Book of Mormon Archaeological News: Temple of the Cross

The Temple of the Cross

Information compiled

Brian Marshall

The Native American Christian

Alma 21:45 Yea, all those who were the true believers in Christ, took upon them, gladly, the name of Christ, or Christians, as they were called, because of their belief in Christ, who should come; and therefore, at this time, Moroni prayed that the cause of the Christians, and the freedom of the land might be favored.

Matthew 15:24

Palenque Mexico's Temple of the Cross Tablet

Ever wondered of the Book of Mormon was fact of fiction? The ravings of a crazy man named Joseph Smith, who fabricated a book to start his own church, or could there be truth in what Joseph Smith claimed and the Book of Mormon story?

Is there scientific evidence for the Book of Mormon? Evidence existing which shows Joseph Smith neither was crazy or raving when he wrote about a Native American Christian people who once existed upon the American Continent long before the advent of Hernando Cortez or Christopher Columbus.

Here are photo's of Native American Crosses, from Native American Temples, Pyramids and other religious structrues of ancient time. Time which predates modern American History. Happy viewing!

Smithsonian Depiction of Temple of the Cross

John 10:16 KJV
" other sheep I have not of this fold then also must I bring "

The Temple of the Cross, to coin the phrase, " is an inconvenient truth ", which many are not comfortable with. It means we don't know our history. It means somebody with lots of power has not been frank with the American people, someone has told us a lie concerning the Native American people, concerning their history, their origins and who they are. Jesus said, " I am not sent but unto the LOST SHEEP of the house of the house of Israel" Matthew 15:24...

Christ came to save the Lost Sheep of the house of Israel. While this is a simplistic view, if archaeolgists find Native American crosses, does this not make them descendants of the House of Israel?

Ezekiel 34:6;11;12

⁶My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.

¹¹For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.

¹²As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day** that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

Color Photo of Temple of the Cross Group

Palenque Mexico

The Temple of the Cross, one of three from the temple of the cross group. The other two consist of the Temple of the Son, and Temple of the Folated Cross. Palenque Mexico

Wesleyan University Temple of the Cross Tablet

The Central Tablet of the Temple of the Cross records the birth of the deity Muwaan Mat, recounts the beginning of the present creation, records a dynastic list beginning with the legendary ruler U K'ix Kan, and concludes with the accession of the first Kan B'ahlam on 10 Eb' 0 Wo' (April 572).

The following transcription and translation correspond to the glyph blocks between A16-F17 and P1-U17 from the Central Tablet of the Temple of the Cross. Addition analysis and a transliteration will be available in the Spring of 2005.

Wesleyan.edu Stone Tablet Magnified.

Wesleyan.edu Temple of Cross Tablet magnified.

Navajo Woman Weaving Cross

Alma 21:131 And thus he was preparing to support their liberty, their lands, their wives, and their children, and their peace, and that they might live unto the Lord their God, and that they might maintain that which was called by their enemies the cause of Christians.

University of Arizona

3 Nephi 4:74 And it came to pass that in the ending of the thirty and fourth year, behold I will shew unto you that the people of Nephi who were spared, and also those who had been called Lamanites, who had been spared, did have great favors shewn unto them, and great blessings poured out upon their heads, insomuch that soon after the ascension of Christ into heaven, he did truly manifest himself unto them, shewing his body unto them, and ministering unto them;

MAYAN PYRAMID BARES TOMB OF EGYPTION TYPE
( New York Times - Chicago Tribune Dispatch - December 28, 1952 )

Mexico City Dec. 27 - Remarkable parallels with the burial customs of ancient Egypt have been found in a newly discovered Mayan tomb at Palenque Mexico. The cover of the tomb with the cross and undeciphered hierglyphics pictured above is one solid slab, twelve feet long, seven feet wide, and one foot thick, estimated to weigh six tons. Palenque anciently had a population of more than 100,000. Palenque is the modern name; the ancient name of the city is not known.

NEW YORK TIMES MAYAN CROSS SARCOPHOGUS LID

In 1952 Ruz Lhuillier was excavating the staircase of the Pyramid Temple when he found a sealed passageway that led to the burial crypt and sarcophagus of King Pakul. This was the first burial crypt found in Central America, let alone in a pyramid, and fueled a debate that the Incas were in some way connected to Egypt. The lid of the sarcophagus is the depiction of King Pakul.

