Was Fernao Mendes Pinto shipwrecked in Ryukyu? Or has history been misidentified? Finding Pinto 4

Return of the Lequios Part 8.

Was Fernao Mendes Pinto shipwrecked in Ryukyu? Or has history misidentified his "Ilha de Fuego" — the Island of Fire?

Modern academia clings to Ryukyu as the setting for Pinto’s legendary account of the Lequios, but they’ve failed to test the text. In this video, we dismantle the Ryukyu theory with real linguistic, geographic, and historical analysis — and we prove that Pinto’s real Island of Fire was in the northern Philippines — Batanes.

Linguistic fingerprints in Pinto’s account match Ivatan and Tagalog, not Ryukyuan. Place names like Tayid-Akonol, Pungor, Sipautor, and even Gundexilau have no counterpart in Japan — but fit Batanes perfectly.

We expose how Jesuit translators manipulated Pinto’s manuscript and how colonial bias continues to bury the Philippines from its rightful place in global history.

🔗 Read the full blog with all sources & download the original journal article here:
👉 https://thegodculturephilippines.com/ilha-de-fuego-was-not-in-ryukyu-etymology-geography-pinto-s-real-island-of-fire/

✅ In this episode:

Why Ryukyu doesn’t match Pinto’s descriptions

Jesuit mistranslations and academic fraud

The geographic, volcanic, and linguistic case for Batanes

How Pinto’s “Ilha de Fuego” lines up with Apoy Island, Mount Pangasun, and more

Proof the Lequios were Philippine, not Japanese

📌 This is Part 4 in our Finding Pinto series in th midst of our Return of the Lequios Series, Part 8
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Pinto wasn’t lying — he was censored. And his story reveals far more about the ancient Philippines than historians admit.

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