Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-09
on AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES.

We take pleasure in producing the
following from letter written by Mr..
H. II. stoddard, Of Little Rock, Ark, to
this paper:
ITO the Editor am in receipt of tho
number of your paper of Aug. 18th,
1908 containing an editorial upon my
recent article In the Arkansas Gazette,
Relics Here Show Eastern Origin
and read the same With much interest.
You show yourself to be a man OF
observation, appreciative of the deep
significance and vast Importance of this
find and the subject matter relative
thereto.
This find marks a new era in tho
history OF the American continent and
coming generations will continue to
cherish and guard the keys which un-
lock the portals of the dim and dis
tapt past.
ITO the mind that is capable of re-
ceiving new truths this find represents
q priceless treasure as irrefutablc evil
dence of INSTRUMENTATION with
Asia at a time not less than 1000 years
b. c.
AS calendar stone and astronom-
teal chart this stone is correlated with
certain abstruse passages of the Bible
and in Il lecture that | have recently
prepared, I adduce evidence thai goes
to show that the twelve Tribes OF Is
rael were perfectly correlated with the
Twelve Signs of the Zodiac, and that
the camp of Israel, as II was laid out,
and the formation Of the marching or
der Of the Twelve Tribes also had to
do with the twelve great constella-
tons.
'.ln this lecture l embody a complete,
concise and logical explanation of one
particular passage or the Bible which
has been mooted question for 500
years, l. e., sun stand thou still upon
Gideon. and thou moon, IN the valley
of Aialon' (Joshua x: 12l. | set my
self up In opposition only inasmuch
as to Offer cumulative evidence to sub
stantiate my hypothesis
My explanations are clear enough
to convince the most skeptical that my
deductions are logically drawn, leaving
no room for doubt; the proof is self
evident
Under separate cover am trans
hitting to YOU this mail a photo of
an India ink drawing / made of tho
Zodiac depicted upon the Temple of
Dunderah of Egypt: this | have
evolved into a planisphere showing as
per the illustration, The wheel of the
signs, or "a wheel in the middle of a
wheel wide IGzekieD that is. the
twelve great consultations: the later
division of the twelve signs with
three divisions Of ten degrees each,
that is, SO divisions Of ten degrees each
called Oceans; in each of these d-
visions, called Oceans. extending into
illimitahle space, the So Asterisms. or
celestial consultations, outside of the
twelve great signs are located this
division occurred 1850 Is. O.
The important evidence in connec-
ton with this is. that this American
calendar stone. dial and astronomical
chart, when placed in the center of the
planisphere shows itself to be cor
related with the Persian, Babvlonian
and Hindoo sphere OF SO divisions. as
the half circles upon the American
stone are readily in line with the Sc
Oceans of the Denderah Zodiac. Per-
sian, Babylonian and Hindoo sphere.
My researches have made me con-
versant with many of the sciences.
PHILOSOPHERS and religions of the world.
the Book of Mormon not excepted. |