Book of Mormon Evidences From Ancient Aztec and Mayan Writings

EightMessiah* ... the Mexicans were acquainted with the language which the Jews were accustomed to employwhen alluding to the birth of the Messiah ... "Come quickly since we expect you." VIII 78* Nothing can be inferred from the silence of Sahagun on this point, except, perhaps, that beingacquainted with the antipathy which was manifested of his age, who were the clergy, to the theorythat the Mexicans were descended from the Jews, he did not choose to say anything unguardedlywhich might lend a strong corroboration to that opinion; and hence it is not improbable that, wellknowing that the Mexicans did expect a Messiah, and even alluded, in the set speeches ofcongratulations which they addressed to each other on the births of their children, to the possibilityof his being born in their days and being of their race, he dissimulated his knowledge, from a fearthat the eloquent orations of the ancient Mexicans, in which traces of that expectation seem tooccur, should be consigned to oblivion .... VIII 66* ... from the writings of Acosta himself, as well as from the works of Sahgun (previous LostTribes Info excerpt, notwithstanding) and Torquemada, and the commentary of the anonymousinterpretter of the Vatican MS., that the Indians of New Spain did expect a Messiah whom theyeven named Mexi ... VI 338* The following passage, translated from the second section of the seventh chapter of the ThirdBook of Garcia's, Origin of the Indians, shows that the attention of that learned writer had beendrawn to this coincidence: 'In New Spain the word Mesico is found, which as Brother Stephen deSalacar remarks, is Hebrew, and is therefore introduced in the second Psalm, and signifies Hisanointed ... since the leader who conducted those who peopled Mexico was named Mesi, or asothers write Mexi; and the city and nation were afterward called after him, in the same way as wesee that many cities, provinces and nations have been named after those who who peopled orfounded them, or to whom they owed their origin, as we shall presently point out. The word Mesishould be noted as being really Hebrew, and it agrees surprisingly with the name of the chief, head,or captain of the Mexicans.'(Lost Tribe Info note ... according to modern Jewish interpretation, the word, Mesi, may bear arelationship to the word Mosiach) VI 186* Sahagun ... alluded, in the set speeches of congratulations which they addressed to each other onthe births of their children, to the possibility of His (the Messiah's) being born in their days andbeing of their race ... VIII 66NineExplorers, Missionaries et al.* Pen's Letter on the Present State of the Lands of the English in America, p. 156 ..."Moreover they reckon by the moon; they offer the first fruits; and have a kind of feast of thetabernacles. It is said that their altar stands on twelve stones. Their mourning lasts a year. Thecustoms of their women are like those of the Jews. Their language is masculine, short, concise,and full of energy, in which it resembles the Hebrew. One word serves for three, and the rest is