The God Culture: 100 Lies About The Philippines: #8 Manila is Shown on the 1492 Behaim Globe

Welcome back to 100 lies The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns Timothy Jay Schwab's claim that the city of Manila is shown on the 1492 Martin Behaim globe. 

It is a very stupid and obvious lie but let's take a look at what he says. 

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37:29 Here is Chryse, or Crisis, identified even by shape and location as Luzon Island Philippines. The main or large island. Manila is there, the capital city, and Maniola written in on this map even really is referring to Manila.

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29:39 Maniola. Now this is one scholar's going oh no it was here, no it was there. No, here it is on the map. It's right there, okay? Maniola is Manila, duh! I mean it's not even hard to see by the name but it's on the map. It's, it's in the paragraph there. Uh, it's written in German of course so you probably won't be able to read it but I guess uh you know it speaks of the magnetic shoals where many shipwrecks occurred just off the coast of what? Maniola, Manila duh! I mean for any scholar to suggests Maniola is anything else, uh, but Manila requires willing ignorance. Here it is on the map right there. Again, that be the Philippines.  

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11:20 Here's another mapping of Ptolemy from the 1400's showing showing Maniola near India which is wrong. remember Ptolemy actually wrote these directions in the second century so all these mappings they may progress and date but that doesn't mean they progress in mindset. In fact they're using Ptolemy to take everything back to before the time of the Portuguese and the spanish. this is what the British do. we're going to expose that at the end of this video. Now, that is mapped by the 1492 globe. Okay? Very well. Maniola is in the Philippines. Uh, here it's near India and that's wrong. The obvious reference to Manila of course is so glaring yet much of academia says nu-uh. Yeah I mean even in the early 1900s they were already starting that control line and it's stupid problem. Uh-uh. You see it's fact and again the 1492 globe proves it.

30:57 Columbus and Magellan both knew this. There's Maniola or Manila referenced where ships, uh, wreck referring to the shoals. It calls them magnetic isles but it means that the ships are drawn to them and shipwrecked there that's what it, that's what it is. Uh, and it's on the way to Manila so Maniola, Manila is appropriate in name.

What a crock! This assertion that Manila is referenced on both Ptolemy's map and a globe from 1492 long before the Spanish colonized the Philippines shows how absolutely ignorant Tim is. It was not until June 24th, 1571 that the Spanish declared Manila to be part of New Spain. 

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

On June 24, 1571, conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi arrived in Manila and declared it a territory of New Spain (Mexico), establishing a city council in what is now Intramuros district.

Yes, there is text on the map referring to Maniole but that is a reference to ten magnetic islands first described by Ptolemy. Did Tim even think to translate or to find a translation of the German? What a lazy blockhead. Once again he shows his poor research skills and proves that The God Culture is not a team but is a one man show.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/RavensteinBehaim.jpg

difer jnfell findt zehen gehaifen maniole dafelbft mag kain fchiff faren das eifen an hat umb defs magnet willen der dafelbft wechft (K 5 s).

There are ten of these islands called Maniole. No ship having iron in it dare navigate near them because of the magnet which is found there. 

Ptolemy (VII 2) has "Maniolae insulae decim, quarum incolae sunt anthropophagi, in his gignitur magnes." These Magnet Islands of Ptolemy, however, are placed in the Sinus Gangeticus, whilst Behaim's legend is shifted to the east of the mainland. On fabulous Magnet Rocks, to be dreaded by mariners, because on approaching them the iron nails flew out, and the ship fell to pieces, see Peschel's essay in 'Abhandlungen zur Erd- und Völkerkundes,' Leipzig, 1877, p. 44 .

https://web.archive.org/web/20060512101135/http://globemakers.com/facsimile/globe_behaim.html

Here is the full citation from Ptolemy:

There are said to be other islands here adjoining, ten in number, called Maniolae, from which they say that boats, in which there are nails, are kept away, lest at any time the magnetic stone which is found near these islands should draw them to destruction. For this reason they say that these boats are drawn up on the shore and that they are strengthened with beams of wood. They also say that these islands are occupied by cannibals called Manioli. There are means of approach from these islands to the mainland.

Geography pg. 157

Ptolemy says the cannibals occupying the Maniolae islands are called Manioli. Imagine that. The Islands are named after the cannibals who inhabit them and not because the City of Manila is there. 

