Part III The proposed maps, while not exact in Establishing an expanded internal map of the geography of the Jaredites 3 See appendix A, Copyright © 2021, Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum, PARALLELS: Mesoamerican and Ancient Middle Eastern Traditions, Decoding Ancient America: A Guide to the Archaeology of the Book of Mormon, Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon, Is This the Place? Moron was located near but not in the land Desolation (Ether 7:6). 11 On the internet at Civilizations in America Richard Hooker states: “Around 300 BC, the Olmec vanished for reasons that vanished with them. Placing the internal maps within Mesoamerica It also implies that the plains of Heshlon are on the side of Gilgal opposite from Moron. By constructing an internal map and identifying a probable physical location of the Kingdom of the descendants of the Jaredites, it follows that archeological evidence should be able to relatively identify a possible descendant culture of the Jaredite people. The Jaredite hill Ramah and the Nephite hill Cumorah were the same hill (Ether 15:11). Visions, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of LDS, Joseph Smith Documents Dating through June 1831, I give…the account…from the tower down until they were destroyed.”, 3. King Lib built a new city near the entrance into the land southward to preserve Bountiful as the hunting area for loyal subjects, for food, and commerce (Ether 10:21-22). North 10At its peak around 250 BC, the Maya built at least 27 large cities and countless smaller ones in the Petén. And went forth unto the land northward to inherit the land. Concluding Thoughts This crossword puzzle, “ JAREDITES COME TO THE PROMISED LAND, ” was created using the Crossword Hobbyist puzzle maker Over 100,000 crosswords created! 1. After leaving the wilderness of Akish for the last time, the Jaredites never returned to the destroyed areas again, but instead continued northward to a more populated area (Hedges, 2009). Many times during the Book of Ether there existed at least 2 kingdoms, but Ether and the writers before him only recorded the events central to those loyal to the rule of the posterity of Jared and perhaps the brother of Jared1. The other people would have also exponentially increased their population over several generations and could have formed their own cultures in areas such as Abaj Takalik; Izapa; Pijijiapan; Ocos; Monte Alto etc. The narrow neck of land that led into the land northward had to have been located southward of the land northward, or at least southward of the principal part of the land northward and within the southern part of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. The vantage point would have made Moron easier to defend. The city of Zarahemla stood upon this land…” (Times and Seasons, October 1, 1942). Or, that the Jaredites, themselves, were larger than the normal men of Mesopotamia. The length of the line from the east to the west sea was the same as the distance across the narrow neck of land that led from the land Bountiful into the land northward. Not only do the Olmec fit the growth in population, decline in population, and the evidence of a written language, they also have settlements similar to the internal Jaredite map. In section four, it will become more evident why I have chosen these specific placements. By 72 BC the Nephites possessed all of the land northward from the narrow strip of wilderness and had started to possess the Jaredite land northward including the land of Desolation. He landed on the west seacoast, which was west of the land of Nephi in about 588 BC (1 Nephi 18:23) and called it the promised land. It is important to note that the distance from the “east to the west sea” is only a day and a half. He explicitly states that the narrow neck of land is in fact located in Central America “…They lived about the narrow neck of land, which now embraces Central America, with all the cities that can be found…” (Times and Seasons, September 15, 1942). The Jaredites are a group of people that left the Middle East at the time of the confounding of the languages at the Tower of Babel. At this point Coriantumr stood amidst the destruction of over six million of his people and repents. Land of Zarahemla 1500 to 300 B.C. Q.&A.-About the Xochicalco Stela Stone & the Lock. The above scriptures indicate that the Jaredite people, as recorded upon the 24 plates of gold, came from the tower of Babel. Despite the self-annihilation of the Jaredite people, there were still other people outside of the Jaredite kingdom lineage who inhabited and cultivated the surrounding area of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon. Four times the term seashore is used in Ether, and in each occasion it references a sea as in ocean and not a lakeshore or river shoreline. The Jaredite civilization started in the Western Hemisphere about 2900 BC 4. 