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Show -- ' S mmmmmmmmmmmmm&mmrnmfitm tg''9 m if Hwwii m J- wmmuj.H .Ml1 Ifl ueygwsfaaws-y'j4 ' r l I .vj. jrv, 23L:itt, trm ff - Church Department THE EySSERET NEWS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1935. 8 '&' The Creation. Myth of The Joseph Smith as a Translator Zuni Indians. wii that like able. metamorphic. even smoke in the wind, were "irana-m- u table at thought, manifesting themselves in any form at will, as dancers may be Then from the nethermost of the four Caves (wombs) of the world, the seed of men and the creatures took form and grew: even as with worms In eggs in warm places quickly form and appear, rand growing, soon buret their shell and emerge, as may happen, birds tadpoles, or serpents: so men an-alt creatures grew manifoldly and multiplied in many kinds. Thus did the lowermost world cave become overfilled with living creatures, crawting like reptiles one over an other in the black darkness, thickly crowding together and treading one on another, one spitting on another and doing other indecency. In such manner that the and lamentations became loud, and many amidst the grow escape, Ing confusion sought to growing wiser and nui re manlike. Then Poshalyanka, the foremost and wisest of men. arising from the nethermost sea. came among men and the living things, and pitying them, obtained egress from that first world cave through such a dark and narrow path that some seeing somewhat, crowding after, could not fellow him, so eager mightily did they strive one with another. Alone then did Poshalto anyanka Come from one cave Island-llkother into this world, then lying amidst the world waters. vast, wet, and unstable. Then r, through the aid of the his light and his brightness did deliver the Poshalyanka men and the returji.and creatures from that nethermost world, bringing them up to this earth cave where they now reside. BT OR. ALBERT B. RBAGA.fi, Young University uutimelea .time IBrifham a great darkness which knew nd beginning, and be. fore the beginning ot even - title Awonawilona, the Maker and Cou- tainer ot aM, existed. Time and time and time came and went, count duration, an we- - mortal while ho alone and uttperpiexed awaited hi tat. Then he con. ceived within himeeit, and project thinking into the void of inghis Bight,' around him evolved toga ot mists Increase potent with In like manner, he then growth. took on himeeit the.form and per son of the Sun, the Bather of men, who thus came to be, and By his light and brightening, the Cloud mbits became thickened into water. Thun was made the world Then from his subholding sen. stance ot flesh outdrawn from the surface ot tils person" he made the seed ot two worlds .fecundating therewith the ea. By the heat of . his rays there was formed thereon which increasing green Ocums, Con. "The Four-fol- d apace became and the Ail taining Mother-eartFather-skfrom Then covering the consorting together oti. these twuia on the great terrestiai life was degenerated, and of therefrom sprang all being earth men and the creatures, womb of the from the "Four-fol- d World. Then the Earth-mothr, and grow repulsed the Into the embrace at oank fng heavy she the water of the sea. and thus r, separated from the In the of him embrace the leaving waters above. Moreover, the Barth like mother and the all surpassing beings, were change mask-making- ." J mur-mnrin- h" y. world-water- , e, er 8ky-fathe- Sun-fathe- Sky-fathe- Sky-fath- Genealogical Department (Continued From Page Seven) , piled by Annie W. B. Bell. 196. Caldwell, Campbell, Fayette, Henderson. Mason Maine Historical Magasine, Bangor edited and published hy Joseph W. Porter. Vols 1 to 9. Pub. 1895- 1896. Maryland y Dorchester County: Revised of Dorchester Co . Md . by Ellas Jones. Pub. Baltimore, 19SS. 608 pp. GODS POWER : MANIFESTED (Continued from Page Sis) greater pleasure, no mortal maa has been more determined to do his duty and to labor for the salvation of the souls of men, than I. Bo man ever had more real joy in testifying ot his knowledge that God IlfH and that Jesus is the Christ, and that Joseph Smith is a Prophet ot God. than 1 have had. I rejoice In It. and 1 am thankful beyond expression for this special manifestation to me. My father labored in the days of the reformation, in early II tali, times a night preached throeo'clock until seven, lirst at sixseven until eight, and then, three o'clock