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Randy E. Bradford

Long-time treasure enthusiast and collector of treasure hunting, mining and metal detecting materials. My goal is to use my collection to help others by making difficult to find material available to a modern audience. In invite correspondence with other collectors and hope to continue expanding my library for the benefit of other treasure hunting enthusiasts. I am also deeply interested in newspaper archives and bringing back to life the works of regional authors who have contributed much to the treasure hunting community in numerous far-flung corners of the written world through newspapers, magazines and newsletters.  

The LUE: Map, Treasure and Mystery

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Since its initial publication 60 years ago in Karl von Mueller’s Treasure Hunter’s Manual Volume 7, the LUE map has been a source of controversy and fascination. A cryptic puzzle that promises to “perplex treasure hunters for years to come.” Treasure hunters for decades have sought to decypher the cryptic LUE code and the riches related to it.

For the first time, the most thorough and complete collection of clippings, articles and essays on the LUE is presented. A chronological offering of clues, criticisms, and analysis reads like a who’s who of treasure hunting personalities. Karl von Mueller, Michael Paul Henson, Roy Roush, Thomas Penfield, Johnny Pounds, Paul Tainter, John Latham and many more lend their thoughts and critiques of the mysterious LUE.

A literal time capsule of data, that has been painstakingly researched, assembled, and presented for the reader to explore, learn, and draw their own conclusion. Is the LUE the key to vast fortune or an unfortunate hoax? You decide.

Selections From The National Prospector's Gazette Volume 1-2-3 & 4 

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Famed treasure hunter, author and publisher Karl von Mueller reintroduced the treasure hunting community to the “National Prospector’s Gazette” in 1969. For nearly 15 years, the NPG provided a constant source of education and entertainment to eager subscribers.“Exanimo Looks at Books” is the first in a series of books where information from the NPG will be reprinted for the first time in nearly 35 years. Select articles and columns are being presented for a new generation of treasure hunting enthusiasts. Presented here are book reviews that Karl von Mueller published as a regular feature in the NPG. These book reviews represent a thorough examination of everything from treasure hunting, to metal detecting, ghost towns, prospecting and Western History.The NPG demonstrates the timeless quality of Karl von Mueller’s writing, every bit as relevant now as it was when first published. Like Karl von Mueller’s “Treasure Hunter Manuals,” the NPG captivated readers and now the NPG is made available to a 21st Century audience.

Strange Marble Tablet found in Cottonwood Canyon 106 Years ago and Then Just Disappears

  Originally posted in 2014, again in 2018

The following article was written in 2010 and included in the book Nephite North.

It is one of the articles of the past I have received the highest views and requests for, therefore I have decided to post it again, (Edited from the original)

The Cottonwood Marble Tablet

In August of 1916 an article appeared in the Salt Lake Telegram. Many will never understand how important this discovery was/is and the things it sheds light on... and seemingly validating the fallacies of things taught in our education system as fact and yet could not be further from the truth. A sharp eye and a sharp mind, may pick up some of these things.... The following article and more can also be found in the Book Nephite North featured at the end.

Mysterious Tablet Is Uncovered in Cottonwood

Archaeologist Explore Workings of Ancients
Salt Lake Telegrahm August 1916

One day last month, two miners, while driving a drift in one of the canyons of Upper Cottonwood, broke into a small cave of peculiar appearance. Upon closer examination the supposed cave was soon to open into a caved passageway, and after three days work spent In removing debris a complex series of subterranean passages and chambers was exposed. From the number and length of the workings explored to date, they must have been mined upon an extensive scale and throughout a considerable period of time. It will take some time to thoroughly explore these labyrinthic pass-ages, and It Is expected that they will disclose archaeological data of great value.

 

It was at first thought that one of the famed lost Spanish mines had been rediscovered, but later explorations have failed to show any trace of Spanish relics. Instead a large number of Indian tools and Implements of flint and stone, as well as of beaten iron and copper, have, been found, In addition to a remarkable collection of decorated potteries,

 

The walls of many of the tunnels and chambers are decorated with sculp-tured reliefs and hieroglyphic inscriptions, but by far the most Interesting relic found so far is a smooth discolored marble tablet which stood at the entrance of one of the larger chambers. It is completely covered with remarkable sculptured reliefs and hieroglyphic inscriptions, and is reproduced in the accompanying plate. The site of this discovery is, for the present, being jealousy guarded, and it undoubtedly marks one of the most important archaeological discoveries of recent years. The discovery is all the more remarkable in that heretofore no hieroglyphic inscriptions have ever been found north of Mexico.

NOTE: the previous BOLD statement is not true, as Lenape, Sioux, and Ojibwa hieroglyphs were well known at that time, but being shunned with the academics claiming they were not authentic, this would be like someone telling you that the written language you grew up with is not authentic.

Everything points to the great antiquity of these workings-and their contents. The Inscriptions are uncolored and appear to have been incised and picked into the receiving stone by quartz and flint implements, some of which have been preserved. A noteworthy feature of the marble tablet is the combination of pictographs and alphabetic writing. As pictographs are generally conceded to have preceded and to have originated the graphic systems, this tablet would appear to date from a period of transition from the pictographic to the hieroglyphic art. As noted above, none of the records ever found north of Mexico have contained hieroglyphics. This tablet, therefore, may chronicle an amalgamation of inscriptive expression between North American and Mexican tribes; or it may record the progress of civilization of an American tribe, probably the Utes, although It is possible that other Tribes may have come from great distances to obtain the highly prized red metal.