31. The following is a proposed internal map of the Jaredite geography. Coriantumr camped nearby in the valley of Shurr. Assuming that the scriptures mention all the locations that the troops would have crossed in pursuit of battle, then it is safe to say that the locations that are mentioned in relation to one another are in fact adjacent. All Nephite names and locations are in white. Question . The story of the Jaredites begins at a time when the people had just recently begun to descend from Ararat, the mountain where Noah’s ark landed. Even though they also had a written language, the Pre-classic Maya in the Peten were at their apex from about 300 BC to about 100 AD10, whereas the Olmec precipitously declined in population about 350 BC and ceased to be a recognizable culture by about 300 BC 11. You will find this very place: the narrow neck of land and the place where the sea divides the land. The Nephites possessed all of the land northward from the narrow strip of wilderness, which specifically included all the land bordering on the west sea land Bountiful until it came northward to the line between Bountiful and Desolation. The Book of Ether is mainly a history of the descendants of Jared. We read in the Book of Jacob (ch. The history of the expansion and contraction of the kingdom ebbs and flows as much as the tides on the seashores that surround the area. Both of these examples support defense tactics that would have logically compelled the Jaredites to initially choose an area to settle that was higher in elevation than the surrounding areas. Some, from these families, could have eventually extended into southern Mesoamerica and northward past the Mexico City area. Lorenzo Boturini, speaking of the ancestral Indians [or Jaredites], tells us "they traveled for a long time in Asia…going from one place to another and carrying with them seeds, particularly of corn, chili, and beans, and in each region they cut down the forests [cleared the land] and prepared farm land [or sowing fields], and perhaps leaving behind the aged and weary that they might populate those lands; and so they … Coriantumr gained the advantage and chased Shiz westward to the valley of Corihor. This does not necessarily mean that the Jaredites brought these animals with them overseas, but coming from 8,000-BC Anatolia, it is possible that the Jaredites could have had domesticated goats and sheep, or at least early forms of these creatures in … 6. (Alma 22:29-30) Land of first inheritance or the Landing place of Lehi From the geographical evidence within the text of the Book of Ether, I will systematically examine the above claims through a careful reading of the terminology and events of the Jaredites. …Wherefore Omer departed out of the land with his family, and traveled many days, and came over and passed by the hill of Shim, and came over by the place where the Nephites were destroyed, and from thence eastward, and came to a place which was called Ablom, by the seashore…. Following the battle, Coriantumr’s army chased Shiz southward to Ogath, which was located near Ramah/Cumorah. .…[the Lamanite lands] …were in all the regions round about, which was bordering even to the sea, on the east and on the west, and which was divided from the land of Zarahemla by a narrow strip of wilderness, which ran from the sea east even to the sea west…and thus were the Lamanites and the Nephites divided. Moroni was correct. Even though the Jaredites started with a little more than a couple dozen adults, the long life span aided in the number of progeny, exponentially increasing the growth of the population. The name Jared (or yared) is linguistically related to Ararat. From the seashore they go directly to the wilderness of Akish and continue to battle, thus the wilderness of Akish is located near the same seashore as Moron and Desolation. 3 An exceedingly great many…departed out of the land of Zarahemla. 1 Coriantumr was a descendant of the brother of Jared (Ether 7:20 & 8:2, & 10:32 & 11:15). The Jaredite land northward, as described in the Book of Mormon, did not extend into the Mexico City area and probably not even into the Veracruz area. Additionally, when Coriantumr chased Lib to Moron, Lib retreated to the seashore, illustrating that Moron is close enough to a seashore that the seashore would be the next natural line of defense (Ether 14:12-14). I will openly concede to anyone whose argument is rooted in the Book of Mormon and discredits mine. "...they had, and their descendants today still possess, traditions of a Deluge [flood] and a Tower of Babel- the story of the latter being substantially the same as that which has come down to us in the Bible." The following geographic map is proposed according to what I believe the Book of Mormon requires. Map A shows the location of Mesopotamia and both the area of Babel where the Jaredites lived, and the Valley of Nimrod where the Lord directed them to go upon leaving Babel, in relation to … (Ether 2:3)----------------------, "All unanimously agree that giants existed and dwelt in various parts of this continent… they are descended from …families who united at the dispersion of Babel." They did however come from the same Egyptian/Mesopotamia area "Jerusalem" as shown on the map below. 8. (Genesis 11:5-9)  But because of the righteousness and prayers of Jared, the brother of Jared, and their families, the Jaredite's language was not confounded. East Sea of the land southward Pre-classic Zapotec people of Southern Mexico. East Sea of the land southward After Coriantumr and Lib leave Moron they battle on the seashore, which has previously been established as the same seashore that borders Desolation. In comparison Ripliancum, which is considered the largest body of water (Ether 15:8), is called “waters of Ripliancum” instead of seashore. Therefore, hill Comnor must have been located just southward and maybe even westward of Ramah/Cumorah. The larger yellow oval shows the area most influenced by the Olmec. Corihor desired to battle the king, it states, “…he came up unto the land of Moron where the king dwelt” (Ether 7:5). 4. 