<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Sailing the Black Current: New book explores the hidden legacy of ancient argonauts</b>
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Sailing the Black Current: Secret History of Ancient Philippine Argonauts in Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Beyond
by Paul Kekai Manansala.
Long ago, beginning in the New Stone Age, a people that included the ancestors of the Malayo-Polynesian people, known as the Nusantao, spread news of the world's center to the far reaches of the globe.
A great churning of the ocean, a major volcanic eruption had left clues convincing these ancient navigators that they had discovered the axis mundi, the link between
the three worlds of old mythology.
Author Paul Kekai Manansala searched deep into arcane archives, museums and other repositories to uncover the mysteries of these ancient argonauts.
From page 7 of "Sailing the Black Current: Secret History of Ancient Philippine Argonauts in Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Beyond":
"For the Nusantao, though, the sea was part of their second nature. Their entire region had been subject to sea flooding for thousands of years before they set up their trade networks across the region.<b> During that time, islands and nearly the entire continent known as Sundaland became submerged under rising sea levels.</b>
"Migration by sea became a forced habit, and many of the people including the Nusantao often took to living on their boats permanently. They lived largely off the sea through fishing, shellfish collecting and sea mammal hunting.
"Among the modern cultural descendants of the Nusantao, the so-called 'Sea Gypsies,- it is often customary to cast a newly born baby into the sea. The salty baptism not only teaches the baby to swim but also accustoms the skin and eyes to the brine at the earliest age.
"Rending of lands into islands by rising seas certainly caused the separation of families and clans. <b>The evidence suggests that these clans stayed in touch despite the distances and obstacles that separated them."</b>
The new book can be found at the following URL on amazon.com:
"Sailing the Black Current: Secret History of Ancient Philippine Argonauts in Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Beyond"
http://www.amazon.com/Sailing-Black-Curren...s/dp/1419676970<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Sailing the Black Current: Secret History of Ancient Philippine Argonauts in Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Beyond
by Paul Kekai Manansala.
Long ago, beginning in the New Stone Age, a people that included the ancestors of the Malayo-Polynesian people, known as the Nusantao, spread news of the world's center to the far reaches of the globe.
A great churning of the ocean, a major volcanic eruption had left clues convincing these ancient navigators that they had discovered the axis mundi, the link between
the three worlds of old mythology.
Author Paul Kekai Manansala searched deep into arcane archives, museums and other repositories to uncover the mysteries of these ancient argonauts.
From page 7 of "Sailing the Black Current: Secret History of Ancient Philippine Argonauts in Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Beyond":
"For the Nusantao, though, the sea was part of their second nature. Their entire region had been subject to sea flooding for thousands of years before they set up their trade networks across the region.<b> During that time, islands and nearly the entire continent known as Sundaland became submerged under rising sea levels.</b>
"Migration by sea became a forced habit, and many of the people including the Nusantao often took to living on their boats permanently. They lived largely off the sea through fishing, shellfish collecting and sea mammal hunting.
"Among the modern cultural descendants of the Nusantao, the so-called 'Sea Gypsies,- it is often customary to cast a newly born baby into the sea. The salty baptism not only teaches the baby to swim but also accustoms the skin and eyes to the brine at the earliest age.
"Rending of lands into islands by rising seas certainly caused the separation of families and clans. <b>The evidence suggests that these clans stayed in touch despite the distances and obstacles that separated them."</b>
The new book can be found at the following URL on amazon.com:
"Sailing the Black Current: Secret History of Ancient Philippine Argonauts in Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Beyond"
http://www.amazon.com/Sailing-Black-Curren...s/dp/1419676970<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->