An interesting mineralogical feature to be noted is that throughout, these ancient workings, which are at no great distance below the surface, native copper abounds, in some places being scattered through the vein rock in small fragments, in others occurring as chunks of metallic copper, weighing from a pound or two up to eighty or one hundred pounds. Ordinarily, such a discovery of copper would create considerable excitement, but the 'wall writings and relics are of such absorbing Interest that the copper has been, for a time, relegated to the background. It is puzzling how these Indians, with their primitive tools, were able to break up and extract the exceedingly tough chunks of copper. A number of copper implements and ornaments, hammered and incised, have been gathered, as well as diggers, scrapers, hoes, arrow heads and pounding stones.

 

Various receptacles for food and drink, as well as for earth and ore, were uncovered, they being all made of pottery and decorated with geometric figures, or with picturegraphs or hieroglyphics. This pottery is now being carefully studied, as it is ornamented with symbols and characters which may aid in the deciphering of the stone records. The light gray or black coloring of all the pottery as well as Its crude form, would tend to Indicate its very early Origin. In fact, everything connected with the find evidences great antiquity, and the mine apparently was worked at least many centuries before the appearance of the Spaniards In this region. So far, no key to the decipherment is known, but the various Inscriptions are being carefully scrutinized and compared, in the hopes that one may be detected. In this search collaboration is invited, and should this picture reach the eye of anyone familiar with Indian symbols and records, the investigators would be pleased to have their opinions and suggestions regarding its translation.

 

It has long been known that Utah is a veritable treasure house of archaeo-logical records, but it is claimed by scientists who have examined this stone, that it is the most important archaeological find ever chronicled in Utah's history. Owing to the Intense Interest manifested in these discoveries, it was thought best to keep their location secret, at least until such time as they could be thoroughly explored and proper precautions taken to adequately protect them.

It is hoped to have further news of interest within the next day or two, as the explorations are being pursued with great avidity.

This is when I finally realized that "carefully studied"  means swept away and dusted under the rug by Smithsonian representatives.

After the publishing date of the above article, for the next 3 days a news article was published pertaining to the events, many other artifacts were found. There were tools, ceramics and most interestingly a marble and a Copper Tablet found as well. After the miners supposedly accidentally collapsed the tunnel with dynamite, nothing more was ever said about the discovery and any recovered artifacts have just disappeared.

The following exhibits the Marble tablet with the best photo available thanks to my friend Ryan Nelson who went to the University of Utah in 2010 and took the photos from the original Newspapers. It is unknown at this time where the actual tablets are but they are suspected of being in the possession of the University of Utah.

The Marble Tablet

I find several things that are very interesting to me concerning this find. First, it would seem that there wasn’t a campaign to render the find as a hoax as it seems so many finds in recent years are. Here we have only a few artifacts recovered (To our knowledge), yet it would seem that no effort was made to render it as a hoax, and yet the Michigan Collection of nearly 30,000 artifacts was. Why would the Michigan artifacts, after being designated as a hoax, be purchased or obtained by Milton Hunter?  and why would they later be donated to the LDS Church and than after many years donated to a museum back east after being written off as a hoax? The Cottonwood tablets however just disappeared, Why? Because they could... it is much easier to make a few artifacts disappear that 30,000 of them.

Secondly, I find it interesting that an ancient Copper Tablet or plate was found. This would infer that these people who were often portrayed as ancient backwards uncivilized inhabitants were skilled in the arts of metals.

Third, I feel that the subject of the panels found are directly related to the surrounding area of where they were found, these tablets were found at the very source headwaters of a major contributor of the creation of Lake Bonneville at the headlands and ridges above Little Cottonwood and Big Cottonwood Canyons. I hardly think the events described on them pertain to some unknown location far away.

Fourth, The subject of the story that it tells and that this story came to me from my friend Darrel Sprecher who rediscovered it searching old newspapers in 2010 and at the very moment as I was writing a the chapter concerning Lake Bonneville and the Waters of Ripliancum, in the book Nephite North.

The hieroglyphs found on this tablet are very much like Native American glyphs but they are more like the glyphs of the Ojibwa, Sioux and Lenape. Keep in mind that a related tribe of the Lenape migrated to the east from the west in 700 AD. Although their writing system, the Wallum Olam, is similar, it is very different, but it shares the same symbol base system. Although the migration stories of the Ojibwa don’t match their coming from the west, the evidence does. I have yet to hear or read the actual Ojibwa story. All that exists on the internet it seems are reports from those who are telling you what the Ojibwa really meant, rather than actually telling the story.

The story on the Marble Tablet has no rule as to how it is read such as read from left to right or right to left, in rows or columns. It is meant to be read as a whole. Start where you like because as long as you know the subject, you will receive the same story regardless of where you start to read it. Also the placement of the glyphs in relation to each other is another rule you would need to know: There are however groupings of glyphs meant to be read together. Even still, they all have to do with the main topic or subject.

The subject of the Tablet is a cataclysmic event , flooding, quaking, and great storms, a Destruction of cities and geography yet a creation of a great lake. Many would because of superficial viewing and with the lack of knowledge pertaining to symbol base meaning of the Native American Petroglyphs, see Tents, or even Volcanoes. However, this is not the case as the symbol for dwelling is absent as also the symbols for volcanoes or Lava Tube. If there is one thing I have learned regarding the Native Glyphs in the last 30 years of studying them, it is that the very people who should know about the glyph system, are those who do not.