Temple Inscription Diagram

Alberto Ruz Lhuillier

Alberto Ruz Lhuillier (27 January 1906 – 25 August 1979) was a Mexican archaeologist. He specialized in pre -Colombian Mesoamerican archaeology and is well-known for leading the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) excavations at the Maya site of Palenque, where he found the tomb of the Maya ruler, Pakal. Ruz Lhuillier is sometimes referred to as the "Hitchcock of Archaeology".

MAYAN CROSS SARCOPHAGUS LID

Mexico City's National Museum of Anthropology

Other Cruciform Structures

Above Latin style cross tombs of Mitla Mexico. Photos taken from The Cruciform Structures of Mitla and Vicinity (1909), copyright expired, public domain.

Mexico Native Version of Egyptian Coptic Cross

Monte Alban Mexico

VASE MADE IN SOUTHERN MEXICO

WITH ROMAN STYLE LEGIONARY

CROSS

SHOSHONE PRAYER BAG WITH SHOSHONE

CROSS

Manchester Kentucky Monogram Cross Petroglyph's

" Jesus Christ, Son of the Father "

" right hand of God "

Red Bird Stone Petroglyph Monograms Interpreted

Full Story on Red Bird Petroglyph
Redbird Petroglyph Details

THE SPIRO MOUND CROSS

SPIRO OKLAHOMA

Excavation by Oklahoma University

Notice the Rattle Snake Swastika?

More Temple of the Cross Photo History

SPANISH MISSIONARIES WERE SHOCKED BY YALALAG CROSSES

the Yalalag Crosses worn by Meso-American Women
Upon Hernando Cortez's arrival on the continent.

William Pescott says, " They [ Spanish Missionaries ] could not suppress their wonder as they beheld the cross, the sacred emblem of their own faith raised as an object of worship in the temples of Ahahuac "
( Conquest of Mexico Vol. 3 pp. 321,322 )

I have many more Book of Mormon photo evidences to publish.

I will as a parting shot publish 1 more photo.

Did King Solomon’s Navy Discover America?

Story By Israel National News
Mystery Mountain, Los Lunas, New Mexico. That’s where a fascinating find was discovered with the Hebrew inscription of the Ten Commandments. What is amazing about this find, is that the ten commandments were written in a Hebrew script that is so ancient, it was last used around and up to the Babylonian expulsion. This means it was probably written between 2,500-3,000 years ago! How did this script, as well as the text of the ten commandments wind up in New Mexico, so many centuries ago?
cenhttp://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Message.aspx/2384

Ancient Hebrews In America

Los Lunas 10 Commandment Stone Translation Chart

THE LOS LUNAS, NEW MEXICO,DECALOGUE

Exodus 20:2–17
Deuteronomy 5:6–21

Thomas F. McDaniel, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
The Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Wynnewood, Pennsylvania

While much attention has been given recently to the legal
battles from Alabama to Wisconsin over the presence of
granite monuments and bronze plaques of the Decalogue on
public property,1 little attention has been given to world’s
oldest Hebrew inscription of the Ten Commandments which
turned up in New Mexico in the nineteenth century—a replica
of which has yet to be made. This Decalogue was inscribed in
Hebrew (using a quasi-Phoenician script) on the flat face of
a large basalt boulder on a mesa now known as “Mystery
Mountain” or “Hidden Mountain,” three miles west of Los
Lunas. Given its antiquity, the monumental bolder is of some
significance for early American history.
In 1949, Robert H. Pfeiffer of the Harvard University recognized
that the inscription was an abbreviated form of the
Decalogue; and since then a number of other scholars, including
Harvard Professor Barry Fell (1976: 310), have confirmed
the identification. My inspection of the inscription on site in
1983 and a comparison of the script used on the bolder
Decalogue with other early Northwest Semitic scripts led me
to conclude that the “Mystery Mountain” inscription is not
just centuries old but could possibly be pre-Columbian or
even pre-Christian.

Read Full Story click link.
http://tmcdaniel.palmerseminary.edu/LosLunas10.pdf