Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-15
AMERICAN HISTORY.

Mr. II. l. Stoddard, in an interesting
article published in a. recent number
OF the Arkansas Gazette, adduces sew
eial proofs in favor OF the proposition
that this country had intercommunlca-
ton with Asia mot less than 4 thou
sand years before Christ" The Book
OF Mormon, as is well known, tells OF
the immigration of Lehi and his house.
hold from Jerusalem, and this event is
supposed to have taken place about the
year 600 before our era, accepting the
common calculation of Biblical chron-
ology. The Book of Mormon also tells
of earlier intercommunicatton between
the two hemispheres. and according to
the teachings OF the inspired founders
of the Church, man first appeared on
this continent. Here man. as some
scientists now maintain. is Indigenous.
| Here the Garden of Eden was planted
| Here Cain murdered Abel. Here the
| City OF Enooh was built. Here Noah
preached and built his wonderful ship.
Science will ultimately, we believe, find
the proofs of tho great truths revealed
to the Prophet Joseph, and through
him, to the world.
Here is one of the remarkable finds
which point to Asiatic intercommuni-
cation. Mr.. Stoddard says;
Three or four years ago a. gentle
man while looking up data In the
Smithsonian Institution, found the like
ness OF a Buddha portrayed upon a
shell and thoughtlessly published an
account of the matter This shell had
been found many years before in TOGO
mound, In Tennessee, by Cyrus Thorn
MS, and had been sequestered az all
other evidence Is that Is IN conflict with
the theory advocated by the complacent
coterio which has settled the question
Another likeness of Buddha was found
In a mound in Georgia. also Buddha
statues In Yucatan. The representa-
lions of the IIeh-Kia Crah GoolS) have
been found at Cusco, and also by Clar-
ence h. Moore of the Academy OF Nat
ural Science of Philadelphia, while eX-
ploring the Black Warrior river mound
| nagion In Alabama, cuts of which are
shown in his late volume, Certain Alb
| original Remains OF the Black Warrior
| River Referring to the specimens
| shown in his book, an eminent authorI-
| ty states, that 1t seems to be a repre-
| scntation OF the we'll known Korean
| symbol represented upon their flag l.
| @. Yin-Yang, another name for the
| Tbah-K iah He said this. however, sub
sequcnt to an article published In the
| American Antiquarian on Phallic Sym
| bols in America, vol XIV. No 3, Ibid.
| vol. XVI, No. 20, and failed TO give
| the author of these articles credit. In
| these articles illustrations are given to
show that the YIN Yang, or Itch kiAh.
| swasti5a, sun symbols, serpent SYM
| bols. as well as the Greek Fret ttes-
selatcd bordorl have been found IN
the mound regions of the Mississippi
| valley. Yucatan and Peru.
II may he remarked that Buddha, In
the opinion OF some scholars. is none
but Noah.
Mr. Stoddard mentions another re-
markable find, thus:
| AT Monte ALBION, Mexico, Senior Boz
! tres. governor general and national Gu
| rator Of the Archaeological Depart
| ment OF the National Museum, found a
| true obelisk, A true obelisk ~ shaft
of one piece OF stone, qua7rangular In
shape. the apex being finished by four
right angled triangles OF 45 degrees
! each the dimension az the top being
one half the dimension at the bottom
This was the true decllnatlon of the sun
5000 years ago ~ the vernhl equinox
Cairo Egypt, as indicated by the ar
| iis line of the pyramid OF Gozeh. the
| great pyramid OF tho time OF krufu
$3.50 - G. This great pyramid a.
| We'll az all other pyramids OF Egypt
| We're bulded for the purpose OF ascor'
| tanning the trua years length. Tina
rs Capri COrnus OF winter splstlce
thence 20 Verna equinox, thence 10
summer soIstico, which was very ueces
sary information to the tcoming mil
lions OF the Nile valley. some of The
Arris lines OF the pyramids indicate
3St. degrees, 40 degrees, 4la, ~. t4h
and 40 degrees. which, as stated wa
mo declinatiun OF the sun at ycrna
equinox, cairo, 5000 years ago, n
making this calculation. the progress
sion of the poles must be- taken lnu
consideration wide, the Rational Al
manac by Moses b. Cotswowh) which
amounts % Z 40 degrees in Cyen
900 years This would place latitud,
"a degrees CMeuurds Mound, Ark,l "a
the equator IN a fraction less than 20.
600 years or 70 be moro clear M,
progression of the poles (wd,rh ~ CON
ceded by the highest sclen Ihr author
ities) would cause the equator =, D.,
whore we are now, latitude 34 d.
groes. within fraction less thH $4,000
years"
Another remarkable find ~ hat Of
a tino-pieoe which is thus described,
I'm the spring og 1901. while plowlng