Editing Visayas (section)

===Mythical allusions and hypotheses===
Historical documents written in 1907 by Visayan historian Pedro Alcántara Monteclaro in his book ''[[Maragtas (book)|Maragtas]]'' tell the story of the ten leaders ([[Datu]]s) who escaped from the tyranny of Rajah Makatunaw from Borneo and came to the islands of Panay. The chiefs and followers were said to be the ancestors (from the collapsing empires of Srivijaya and Majapahit) of the [[Visayan people]]. The documents were accepted by Filipino historians and found their way into the history of the Philippines. As a result, the arrival of Bornean tribal groups in the Visayas (From Vijayapura a [[Srivijayan]] vassal state in Borneo)<ref>{{cite book |author=Wendy Hutton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YWO5Va53GkgC&pg=PA31 |title=Adventure Guides: East Malaysia |date=2000 |publisher=Tuttle Publishing |isbn=978-962-593-180-7 |pages=31–57 |access-date=26 May 2013}}</ref> is celebrated in the festivals of the [[Dinagyang]] in [[Iloilo City]], [[Ati-Atihan]] in [[Kalibo, Aklan|Kalibo]], [[Aklan]], and [[Binirayan festival|Binirayan]] in [[San Jose de Buenavista]], [[Antique (province)|Antique]]. Foreign historians such as [[William Henry Scott (historian)|William Henry Scott]] maintains that the book contains a Visayan folk tradition.<ref>{{Harvnb|Scott|1984|pp=81–103}}.</ref>[[File:Children Partaking In The Kalibo Ati-Atihan Festival, Philippines.jpg|thumb|[[Ati-Atihan festival|Ati-Atihan Festival]], a celebration of the purported arrival of "Borneans" in Panay]]A contemporary theory based on a study of [[genetic marker]]s in present-day populations is that [[Austronesian people]]s from Taiwan populated the larger island of Luzon and headed south to the Visayas and Mindanao, and then to Indonesia and Malaysia, then to [[Pacific Islands]] and finally to the island of Madagascar, at the west of the [[Indian Ocean]].<ref>{{cite journal |author=Cristian Capelli |last2=Wilson |first2=James F. |last3=Richards |first3=Martin |last4=Stumpf |first4=Michael P.H. |last5=Gratrix |first5=Fiona |last6=Oppenheimer |first6=Stephen |last7=Underhill |first7=Peter |last8=Pascali |first8=Vincenzo L. |last9=Ko |first9=Tsang-Ming |display-authors=1 |year=2001 |title=A Predominantly Indigenous Paternal Heritage for the Austronesian-Speaking Peoples of Insular Southeast Asia and Oceania |url=http://hpgl.stanford.edu/publications/AJHG_2001_v68_p432.pdf |url-status=dead |journal=American Journal of Human Genetics |volume=68 |issue=2 |pages=432–443 |doi=10.1086/318205 |pmc=1235276 |pmid=11170891 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511201051/http://hpgl.stanford.edu/publications/AJHG_2001_v68_p432.pdf |archive-date=May 11, 2011}}</ref> The study, though, may not explain inter-island migrations, which are also possible, such as Filipinos migrating to any other Philippine provinces. There has even been backmigration to the island of Taiwan, as the historian Efren B. Isorena, through analysis of historical accounts and wind currents in the Pacific side of East and Southeast Asia, concluded that the Pisheye of Taiwan and the Bisaya of the Visayas islands in the Philippines, were closely related people as Visayans were recorded to have travelled to Taiwan from the Philippines via the northward windcurrents before they raided China and returned south after the southwards monsoon during summer.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Isorena |first1=Efren B. |date=2004 |title=The Visayan Raiders of the China Coast, 1174–1190 Ad |journal=Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=73–95 |jstor=29792550}}</ref>