hours, nine at again after night. Brigham Young- . nightothers he me practhat told and tlcally gave his life in the refor- d wore first mation when we In Utah. 1 rejoice to think that he, havdied when I was nine days old, ing could plead with God and could give to me the opportunity, .the witprivilege of being a special ness of Jesus Christ, my Redeemer. Gives Blessing - May God help me and eVory one of you who Is within the sound ot my voice. ho ha a knowledge that God Uvea, that Jesu Is the Christ, the Son of the living God. the Redeemer of the world, that we shall so live thatnotthqe of the three things, world who know he led seeing nr goodthedeeds, shall of life and plan to investigate This is my humble aalvntion. Prayer. Before sitting down t want to of the echo, as the President and my gratitude Church, my same as Brother Me, thanks the to want I and Kay has expressed my blessing hers ssv thnt and pray God to bless and prosper It may the people of this land, that he fruitful, that the soli may fu- ' ' his-tor- Mawarlrartts Massachusetts Historical Society proceedings, pub. by the Massachusetts Historical Society. Boston. Vol 198-192- " yield more tibundantiv in the hle-sln- 59. 1985-192Vot 60. 1926-192Vol. 81. lsrT-192Vol 62, Vol. 63. 1929-192- 0, Now Hampshire Surry? History of the town of Su i y. 'Cheshire Co.. N. H, from date of severe nte from Gilsum aud West more (and. with a genealogical register and map of the town. By Frank Burnside Pub. bv the town of Kingsbury. Surry, m's io4 pp New Jersey Petersburg. History of Petersburg. N compiled by II Stan Pub. by H. Stanley ley Craig V Craig. 2 924. 286 pp. Nw York ; Clarendon History of Clarendon from 1810 to 1888. By David Stur-g- e Copeland. Pub, Buffalo 1889, 38! pp. 1769-192- catab-iislie- time will come ture anti tht the around here may when there farms with people that have be ftwfwrntng in nnd live to rejoice here copm of God. the to be all one and us Oo,l help the Gostrue to him. and true to us that know it Is pel those of humble prayer. God true-- l my bh"s you all. Amen, (Continued From Page Five) the professed translation wiU), or 84He8Uve of, the claim -- . Pennsylvania Historical Register: Note and queries, historical and genealogical. relating to Interior Pennsylvania. Pub. Harrisburg. Pa. Vol 213 1883. Vot. 1, Pub. pp l.'Puif 1384, 213 pp. Virginia Brooke County: Third census of the United Stules 1810 for the County of Brooke, Va Complied by Annie V H. Bell. Typewritten, 1925. 24 pp. Ancestral Proofs and Probabilities. court records of Virginia and surrounding states on occasional by Milbuljotm "Pub and edited lion IJungytedt No 1 Pub 1925. 25 up Bruton Parih Williamsburg Cimri h restored nod its historic environment hy Kev Wm A U. 205 pp. Pub 1907 Goodwin . imnisii ( 1ossixsioNs miada Ontario Commemorative York Counlv biographical record of the County Of York Ontario containing bioof prommeut graphical aketches repieseniauve cltixens and many of really made from the indicated ancient language. In a few cases we have found that Egyptian analogies seem to situation may ho clarify situations otherwise obscure. AnoUier-su- ch : found, perhaps, in the following passage (vv. The . land of Egypt being first discovered by a woman, who was the daughter of Ham, and the daughter of Egyplus, which in the Ohaldean significes Egypt, which signifies thwt which is fdHudden. When this woman discovered the land it was under water, who afterward settled' her sons In It; and thus, from Ham, sprang that race .which preserved the curse in Uie land." Now, the first conspicuous matter in regard to these sentences is that there Is very evident uncertainty involved in several of lie statements. These occur in the loose ue of relative clauses, introduced by the pronoun, which." And the consequence is that one apparent statement is, so far as present knowledge extends, not patently true or, as we may venture to say, untrue. However, before we begin oomments unfavorable to the authors competent knowledge, or his skill in the use of words, we must consider the situation before us. He professes to have made a translation from a specified ancient language the Egyptian rather than to have been engaged in demonstrating his knowledge, or assumed knowledge, or even what he may have supposed was his ability to write pure and rhetorical English. In oUibr words, even with his best efforts, he may have given us here, as well as in some other