Maharlikan Chronicles Issue #1

by Arthur Soriano, Faye Villanueva (Illustrator)

"Academics don't consider oral traditions as history. In Maharlikan Chronicles, we use the words of our ancestors and new archaeological and genetic discoveries to update and fill in the gaps that historians neglected or did not have access to.

Issue #1 is all history, science and oral tradition. It begins with the discovery of archaic human life 709,000 years ago and introduces the Igorots who are the base for most Philippine peoples culture and heritage. Because of genetic discoveries, we now know that the Igorots are the ancestors of most Austronesian peoples.

This issue features the oral tradition of Apo Anno and Ibn Battuta's written history of Urduja, the warrior princess, claimed by the Ibaloi tribe and known among the people from the "place for salt", Pangasinan.

Maharlikan Chronicles is the best beginning or "genesis" of Philippine History."

32 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

Reviews

[Reader · Rating 5 out of 5]

Maharlikan Chronicles #1 is 100% Precolonial Philippine History. The book is hand illustrated, edited and printed in the Philippines, but also printed in the USA. Great launch pad for Filipinos who want to read little known, but extraordinary facts about their heritage.

[Alyssa Chandonnet · Rating 3 out of 5]

part history book, part comic. it's definitely different and not like most comics from the way it's written to the art style.