There is nothing on either the Behaim 1492 globe or Ptolemy's 2nd century map referring to Manila or the Philippines. For Tim to say otherwise is "willing ignorance." He knows the reference is to magnetic islands yet he is intentionally lying to his audience that this is a reference to the City of Manila because Maniolae and Manila look and sound similar. That is terrible linguistics.  He is wrong. His utterly false and ignorant interpretation of this map underscores the fact that he is constantly twisting information to fit his paradigm. It is far worse than Tim not knowing what he is talking about. He is not merely an ignoramus. Timothy Jay Schwab is intentionally lying to his audience and they are too enamored with his praise of the Philippines as the most important land on earth to actually check and see if what Tim is saying is true. 

The God Culture: 100 Lies About The Philippines: #7 The 1492 Behaim Globe is Portuguese

Welcome back to 100 lies The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns Martin Behaim's 1492 Erdapfel globe. This map is very important to Timothy Jay Schwab's scheme to prove that the Philippines is Ophir. Tim tells a lot of lies about this map, willingly misinterprets it, and shows that he is not just clueless but an out and out liar. In the next few articles I will take a look at each lie individually. 

Martin Behaim was a German who worked in Portugal as a councillor for King John II. 

In 1484 Behaim moved to Portugal and set up residence in Lisbon. The circumstances behind this move are unclear but Lisbon was the hub of a wide-ranging trade network that included spices, slaves, and gold from Africa and it is likely that Behaim was looking for trading opportunities. He quickly found favor as a counselor in the court of King John II where he supposedly provided advice on navigation and astronomy.

After leaving the employ of Portugal he returned to Nuremberg where he convinced the town fathers to finance the creation of the world's first globe map. 

After Behaim returned to Nuremberg in 1490, leading members of the city council financed the construction of a terrestrial globe. Under the direction of Behaim, a team of artisans and craftsmen constructed what has become the oldest extant globe.

The completed globe, which came to be called Erdapfel (earth apple) by the townspeople, was originally housed in Nuremberg's city hall. In the 17th century the Behaim family took possession of the globe. It was inexpertly restored in 1823 and again in 1847, resulting in the corruption of many place-names and labels. The German National Museum in Nuremberg later took possession of the globe, which is commonly known as the Nuremberg Terrestrial Globe.

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

This map is 100% German. But Tim continues to insist it is Portuguese. 

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1:03:30 What can we say about Antilia? Well, it is a match to the ancient Thilis, a reference to the Philippines even on the 1492 Behaim globe commissioned by the Portuguese government.

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32:09 Now we cover a map in 1492 where the Portuguese government commissioned a map with the latest data....

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28:46 The Portuguese were already in the far wast controlling much of Malaysia and Indonesia and they released this map in 1492, the Behaim globe. 

Understanding the Maps Used By Columbus & Magellan. Ophir, Philippines? Solomon's Gold Series 16E 

11:30 Because the very first globe of the world is also the one he had with him. Now this isn't real hard it's called the Behaim globe and it's based on Portuguese data commissioned by the Portuguese government as a Portuguese government map. Uh, a guy named Behaim, a German, actually, uh, you know, took care of the project, oversaw the project.

It is simply incredible that Tim continues to insist that this map is Portuguese when it absolutely is not. It is German and that is a historical fact. Did he do any research on the subject? If he did he is willingly ignoring it. This lie is important to note because Tim cannot get the most basic information correct. As we shall see he interprets the map wrong as well.  

The God Culture: 100 Lies About The Philippines: #6 The Philippines is Chryse and Argyre

Welcome back to 100 lies The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns Timothy Jay Schwab's claim that the Philippine Islands are the mythical island of gold and silver known as Chryse and Argyre. This claim is central to his teaching that the Philippines is Ophir. Let's take a closer look.

Tim claims, with absolutely no proof, that the ancient source of Greek gold and silver was the land of Chryse and Argyre which was really the Philippines. Why would they sail all that way for gold? He never tells us and he totally ignores the fact gold was available in Greek mines. Here is what that looks like according to Timothy Jay Schwab.

