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ELOI! ELOI! LAMA SABACH.
THANHAn
Editor The Church Year

Editor The Church Year.
think it is true that the words, " Eloi,
Eloi, lama sabachthania 2" have long
been puzzle to the student of languages,
they seem to belong to no language that
was commonly spoken and understood at
the time they were used, and | confess
my own uncertainty has been increased
by hesitation in accepting the transla-
ton. "My God My God! Why hast
Thou forsaken me?' The exclamation
seems more appropriate to Gethsemane
than to Calvary, and | am hardly sur
prised to find, when studying the strange
story Of the strange discoveries iii Yucca
tan, a suggestion that these words be-
longed to the Maya language and that
our Lord spake in this, the scientific Ian
guage of His time, and probably the old
est in the world. Dr. lie Plongeon and
his wife spent twelve years in the study
of the Yucatan ruins, and | enclose some
extracts from his correspondence with me
which | trust will be interesting to your
readers
Regarding the words placed in Jesus mouth
by Matthew, when he los consciousness Eli
Ell lama sabachthan," they belong to the
Maya language as also The words said TO have
been written by spirit hand in the banquet
hall Of BcshaZzer The translation o. The
Maya words. I'm .ne. etc, is precisely that
given by Daniel according to the author of that
book The words, He'll Hell, lama zabac ia
Ie" mean in the Maya language, Now,
now, ! am lainting. darkness covers nv
face In my large volume The Monu-
ments of Mayax and their Historical
Teachings mot vet published) show how the
Akkadian tongue, very closely allied to the
Maya If il was not The Maya i's"li, continued 70
,b@ ;he scientific language in the Est to the
beginning OF the Christian Era, as Greek and
Latin are today to the Western world, AZ the
ancient Kaldee names are decidedly MAYA
Jesus had somehow become acquainted with
the scientific language OF his time and made use
of it when losing consciousness, he thought he
was dying and that all finished for him on
earth. You will please remember tn at the rec
ords of his lite are extremely scanly, in fact his
biOgraphers only report some acts and sayings
attributed 10 him during the last three years OF
his lite; what he did or where he went previous
10 that time DO not know. The
Mayas were the ancestors Of the Egyptians and
OF the kaldees, the Greek language contains
many Maya words it WAS used in Egypt, par
tcularly AT Alexandra, by the learned men In
the schools, who can tell that Jesus did not ac-
qure il when in Egyp':
louiS very RESPECTFULLY,
AUGUSTUS LIE PLONGEoN
| have not written for the purpose Of
discussing the subject, at least not yet,
but I thought the matter was interest
ing enough to give it wider reading
than a private correspondence, for while
time and money have been given TO read
the story Of Egyptian civilization, we have
almost at our doors the buried history Of
far older life which waits to reward the
labOrs of the searcher
For centuries Egypt seemed to be beg
glng to be heard, her monuments were
covered with inscriptions to invite the
reader; every one of her RUNS was elo-
quent with unspoken history the patient
Sphynx seemed not so much guarding the
past as awaiting the future even the dead
were wrapped in the story of their lives
and held in their hands the history of
their day; but it was long an unread
appeal; the whole past seemed tC
be as hopeessly silent as the mum
mics; it was not death but an enchanted
sleep, patience and skill have wrought the
Weakening spell and monuments and tomb
pyramid and slab, mummy and shroud
break into speech and tell the long for
gotten story of the past. And now
longer sleep is being disturbed, the oldel
monuments of Yucatan are slowly reveal
ing the mysteries they have kept to them
selves for unknown centuries In thi
wonderful age the lost Atlantis speak
from beneath the waters that have role,
over her face for ages. The Sphynx o
the East is calling to the elder Sphynx o
the West and the two civilizations tina
separated in the unnumbered years of tn
past are coming together again in on
sight Every. century Of the world
history has prepared the record for on
day, and the tombs have surrendered til
very actors in some of the scenes lou,
forgotten. May it not be that all time
are gathering now to be ready to NEE
Him whose approach draws near.
w. H. CARTER
Tallahassee, Fla, February %, 1889.