ラプラプ対マゼラン
マゼラン軍とラプラプ軍の決戦が行われたマクタン島海岸（セブ州）に立つラプラプの像。１９７９年建立。ラプラプはフィリピンセブ州マクタン島の族長で、スペインに隷属することを拒絶し、そのため1521年マクタンの戦いが勃発し、マゼランはこの戦いで殺された。Statue of Lapu Lapu in Mactan, Cebu
１０月２８日、名古屋市民大学「歴史」講座（皇学館大学 深草正博教授）を受講し、改めてヨーロッパ人（スペイン人、ポルトガル人）が大航海時代（１４、１５世紀）に極悪非道であったかを再認識した。以下は講座で配布された資料である。
『マゼランが来た』本多勝一 朝日新聞社 1989
「新大陸」の全土に生きついでいた何千万ともしれぬ先住民や、マリアナ諸島の何万もの先住民の目で見るとき、ヨーロッパ人という「大野蛮人」（先住民パスカルさん）は、民族滅亡を招く「悪魔」（その祖母）以外の何ものでもなかった。虐殺された何千万ともしれぬ魂にとっては、白人たちの「偉大な」芸術も科学も宗教も国家も、一切が事実として無意味（ナンセンス）だったし、今も無意味であろう。それはコロンブス以来５００年間途切れることなく続き、今なおアマゾン川やパラグアイ川の奥地で進行中なのだから。
「マゼラン」とは何であったか。右の事実に疑いのない以上、マゼランに「来られた側」からみれば、事実として民族（人間）絶滅の尖兵たる悪魔の使者であった。そしてマゼラン艦隊世界一周のころ、新大陸にとって最初の悪魔の使者コロンブスが来たカリブ海周辺の人口稠密地帯では、続々来襲した悪魔どもによる未曾有の大虐殺と奴隷狩りがすでに進行の最中であった。
Lapu Lapu vs. Magellan
Lapu Lapu, a
chieftain of Mactan in Cebu, the Philippines, refused to bow to the sovereignty
of the king of Spain, and the Battle of Mactan ensued which led, in 1521, to
the killing of Magellan.
I attended a history class of Nagoya Citizens’ University sponsored by Nagoya City. The lecturer was Professor Masahiro Fukakusa of Kogakkan University. After listening to his lecture, I realized again how cruel and diabolical Europeans (especially, the Spanish and the Portuguese) were during the Age of Geographical Discovery (15-16th centuries). The following is a part of documents used during his class.
I attended a history class of Nagoya Citizens’ University sponsored by Nagoya City. The lecturer was Professor Masahiro Fukakusa of Kogakkan University. After listening to his lecture, I realized again how cruel and diabolical Europeans (especially, the Spanish and the Portuguese) were during the Age of Geographical Discovery (15-16th centuries). The following is a part of documents used during his class.
Magellan Came by Katsuichi Honda, published by Asahishimbun in 1989
Seen from the viewpoint of tens of millions
of the native inhabitants in the “New Continent” and the Mariana Islands,
Europeans or “Savage Barbarians” (according to a native inhabitant, Pascal)
were nothing but devils that brought about the
extinction of the tribes. White people’s “great” art, science, religion, and nations
were nonsense to the tens of millions of natives who were murdered. They are nonsense
today, too, because the same nonsense has been repeated in the remote parts of
the Amazon and the Paraguay for 500 years since Columbus’s “discovery.”
What was Magellan? He was an envoy of the Devil, a vanguard charged to
extinguish the tribes from the view of those who “were visited” by Magellan. Furthermore,
while the Magellan fleet were circling around the world, unprecedented genocide
and slave hunting by the invasion of devils in the densely populated Caribbean islands
were already underway. (Translation by Hiroshi Matsuoka)