The top island is Chryse which Tim claims is Luzon and the bottom island is Argyre which he claims is Mindanao. Hello?? Where are the Visayas?  What he is telling us is that the Greeks sailed to the Philippines, set up colonies, but were not able to accurately map the area! That is ridiculous and makes the Greeks appear dumber than they actually were. But Tim also says the Greeks kept this route secret. How would he even know that especially when he uses Ancient Greek descriptions of the world to prove his claim that the Greeks sailed to the Philippines?

A close look at Ancient Greek maps show that out of 9 maps only 4 have a location marked Chryse. Two of those maps show Chryse as an island while the other two maps show it as the Malay Peninsula. Only one map has Argyre. If Argyre corresponds to a real island, Mindanao says Tim and the God Culture, then why is it on only one map in all of antiquity? The only map with Argyre is that of Pomponius Mela. Mela places Chryse near point Tamus and Argyre near the Ganges River. 

https://topostext.org/work/145

Alongside Point Tamus is the island of Chryse, beside the Ganges the island of Argyre.

Beside the Ganges is absolutely nowhere near the Philippines. Yet Tim has several videos where he goes on and on and on attempting to prove that the Greeks really had no idea where Chryse and Argyre were because they had lost the directions and how we have to get into their mind set. The fact is the Greeks were familiar with India having marched there with Alexander and engaging in trade with the Indians. What Tim wants us to believe is that the ancient Greeks were stupid and we all know that is not the case.  Beside the Ganges means beside the Ganges. 

While Tim has quite a few videos where he misinterprets maps from the Greeks, Romans, and Portuguese in a vain attempt to prove that Chryse and Argyre are the Philippines I only want to review what he has to say about the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea because it illustrates how daft the man really is and proves that not only is he lying but he has no idea what he is talking about. 

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2:20 "Periplus of the Erytheaen Sea in the first century records Chryse and Argyre as being located in "the last part of the inhabited world toward the east, under the rising sun itself beyond the land of China which brought silk to India." Gee, umm I don't know which islands are east of China? Wait! Ethiopia? Nope, that's not it! Yemen?  No. India? Ugh! Someone must know their geography very well in speculating that those guys could possibly be this ancient land of gold. It's the Philippines. Oh yeah! And they also map it.  So really this is not rocket science folks."

This is all wrong. First of all the Periplus of the Erytheaen Sea does not mention Argyre. Only Mela mentions Argyre. Second of all he flubs the directions. Chryse is not located "beyond the land of China." That phrase is an addition by Tim. He sure does love inserting his own emendations into older texts to make them say what they do not. We saw he did the very same thing with Pigafetta when Tim claims he saw elephants in the Philippines.  Here is what the Periplus actually says:

63.   After these, the course turns toward the east again, and sailing with the ocean to the right and the shore remaining beyond to the left, Ganges comes into view, and near it the very last land toward the east, Chryse. There is a river near it called the Ganges, and it rises and falls in the same way as the Nile. On its bank is a market-town which has the same name as the river, Ganges. Through this place are brought malabathrum and Gangetic spikenard and pearls, and muslins of the finest sorts, which are called Gangetic. It is said that there are gold-mines near these places, and there is a gold coin which is called caltis. And just opposite this river there is an island in the ocean, the last part of the inhabited world toward the east, under the rising sun itself; it is called Chryse; and it has the best tortoise-shell of all the places on the Erythraean Sea. 

64.   After this region under the very north, the sea outside ending in a land called This, there is a very great inland city called Thinae [i.e. China], from which raw silk and silk yarn and silk cloth are brought on foot through Bactria to Barygaza, and are also exported to Damirica [=Limyrike] by way of the river Ganges. But the land of This is not easy of access; few men come from there, and seldom. The country lies under the Lesser Bear [Ursa Minor], and is said to border on the farthest parts of Pontus and the Caspian Sea, next to which lies Lake Maeotis; all of which empty into the ocean.

https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/periplus/periplus.html

In paragraph 63 Chryse is located near the Ganges and it is described as both "the very last land towards the east" and "an island in the ocean." Paragraph 64 starts off "After this region." What region? Chryse. After Chryse and to the north is China. Remember we are traveling East. China is not East of the Philippines. It is West. So, after Chryse going eastward and to the north is China. Chryse is not the Philippines according to these directions. It looks like this:

Now, this is just a short article to prove that Tim is lying about Chryse and Argyre being the Philippines. I have a much more in depth article you can read here.  In that article I examine 9 Ancient Greek maps and prove beyond doubt that the Greeks knew of nothing past the Malay Peninsula. Oddly enough Tim says the Malay Peninsula on Ptolemy's map is actually Burma!

