User talk:Bochica
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[edit] Style
Your recent change to "Golden Plates" improved the style, but re-adding the extra phrase to the "View of the Hebrews" sentence made it more awkward.--John Foxe 16:23, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Stela B Copan
Thanks for all your great work and contributions! In reference to the elephant issue... I just ran across an interesting article. Look a little over half way down at the orange vase... thought that was particularly interesting. gdavies 22:17, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
- I appreciate the compliment! I've seen a few "elephants" on Mayan pottery as well. The Mayan rain god "Chac" has a long elephant-like snout. The Mayan temple at Uxmal with all of the stone "elephant snouts" on it that you see so often is actually covered with masks of Chac. The image on the Mayan pottery at the web site listed above doesn't look very much like Chac though...it looks like an elephant with really sharp teeth to me :-) Bochica 02:17, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
- Haha, well I haven't read much on this specifically, but from a quick scan of the internet it looks like Stela B Copan's "elephants" are contested by some people, and there are definitely more solid and uncontested instances of elephants in Mayan art. gdavies 05:40, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] An interesting article
I just found another article by David A Palmer that talks about the "hill Vigia" and "Cerro Vigia" that seem to match up with the Hill Cumorrah (proposed by himself and Sorenson). I know there are some sites like this about which there is little argument among LDS scholars, I think these sites should be noted but I'm not sure where... Could go within the LGM section, a subsection of "efforts to correlate ruins and artifacts," The lamanites and the Maya (even "warfare" since it was the site of some battles). gdavies 03:37, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
- We could probably mention a few plausible locations in with the "Limited Geography Model" section. I'm actually planning to add info on plausible locations to the Limited Geography Model (Book of Mormon) page at some point, so that I don't overburden the "Archaeology and the BoM" page. As a side note, there has also been a suggestion of moving the LGM page to a "Book of Mormon Geography Models" page instead. Bochica 14:34, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
