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and the locale of the siege of Jeru salem by the forces of Nebuchadnez zar of Babylon. What Nibley fails to do, if he would equate the Book of Mormon people with the American Indians, is to show even the slightest compati bility of the Reformed Egyptian or the Hebrew terminology of the Book of Mormon with the known American Indian languages of the period in question. Any competent linguist will assure us that there is no correspon dence between the etymology, philos ophy, or phonetics of the Hebrew and “ Egyptian” names of the Book of Mormon, and the names and lan guages of the American Indians in a parallel period of history. Mr. Wells Jakeman, whose doc torate is in the field of archaeology, has expended much effort trying to equate the archaeological finds of Mexico and Central America with the stories of the great civilizations of the Book of Mormon. Specifically, he has tried to make the “Stela 5, Izapa” monument equate with the story of the vision of the tree of life in I Nephi, chapter 8. An examina tion of this well known stone monu ment found in Chiapas, Mexico, will show slight resemblance to the story of the tree of life, as described in the Book of Mormon. All resemblances are purely coincidental. The stone does show a tree, probably a fruit tree, there are people under the tree so far quite unidentifiable, and there is, at the bottom of the engraving, the decoration symbolizing water. Beyond this there is no resemblance. Reproductions of this stela, produced for Mormon propaganda are obvious ly altered from the original to empha size supposed items from the tree of life story. Where the stela is eroded from the ravages of time, the Mormon “ scientists” have restored the missing parts to fit their story. For instance, they have put beards on some of the figures without any supporting evi dence in the original. A story in the Bisbee Arizona Daily Review of Nov. 8, 1962, showing the Mormon reproduction of the Izapa Stela makes the statement that “ The three name glyphs of Stela 5 have been translated as ‘Lehi,’ ‘Sariah’ and ‘Nephi,’ which are three names prom inent in the Book of Mormon.” Obvi ously, this is pure fiction. It is ques tionable if anything that can be con strued as a name glyph is visible on the engraving, and items on the stone that the Mormons indicate as name glyphs could not be deciphered be cause they are too indistinct. In addi tion to this, such names as Lehi, Nephi and Sariah are quite incon- (continued on n e x t page)
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