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7:15 Of course he's taking Ptolemy who didn't even know what the Maylay Peninsula was and claims he says it was the Malay Peninsula. That's stupid that's what that is. And then he never mapped it okay as he only goes as far as Burma in his directions, duh. 

So, and then there are those who use Ptolemy principally as the primary source of Southeast Asian geography yet one could not be more inept as Ptolemy thought the Indian Ocean was enclosed after Burma. Hello uh that's tens of thousands of islands that are non-existent on its map. The entire Pacific Ocean is gone and you call that geography? Again that's not academic that's stupid. In other words he not only is no expert on Southeast Asia at all let's be clear he didn't draw it it's not there. Uh, what he did draw is way out of place and he didn't know what it was. He just knows legends that's in that area and that's really all he's showing. Don't beat up on the guy, okay. I mean he he goes back to before this era even so he just didn't know. But, literally, uh, he was not a Greek sailor in terms of from Greece. He was an Egyptian. So, uh, though he served for Greece and he was Greek or at least appointed by the Greeks, his family was, uh, he was not in the know. Sorry but he wasn't and that's very obvious because again his map ends at Burma and encloses the Indian Ocean. 

Everything about that rant is factually wrong. It's concrete proof that Timothy Jay Schwab has no idea what he is talking about when it comes to ancient cartography and that we ought not to trust his interpretations of ancient maps. But that's another lie for another day. 

The God Culture: 100 Lies About The Philippines: #5 Ancient Greeks in the Philippines

Welcome back to 100 lies The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns Timothy Jay Schwab's claim that there was an Ancient Greek presence in the Philippines. Again, it's another claim that is obviously a lie but seeing as Tim makes this claim in all seriousness and he has gullible people believing him without doing what he claims which is test all things including himself it needs to be debunked.

There are two places were Tim makes the claim that there was an Ancient Greek presence in the Philippines. The first one is in video Clue #2.

https://youtu.be/kWjFtcV_6Nc

This video has been edited but in the original beginning at 5:27 Timothy Schwab says:

"When we visited Butuan, Philippines in May we were actually able to see this Greek armor which was found in 2018 in the Philippines. The thing is these are indisputably Greek from the symbols and the structure and they are dated all the way back to 800 B.C. up to about 480 B.C. "

Now that is indeed rather interesting don't you think? Ancient Greek armor was found in Mindanao and dated between 800 and 480 B.C.? That would be a huge archaeological discovery seeing as Alexander did not even reach India until 326 B.C.! It would mean Greek soldiers marched or sailed to the Philippines BEFORE the Peloponnesian War. What can one do in the face of such overwhelming evidence that the Greeks were in the Philippines possibly only 300 years after the Trojan War? Question it and tear it apart of course.

The fact is if you search for Greek armor in the Philippines on Google you will find nothing which validates this find. In fact Tim would later edit this video to indicate that this discovery was still pending confirmation. 

100 Clues #2: Philippines Is The Ancient Land of Gold: Gold Found - Ophir, Sheba, Tarshish. Edited.

How can Tim with a straight face tell us at 13:56 in this new edit:

"The thing is these are indisputably Greek from the symbols and structure and they are dated all the way back to 800 B.C. up to about 480 B.C."

In the unaltered audio he tells us that these artifacts are indisputably Greek while on screen he notes "Archaeology Confirmation Pending." It cannot be both. His source for this is Kasaysayan Hunters which is run by J.G. Cheock and we saw in lie #2 that she is also Tim's source for the false claim that Ferdinand Pinto placed the Leqouis Islands at 9N20. J.G Cheock and Kasaysayan Hunters are not reliable. 

Here is a picture of the alleged Greek armor set in full.

An image search for "Greek muscle cuirass" and "ancient Greek battle axe" gives results that look nothing like the armor above. There is armor with fake abs but not with lion heads and celestial wheels for nipples. Maybe such did exist but they are not coming up in any search online. And believe it or not those so-called Greek battle axes have more of a Tibetan design than Grecian.