Although there are many things spoken of on this panel; I will give only a portion of it and leave the finer details out for a few reasons. Either I don’t have the answer, or it is something I choose not to reveal. Whoever inscribed this tablet, either witnessed the event, or the story was handed down with great detail. The story goes something like this;

One day, a great storm came from the North, much rain and much unusual lightning high in the clouds, much wind, the earth quaked much, mountains went up and mountains went down, some mountains divided and much water emerging from their tops like fountains, the hidden waters came up, water was everywhere around all the mountains. The people of one mountain fled to the top to escape the waters. The people of another mountain fled to the top but were killed when they fell. Others watched from the tops of mountains, their cities were at the base of the mountains. The cities were consumed by the rising waters, a great lake was formed, we watched as the winds carried some people away, and the waves of the waters swept others away. The waters rose above the hills and our burial grounds. The turtles are no more. Turtle Island is no more. The people wept. The Sun took several crooked paths and did not come up for two or more days and when it came up it came up in a different place and set in a different place. There was much crying by all the people. The waters continued to rise for several moons. Our cities are gone.

The story told above is certainly not conclusive in that I have had little time to study the tablet, there is much more to it in details and I may be a little off in some areas due to my lack of study. Whatever the case, I don’t think there are many who would argue that an event of destruction is taking place on this tablet. I have for a long time believed that the contents of 3 Nephi 9:7 are pertaining to the now Salt Lake, Ogden and/or Provo Valley’s.

3 Nephi 9:7

 7 Yea, and the city of Onihah and the inhabitants thereof, and the city of Mocum and the inhabitants thereof, and the city of Jerusalem and the inhabitants thereof; and waters have I caused to come up in the stead thereof, to hide their wickedness and abominations from before my face, that the blood of the prophets and the saints shall not come up any more unto me against them.

Many cannot conceive the possibility of mountain tops opening and rivers from the unknown flowing down the mountains, it is easier for them to blame the strange formations found in the tops of the Wasatch Mountains and the Uintas and many other places upon a so called “Ice Age”

I would have no doubt that this tablet speaks of the event found in 3 Nephi 8:12-23 and Helaman 14:21-27 in the land Northward.

Isaiah 41:18  “ I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.”

The Copper Plate

Some Ceramics

Photos by Ryan Nelson

At the time the people were so ready to believe any explanation, and within days of the discovery a man by the name Herbert S Auerbach offered his translation, it was clear to me the man had no understanding of what he was looking at... even in the slightest, His story about his "Salt Princess, No Ni Shee" is what the people bought and fortunately barely remains to this day and yet it seems no one understands where this so called legend even came from. Who was this Herbet S Auerbach? A manager of the Golden Chest Mining company in Coeur D' Alene Idaho, and a business man, son of Samuel, the originator of the department stores, Auerbachs.

There is a very good Indian legend of the Wasu tribe who lived near the Comstock Mountain range that explains what happened from their point of view...  and gives evidence of this event. Now some give very little credibility to Indian Legend, but when the evidence matches the legend you might want to sit down, shut up pay and attention. The Legend is as follows as told by an Indian and recorded by (Mrs. M. M. Garwood, Progressive West Magazine, reprinted in Deseret Semi-Weekly News, Febuary 5, 1909.)

"Long time, heap long time. Maybe one hundred years, injun no sabe, white man sabe. My grandfather's father, he heap old man. Maybe two, three hundred years, me dunno, Carson Valley, Wasu Valley, Truckee Valley, Long Valley, Pilamid Lake, Lublock, eblywhere all water, plenty pish, plenty duck. Big pish too, now no see him no more, all go away, no come back.

"Wasu Injun, he lib big mountains (pointing to the Comstock and Pyramid range). Some time Wasu Indian take `em boat go see Piutee, maybe Piutee he take `em boat go see Wasu Indian, Yash he good friend, all time."

Pointing to the Sierra to the west of Washoe Valley, the old Indian continued:

"Big mountain all time fire, plenty `boom, `boom, heap smoke, injun heap flaid! Byme bye, one day, mountain heap smoke, heap noise, glound too much shake, injun heap flaid, pall down, plenty cly. He sun ebly day come up (pointing to the northeast) he go down (pointing to the southwest). One day sun no come up, Injun no sabe, mountain heap smoke, glound plenty shake, wind blow, water heap mad. Maybe two, tlee day sun he no come, injun no eat, no sleep, all time cly, cly, yash, heap flaid. Byme bye water make plenty noise, go plenty fast like Tlukee Liver: water go down, down, mountain come up, come up, plenty mud, plenty pish die, byme bye sun come back over this mountain (pointing to the southeast) he go down ober there (pointing to the northwest). Yash, whiteman sabe, injun no sabe,

"Maybe two, tlee week, mud he dly up, Piutee, Wasu Injun walk, no more boat. All water he go; maybe little water Pilamid Lake, Honey Lake, Wasu Lake, too much mountain, he come purty quick. Yash, injun no sabe water, big pish no come back. No see him no more."

How I would have loved to have met this Indian, whiteman NO sabe, injun sabe...

Now assuming this tale holds some truths, it likely means that the Indian is referring to the time of the crucifixion wherein there were three days of darkness and that it would appear there was a change in North by the description given of where the sun rose and set. Some have a hard time orienting themselves based on this description, so simply raise your right hand and point to where he says the sun rose,(N/E) then raise your left hand and point to where he says it set,(S/W) now look straight forward and that was North. If you did it correctly, looking perpendicular to your arms, you should be looking at approximately 311 degrees which is the direction of BC North from Washoe Valley Nevada. 

