| Show w x Ki 7 l 1 I I 1 A J Z 1 X I II I t X I y y I I Y t X t y y y Y 1 y t tz y z X y yf X f A Af y W f AMERICAN ARI CALENDAR STONE STON Ancient Hele liy 1 il i TJ l on a t Varni About Six from Tho accompanying picture Is a arc re reproduction production ot or an nn India Ink drawing Stint to tu thu tw Deseret Mows ew by Mr H HL HL L Tho rho picture Ilet ure is that of oC tho zodiac e wil the Ameri American Amer can cal calendar tone Iri hi the center showing the tho halt circles in inline II line IIno with wih Ih Oceans of tho Iho zodiac This hl stone II claims laim to have found on 01 a tarn farm six Ix miles mies Arkansas POt Post Ark This ancient Is a disc upon tho th ohel of which are half hair geometrically true truc com comprising comI hn one Ole circle Kach uch half circle represents 10 II degrees c or 40 4 diurnal time and by hy I squaring thi Ih stone wih tho Polar star sta it correctly indicates time any an of If day da or HI night If It the thc moon is IsI shining It 1 i only possible to Indicate i time on un this stone stole by hy the tho Babylonian tl ab I proems proc s of Indicating time by degrees This type of o dial Mr rl j I claims Is Ii described in II Ir Kings x Isaiah f Ho also a t Enoch used this tamo ali system sy of 0 reck lime with wih the Ih exception t were of 20 degrees dc re equal toSO t SO minutes Instead of 10 11 degrees b equal 10 minutes as upon this thil dial In nl his 1118 letter to 10 tho editor of ot the News evs Mr lr Stoddard says la I 1 hue have evolved Into Inlo a sh ns Oi ner Jer the the illustration lee of oc the signs or a u wheel In the middle of HC a wheel Vide VIte thill t Is the Iho la J great grat con constellations 01 tho th later division lon of the 12 i signs with throe three divisions of ot 10 degrees each cach that is uG 6 divisions of 10 degrees each cach called in each of those tl se divisions called extending into illimitable space the 36 or HI celestial constella constellations outside of O tho the 12 J 2 great signs sl n nare are located this division occurred 40 I B C 0 The Thc important evidence in connection tion with this Is 1 that this American calendar stone dial and ald astronomical chart when placed In II the center of oC the tho shows hows itself to bo cor correlated cr related with the Persian Babylonian and Ind sphere re of ot 35 36 divisions as al the tho half circles upon the thc American stone stono arc readily In line with wih the 30 36 of the zodiac zo lac Per Persian sian Blan Babylonian and sphere My I researches have hu ve made me mc con conversant COI versant with many man of the sciences philosophies and nd religions of the tho the tho Book of Mormon l not When I began my m studies and Inter Int anent this In a u new of o thought was WIS opened unto mo me and J became convinced that the tl claim mad by h tho Bogk of Mormon that the Im Immigration migration of ot Leht Lohl and his household from Cram Jerusalem occurred about th year cal B C Co was Wis at least worthy of oC careful consideration My I subsequent subS quent researches and unI ion have hae this conclusion to be well wel found founded ed cd j i J f i This find Is the only that has boon uncovered upon the thc American continent subsequent l l to t the finding o ot the Book BOCk of Jf Mormon that irrefutably proves intercommunication with lh Asia at a period ot oC not I sa thu 1000 year B 1 C and my m deductions relative to this find have hl the th approval and sup support port of some sOle of or the thc mo t lt au Iu authorities upon for fOl In Instance Instance stance Rev Rf Stephen t b f cot Ph D M 1 A editor of the thc American Anti Antiquarian Ant Chicago 11 m Dr DI Otto Oto A A Vahl St Louis Lonis Warren K lC Phillips Phillip Academy of oC Archaeology An dover doer Mass IasI My I deductions are arc not consummated ed cd by h speculative or theoretical philo philosophy Ihlo sophy but are alo drawn from cumulative evidence and correlations of a concrete nature supported by tho analytical process of ot reason |