It's obvious that Tim does not believe these artifacts are genuine ancient Greek armor because they have been rigorously and thoroughly tested by experts and found to be so. He offers no prove that they have undergone such testing. He believes because it confirms his thesis that the Philippines is the ancient land of Ophir. He ignores what is so obviously gives away the fraud which is the tokay gecko on the helmet! But this would not be the first fact that Tim ignores.

Funnily enough this alleged find of Greek Armor did not make it into Tim's book The Search for King Solomon's Treasure. Why is that? If he is so confident that this is really Greek armor he should have included it. 

The second instance of Tim mentioning an Ancient Greek presence in the Philippines is in his video about Greeks circumnavigating Africa to reach the Philippines. 

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.

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Where exactly were the Greek colonies in the Philippines? Tim offers no evidence because there were none. If there had been then we would find Greek artifacts in the Philippines just like Roman artifacts have been found in Vietnam. Ptolemy's map would also not have ended with the Malay Peninsula.

This lie about an ancient Greek presence in the Philippines is connected with Tim's claim that the 7,000 Philippines Islands are the two mythical islands of silver and gold, Argyre and Chryse. We will take a look at that lie next time. 

The God Culture: 100 Lies About The Philippines: #4 Filipinos Circumnavigated Africa

Welcome back to 100 lies The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns the claim that ancient Filipinos and Greeks were engaged in trade by circumnavigating Africa. This lie is so outrageous that I should not have to even point out its falsehood yet Timothy Jay Schwab insists that it is true so here we are. 

The lie that ancient Filipinos and Greeks circumnavigated Africa is alluded to but not explicitly detailed on page 136 of Tim's book The Search for King Solomon's Treasure. 

Solomon's Treasure, pg. 136

Even after Solomon, King Jehoshaphat attempted to rebuild and re-establish this trade with Ophir yet the ships were destroyed by Yahuah (1Ki. 22:48). Understand that is very close to the era in which the Northern Kingdom was about to be taken captive into the very land Jonah was preaching repentance and salvation. Therefore, Ophir had to bring goods to Israel instead which we see in Jonah’s story. The ships of Tarshish were certainly trading in Israel again travelling the long way around Africa to the port at Joppa (Jn. 1:1-3) as did the Three Kings after Messiah’s birth in about 6 B.C. or so.

This lie relies on the falsehood that the Philippines is Tarshish. According to Tim because the port on the Red Sea at Ezion-geber was destroyed now the only route to the Philippines was necessarily around Africa. So when Jonah took ship for Tarshish he was really going to the Philippines by circumnavigating Africa. At no point in The Search for King Solomon's Treasure does Timothy attempt to prove that Filipinos and Greeks were circumnavigating Africa. It would not be until two years later in a series of six videos that he attempts to prove this ridiculous claim. 

Out of all these videos only the first two, really only the second, gives any "proof" that Filipinos and Greeks were circumnavigating Africa to engage in trade. Videos 3, 4, and 5 deal with maps and video 6 deals with mythology. According to Tim Jason and the Argonauts as well as Ulysses sailed to the Philippines!

1:01:30 "At the edge of Oceanus Where God like Jason went." So, Jason and the Argonauts is a story that goes geographically at some point as far as the Philippines which means they circumnavigated Africa because they left from Greece and they didn't fly helicopters. Yes, the Greeks knew where it was and they traveled circumnavigating Africa to get there from very ancient times. And what it was indeed. I mean they knew. The Greeks knew where it was and what it was. Jason went to the land of gold in the Philippines where the sun rises and Oceanus ends. Boom! This is clear.

It all fits. It all ties and they had to circumnavigate Africa all these many times, okay? These characters, especially in the Odyssey and The Iliad, they're going there for physically in their ships even Jason and the Argonauts went to the Philippines. That's what it says.

Greek Oceanus World River and Rivers From Eden lead to the Philippines? Solomon's Gold Series 16F

It should not be surprising that not even in videos 1 and 2 does Tim give any concrete proof that Filipinos and Greeks were circumnavigating Africa to engage in trade. He offers zero archeological evidence to back up his claims. In fact in the first video Tim says he does not even need to prove this claim because the Bible says it.

2:52 This first video well set foundations specifically regarding biblical accounts where the Bible says ancients circumnavigated, they sailed around Africa as fact. The Bible is fact you know. If you don't believe that, well, don't call yourself a Bible scholar, uh, you know or a believer of the Bible. And yes it most definitely does no doubt say that. Uh, that will be our foundation.

