Antigong burial jar na naglalaman ng mga buto ng tao at gintong hikaw, nakuha habang naghuhukay para sa ipinapagawang septic tank sa Guiuan, Eastern Samar.
Saan nga ba nanggaling ang pinaniniwalaang yaman na nahukay sa ginagawang poso-negro o septic tank?
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00:00 [Music]
00:02 In a house in Eastern Samar, there is a septic tank that is being used.
00:08 It is said that there are rich people who have new ideas about our history.
00:17 What are these?
00:19 While they are using the septic tank to make black holes in the town of Giwan in Eastern Samar,
00:27 the forms of septic tank, which are made of noidjud and fluoro, were hit by an ancient flood.
00:36 It was 15 cm high.
00:38 The flood was the one that hit it.
00:40 It was about two and a half blocks high.
00:42 They carefully took it.
00:45 We didn't lift it up. We just laid it on the ground.
00:48 Then we removed the ground.
00:50 But the flood suddenly broke.
00:57 And their eyes got bigger when the flood hit.
01:00 There was something hard.
01:03 We saw the human bones there.
01:05 We were shocked.
01:07 And they were exposed to other things.
01:11 When we were removing the bones, we saw two skulls.
01:16 It was like gold.
01:18 It was just a skull.
01:20 It was inside a big river.
01:21 The small river was full of sand because there was no cover.
01:24 The river had a side tree.
01:26 It was like a house.
01:27 It was like antique.
01:29 What will these rich people say about our history?
01:35 The rich people who were shocked
01:43 immediately informed the landowner, Rika Mel.
01:49 I was scared because the landslide was real.
01:52 I thought that it was a burial ground.
01:56 Rika Mel cleaned the bones
01:59 until the design of the bones came out.
02:03 It was brown with waves.
02:05 It was also colorful.
02:07 It had flowers.
02:09 It had a Chinese character.
02:13 Rika Mel remembered that in the 80s,
02:17 she hired treasure hunters
02:20 to dig for the buried rich people.
02:25 I thought that it might have historical value.
02:28 This street, when I was in elementary school,
02:31 there were antique diggers here.
02:34 The diggers were in front of our house.
02:37 There were plates, plates, and spoons.
02:40 Sometimes, they would dig for gold.
02:42 The tools that were used to dig in Bayanang Giwan
02:45 were believed to be from the Portuguese.
02:49 Like the explorer, Magellan,
02:52 in the island of Homonhon,
02:54 which was also part of Bayanang Giwan in 1521.
02:58 We will know that there were civilizations.
03:00 They had boats and different social classes.
03:04 They had boats.
03:06 They traded with China and several other places.
03:10 One of the oldest settlements in Giwan
03:14 is Butak,
03:16 which means "crack".
03:20 It was the center of the people's residence.
03:24 That's where the missionaries went.
03:26 That's where they built the church.
03:28 That's where the dead people were buried.
03:32 Butak is now the residence of Barangay 12,
03:36 where the remains of the people who were under the care of Rika Mel are now buried.
03:41 One of the people who used to dig in Butak
03:44 was resident Judy.
03:46 I joined the digging because I was small.
03:49 I could climb up to the bottom.
03:51 I saw different kinds of jar lids,
03:54 porcelain, and glass.
03:56 Elena was blessed by her grandmother with the tools.
04:00 She was also blessed with a lot of tools from their barangay.
04:03 One bandehado, two platitos,
04:06 and a book that reads "China" on the back.
04:10 It's been more than 100 years.
04:14 I'm 62 years old.
04:15 They told me to be careful because I can't find such things anymore.
04:19 These tools are expensive.
04:21 No one reported it.
04:22 Now, with the age of information,
04:25 with social media,
04:26 with mainstream media,
04:27 people know that physical evidence is important
04:31 to build the story of the country.
04:33 Meanwhile, our team learned that
04:36 the land that Rika Mel now owns
04:39 is just a few of the places that were not moved
04:42 by the treasure hunters in the 1980s.
04:45 This is the land that is not yet dug
04:48 because someone lived here.
04:50 He didn't agree.
04:51 His house will be separated if he digs.
04:54 The former landowner, Salvador,
04:57 was very happy about it.
04:59 I was there for 8 or 7 years.
05:01 They built something there.
05:03 My brother said that he remembered that there was a cave.
05:06 There were a lot of caves there.
05:08 They remember that there is a kind of monument
05:12 that was built on the land.
05:14 This monument is the only possible wood
05:19 that was dug in the land of Rika Mel.
