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🪶 THE SMOKING QUILL | May 19, 2025

Cartographers of Control – How the Jesuits Buried the Lands of Gold

🌍 The Realignment Begins

The sixteenth century was a battleground of maps, monarchs, and missionaries. At the center of this struggle was a secret campaign to rewrite the known geography of the world. Today, we follow the smoking quill back to its hand—and it belongs to the Jesuits.

⚫ Who Were the Jesuits?

Formed in 1540 by Ignatius of Loyola, the Society of Jesus was initially created to counter the Protestant Reformation. Its members were militant intellectuals, deeply tied to Catholic monarchs and embassies. Many came from converso Jewish families, including Loyola himself, a Marrano by origin. They wielded not just theology, but political and cartographic power—becoming confessors to kings and educators to empires.

🔍 Rewriting History with Ink

As Jesuit missionaries spread across the East, a shift occurred. The Philippines, once labeled as Cipangu and Lequios by explorers like Columbus, Behaim, Magellan, and Cabot, suddenly began to vanish from those identities. Instead, Jesuit accounts moved these legendary lands of gold—Cipangu and Lequios—into Japan and Ryukyu.

🌐 Key Jesuit Figures:

  • Ignatius of Loyola – Founder, Marrano, mystic, and militant.

  • Francis Xavier – First Jesuit missionary to Asia.

  • Fernão Mendes Pinto – Jesuit-linked explorer whose journal was reinterpreted and misquoted.

  • Matteo Ricci – Jesuit cartographer and ambassador in China.

  • Giovanni Pietro Maffei – Chronicler who misassigned Cipangu and Lequios to Japan.

  • Jorge Mario Bergoglio – First Jesuit Pope.
Ignatius Loyola
Ignatius Loyola, Founder
Francis Xavier

Francis Xavier
Fernão Mendes Pinto

Fernão Mendes Pinto
Matteo Ricci

Matteo Ricci
Giovanni Pietro Maffei

Giovanni Pietro Maffei

Jorge Mario Bergoglio

Jorge Mario Bergoglio

Jorge Mario Bergoglio

🗌 Maps Manipulated: A Trail of Evidence

Despite the shift in Jesuit writings, the maps tell a different story—until the Jesuits consolidated control.

Before the Shift:

  • Behaim Globe (1492): Cipangu plotted as Luzon, Philippines, NOT Japan.

  • Cantino Map (1502): Lequios labeled in Luzon region, NOT Japan.

  • Santa Cruz Map (1539): Luquios shown as Philippines, NOT Japan.
1492 Behaim Globe
1502 Cantino Planisphere
1539 Sanata Cruz Map

Jesuit-Aligned Shift Begins:

  • Ricci's Chinese Map (1602): Cipangu moves eastward.

  • Ortelius (1589): Pushes Lequios into Ryukyu following Jesuit-led academia. Then, later corrects the position to Batanes and Luzon under Spanish employ.

  • After this many maps would express the Jesuit manipulation in an unbelievable lack of information.
1589 Ortelius Maris Pacifici Map
1602 Matteo Ricci Map

Brief Restoration (Jesuits in Exile):

  • Spanish-British Map (1794): Labels Lequios River in Cagayan.

  • Zatta Map (1799): "Five Isles" west of Batanes, memorializing Pinto.
1794 Spanish-British Map
1799 Venetian Map

⚖️ The Suppression of Truth

The Jesuits were expelled from multiple nations between the 17th and 18th centuries—Portugal (1759), France (1764), and Spain (1767). Why? Treason, espionage, and banking intrigue. Even U.S. Founding Fathers John Adams and Thomas Jefferson warned that if the Jesuits were restored, they would put democracy itself to the test.

When they returned, so did the suppression. Map labels vanished. Cipangu became Japan. Lequios floated to Okinawa. Only this time, they would move to silence opposition. 

🕹️ Clarifying “Zipangu” vs. “Rìběn” (Japan)

"Zipangu" (自盤古) is not the Chinese "Rìběn" (日本, Japan). It never appears in Chinese texts as Zipangu for Japan. The Grand Khan called Japan "Rìběn," even writing a letter to the King of Rìběn delivered to Japan, never Zipangu. And the earliest known uses of the name "Japan" (Giapan) in Western texts only appear in the late 16th century. Zipangu is consistently mapped on ancient maps from 1154 to 1744 as Luzon Island Philippines, not Japan. 

The real etymology for Zipangu leads to the Land of Creation as Pangu, the creator, became the land where he created. That would also fit the Philippines.

“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.”