17:58 Does the Bible come out and say it? You know the Bible doesn't come out and say a lot of things but when you see the beginning of the narrative and the end of the narrative it's obvious what happened.

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

According to Tim the Bible IMPLIES that the circumnavigation of Africa happened because that was the only way to get to Tarshish. But that assumes that the Philippines is Tarshish. It is not but that is a lie for another time. 

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.

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

Greek colonies in the Philippines?? Tim never mentions them again and never attempts to prove their existence. 

In video 2 we have the strongest historical proofs Tim can offer but they ultimately fail. At no point in this video does Tim offer any concrete tangible proof that Filipinos circumnavigated Africa. He cites Herodotus' story of Phoenicians circumnavigating Africa and says such a trip was possible. But that does not prove that Filipinos were circumnavigating Africa to trade with Greece and Israel for almost 1,000 years as he claims!

52:44 So Mela's talking about a route that the Greeks navigated. Yes, circumnavigating Africa for certain. That's what this is showing. This map documents that the Greeks circumnavigated Africa. Period. Even if you don't agree that those islands are the Philippines, which you really can't disagree with it, but even if you do you still have to conclude that the Greeks circumnavigated Africa. Done. I mean there wasn't even a canal built until 200 BC. Hello!? They were running this route from 800 to 150 BC. So duh. Now imagine that uh the 43 A.D mapping covers that whole era in fact. Now, that's evidence and it's indisputable evidence and again it proves that they circumnavigated Africa indeed successfully they brought back gold from Chryse. 

The 1st Century Mapping Mindset. Greece to Ophir, Philippines? Solomon's Gold Series 16C

What an incredible lie. Neither Mela's map nor any other ancient map shows Southern Africa or the Philippines which means the Greeks did not circumnavigate Africa. 

Surely the whole world would know about this route if it was being plied for so long. I mean who can keep a secret like that for hundreds of years? The fact that Herodotus expresses disbelief that the Phoenicians circumnavigated Africa and totally ignores that Greeks and Filipinos were circumnavigating Africa to trade ought to be enough to alert any student of history that this did not take place. But according to Timothy Jay Schwab the route was super top secret which is why no one knew about it.

29:45 The Greeks knew, uh, they knew how to sail to Chryse Ophir. They knew exactly where it was but why would the Greeks share their location for their land of gold so publicly while they're still going there? Hmm?? Think about that. The answer is easy. They wouldn't broadcast that. Oh, hello world here's where we go to get our gold. Oh, wait a minute you're all going there too? Oh I, I didn't mean for you to go I was just letting you know because I didn't think anybody would follow the route. Duh!

The 1st Century Mapping Mindset. Greece to Ophir, Philippines? Solomon's Gold Series 16C

Again, this is not proof. The reason no one knew about this route is not because it was top secret but because it was not being plied at all as all ancient maps show us NOTHING of Southern Africa or even the Philippines. Filipinos and Greeks were not circumnavigating Africa for 1,000 years to engage in trade. That is a ridiculous lie.

The God Culture: 100 Lies About The Philippines: #3 Queen City of the South

Welcome back to 100 lies The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns the nickname of Cebu City which is The Queen City of the South. Timothy Jay Schwab says no one knows how that moniker was bestowed upon Cebu City but as we shall see that is simply another lie.

This lie can be found on pages 87-88 of Timothy's book The Search for King Solomon's Treasure.

Solomon's Treasure, pg 87-88

Cebu City today is still known as the “Queen City of the South” and no one seems to coherently know where that identifier originated. Iloilo, Panay, also in Visayas near Cebu, has the same nomenclature. It likely originated in Matthew 12:42 as Messiah called Sheba the “Queen of the South” which is the same connotation of Cebu and Iloilo today (Matt. 12:42, Luke 11:30). Along the same vein, Sheba means 7 and Cebu just by chance happens to be in Region 7. Additionally, is it not fascinating that Lake Sebu in Mindanao has Seven Falls or Sheba Falls?

That is total nonsense and stems from Tim's false teaching that Cebu island is the Biblical land of Sheba. It is not. The biblical land of Sheba is in Southern Arabia likely Yemen. It is certainly not the island of Cebu which is half a world away from Israel. Cebu is also to the east of Israel and not to the south.