05:21 But where did the wealth of the people
05:25 who were digging the black hole or septic tank come from?
05:29 The news that there are people who have dug
05:33 and wasted their tools
05:35 reached the local government of Giwan.
05:38 We conducted documentation.
05:42 These kinds of artifacts are physical evidences
05:46 that can give us a deeper story
05:49 about our country
05:51 and not just our country, but the whole Philippines.
05:54 The artifacts in Rika Mel's land
05:57 are considered valuable finds
06:00 because the dug-up river is a glazed burial jar
06:04 dating back to the 1200s or Yuan era.
06:08 But it was built only during the Spanish
06:11 or after 1521.
06:15 It is covered with rivers that were displayed then.
06:18 in the Samar Archaeological Museum.
06:21 This is the oldest artifacts of the Hokkai in Samar.
06:26 It could be dated to the 1590s
06:29 when Christianity adopted the land of Butak.
06:33 The Spanish were making jars for looting.
06:38 They were taking the jars where people were being locked up.
06:42 The owners of the jars were being locked up.
06:45 The safest place for them was a cemetery burial.
06:49 There is also a "Gintong Hikaw"
06:52 It's part of our belief system
06:54 that if you die, your soul needs to bring gold.
06:59 In the other world,
07:01 the San Pedro,
07:03 you are not allowed to cross the sea or river
07:06 to go to the promised land if you don't have gold.
07:09 Aside from the old artifacts,
07:11 this also includes human bones.
07:15 Our ancestors had this what we call
07:18 secondary burial practice.
07:20 After 5 years,
07:21 the bones were retrieved from the graves
07:24 and placed in jars.
07:26 The bones were placed
07:28 and then they were tied in some sacred caves for them.
07:32 The bones were possibly taken from the body of a child.
07:37 It was small,
07:38 it was a child.
07:40 The bones were tied to the ribs and the feet.
07:44 Inside the big jar,
07:46 there was a smaller jar
07:48 that we call "Celadon Jarlet"
07:51 that was believed to be the place of the bones.
07:55 Throughout the history of the burial jars,
07:58 or the burial of our country's bones,
08:01 they believed that a person has a spirit when he dies
08:07 and there is life after death.
08:09 Then they pray.
08:11 And a burial jar includes the remains
08:16 because it is believed that when you die,
08:19 there is afterlife,
08:21 you will be alive again.
08:22 You will use all of these.
08:25 The bones, along with the bones and wood,
08:29 were brought to Giwan Museum.
08:31 I also talked to the family.
08:33 I explained to the family
08:34 what the significance of the artifacts is
08:37 and why we need to bring it to the museum for safeguarding.
08:41 Giwan Museum is not yet open
08:44 because we are still fixing the exhibition area.
08:46 Although the space is secured,
08:48 it is closed.
08:49 And then we make sure that they are placed in proper containers.
08:53 While the Celadon Jarlet and Gold Hoops,
08:58 were left to Rica Mel.
09:00 I want to display it here at home.
09:02 We don't have a plan to sell it.
09:04 According to RA 10066,
09:07 or the National Cultural Heritage Act of 2009,
09:10 if we find such cultural properties or archaeological finds,
09:17 especially if we see that it came from the pre-colonial period,
09:22 we will report it to the authority.
09:25 The local government of Giwan
09:27 also submitted a report to the National Museum
09:30 and to the NCCA or the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
09:35 We tried to get them a statement,
09:38 but they did not respond.
09:40 And this Wednesday,
09:42 Rica Mel received a message.
09:44 We received an email from NCCA
09:47 to surrender the artifacts that were stolen
09:51 and the ones that were left.
09:53 We considered if we will receive credits or incentives
09:59 from the NCCA or the LGU.
10:02 We will not coordinate.
10:04 According to RA 10066,
10:06 there are incentives that the state can give to the finders.
10:12 The National Museum is authorized to talk to the finders
10:17 about the incentives.
10:19 When it comes to excavations,
10:21 the National Museum is the only one allowed to conduct.
10:24 The request of the local government unit of Giwan
10:28 is to conduct an IEC or Information and Education Campaign
10:33 for the residents of Giwan
10:35 about the law
10:37 to avoid what happened in the 1980s
10:40 when treasure hunting was rampant.
10:43 Because when these artifacts are sold to private collectors,
10:47 we are stealing the opportunity to study our own history.
10:52 Under our soil, how many more riches of our history
10:58 are waiting to be discovered?
11:01 I hope that the next generations will be able to see it.
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