179:, no page nor quote from any of the 11 given sources were specified, which makes other editors doubt whether you actually understood what the sources actually said or whether or not you are committing original research. For example, you have not provided the relevant quotes from those 11 sources that can support claims like "men were also allowed to MARRY their male partners" or that "women were also allowed to marry their female partners" or that "same-sex marriage and heterosexual marriages were viewed as equally the same thing", but you only plastered 11 sources without giving more information whether those sources were actually relevant to support such claims.
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was a certain Erwin S. Cabarles, a mere
Facebook user. Additionally, there is a Bulan deity mentioned in Bicolano myths. No less than said Facebook user also mentions this. The Facebook user claimed that Bulan was 'lifted' from a Visayan myth. Aswang Project rebutted the Facebook user in bold, stating that the Facebook user's claim is "highly speculative". Aswang Project notes,
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100% accurate and exhaustive – which we know is untrue. We would also need to believe that myth and folklore does not evolve and change – which we also know is untrue. We would also need to believe that there were no migrant workers or trade in the pre-colonial
Philippines who shared stories – which we also know is untrue.
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The problem here is that you keep citing "The Aswang
Project", treating it like an acceptable source. Please refrain from using it as a valid source and start consulting more reliable sources that are acceptable under Knowledge guidelines. For more information about what a reliable source is supposed
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means that "The Aswang
Project" is nothing more than a self-publishing site (or better, a "user-generated content", akin to Tumblr), with little to zero peer-reviewing mechanism, hence how the whole Bulan-Sidapa hoax was accepted in that website in the first place. That means many of the things about
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Avoid over-reliance to self-published content online, including blog posts. While I admire "The Aswang
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This is highly speculative. I don’t buy that the Bicol
Creation Myth was “lifted” from the Visayan. It is more likely that they share a similar creation myth that had not been documented previously.The above theory would be accurate if we were to believe that the Spanish and other documentation was
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Contrary to what you have chosen as a "quote" in Aswang
Project's article, where you claimed that Aswang Project stated that there is no Bulan deity in Bicolano mythology, please be noted that it was not the author of the article that stated that there was never a Bulan deity in Bicolano myths. It
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the existence of a reference, it also has additional information such as which statements from the source are actually capable of supporting the claims written in the Wiki entry. By pointing out the relevant quote and the page of the source containing the supporting statements, you are showing to
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regarding the so-called
Bicolano moon deity called "Bulan". You have cited as a source "The Aswang Project" even though that very same website revealed a MAJOR update regarding the hoax that is the story of Bulan. In plain words, the same website stated that:
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Bicolano Creation Myth, which is allegedly been lifted out of the Visayan Creation Myth. And judging from the account of the Visayan-Bicolano creation myth as reported in other sites such as
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With the revelation that the whole Bulan story and the related Bulan-Sidapa love story are actually hoaxes with no basis in facts, I simply deleted all your contributions. I also invite you to read
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Feminized men were also allowed to marry their male partners, and women were also allowed to marry their female partners, the same as any person within precolonial society, thus an early notion of
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hoax, which thankfully was rectified). I suggest you to consult a more diverse source pool instead of relying too much on a single website, which unfortunately is what happened in pages like
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and avoid misinterpretation of sources. In the meantime, I am reverting some of your edits since they suffer from citation overkill issues or other issues related to possible commitment of
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the inline tags regarding excessive citations. Please be reminded that I will restore the tags if you continue not fixing the issues raised here.
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