So many things discovered over the past have gone unreported and kept silent, and for obvious reasons, others wisped away in an effort to hide the truth, It is no wonder that so many people seem to have no belief and no faith... I was reminded recently of one of these many recent undisclosed discoveries, among other things I wish I could not only tell, but provide pictures... but a 9 foot red haired large man who has with him a sword so large, (a full 5 foot from tip to hilt,) the finder being by todays standard as a large, could not pick the sword up and wield it with one hand. The finder left everything as he found it.

Where did these Cottonwood artifacts go and why did they disappear? Why is it those who pull the strings of the academics are so afraid of truth?

IF YOU have any information regarding the location of these artifacts or possible information related to this event, Please reach out to me at tuscoro@gmail.com 

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Odd Crystals, Roman Coins and Ornate Sword found in the Utah Mountains

 

Several years ago a friend of mine had heard of Spanish artifacts having been found up in one of the many canyons of the Wasatch Front. He and a friend decided to go up in the canyon and do some siphon dredging. “We had a hell of a hole going on” he said, “about 6 feet in diameter and near 8 feet deep”... All of the dirt and small rocks cast off to the side, he decided to run his detector over it and got several hits, he gathered up a bunch of these thought to be flat sinkers, he put them in his pocket and after a not so successful day packed up and went home...

The next morning he remembered the lead sinkers in his pocket and dug them out a spread them on the table. After little cleaning he realized these were not sinkers, they were widow mites, old Roman coins. He called his buddy and told him we need to go back up there... Armed with their metal detectors they made their way back up the mountain and just above where they were dredging. He told me there was a nice flat spot there where he imagined and told his buddy would have been perfect for an old Spanish camp site. Having both agreed they begin to detect the flat spot area.

Not long after starting to detect, his buddy got a good hit. Both gathered around the spot and begin digging away in what was said to be pretty hard ground. About 6 inches down they exposed what appeared to be the hilt of an old sword, if the whole sword was there, the blade went straight down. A little more digging and it was confirmed not only an old sword, but quite ornate and it was definitely still attached to a blade which refused to move. Just past the hilt the digging got more difficult, he described it as caliche. Trying to dig down deep enough to free the blade was difficult but as they dug down deeper they began to free up many old Roman coins, it was estimated to be about 400.

Nearing where the end of the blade should be, the ground finally let go of the sword. Curiosity caused them to dig just a bit further when they began to pull up some old pieces of burlap, possibly what was left of the old bag which originally carried the coins. In the last effort to pull up what was a far size piece of the burlap and seeming;y wrapped around... were 3 beautiful large presumed quartz crystals. What the hell? They thought, what are these doing here and what are they for? These questions are my motivation in writing this article in an effort to find an answer. The small one seems to have a darker tinted look to it and the two cylindrical 6 sided shape ones have been intentionally beveled on the bottom side as if to fit into a designated stand of sort. My friend told me, “I swear you can believe it or not, but one night I had them sitting on my mantel, we turned out the lights and went to bed,“ he said he woke not long after having fallen asleep for the night and noticed through their open bedroom door, a light source coming from the living room. Curious of course as no light should have been left on, he went to find the two nicer crystals just as he had left them and touching each other, and they were glowing! He said it lasted for hours before dimming... He said he has tried many things several times since to make it happen again but to no avail.

Why were these strange crystals at the bottom of the 4 foot hole under a few hundred Roman coins and a sword shoved down thought the middle of it all as if an attempt to kill it, LOL, Did the Crystals glow for the man who buried them as well and it scared the bejesus out of him? Where did the suspect Spaniard with an ornate likely officers sword, get these crystals and why did he have them? Did he find them somewhere and was just as confused as I am?

Origin of the History and the Demise of the Americas Expanded

  Original Article of July 4^th 2022

And here we are again..... 2025 and none the wiser...

 

According to the Ancients and Myself

 

Every year on July 4th we pointlessly gather again to celebrate the coming out of bondage and captivity from the elite of Great Briton, having won our independence from our oppressor 249 years ago in 1776, and 157 years after, we lost it again to the very same oppressor as a result of the Civil War. This means that for a mere 80 years we had true freedom and independence. This also means that none of us have ever known true freedom. There is a pattern in ALL things. Each culture that has come to this land has fallen to the same pattern, victims of  the curse rather than the blessing, first they are compelled in righteousness, then they they grow in pride becoming puffed up and then fall into iniquity and unrighteousness dividing into classes with the elite rising in power with greed as their motive, and soon thereafter the people fall into bondage and captivity, and if things did not change, when ripe in iniquity they were swept from this land. It has happened at least four times already... are we next?

  

2025,  today, with some exceptions... it still seems as though death has been the choice…

 

The first inhabitants brought to this land by the hand of the Lord, managed to be here for 1100 years as a people before they destroyed themselves "as a people", the second group we do not know how long they were here as a people or when they arrived nor their demise, we do know their blood runs in the veins of their descendants, the Mayan people. The 3rd group of Hebrew origin manage  to stick around for 1000 years before they destroyed themselves (swept off) as a people. All others that have been brought here for whatever purpose has managed to be here 300 to 400 years. 

WE have fallen into iniquity; WE have fallen for worship of strange gods, how much longer until we destroy ourselves as a people? Since the European Colonists have arrived it has been approximately 500 years and since gaining independence in 1776, only one 3rd of the time we have had true freedom, 2/3rds has been in bondage and captivity. WE fell back into bondage and captivity in 1862.

This land caries and ancient old curse, or a blessing depending on your agency, which you can read at the end of this article. 

