same as Havilah and the Garden of Eden which is the same as the isles of gold. This is not a mystery. Pangu can be found in interpretation as this land. Oddly, we have not found a single scholar who figured out this elementary detail.

The Garden of Eden Revealed, pgs. 128, 130

If you aren't familiar with Tim's books and videos, the Land of Creation, Havilah, the Garden of Eden, and isles of gold are various names of the Philippines. 

But back to the resources. Japan has NONE! 

• There is no note of gold, spice, or resource wealth.

13th century Chinese scholar Chau Ju-Kua says differently because he is a propagandist. 

The country yields all kinds of cereals, but little wheat. For purposes of exchange they use copper cash bearing the inscription Kien-yiian-ta-pau. They have water-buffalo, donkeys, sheep, (but neither) rhinoceros (nor) elephants, also gold and silver, fine silks and fancy cotton cloth.

https://archive.org/details/cu31924023289345/page/n185/mode/2up

See! They didn't even have rhinoceroses and Japan Today says Marco Polo said Zipangu has rhinoceroses!

In an article well explaining this, Japan Today admits there is no credible track in history to Zipangu as a name for Japan. Many have fabricated theories or guesses without any knowledge or facts to support. That is Pharisee leaven, not academics.

“While Japanese people usually refer to their country as Nihon or Nippon these days, in early texts, the names Oyashima (mother island) or Yamato (which was written with the Chinese characters for great and wa, see below) were used. However, evenin those early days, there is evidence that Japan had other names in other countries such as Wakoku (a name for identifying Japan at the time) by the Chinese.”

“The origin of the “wa” in Wakoku is hotly debated. The most likely theory is that the Japanese words waga (oneself) and ware (ourself) formed it.” 

“In the West around the 14th century, Japan was likely going by “the noble island of Chipangu,” which was given to it by none other than the famous explorer Marco Polo. Although it seems likely that Chipangu was Japan, it is not confirmed as Marco Polo included some very fanciful tales about these isles including the presence of rhinos, cannibalistic natives and private houses made of gold.” – Japan Today 

Oops! Japan does not have rhinos meaning this country Marco Polo referred to did, says Japan Today, meaning Zipangu was not Japan.

The Garden of Eden Revealed, pgs. 127

Further research, like reading the footnote on Chau Ju-Kua's text mentioning the original text of  the Sung-shi affirming the presence of rhinoceroses and elephants is corrupt, is totally unnecessary. 

11. The bronze Chōnen said: “The soil produces the five kinds of cereals, but little wheat. For purposes of barter (or exchange) we use copper cash bearing the inscription Kien-wēn-tai-pau (乾文(元)大寶). We have water-buffalo, donkeys and sheep in abundance, also rhinoceros and elephants. The native product is much silk, from which we weave a fine, soft silk, most pleasant to wear. Sung-shi, loc. cit. The correct superscription of these coins is Kien-yüan-ta-pau, in Japanese Ken-gen-tai-ho. Both our author and Sung-shi write the second character erroneously wēn. This coin, which was in use in the second year of Tentoku (A.D. 958), was the last of the antique coins issued in Japan. No coins were made by Government during the six hundred and odd years which separate the period of Tentoku from the fifteenth year of Tensho (A.D. 1587). W. G. Munro, Coins of Japan, 75, 79. The earliest mention of coin in Japan appears to be in the year 486 A. D. Copper coins were first made in Japan in A. D. 708. Aston, Nihonji, I, 360, 391, II, 414.
    
    
    The text of Chōnen’s statement concerning Japan contained in the Sung-shi was presumably taken from an original in which there were a number of undoubted clerical errors, as for example, in the superscription of the coins of Japan, and in the phrase 西別島出白銀, which should unquestionably read 西對島出白銀. We are justified, therefore, in thinking that the text used by Chau Ju-kua and the author of Sung-shi, and which makes Chōnen say that there were rhinoceros and elephants in Japan, was corrupt also in this case, and that he really told T’ai-tsung the simple truth, that there were neither rhinoceros nor elephants in Japan.

If you think Marco Polo wrote there were rhinos in Zipangu but that was based on an error in the Sung-shi because he never visited Japan, well you're basically a bigot. A "colonial propagandist." Marco Polo wrote what he wrote and he was right. Japan has no rhinos therefore it's not Zipangu. Away with nuance in understanding textual transmission. 

Even further research like reading Marco Polo's actual journal instead of relying on an internet article from Japan Today and noticing he does not mention rhinoceroses in connection with Zipangu but with Java and other countries is also something one does not need to do. 

There are wild elephants in the country, and numerous unicorns, which are very nearly as big. They have hair like that of a buffalo, feet like those of an elephant, and a horn in the middle of the forehead, which is black and very thick.  

Marco Polo, Book 3, Chapter 9

Japan Today's commentary about Marco Polo is much more reliable than Marco Polo's actual words. 

Cipangu is actually one of many names of the Philippines. 

• Chryse, Maniola, Sabadibae, Argye, Aurea, Lequios, Zipangu / Cipangu, Ophir, Aurea, Uphaz, Zipangu, Paradise, and Tarshish  

• In other words: same place, different names, which should be no surprise for an archipelago rich in gold and every resource fitting all these designations on its 7,000 islands.

https://thegodculturephilippines.com/bananas-behaim-behold----zipangu-was-never-japan/

This article started off by claiming Tim's overarching narrative is that only the Philippines has the resources the world wanted. So far only his claims about Japan have been examined but this also extends to India. 

In his testing the resources of Ophir The God Culture admits that India has all the resources attributed to Ophir. 

#33: Is India Ophir? 100 Clues The Philippines Is Ophir

2:29 One such claim is that India must be Ophir. Now we will give them that India does in fact have the resources on Solomon's list. Yes it does.

In his book The Search for King Solomon's Treasure he says the same thing. 

The only other coherent claim as far as resources are concerned is India yet it’s own history says it had a source of ancient gold and silver, isles to the East thus none of these make any sense except the Philippines. 

 Every resource of Solomon tests as native to the Philippines and all other claims fail in this chapter except India whose claim already failed the test of it’s own history. 

Solomon's Treasure, pgs. 110 and 115

Notice how in the same sentence Tim contradicts himself by saying India's claim does not fail but also fails the test of history despite Josephus claiming India is Ophir. What is important to note is that Tim admits India has all the resources of Ophir which affirms the historical claim of Josephus that Ophir is in India. 

https://thegodculturephilippines.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-god-culture-philippines-is-not-ophir.html

The point of all this is that Tim's resource test is misguided. First of all, the Philippines is not the only land in the world that had minerals, plants, and animals coveted by other nations. Second of all, Tim's resource test concerning gold particularly is about the currently untapped lodes sitting in the ground. 

Philippines Valid, Credible Archeology: Isle of Gold and Garden of Eden. Solomon's Gold Series 16H

27:30 The question for the land of gold is who has the most gold in the ground now. 

38:09 But we don't need this. We don't need it to show on mining gold reports for production. The report that matters is untapped gold in the ground now.

That does not account for depletion of resources over millennia. It's the resource test and the subsequent restriction of the most coveted resources to the Philippines which leads Tim into myth-making by declaring the Philippines is every wonderful and fabulous land ever spoken of by other nations. It’s not that other nations had no resources. It's that the resources of those nations were ignored for the superior resources of the Philippines. In a very real way the history of the world is being denied and erased by Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture.