Book of Mormon Evidences From Ancient Aztec and Mayan Writings

FiveThe Deity* "... offered up by the northern Indians, to the bountiful giver, the supreme holy spirit of fire,whom they invoke in that most sacred and awful song, YO He Wah, and loudly ascribe to Him,Hallelu-Yah, for his continued goodness to them." (Adair of sacrifices and offerings) VIII 366Supplement* The Indian invocation either of all or some of the syllables of Jehovah, or Yohewah, in theirfestivals and religious dances, is so remarkable a fact that it will be satisfactory thta it does not reston the single testimony of Adair, but is confirmed by the accounts of writers of other nations, bothfrench and spanish, and particularly by the original religious songs of the Indians. VIII 384Supplement* ... the learned editor of Major Long's 'Expedition to the Rocky Mountains' ... many of the stanzasof which terminate with the syllables Yah-we-he-ya, Whe-he-ya, Hah-he-whe-ya, evidentallyinvocations of the Great Spirit, and clearly enunciative of the Divine name. VIII 384 Supplement* Richard Lauden, describing the yearly festival of the Floridians ... as the sound of Yah-wah,jarred in Lauden's ear, he called it Java, in resemblance to the Syriac and Greek method ofexpressing the tetra-grannaton, from which Galatinus imposed it upon us, calling it Jehova, insteadof Yohewah. VIII 370 Supplement* Laet, in his description of America, and Escarbotus, assure us, they have often heard the SouthAmerican Indians to repeat the sacred word Halleluiah, which made them admire how they firstattained it. VIII 373 Supplement* "And the natives of Sir Francis Drake's New Albion were desirous of crowning him Hio, or Ohio,a name well known in North America, and hath an evident relation to the great beloved name. Hadthe former been endued with a proper capacity, and given a suitable attention to the Indian generallaw of purity, he would probably have described them singing YoHeWah, Hallelu-Yah & c., afterthe present manner of our North American red natives." (Adair) .... VIII 368 Supplement* Don Jose Cortes likewise, describing in his inedited Memoirs the manners and customs of theApache Indians ... thus notes this frequent recurrence of the syllable Ho in the songs which theyused in their religious dances. VIII 384 Supplement* It may be here observed, that the particle, teo, in the Mexican language prefixed to the names ofpersons, places and nations, and meaning divine, as in Teocipactli, Teochichimeca, correspondsexactly with, jeru, in Hebrew, which signifies, in the same manner, holy or divine. VI 186* ... the Mexicans believed, like the Jews, that God was omnipresent both in heaven and in hell ...VI 518* As a rock and refuge of his chosen people - a name which the Mexicans emphatically bestowedupon Huitzilopochtli ... VIII 180* ... (from previous excerpt)second verse of the nintey-first Psalm, "I will say of the Lord, He is myrefuge and my fortress:my God; in him I will trust. VIII 180