Of a Personal Nature... My Motive to Research 

I have spent years debating, hesitating upon this very article, not because of embarrassment, not because of uncertainty but merely the idea of wondering how it may be received or discerned by the intended audience. I no longer care seeing what is happening before our very eyes… Nothing I write is put to pen or issued by mouth, until I know those intended to be presented with its possibilities is ready to hear it, I suppose this is one of the reasons why I write sometimes seemingly tight lipped. Keep in mind that which follows is my truth and derived at by my borrowed, yet self developed meticulous methods of research. Each of you is capable of the same if you truly want it and you apply yourself. I encourage all who read the following to seek your own truths as in this case, the truth will most definitely and literally set you free. But be warned, You WILL find exactly what you seek.

In an effort to find truth, whatever that truth is you seek you will no doubt learn of things that were unintended, some of which you really didn’t want to know, but there is nothing you can do to unlearn it and would you want to? 

Let me begin with who I am and where I stand, something I have only hinted about throughout the years, through my writings and personally articulated with friends.

I do this knowing that some will no doubt change their views towards me and walk away. Regardless to those, I wish you the best in what life has to offer and pray that you find the truth you seek. 

I was born in Utah county to a devote Christian family, belonging to “the Mormons.” I suppose you could say that for 14 years I did as I was taught to do, but when I arrived at the age of 14, I guess you could say that the still small voice in me awoke me to things I suddenly did not understand. My response to this lacking knowledge, having expelled every method I had been taught in order to find understanding, I turned to the ways of the world surrounding me, yet never letting it shake in my belief in Christ. I wish I could tell why that is but this is definitely not a full disclosure article. 

I followed the ways of the world for some time however always contemplating the possibilities of what the truth may be and never abandoning my roots. After many trying, emotional experiences and life’s hardships, I found myself in Seattle Washington working for a roofing company having gone to Seattle to escape all the plagued me back home at the time. This is when I discovered that no matter where you go to escape, your troubles go with you.

“One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it”

One day doing laundry in Burien Washington with my sister and her being a Born Again Christian, we engaged in a conversation regarding my remaining affiliation with the Mormon Church. Her contention was that I was a Mormon because I was taught to be one. I thought I knew, I thought I could defend my near abandoned belief, but I was wrong, and when we finished, I realized she was right, and I realized how unprepared I was, I hated the way I felt, I felt naked, (without knowledge) and I was. It was that day in 1989 that it was time to stop shunning the prompts, ideas, experiences, dreams etc, that had occurred over the years that I can now look back and see were all part of shaping me… I made a ten year goal at that point, I was determined that this incident which left me feeling so empty, was never going to happen again. 

In my infinite wisdom of the time, I decided I was going to prove or disprove the Book of Mormon, by doing this I would prove or disprove the man behind it and the church which had grown out of it, and settling the controversies in my mind forever. I want the reader to understand that when I undertook this project, It was not done out of spite or anger, I was unbiased... It was out of desire to know… I didn’t care which way it went, I just wanted the truth, a truth which I could then expand upon and merge with my unshaken belief in Christ.

One of the things that had plagued me for so long was all the conjecture and never anything definitive regarding any geologic or archaeologic evidence, location or structure of the Book of Mormon in the Yucatan. One scholar was recently heard preaching, “What is the ONLY geographical feature of the Book of Mormon that we know for certain its location today according to the Book of Mormon?” He answers himself, “The Hill Cumorah” And this is far from the truth, in fact about 1800 Miles far…  this is the beginning of another Mesoamerica fallacy, more conjecture and self proclaimed intellect. The answer to his question is two fold, Manti, and the Plains of the Nephites. 

Where did the whole idea of the Yucatan for BOM lands come from which spawned 180 years of fallacy? Where did the idea of Cumorah’s location come from? Lets just blame it on a few gullible over zealous men who read Incidents of Stevens Travels, and were anxious to prove their religion by using the wrong methods.... I knew that if I could just prove one thing among the writings, that it would motivate me further in the search. To make this part short, suffice it to say, I found many things which revealed the true locations of the many events written within its pages, and to this day I still have not found one thing presented as evidence of a fraud that I have not found the answer contrary to.

Even today within the church itself, there are many still bastardizing the contents of what was long ago given, I am tempted to speak out against them however I remain silent. So to put this part in a nut shell, my standing today is unpopular, I have found the Book to be thee most accurate history ever given of this continent. There is no such thing as a “true church” all tables are full of vomit. There is however a one true gospel which remains unchanged but is misunderstood by apparently most all. I cannot even give the slightest idea regarding the intense depth and nature of my research regarding this thing however the results of which have left me with this to say, I have found the LDS Church is without a doubt the Lords church and will remain as such until he returns to “SET IT IN ORDER” his house. However its caretakers of the last 130 years have done just as the Israelites, the Jaredites and the very Nephites written about within the pages of the book, and WE have fallen back into iniquity which has brought them back to the same captivity and bondage they just escaped from in 1776. Yes, I am still numbered among them at least for now, they are my people, but I wouldn’t give a plug nickel for what many of them have become.

Foundation Set 

Now the reason I have given the previous sermon is this, MANY have asked me where my foundation is. What books can they read to find these things that I have wrote about for so long? How can we better come to understand our hidden past… my answer is this, first… don’t be so quick to judge the book for the name on the cover, The Book of Mormon,  it is the most correct history we have ever been given, as small as it is… The second book I highly recommend, Is The History of the Indies of New Spain by Diego Duran, mainly because it has been translated to English, but keep in mind, the mind set of the author seems to have flipped in this book as well as the others I will shortly mention. That which is righteous is often called wicked and that which is wicked portrayed as righteous, you have to be aware of this in order to get the full unintended or intended message. Another book depending on your Spanish skills, Cronica Mexicana, By Fernando Alvarado Tezozomoc, the Grandson of Moctezuma II. After which I would highly recommend Memoirs, of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo Vol I and II. And I would read them in the order which has been given above.

