Horses, Chariots, & Elephants in the Book of Mormon

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[LDS4Life71]

Our information about the form of the Book of Mormon originally comes

from statements in two letters that Professor Charles Anthon wrote

years after Martin Harris came to him with a sample of the exotic

writing that Joseph Smith had copied off the "gold plates." What he

was shown, Anthon said, was "singular characters . . . arranged and

placed in perpendicular columns, and the whole ended in a rude

delineation of a circle, divided into various compartments, arched

with various strange marks."

[LDS4Life71]

Spaniards noted (but only in documents that Joseph

Smith could not have known about) that large numbers of native books—

many held in great reverence as sacred records—were in use when they

arrived in Mexico in the early sixteenth century. Archaeologist

Michael Coe believes "there must have been thousands of such books in

Classic times" (generally AD 300—900).2 Only four have been preserved

from the Maya zone. But in the 1820s not even the experts knew about

these Mesoamerican books.

[LDS4Life71]

The very idea that large numbers of books were written and preserved

in any ancient American culture was also contrary to the notion

universally held by literate and rustic citizens of the United States

that the "Indians" were only "savages." The writer in Helaman 3:15

tells of "many books and many records of every kind" among his people

in the first century BC, some kept by the Lamanites but a majority by

Nephites. They had been "handed down from one generation to

another"

[LDS4Life71]

although nobody at that time could make

much sense of it. Nothing suggested by Humboldt sheds any real light

on native American written documents nor relates to the Book of

Mormon. Besides, the chance is vanishingly small that the learned

German's esoteric work would have been accessible anywhere in America

except at a handful of the best libraries on the Atlantic seaboard, to

which Joseph had no access before the Book of Mormon was published.

[LDS4Life71]

t the time Smith lived, the only Mesoamerican object anything like a

codex that had been described in an English-language source was the

Aztec "calendar stone." It was pictured in a book by Humboldt

published in 1814 in London,

[LDS4Life71]

great video.  The book of Mormon is 100% true

[kramd1]

these elephants are dwarf mammoths on an Island off Alaska. Next they will be saying Zarahemla is off the baring straights.

[GohModley]

Chariots are mentioned in both Alma and 3 Nephi. That man lied via ommission, a common LDS sin. I should know, I'm still a member and have been for nearly 30 years.

[GohModley]

you would too if you were paid to. oh wait that's FARMS.

[lyrical77]

your guys are lying through your teeth.