European provenience of the Book of Mormon
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Lehi |
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Laman |
a common Swedish family-name |
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LEMuel |
LEMMings of Norway |
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SAM |
SAAMi (Lapp) |
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Nephi |
the term for ‘popular’ in Magyar |
A contrast between Laman and Nephi would allude to the epoch (late 18th century) when, by controlling Poland, the Swedish empire was nearly adjacent to Hungary. The Mormon books were apparently originally composed in Hungary at that time.
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ISHMaeL |
ASHMoLean museum |
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JeRUSalem |
RUS (Russia) originally a Viking family-name (Denmark) |
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BOuNTIful |
/ti-bon/ is a Vodun expression of French origin |
Departure from Bountiful may allude to the Huguenot diaspora.
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Jacob |
Jacobin political party in France |
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ENOS |
Cosa NOStra (in Italy) |
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JaROM |
ROMania |
These are Romance-speaking regions, sometime politically affiliated.
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Omni |
Holland? |
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Amaron |
/Aron/ is a Danish name |
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Chemish |
Camisard (Huguenot wearer of chemise) |
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Abinadom |
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Amaleki |
Intended as transition from Jarom to Mosiah; i.e., of Hungarian reliance on Romania to reliance on Yugoslavia for future possible coalition.
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MOSiah |
MOStar capital of Hercegovina |
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ZARAhemla |
ZARA (alias dictus "Zadar") in Croatia |
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Coriantumr |
Krna Gora (Monte Negro) |
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Benjamin |
Bijeljina in Bosnia |
These Yugoslav regions would be crucial to a Hungarian secession from the Austrian empire.
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Helorum |
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Helaman |
Hellmann family in Moravia |
Czechoslovakia
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Ammon |
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Helem |
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Hem |
Chemnitz in Saxony |
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Shilom |
Germany
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Zeniff |
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Noah |
Neustadt in Austria |
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Limhi |
Linz in Austria |
Austria
the names in the Book of Ether may partly be taken from the period of the Roman Empire
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KISH |
don QUIXote |
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RipLAKISH |
LAQUIX family of Barcelona |
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EMER |
EMERita (modernly Me`rida) |
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ORihah |
ORetani tribe |
Hispania (Spain) The name /Emerita/ may have been used to distinguish the city in Spain from the name of city Merida in Yucatan. If so, this would imply a degree of awareness about Meso-America which is now much-emphasized in contemporary Mormon writings.
[originally written Aug 16 (Mon) 2010] [in was our discovery of the Magyar word /nephi/ that praecipitated our realization of this European-oriented system of identifications]
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[written Aug 26 (Thur) 2010]
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Laman |
the partizans of Swedenborg (in Sweden) ["the skins of the Lamanites were dark" (Alma 3:6) might refer to Swedenborgians’ professing to have a secret doctrine] |
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Helaman |
the Moravian brethren |
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LURam |
the successors of Yis.h.aq LURia (Frankists in Poland) ["fallen by the sword" (Moroni 9:2) might imply ‘converted to other rite’ |
This use of names would be religious, rather than political.
If communicative relations among top leadership in religious organizations be intendedly described, then the "Mormon" writings may be disinformations intended to deceive possible government sponsored spying on the secret doings of the leaderships : to imply, falsely, that the relations among the leaderships were generally quite bad (the "Mormon" writings are full of descriptions of hostilities and strifes), lest (if the governments were not convinced of the bad relations) the governments might suspect those religious organizations of conspiring together to overthrow the governments.
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"waters of RIPLIaNcum" (Ether 15:8) |
the RIPtide which submerged LYoNesse (= Hibernia, rather than Lyons in France), referring to the numerous upwellings of water creating (according to legends) various lakes of Eire |
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OGath (Ether 15:10) |
OGygia (as the name of a book on antient Cymry religion, here used as a term for Cymry occultism) |
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Shiz |
the birthplace (in Atropatene) of Zaratustra (here, howbeit, a symbol for Illuminism) |
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[The following set of geographic identifications was made in 2002. This discovery by us was independent of publication on the internet by others of the Comoro Is. identifications.]
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MORONI |
MORONI capital of Comoro Is. |
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CuMORah |
CoMORo Is. |
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MORON |
MORONdava, Madagascar |
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MORMoN |
MORaMaNa, Madagascar |
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ANTIo- |
ANTsI-, Madagascar |
Moroni is nigh the site of the world’s widest volcano caldera. The pirates who transferred their locale from the Bahama Is. to Madagascar may have deemed that volcano sacred. It may have been after their re-location to Madagascar that diplomatic relations with states in Abyssinia may have become established by the pirates, resulting in advocacy of the historic hierarchy of the Coptic Church, thus :-
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PACuMenI |
PaChoMIus (Coptic Church founder) |
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SIDoM |
SIDaMo of Abyssinia |
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AH-AH |
>AH^ Is. off Soqot.ra |
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Mid-DONI |
the DONatIsts of Libya (including Tunisia) |
The king Tubaloth (Helaman 1:16) of the Lamanites would repraesent the Freemasonic fignre Tubal-Qayin (Tubal-Cain).
The Gaddianton band would be Muslims of Jidda (with its name modified to /Gaddi^/, that of one of the spies in Exodos), where the clan Qores` (named for ‘shark’) may have at one time had its headquarters.