The Smoking Quill | May 27, 2025
EXPLOSIVE NEW SERIES
THE SMOKING QUILL
Torch the Fog. Reclaim the Truth.
Purpose: To systematically document and expose examples of entrenched colonial bias in academic literature, historiography, archaeology, linguistics, theology, and geography. This new series will provide evidence of omission, redirection, or reinterpretation that favors Western paradigms while suppressing alternative, often indigenous or Eastern, understandings.
The Smoking Quill | May 28, 2025
Pinto’s Five Isles & the Bifurcated Island: Smoking Maps of Northern Luzon
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The Smoking Quill | May 23, 2025
The Final Blow: Why Ryukyu Was Never Lequios, Ophir, or Zipangu
The Smoking Quill | May 24, 2025
PART 1: Beyond the Mist: Unmasking the True Identity of the Lequios in Pinto’s Journal
The Smoking Quill | May 25, 2025
PART 2: Volume I Vindication: The Forgotten Lequios of Luzon
The Smoking Quill | May 26, 2025
Mistranslated and Misplaced: How Jesuit Edits and Catz’s Translation Obscured Pinto’s True Lequios
The Smoking Quill | May 19, 2025
Cartographers of Control – How the Jesuits Buried the Lands of Gold
🌍 The Realignment Begins
The Smoking Quill | May 20, 2025
The Governor Who Rewrote Ophir — Jesuit Manipulation in a 1630 Atlas
The Smoking Quill | May 21, 2025
The Chronicler and the Lequii: Pigafetta's Unedited Geography
🔸 "Luék, sao mi ditoy.”
The Ilokano voice was clear: Lequios is us. Historians just weren’t
listening.
The Smoking Quill | May 22, 2025
175 Leagues to Luzon —
Barbosa’s True Lequios Exposed
A Note That Changes Everything!
The Smoking Quill | May 15, 2025
Venetian Map Confirms Pinto’s Lequios Were the Philippines
Date: 1799
Cartographer: Antonio Zatta
Map Title: Indie Orientali di Qua e di Là dal Gange col Loro Arcipelago
The Smoking Quill | May 16,2025
The French Knew Too: “Les 5 Isles” West of Bashee = Pinto’s Lequios
The Smoking Quill | May 17, 2025
Finding Pinto — The Five Isles That Never Moved
The Smoking Quill | May 18, 2025
The Bifurcated Island of Luzon: Lequios and Lucoes Rediscovered
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The Smoking Quill | May 11, 2025
Pinto, the Typhoon, and the Blogger Who Can’t Read Current Events [Literally... Pun intended]
The Smoking Quill | May 12, 2025
From Malacca to Luzon: The Trail of Gold According to Mafra, Doc 98… and Mendoza’s Final Nail
The Smoking Quill | May 13, 2025
The Proper Way to Read Pinto’s Account: Validated by an 18th-Century Spanish-British Map
Lequios River, Five Isles, and the Final Blow to Ryukyu Theory
The Smoking Quill | May 14, 2025
The Lequios of Sambalas — Exposing the 1502 Cantino Map’s Forgotten Truth
The Oldest Surviving Map with Portuguese Notation Names Luzon as Lequios—Long Before the Colonial Switch to Ryukyu.
The Smoking Quill | May 7, 2025
Another Lequios Exposé :
Spanish Government Corrects Portuguese Propaganda: Restoring Lequios to the Philippines
The Smoking Quill | May 8, 2025
Pinto’s Lequios Were Not Ryukyuan: The Ships That Tell the Truth
“If the junk don’t fit… you must acquit."
My SHIPS don't lie!
The Smoking Quill | May 9, 2025
Pinto’s Resource Test: The Five Great Islands Were Never Ryukyu
What Would Crocodile Dundee Say? “That's not an Archipelago (Ryukyu)… This is an Archipelago! (Philippines)"
The Smoking Quill | May 10, 2025
Lequios Was Never Ryukyu: 15 Tests. 15 Failures.
“Survey says… Ryukyu ain't it!"
The Smoking Quill | May 3, 2025
Correcting Tomé Pires in his Own Words: Lequios Located in the Philippines, Not Ryukyu
Ryukyu is not next to Palawan!
The Smoking Quill | May 4, 2025
Testing Pinto’s Accuracy: A Further Geographic Reassessment of Lequios, Lucones, and Latitude Drift
The Smoking Quill | May 5, 2025
Correcting Cortesão & Lopo Homem: Colonial Remapping the Lequios Isles
The Smoking Quill | May 6, 2025
Another Lequios Exposé :
🔥 “Ilha de Fuego” Was Not in Ryukyu: Etymology, Geography & Pinto’s Real Island of Fire
The Smoking Quill | April 29, 2025
Forgotten No More: Barbosa, Magellan, and the Gold Route of the Lequios to the Philippines
The Smoking Quill | April 30, 2025
The Lequios Illusion — A Colonial Cartographic Misdirection
The Smoking Quill | May 1, 2025
From Seville With Gold — Barbosa, Magellan, and the Suppressed Identification of Ophir. 1915 French Journal Reveals the Untold History
The Smoking Quill | May 2, 2025
Rebranding Ophir: The British Colonial Cartographic Coup
The Smoking Quill | April 25, 2025
DOES WIKIPEDIA HATE FILIPINOS?
The Smoking Quill | April 26, 2025
Case Study: Luquios = Philippines
Primary Source Evidence from the Spanish Crown's Official Cartographer
The Smoking Quill | April 27, 2025
Galvão’s Maritime Flow: The True Geography of Ophir, Lequios, and Japonês: Pinto Shipwrecked in the Lequios Islands Philippines
The Smoking Quill | April 28, 2025