One of the world's largest matriarchies that survives today,
Minangkabau, is troubled with ancestral issues which ironically still
remain a mystery. Previous findings on archeology and historical
evidence are this far insufficient to solve such a big question mark.
Some believe that by geneology and culture Minangkabau roots from
Persians while others believe that they came from Mediterranea.
Following strong arguments published by Santos and Oppenheimer in
their books emphasizing that Atlantis was in Indonesia, there emerged
another possibility that native Indonesians including ancient
Minangkabauans were surprisingly the ancestors of the world's
population.
Still, those are mind disturbing issues to average Minangkabauans who
are today identical with 100% Muslims and prefer to islamic aspects in
their coming ancestral outlook. From this point, the author of this
dictionary, Ali Cestar, a native Minangkabauan, English language
major, working as freelance editor and media consultant, tracked all
the historical values back to ancient times when early alphabets were
first invented.
During his persistence of collecting enormous data from various
sources and disciplines he discovered interesting facts about the
history of man and civilization in which a symbol such as buffalo horn
played an important role, and to where the path was pointed. As the
result, he started to write his first ebook in Bahasa Indonesia titled
"Tuan Bertanduk" (Horned Lord).
That was the time when business was not so good, job orders were rare
while he was seriously troubled with financial matters. There was an
idea to charge people for the ebook. In a world where people prefers
most of things online are for free, selling "Tuan Bertanduk" ended up
as a failure. Only one buyer made order. He decided to shut it up. But
his work continued.
He then tried to make several contacts with publishers, but none
responded. At this point his discovery has enabled him to disclose the
truth, nothing but the truth, the whole truth, about historical
mainframe of man's civilization.
Hopeless with local publishers who preferred to translating imported
best-selling books for sale, he then contacted his former American
professor to channel a mutual collaboration with any publisher in the
US.
All data mining, research and analysis he silently conducted, however,
required mind focus, absorbed time and energy which kept him away from
business orientation. Thus a financial support was a must. But the old
man did not reply, no idea what happened to him.
He also made an online correspondence with some NGOs interested in
language issues such as endangered language support groups. But since
Cestar is not a professor of a university which became main
requirement of fund receipt, his proposal returned safely, in other
word, rejected.
Working on scientific work without proper accommodation was surely a
suicide endangering his family, different from university scholars who
received their regular pay.
To some extent, his personal files might build up a great deal of
money making with appropriate partnership and marketing strategies.
The documented data that he possesses were set in a certain array for
another planned book, "Language of Atlantis." But the road to become a
successful writer commercially was already stuck there.
Lucky that he is surrounded by caring friends who provide enormous
support in order to keep him alive. The 'Gratitude' page in this
dictionary is made to underline his special thanks to them, of how
they have become eye witnesses of a 'peace-keeping in mind' warrior
declaring one of his crazy works in this chaotic world's order.
And to remark his highest respect to them, he took a piece of his
files and launched this rare and unique lexicon titled "Minangkabau -
Hebrew Identical Words" free online for every one, the only optional
approach available at the moment to show that he exists as well as to
open the world's eyes that many more series of his related work are
coming next, with or without commercial assistance.
Depok 28 April 2011
on behalf of love, peace & brotherhood
The Publisher
SurauNet
http://www.hebrew.surau.net