The Philippine National Gold Treasures
Published by: Eron of Talk Loud | Dated: 18th of June, 2008Last week I just watched a Probe TV special regarding our gold treasures entitled “Gintong Pamana.” I will just recap some of it. It all started when a man working as an operator of a bulldozer suddenly bumped into a metallic item. He didn’t know that the metallic item is gold until he pours some muriatic acid and analyzed it.
So the story began there. On that time many of the old town folks are now longing to have one. They continue to dig in the area just to find some gold and get the same fate as with the first gold discoverer. Ok, now all the lucky ones got gold. It is a treasure but still it is part of our history. These gold relics are crafted hundreds of years ago or even thousands. We have the responsibilities to protect it and not to use it on our own sake but for the sake of our future generations.
Why am I saying this? I’ll give an example; the Chinese government protected their treasures very carefully. They even built a National Museum for all of their national treasures. From scriptures, papers, artworks to fragile items like glass jars. All of these are well protected and not getting any damage. They even have people to maintain its original form. Their government does give out budget for their history. But why our gold relics are not the same as it looks before? Parts were cut out, lost and torn apart. And the hard part is that our government did not even think of ways to preserve these. Good thing that the Ayala together with their partners are the ones who did it, a non government party. They placed these gold relics inside Ayala Museum to give the public the opportunity to see it. My question is this, are there still relics from our history that are not being saved due to the irresponsible acts of other people and our government? Let us just hope that this be the last of it.
For all who did not have the chance to watch the special episode of Probe TV, here are the videos.
- Gintong Pamana part 1 of 8
- Gintong Pamana part 2 of 8
- Gintong Pamana part 3 of 8
- Gintong Pamana part 4 of 8
- Gintong Pamana part 5 of 8
- Gintong Pamana part 6 of 8
- Gintong Pamana part 7 of 8
- Gintong Pamana part 8 of 8
I like the national treasures of the Philippines it had and this Gintong Pamana is one of my favorite especially when I’ve watched it on Probe also… I’d realized that it was really a Pinoy art. =)
I have seen the episode. It is so great that we have our own set of national treasures. Too bad that a lot of it got lost… Sold cheaply. They just haven’t realized that what they found was a national treasure…
the real treasure are those people who work hard, working abroad leaving thiers love ones and family. chin up and be proud to all nation that we OFW are true treasures….. imagine we doing a million of dollars remittance to our country, so now think about it are you not consider yourself the real treasure, we are the growing treasures….