“Zì (Mandarin: 自): self, oneself, from, since, naturally, surely”
“Zì (Mandarin: 子): son, child, seed, egg, small thing, 昀椀rst earthly branch”

[Read Garden of Eden Revealed: The Book of Maps] 

🌐 Wikipedia Exposed:

Even the current Wikipedia in their "Names of Japan" article cites 3 maps showing Cipangu as Luzon, NOT Japan. These include:

  • Fra Mauro Map (1548): Cipangu north of Java Major (Borneo). That is called the Philippines, not Japan!

  • Behaim Globe (1492): Cipangu plotted as Luzon. That is called the Philippines, not Japan!

  • Sebastian Munster (1561): Zipangri amidst 7,000+ isles—clearly the Philippines. That is called the Philippines, not Japan!

  • Why would one write an article and support it with maps that lead to another country? It is a mindset of Colonial bias which remains willingly ignorant to the degree that they simply cannot see such plain truths. They accept the Jesuit narrative passed down in consensus. Illiterate consensus even on a mass scale remains illiteracy. One would think such an editor would have to be able to at least be able to read a map. Not in this case.

1548 Fra Mauro Map
1492 Martin Behaim Globe
1561 Sebastian Munster Map

📣 Conclusion: The Cartographers of Control

The Society of Jesus did not merely bring religion—they redrew borders, erased truths, and buried the lands of gold under layers of false narrative. This is why the Philippines disappeared from its ancient legacy as Chryse, Ophir, Tarshish, Lequios, and Cipangu.

#SmokingQuill #JesuitSuppression #CipanguIsPhilippines #LequiosLegacy #CartographicColonialism #BiblicalGeography


🌎 "Maps don’t lie. But men with ink do." – The Smoking Quill
ADDITION:

🗺️ A Colonial Trail of Tears
The visual record of how truth was displaced, overwritten, and erased.

🎉 “The maps were never lost… only silenced. Now, the silenced speak.”
1502 Cantino Map

Cantino World Map

1502 

[See above]

Lequios of Zambales at 17N. Affirmed within.

1512 Francisco Rodrigues' Sketches

Jorge Reinel/Rodriguez Chart 

1512

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"The Main Island of Lequios" is charted and noted geographically near Luzon, not near Okinawa.
1527 Diogo Ribeiro Map

Diogo Ribeiro Map

1527

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Locates Lequios near Luzon, reinforcing the Philippines as the center of early Southeast Asian trade routes.
1535 Penrose Chart

Anonymous Penrose Chart

1535

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Lequios plotted between 17°–20° North Latitude, matching Northern Philippines, not Okinawa.

1539 Santa Cruz SPanish Government Map

Santa Cruz Map

1539 

[See above]

SPANISH GOVERNMENT MAP! Luquios as Luzon, Philippines With Visayas and Mindanao Charted With It.

 
1544 Sebastian Cabot Map

Sebastian Cabot Map

1544

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Cabot's 'Canal of Lequios' flows into the West Philippine Sea, cementing Lequios’ geographic tie to the Philippines. 10-15N.
1554 Lopo Homem Map

Lopo Homem Planisphere

1554

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Colonial Propaganda Begins! Homem still places Lequios closer to the Philippines; later maps begin shifting it northward under colonial reinterpretations.
1561 Giacomo Gastaldi Map

Giacomo Gastaldi

1561

Lequios Canal continues to be recognized near Palawan, and labels North Luzon as "Cangu", the likely Zipangu of Marco Polo.
1587 Urbano Monte Map

Italian Urbano Monti Map

1587 

Canal route for major trade between Palawan and Borneo still referenced where Lequios Canal is on previous maps.

 
1589 Maris Pacifici Ortelius Map

Spanish Maris Pacifici: Abraham Ortelius

1589

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Ortelius’ 1589 map silently reversed Portuguese propaganda by restoring the Philippines’ true heritage.
1613 Honsius Globe

Dutch Globe

1613

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Flemish and Dutch engraver and cartographer preserves Batanes as Pintos' location for Lequios while bending to Colonial pressure for Ryukyu.
1659 Dutch Map

Dutch Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula

1659

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Dutch Mapmaker Joan Blaeu maintains Batanes as Pinto's Lequios also offering the new Colonial bias of Ryukyu which fails.

1587 Urbano Monte Map

French Map

1752 

Just west of the Bashee Isles (Batanes), the map boldly labels:

“Les 5 Isles” — The Five Islands

Relating the legend from Pinto's shipreck with Batanes as Lequios.

 
1794 Spanish-British Map

Spanish-British Map

1794

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Lequios River, Batanes as Pinto's Shipwreck, Five Isles, and the Final Blow to Ryukyu Theory.
1799 Italian Map Lequios River, Pinto Account

Italian Map

1799

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Pinto's legend of The 5 Isles appears West of Batanes, as Lequios.
1589 Maris Pacifici: Abraham Ortelius

🪶 “History didn’t just speak — it sang… and the world finally listened.”
“The final page wasn’t colonial ink — it was joy, justice, and memory.”

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