I often ask my certain friends the following question and I make no apology because my intent is genuine.., 

“Would you EVER join, adhere to,  or accept ANY religion which was forced upon you?” 

 They always respond the same… “Absolutely Not!” To which I just have to follow up with one last statement…. “Please remind me how you became Catholic.” 

Please remember this mind set when reading, I’m not saying they were  or are evil people, but they were evil people.... I am saying they had been “taught to believe” and were acting upon those beliefs, and if it was not as they had been taught, it was designated as evil due to lack of understanding. 

Now I am not by any means stating that you can find all that I have from these books alone, but this is my foundation that has opened my eyes to many other things which may only be alluded to in some of the books, but has led me to other sources as well. I wish it were possible to tell the whole story but I just don’t see the time needed and quite frankly, an interested audience is minimal. Just to give a short synopsis of people who have come here to this land in the past, I offer the following…

 

Americans of the Past... 

The First Americans

This is the place of the first inhabitants of this earth. For approximately 1000 Years they thrived until iniquities abound and were destroyed by a global flood. 

Some 300 Years after this great flood (Approx. 2700 BC) and in the days of Peleg when the "Earth Divided" (and that doesn't mean what you might think), after the fall of the great tower which was about 40 miles N/E of the Caspian Sea, the first inhabitants since the flood traveled East across the Altai Mountains, further to the East to Mount Tai Shan and to the coast near Hong Kong and across the Pacific ocean and arrived on what was at the time in part the western bay shores very near today’s Las Vegas Nevada. The root of these people are known today as the Altai Mongolian who for the most part have not changed in over 4000 years other than in them days, a man averaged 9 feet tall. I am certain that even they do not understand that they are the very people by which Billions of people have derive including all Asian people and in part a majority of the Native American people, They at one time were referred to the children of Japheth and according to the Mormon book they were called Jaredites, the Mongolian today, at least some of them still know that their first leader or prophet as Moran, the brother of Jared.  His name has survived on many place names to this day where they crossed the high mountains traveling across Asia it was customary to name places after their current leader, a practice that continued in the Americas.. DNA evidenced by Haplogroups A, B, C, & D, found among a majority of the Native tribes of the Americas.

 

Alai Mongolian Man

The Root of Haplogroup A, B, C and D

Compare the culture with Native Americans especially Ute, Hopi, Apache, Navajo or Dene, and or Inuit.

 I can't help but add in here three incredible legends of the past. The first is the Chinese legend of their first leader and prophet, it is said that when the people first arrived at the area of Mount Tia Shan, the eastern most sacred mountains of China. It is said that their first leader ascended the mountain in order to talk to their God, the God gave him 8 or so glowing stones for what purpose is ambiguous, the name of their first leader is not mentioned. Those of you familiar with the story of the Jaredites in the Book of Ether should find this as interesting and revealing, as should the second following unconfirmed account.

By Rodger K. Billington (reprinted from his papers)

“In 1899 while serving with the Royal Communication Committee, serving in an area near the Mongolian boarder, I happened upon two men that were visiting that hostile area for the purpose of bringing Christianity to the natives of the land. These two persons were of the Presbyterian faith.

“Having come in from Hong Kong, traveling a great distance with a reluctant caravan, we arrived at the little out post of Karrint. (renamed Chaybolsob in 1912). The two missionaries had come the same route some two months before we came. Not wanting to be plagued by missionaries I stayed out of their way for the most part, doing my business.

“One day while working with two of the village elders of Karrint, they struck up a conversation with us about an area far to the west that they claimed was a sacred area to their people, and that we should try to make contact with them. They may like the idea of having a telegraph line from the outside to their remote villages. I passed this information on to my superior who contacted our office in Hong Kong.

“As time passed we more or less forgot about the request until about three months later when we received a dispatch from our office to proceed to the wilderness of western Mongolia to make contact with the people there. In the dispatch were the necessary funds to carry out such an operation.

“Two weeks later we had our porters, our provisions and maps. We set out on a Sunday Morning for the western edge of the Mongolian Empire. The going was hard, and it was cold. We ate meat from the local cows and goats. We drank melted snow. We had good comfort in the fact that we lived inside during the night and slept in a warm comfort. It was the traveling that was brutal.

“We traveled about 1,000 miles into the mountains and to the village of Havd. It sat high in the mountains, with small lakes all around it. The people were surprisingly friendly. They treated us very well, but they had no need of our modern contraptions. Even when we explained through out interpreter that they could have communication to the outside world if we could install our telegraph lines, poles and instruments. They just as soon not have such a thing in their village.

“While there I made friends with one of the older men who seemed to be very well respected by the villagers. He liked to tell stories. So, at night, when the wind blew hard, he would sit by the fire and relate the days of old to his children and their children. This one night he told a story that I thought was far fetched, but then most of those stories were, but not like this one.

The old man began his story; ‘ Long ago, during the time when all the land was hidden beneath the waters, a giant serpent came up and drank the water up and exposed the land. Not all the land was exposed but much of it. Our people lived in a different land than we do now. The people of long ago lived many days travel from this place, near an ocean. They lived near a land that was hot and dry even though it was by water. They lived right with their God and they did not fight or hate one another. Soon all the other people of the land began to fight and murder over goats and yaks, they took those things that were not theirs to take. Soon the Great God became angry and shut their mouths so they could not speak.

