While at work on Monday, I made what I feel is a significant discovery regarding BoM archaeology. Normally, I would reveal my discovery in a more appropriate venue, but since word has made it around the OPA office so quickly, I thought I would reveal the discovery here on FOF.
While sifting through notes of PVAP architecture, there was a pithouse at Paragonah which was listed as having one burial and 15 additional human arms. Fifteen is certainly "not a few" as we read in Alma 17:38. After a brief consultation with Lane, I learned that on the Sand Hollow survey, OPA workers identified King Lamoni's throne. Therefore, I surmise that King Lamoni's land stretched as far north as the Parowan Valley and nearly to the Saint George Basin (or farther) to the south-I also have an inkling that the route on which King Lamoni and Ammon were when they ran into King Lamoni's father was likely the I-15 corridor.
This will certainly alter the PVAP research design and possibly my thesis focus. If any of you PVAPers (current or former) have noticed any other connections between the PV and BoM, please let me know and we can discuss publication.
(Perhaps now the Parowan Valley Archaeological Project will finally gain long-deserved respect among BYU bigwigs.)
6 comments:
This is FANTASTIC! I always knew there was something EXTRA special about PVAP...I am sure that the Parowan Gap rock art can also shed some light on the significance of the area, hasn't V. Norman Garth written some profound things about that already;)!
awesome! for fun i post here and there on some mormon apologetic forums, and the other day one guy (who has no small reputation among the group) explained how he believed kokopelli to be a bastardized depiction of moroni travelling thru the land. but no connections to pv... yet.
it always blows my mind how people so grounded in the Gospel and life continue to grasp at any little shred of non-evidence.
uh brad, Moroni WAS NOT a bastard. I'm pretty sure Mormon claimed him.
I've seen depictions of Kokopelli where he plays the skin flute.
I'm pretty sure that's not Moroni... but we should probably get Cal working on the problem right away.
Wow!! I feel so privileged that I was able to work on such a ground-breaking project, even for just a little while.
Brad, I would challenge you to take a closer look at the "shred of non-evidence" and listen to what your heart tells you.
Who knows, one of the three Nephites may be walking among us . . . Has anyone seen Dave in awhile?
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