| Show LOCAL AND OTHER MATTERS THE CRADLE CRABLE OF reference Be ference has been made formerly in these columns to dr augustas augusta le s exceedingly interesting work queen moo and the egyptian sphinx the volume is ie the result of diligent dill gent study of the antiquities of yucatan and much research on the vast hold field of arol aret so ee logy the bearr ed author traces the origin of the an dent civilizations of cialdea and india endis back to central cenizal america where the mya mays empire once fl fi ur or asbed he furnishes by portraits carved in stone that there was communication between western aels ada and the american continent at least as early oo 00 s give five hundred years before the birth of corlet and gives the mays maya vereion of the of the land of mu pinto platos pintos s Ati atlantic antip every chapter of the book has a fascinating interest to all who seek knowledge about the remote past which Is veiled so 10 mystery for instance dr Plon geon eon proposes a very plausible answer to the puzzling lije of tits the origin and meaning of the name dome the asiatic people RITO give t 9 that country the hebrews called it an ano 0 the As Aspy syrians rions guzur and so or on forms of come word of which the letters M Z am B R form the radicals ret licals nov e 1 lave ove h hitherto bee been n ab 9 be e to fi no the etymology of the word but dr Plon geon rays fays with confide confluence ace that it Is of american frigid lo in the mays maya Ja language Danage he ha says the of the word is found and means to uproot trees a name appropriate to egypt crypt where t the he trees trea hava been bee cleared off by the be inundations or of he be mile if he carrying debris all ovar the country I 1 speaking of the relation hip b be 0 tweed the move mava language an and d we the chaldean dr Plou geon node find traces of furmer former even in tb the backed literature of the hebrews he say that irom from the time the semitic tribes established them themselves relves in A af syria eyrie the ari ancient clent tongue was forgotten sod and become became the property of the learned elastics classes almost exclusively as was to in the west went la in the abe middle ages age in the abe seventh century B ca C tried to revive it ana ordered copies of the old treatises to be made sod and also sin an Assy ilaa ilan translation it seems however bo wever that later even no abe wise men bad forgotten the language thus when at the bat bai of 01 Beis hazzar a mysterious writing was discovered on the wall only daniel could interpreted inter prete it it has gener silly ally been supposed that these words were chaldean but dr Plon geon assorts hat they are pure ways maya badiou toe meaning that bat daniel nives gives to them lo in the ancient american dialect tie words would tic be modell manel mane toe tec sod and are thus ex pla Pis ined manel mane 22 thou art poet past or finished mane 02 thou art bi aught or Weli theu light not ponderous and appah ly then wilt be broken in tor in 10 tho game me way the author finds la ID we the dying words of out our savior a sentence sen terace in ID the old american language in the gospel it to la rendered fit fil bif ladah which none of those standing near the oroee cross eema to lo have understood dr plon pion geon any says it Is ie mays maya and writes it thus hole hole hele laws b fabso tr to nl ni 1 of which the interpretation is ie now now DOW 1 I SM am laio ting darkness c vere my any aiace ace 31 1 equivalent lo 10 th abe e dying words reo recorded raed by job jobo n it IN ie finished fio lebed P dr does not profess to present theories but alms aims at placing ancient america in the be historical hit it orical rank that belongs to this cinti continent nent his hie labors in this ibis direction must be con soldered shoeb making he has certainly turned the key to the gates ol 01 knoWle knowledge and when lyben the vast fleen beyond shall have been sufficiently explore i to furnish a safe foundation lot or theories it 11 to is probable that much of last bat which now to Is stamped as ae scientific fact act will be known in another light and that much mystery will III remain po 0 o no longer we believe talat both biblical and book bois of mormon history will received new cordob native evidence perhaps not dot enough to virles those wiio who preer to doubt but bin sufficient to baill mute mure stran the tie foilb faith of 01 Ue beli lievers everd and to lem 0 without excuse to latter day saints dr cons logical labors are especially gratifying because they seem so lar to 10 tie be to the book of mordou and to the revelations rove latious lations by the founder of the church what whai the abe eft ne of E belete cui have been to all believers believer in the history and doe doc tines lines of toe the bible |