‘They decided to make marks on the ground so they could communicate. (Origin of the first Native American Petroglyphs) They decided to build a big tower to ascend to their God to ask him to forgive them of their sins and to restore their words. So they built the high tower to the clouds where even the eagle could not fly or build his nest. They climbed the tall tower but when they got to the top they found that they could not see because they were in the clouds. They came back down and found out that they had words, but nobody could understand their words. Our people did not go up the tower. They did not want to make their God angry. They still had their words and could understand each other perfectly well.

‘Soon the other people were angry at our people and tried to kill them because they still had their words. Our people fled that place and headed into the mountains far from the land of the hot ocean and deserts. They crossed two major mountain ranges, and came to a place called Tian Shan. Here in the high mountains they made their villages and began to prosper. But, their God told them that they had to leave this place and go on to another land far away. He told them he would lead them by a spiritual way. The leader of this people was called Moran. He had a large family and they were very large and strong people. He would go to the temple of the mountain and pay homage to his God daily.

‘One day Moran and his family came together and decided it was time for them to depart and go with the hand of their God. They headed east towards the big waters. But before they got too far away their God demanded that Moran come to him on his knees to receive a special gift. Moran was gone from his people for two days and two nights. Soon he came down from the mountain and he was not the same as when he left.

‘The people wanted to know what their God had told Moran. He showed them six small stones he had in a small goat hide bag. The shinned like the sun. The people were very afraid and ran from Moran thinking he was an evil spirit. He called to them, and explained that these small stones would help them see in the darkness. They said they could already see in the darkness, but he told them that where they were going they would need these stones to see in the darkness.

‘The people were very afraid of what was going to happen to them. Moran told them to have faith and not to concern themselves with this. Soon they came upon the plains of Curranzan, and onward to the great ocean we know now as the Pacific Ocean.

‘Moran had his people build strange boats that looked like no other boat they had ever seen. His people complained that these strange boats would not save them, but would be their tombs. Moran told them that they would be safe in these boats. They took many things with them, plants and animals and birds, they took their records and all that they would need in their new land.

‘One of our people stayed behind to tell this story. Her name was ZanHao. She was the sister of Moran and decided to stay behind with her family for some reason. Moran agreed and told her to stay behind and make her life there, at that place of their departure. Our legend says that Moran and his people departed very near where the big city of China now sits. (Likely Shanghai), ZanHao and her family settled on the river there and became a mighty family of very tall and beautiful people.

‘What ever happened to Moran and his people no body knows. The legend says they were swallowed up in the sea, but I don’t believe that to be so. I think they made it to their new home and live in the clouds where the evil people of their day could not go.”

“After I heard that story I laughed inside, but being respectful to the old elder I managed only a smile. Many years later when I was back in London I met my very first Mormon Missionaries. It was during one of their visits with me that I recalled the story of the old Mongolian elder, when they told me the story of the Jaredites. I was flabbergasted. I never joined their church because my wife and her family were set against it. I do believe the story of the elder now, and some day, I might like to know the real story of Moran.

The third legend is found in the Aztec Record, Both Cronica Mexicana and The Histories of the Indies of New Spain. The Aztec are adamant that they derive from two different peoples and migration from another land across the sea. The most recent migration from the North East where in they landed on the eastern coast of the continent and over the many years having traveled across the land eventually turned south to where they were when the Spanish arrived. The most ancient migration being the first people upon this continent after a great flood having left a great tower where in their God had confused their language, they traveled eastward and came to a great ocean and crossing it by boat to this land having come from the west. In this last legend I may have embellished a bit, it has been a long time since I read it.

The People of the Queen of Sheba Origin of the true "Indian"

The next people to arrive on this continent that I am aware, is uncertain as to when they arrived, however it was after 2700 BC but before 900 BC. The answers to this mystery lies in the ancient texts of India. However you can glean other information about this colonization of people from the 1st Book of Kings chapter 10 in the story of King Hyrum, King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba or Shem-bah or Bala[h], and I don’t mean a song sang by the band Three Dog Night, I mean the Children of Shem. The Queen of Sheba was not from Ethiopia or Africa; she was of Indian origin or India, a colony that arrived some time before the voyages of Hyrum. We have no idea as to how extensive this colonization was, well... maybe we do.... but their remains in the flesh upon this land, a remnant and it is within the Mayan People, named appropriately after the mother of Buddha, Maya, and who may very well have been the Queen of Sheba or should we just say Shembalah?

 

Is this one of the earliest rendition of the Mother of Buddha? (Maya)

painting from Ajanta caves

Compare Hindu Culture with Mayan culture

It is likely other cultures came as well but if they did we have little to nothing upon them. Egyptians were NOT among them, anything relating to Egyptians on this continent is as a result of Hebrews. Next in line is a Hebrew or Jewish people who escaped the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in approximately 587 BC. According to the record of the Mormon book they left prior to the destruction in about 600 BC. It is said recently according to a certain Sheikh, “many years before Mohamed there was a Prophet by the name of Lehigh… In asking what happened to this Prophet, the Sheickh said nobody knows, he and his family just vanished.  It is the story of Lehigh and his family that is told among the pages of the book of Mormon. If you read carefully you will find evidence of other cultures besides Jaredites, the first Americans. Hebrew or Jewish evidenced by DNA Haplogroup X evidence throughout the North eastern tribes of the Americas.

Reputable Chinese records show an early exploration in 100 BC giving a remarkable description of the Grand Canyon. There was two explorations, the other by Chinese Buddhist priests in 400 AD to the land of Fusang. 