3. These statements confirm that, regardless of any prior statements he may have made, to the contrary notwithstanding, he believed, at the time of his death, that Central America was the location of the events recorded in the Book of Mormon. [2] Instances of wordplay on the meaning of the ancient name appear in the abridged book of Ether – the record of the “Jaredites… Since the only time the word shore is used is in reference to the sea or as part of the word seashore, I conclude that the context and use of the word is consistent throughout the scriptures and thus refers to the ocean. Although the body of work that is dedicated to the history and account of the Jaredite people is only a fraction of the overall text of the Book of Mormon, cardinal directions, descriptions of specific locations, and references to Nephite locations are used throughout the brief body of work. 33…Thus the land on the northward was called Desolation, and the land on the southward was called Bountiful…(Alma 22:29-33). In verse 6, it says that ‘they were many times buried in the depths of the sea” and there were “great and terrible tempests which were caused by the fierceness of the wind.” Similarly, there are times when we might feel like we are going through our own tempests. 2 See appendix A for a detailed chronology of the history of the Jaredite people. The information above establishes that the land of the Jaredites overlaps in some areas with the land of the Nephites. During the 1680’s Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, obtained access to some Aztec and Toltec documents and wrote 'Histories of Mexico', giving us some information about the original settlers of Mexico. This means that the maps that Book of Mormon scholars have determined as likely geographic matches previously can also be used to determine the whereabouts of the Jaredites. Again, the use of the word up shows that Moron was higher in elevation than the wilderness of Akish. Moron was also located near Nephite-designated Desolation8 (Ether 7:6) in the Jaredite land Northward. It may not be possible to prove anything to you if you don’t want to accept it, but if you like, I’ll present the evidence which convinces me that they were unquestionably black and did not hold the Land of first inheritance or the Landing place of Lehi 15 However, the following verses show another aspect of this task, one not yet encountered by the Jaredites. The use of came up implies another geographic relationship. You don't Believe that the Book of Mormon is True? ". In chapter 14 in verses 12-14 the following route unfolds as the battle leaves Moron for the last time: It is reasonable to suspect that Moron would have been located either northward or more likely southward from Desolation. 9 F. Richard Hauck proposes Nehor as the valley of Corihor in his book Deciphering the Geography of the Book of Mormon pg. We will start the analysis by identifying landmarks that are associated with Desolation and Bountiful and moving outward. However, the Maya in the Mirador Basin could not have been the Jaredite people described in the Book of Mormon. The length of this defensive line was only about 12-20 miles7. Are The Names in The Book of Mormon Authentic? Dr. Richard Hauck is correct in his 1988 assessment that the “narrow neck of land” could not have been the Isthmus of Tehuantepec but that the “narrow neck of land” and the “place where the sea divides the land” were most likely located on the southeastern periphery of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and on the Pacific coastal shelf (Hauck, 1988). As of 90 BC, the Land of Nephi and the land of Zarahemla were divided by a narrow strip of mountainous (Andersen)6 wilderness that extended to the east and west seas with the Land of Nephi south of the wilderness and the land of Zarahemla north of the wilderness, At the...time their languages were founded, and not understanding one another, they went away to different parts of the world.” (Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl, Obras Historicas, I, 15-17)(40), “The ancestors of the natives of this land that is now called New Spain, according to the common and general opinion of everyone, as well as that which appears demonstrated in their paintings, came from ... the Division of Babel". Throw the dates aside and examine the evidence yourself. It appears that at this time the war had covered the principal areas of the Jaredite populations and they were now ready to make their final stand at Ripliancum and then at Ramah. With this said, it is necessary to establish a language to analyze the text. The book of Ether only records Jared’s lineage, but we know other families came to the promised land at the same time. Hill Comnor must have been located near the vicinity of Ramah and Ripliancum because the war was entering its final phase and the major part of the population of the Jaredite people had already been killed and the inhabited areas decimated. The scattering that took place happened soon after the flood. The line between Bountiful and Desolation that was owned by the Nephites separated these two places. This means that the valley of Gilgal is on the western side of Moron because Desolation is to the east and the sea to the south. "and they did also carry with them deseret, which, by interpretation, is honeybee; and thus, they did carry with them swarms of bees." The Jaredites were a large people. There are four commonly proposed. This was about the same time the serpent plague was removed, permitting hunting in the land Bountiful (Alma 22:31) and perhaps in other parts of the land southward (Ether 10:19). After leaving the wilderness of Akish for the last time, the Jaredites never returned to the destroyed areas again, but instead continued northward to a more populated area (Hedges, 2009). The population was greater than five million before the battle at Comnor, and this only accounts for the lineage of Jaredite and his brother. Three consecutive battles occurred on the hill Comnor and after the third one, Shiz prevailed.

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