The origin of the nickname "Queen City of the South" is actually well known. It was first bestowed upon Ilolio by the Queen Regent of Spain. 

Due to the loyalty of the Ilonggos, the city of Iloilo was honored with the perpetual title of Muy Noble (Most Noble). The Royal Decree granting this title was signed on 1 March 1898 by Queen Regent Maria Cristina. Over time, this title earned for Iloilo City the reputation of it being "The Queen's Favored City in the South" or simply "Queen's City in the South", and was later evolve to "The Queen City of the South", being the second Spanish port of importance next to Manila, and being located South of the Archipelago's Capital. On a side note, at the beginning of the American period until the Second World War, Cebu became the second port of importance (Iloilo having been partly ravaged by bombardment, fire, and riots during the American occupation of Iloilo City).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iloilo_City#The_Revolutionary_Period_(1896)

During World War 2 Iloilo was destroyed and Cebu City then became a prominent port and surpassed Iloilo economically. It was then that Cebu City took the name of Queen City of the South. 

Iloilo City was originally known as the "Queen City of the South," a title that evolved from another Iloilo title, "Queen's Favored City of the South." From being the Queen Regent of Spain, Maria Christina's favorite city in the south of Manila in the late 19th century. Iloilo became the second-most important city in the Philippines at that time, giving it a reason to evolve to the title of "Queen City of the South" until the mid 20th century, after World War II, leaving the city devastated and causing investors to flee to nearby Cebu City. Cebu later claimed the title after it surpassed Iloilo's economy in the 80s. Although some people disagree with Cebu's claim since the title is of historical significance to Iloilo alone and not for which city is the next second-most important in the country

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

This paragraph has been deleted by a Wikipedia editor who claimed he was cleaning up unnecessary clutter on the Cebu City entry but you can read it at this link. 

If Timothy Jay Schwab had bothered to research the origin of the name Queen City of the South he would not have written something so dumb as to say the name originates in the Gospel of Matthew. It is a recent name applied only 40 years ago.  

The God Culture: 100 Lies About The Philippines: #2 Ferdinand Pinto Located The Philippines at 9N20

Welcome back to 100 lies The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns Ferdinand Pinto's shipwreck on the Lequios islands. Timothy Jay Schwab claims that Pinto located the Lequios islands at coordinates that match the Philippines and concludes that the Philippine islands are the Lequios islands. But as we shall see that is a lie. 

This lie can be found on page 163 of  Timothy Jay Schwab's book The Search for King Solomon's Treasure. 

Solomon's Treasure, pg. 163

Contemporary to Magellan, Ferdinand Pinto classified the Lequios and Chinese as the wealthiest in the Orient trading in gold and silver especially. He defines the Lequios Islands as an archipelago, not Taiwan, as well as a separate country. He also differentiates the Lequios as not Japan, China, Indonesia nor Malaysia but in between those. Pinto also travelled to the Lequios Islands from Malaysia headed North which he placed in the modern Philippines specifically on 9N20.  

Tim's source for this claim is J.G. Cheock's book Phoenicians in the land of Gold. 

Take note that Tim is citing Cheock who is citing Rebecca Catz's translation of The Travels of Mendes Pinto. Why didn't Tim cut out the middle man and cite Rebecca Catz directly? Also take note that there is no page number given for Cheock's citation of Catz. In her book it looks like this:

Cheock claims Rebecca Catz is where she got Pinto locating the Leqouis Islands at 9N20. What is 9N20 anyway? 9 is a northern latitude but what is 20? Longitude? Which direction? East or West? On its face 9N20 is gibberish and not coordinates at all.

The fact is 9N20 does not appear anywhere in Catz's translation whatsoever.  Here is what her translation actually says:

page 1,291 of epub

“This Ryukyu island is situated at twenty-nine degrees latitude.”

Excerpt From: Fernão Mendes Pinto. “The Travels of Mendes Pinto.” Apple Books. 

That's right. Along with everyone else in the world Rebecca Catz identifies the Lequios Islands with the Ryukyu Islands which are off the coast of Japan going towards China. Now let's take a look at the first English edition of Pinto's Travels and see what it says. 