connections, good examples of what is known as translation English," or scries of English words. In forms exhibiting idioms in a foreign language. So far es the statements made here may be said to extend, we find little to refer to any such feature, untit we begin considering the use of the relative clauses. Then we remember that, in the Egyptian, as also in Hebrew and other Semitic languages, relative constructions, or clauses translatable by relatives in English, are more than often obscure for learners and readers since, as we may indicate, the order of words and the use of elements corresponding to our relatives are strikingly different from those familiar in English or the Classicel languages. Thus there is abundant room fur translated renderings involving apparent errors While it ;might scorn unprofitable to attempt a discussion of the kind of Egyptian construction, which would be translated into English with relatives, we may indicate that seeming confusion, attributable to the uncertainties, or the possibility of alternate renderings, in such constructions, is closely suggested in the clauses: Egyplus, which in the Ohaldean signifies Egypt, whic-- signifies that which is forbidden. This seems to say that the word, Egyplus," has a meaning in the language here celled Chaldean," equivalent to Egypt." which, in turn, means forbidden. Now, if this sentence is a part of a real translation from an Egyptian dialect, there is nothing more certainly evident than that the several words, as they stand in English, are in an order entirely different from any Uial would express similar ideas m the original. If, as is a consistent supposition, the Ohaldean, apparently the native language of Abraham, was a Semitic dialect, we may say that any form suggestive of the rendering, Egyptus." is not immediately reeogni7able. We may conclude, therefore, that (lie meaning to lie derived here may lie thus expressed, by a simple transposition ; Egyptus, which signifies Egypt, which in the Chaldean signified that which is forbidden. Nor, in proposing this transposition could we be accused of "reasoning tn a circle "assuming a given priimitHn as true, and then seeming to demonstrate it and for two excellent reasons, (tv that, when it is said that FgypTiis" means .Egypt," it is wholly reasonable to suppose that the word, "F.g pt," i represented by Its Semitic) equivalent, and (2t if this equivalent Is such word as the Cuneiform Malsur, the Hebrew Mat.qor for MiUraim), or as still persists m the Arabic Mtsr, the meaning, forbidden," is by no means either foreign or improper. This auggeMs still another rendering, which, however, is only interpretive of the form given in the printed text: Egyptus; which signifies Mataur in Uie Chaldean, which signified that which is forbidden, Wernay proceed, thecefore. to an examination of this new word. (Chapter Seven to be Gout I mm! Next Week) COUNTIES the early settled families. Dub. J. 23-2- 1) . H. Beers A Co.. 1967 678 pp. F.N GLAND General Parish Clergy Directory and Guide, an alphabetical list of the clergy of the Church o ( England diocese, list of heneflcies with chappopulation . and patrons, lains of tlie Naif, Army an vol1897. 829 unteers lub PP' 66. British Record Society Vot.marabstract oi Notlinghamshtre Thomas edited by Ibense riage M Ula-gand F. Arthur Wads-wort- h El 2 Archdeaconry Court 2 and l'ecillla ot Soulh-we- t 755- - 152 Pub 1925 by (ho 8oci yt. 571 PP CanterPrerogatiw' Court of lot ration bury. leturn of admintranslated abstract arrange I from the original and numbered in alphabetical orwith separate der of Intestates, and Indexes of "stray namaw" Morrison. Pub. li. J. By place. J li Moinsoit, 1925. 162 PV. 1791-175- 1 1620-163- IlerifordMlUra Bedfordshire Parwh , Registers, edited by F. U. Etnmison lub under the auspices of the .County Vol 10, Old 'own il 1812. tuple 1361-181- 157 lingiun 160 1 Wardjti .4- - si 2 IsitMkm llarleaian Society Publlcat'on, Register Section Vol 64, register ( of Margate! s, Westminister, I guidon, oapttema, and marriage burials Edited by isiw-renE Tanner. Pub. 1935 2i. J666-167- te PP ISUMlotl London Pedigrees and C oat of edited by A. W Hughes Pub Mitchell Hughes and Clarke 1925 222 pp. (Pedigree and coats of arms originally appeared In the Miscellanea Ocn. et Heratdica aiogica extending over the years 1916 to 19211 Norfolk Norwich City churches of Nor. wich by Claude J. W. MrswnL Pub w If Tunt, 192 82 pp. Arm, Clarke |