After Alexander the Greats invasion of India and its ancient libraries, it wasn’t long after that the (Indo-)Greeks no doubt happened upon the ancient exploration documents of the Queen of Sheba, or should we just call her Maya? Explorations were set to investigate these findings and the Greeks set sail, this was about 100 BC. If you notice in the Mormon Book you will see mention of a people whom it is vague as to who they were and where they came from, the Mormon book refers to them as Gadianton. You will also note the Greek names found in the Mormon Book were Gadianton. 

One may also note that this occupation of these Roman affiliated people after re-colonizing after a great destruction at the time of the Crucifixion, led to the establishment of what would be known as the “Western” Roman Empire, however history has been very careful to hide this from you. Academics of that day and today would have you believe that the Western Roman Empire included England, Spain and France and this may be likely but the best hidden secret is that the Americas was the Western Roman Empire which fell in 476 as a whole and just 76 years after the demise and destruction of the Nephites as a people.

Not long after this failed people there were some visits from Wales and likely the Scots and Portuguese, we don’t have much to go on but it is believed the now believed to be fable, of the travels of King Arthur around 500 AD to a place called Afflon, was in fact this very place here in the west. Regarding this, lets just say that the evidences are growing. 

The Western Roman Empire would rise again in 775 AD when they returned to reclaim what was not theirs to begin with and reconcer their ancient enemy, the Toltec. This colonization was somewhat more successful but again doomed before it ever started due to the curse/blessing upon this land. During this period it is likely that that many affiliated or under control of the Roman thumb visited this land. When you read of their wars regarding the western empire, they often refer to the Native people as Barbarians or in some texts, “Mecca” or Mexica. This round of invasion upon the Native people lasted until about 1050 AD. I have compeling ideas in that the Romans thought the Natives were of Muslim origins.

Read the text of the Tucson Lead Crosses

With the exception of spotty visits by Welsh, Scots, Portuguese and possibly others with the next wave of invading colonization would be preceded by Christopher Columbus The man credited in the discovery of America named after Makir. Amerig, a much earlier visitor of the Americas and Columbus knew it… He also knew by the old Portuguese maps and instruction he was given and no doubt knew of and referred to this as the Western Indies knowing well and good the people of India from which the term Indian derives, had been here long before Columbus was even a thought. And of course Columbus was followed by the Spanish, French and English. And here we are, the Gentile Nation ready to be swept from this land? Or redeemed? it IS a choice....

An ancient old curse or blessing, you decide…

The following was written approximately 4600 to 4700 years ago’ 

And he had sworn in his wrath unto the brother of Jared, (Moran) that whoso should possess this land of promise, from that time henceforth and forever, should serve him, the true and only God, or they should be swept off when the fulness of his wrath should come upon them. And now, we can behold the decrees of God concerning this land, that it is a land of promise; and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall serve God, or they shall be swept off when the fulness of his wrath shall come upon them. And the fulness of his wrath cometh upon them when they are ripened in iniquity.

 

For behold, this is a land which is choice above all other lands; wherefore he that doth possess it shall serve God or shall be swept off; for it is the everlasting decree of God. And it is not until the fullness of iniquity among the children of the land, that they are swept off. And this cometh unto you, O ye Gentiles, that ye may know the decrees of God—that ye may repent, and not continue in your iniquities until the fulness come, that ye may not bring down the fulness of the wrath of God upon you as the inhabitants of the land have hitherto done.

 

Behold, this is a choice land, and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall be free from bondage, and from captivity, and from all other nations under heaven, if they will but serve the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ, who hath been manifested by the things which we have written.

And again the new comers are warned…

Written about 580 BC

 

Wherefore, I prophesy according to the workings of the Spirit which is in me, that there shall none come into this land save they shall be brought by the hand of the Lord.

 

Wherefore, this land is consecrated unto him whom he shall bring. And if it so be that they shall serve him according to the commandments which he hath given, it shall be a land of liberty unto them; wherefore, they shall never be brought down into captivity; if so, it shall be because of iniquity; for if iniquity shall abound cursed shall be the land for their sakes, but unto the righteous it shall be blessed forever.

 

And behold, it is wisdom that this land should be kept as yet from the knowledge of other nations; for behold, many nations would overrun the land, that there would be no place for an inheritance. Wherefore, I have obtained a promise, that inasmuch as those whom the Lord God shall bring out of the land of Jerusalem shall keep his commandments, they shall prosper upon the face of this land; and they shall be kept from all other nations, that they may possess this land unto themselves. And if it so be that they shall keep his commandments they shall be blessed upon the face of this land, and there shall be none to molest them, nor to take away the land of their inheritance; and they shall dwell safely forever.

 

But behold, when the time cometh that they shall dwindle in unbelief, after they have received so great blessings from the hand of the Lord—having a knowledge of the creation of the earth, and all men, knowing the great and marvelous works of the Lord from the creation of the world; having power given them to do all things by faith; having all the commandments from the beginning, and having been brought by his infinite goodness into this precious land of promise—behold, I say, if the day shall come that they will reject the Holy One of Israel, the true messiah, their Redeemer and their God, behold, the judgments of him that is just shall rest upon them.

 

Yea, he will bring other nations unto them, and he will give unto them power, and he will take away from them the lands of their possessions, and he will cause them to be scattered and smitten. Yea, as one generation passeth to another there shall be bloodsheds, and great visitations among them; wherefore, my sons, I would that ye would remember; yea, I would that ye would hearken unto my words.

 

O that ye would awake; awake from a deep sleep, yea, even from the sleep of hell, and shake off the awful chains by which ye are bound, which are the chains which bind the children of men, that they are carried away captive down to the eternal gulf of misery and woe. Awake!

 

 

Choose this day whom you will serve,

not tomorrow or the next day… choose this day.