In this manner we departed from Pungor the capital City of the Island of Lequios, of which I will here make a brief relation, to the end that if it shall one day please God to inspire the Portugal Nation, principally for the exaltation and increase of the Catholick faith, and next for the great benefit that may redound thereof, to undertake the Conquest of this Island, they may know where first to begin, as also the commodities of it, and the easiness of this Conquest. We must understand then that this Island of Lequios, scituated in nine and twenty degrees, is two hundred leagues in circuit, threescore in length, and thirty in bredth.

Pinto, pg. 188

Here we see that he locates the Leqouis Islands at nine and twenty degrees! Somehow nine and twenty became 9 N 20 and now this mistake is being passed off as truth by Timothy Jay Schwab and J.G. Cheock. This first edition English translation of 1663 has this story which Cheock claims was too outrageous to be included and so was censored!

Explorer and writer Ferdinand Mendes Pinto who travelled in service to the Portugese crown and in association with the Jesuit Missionaries, recounted in his journal, how he had been shipwrecked on the island of Lequois while passing through the Malay Archipelago. He described the Lequios as a land belonging to a large group of islands that had abundant resources of gold and silver. In his journal he had the audacity to give details on Lequois, putting it in the latitude of 9N20 on a meridian similar to that of Japan. Given these directions, Lequois would be at the very heart of the Philippines. The story of his shipwreck on Lequios was deemed so outrageous that it was omitted from his book when it was first published.

Phoenicians in the Lands of Gold, pg. 11

J.G. Cheock is wrong and Tim is wrong because he cites her. If The God Culture were an actual group of researchers and not just one man it is doubtful this mistake would have been made. Surely someone on the team would have gone looking for the original source rather than rely on a second hand citation. But Tim is on record saying it does not matter if he cites sources secondhand because they always say what he claims they say. 

https://youtu.be/EscrM4o-h4M

17:18 However a Pharisee looks at that and scoffs. "Heh! Well you could have used a better source. Why is your font so small on that screen? That one quote doesn't say that!" Though it always does say exactly what we represent by the way because it always vets, every single challenge has. "That map that shows those islands southeast of China's not really showing southeast of China. That's, well, India." Huh? No it's southeast of China. That's what the maps shows, duh. "And that map, and that map, and those directions, and those directions, and aww that font should be larger and yaw you should have quoted that differently, and..." 

I mean that's the kind of stuff that you get for going out, stepping out on a limb, and doing the research and telling people what is truth. And we prove it.  Those same people don't even bother to actually review the whole case. No. No, no. They'll watch one brief video or a few brief videos and then go and just ramble on and on and on.  And they are absolutely ignorant.  They don't even know what we prove, what we don't prove but all along they'll say "Ah see you didn't prove that." Well how will you know what we prove? You didn't even review the case. But it doesn't matter because it's not their point. They throw it all out in ignorance, haven't even reviewed the case yet they know because they know what we're going to prove because they have what basis? Absolutely none.  

"You used a font too small! Throw it out!"  Really? "You quoted a secondary source citing the original" oh which happens to be true and in representation actually match the original? Duh! I mean could you be more ridiculous? Yet we get all of this.

As you can see Tim did not step out and do any research when it comes to Ferdinand Pinto's locating the Leqouis Islands. Instead he relies on Cheock and he gets it wrong and now this lie is a part of his "monumental case for the Philippines no one can disprove." This is why primary sources are imperative. He would know that if he was a real researcher but Timothy Jay Schwab is no researcher. He is a propagandist.

Tim makes this same claim about Pinto locating the Lequios islands at 9N20 in a video where he gives a source very different from J.G. Cheock. 

Clue#25: Philippines is Ophir: Magellan, Pinto, Barbosa, King of Spain, Cabot KNEW - Ophir, Tarshish

6:15 Pinto even goes as far as to give the exact location latitude of the main Lequios Island as modern-day Luzon Philippines in fact if you follow his directions exactly and we'll do that later you will end up in Northwest Luzon or Ilocos specifically

The source here is ancientphilippines.blogspot.com. He also has a very long citation as if he were actually citing page 262 of the 1663 English translation of Pinto's Travels but he is definitely not citing it. That citation is not to be found on the ancientphilippines blog site. As I showed above on page 188 Pinto locates the Lequios Islands at a latitude of 29 North. It just goes to show that accurately citing primary sources is very important. 

So where exactly do the coordinates 9N20 put you anyway?

9N20

Central Africa! That's a long way from the Philippines.