Anubis in Facsimile No. 3 and Mormon Deception

[Philo Sofee]

Here is an interesting video on the Book of Abraham facsimiles by a noted reviewer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIsGRBla5ik

WOW! A blast from the past. This will make a great introduction into my new current view of things. THANKS for finding this old gem of myself. How fun!

[Shulem]

Shulem, I thought you might find this video on the Book of Abraham translation interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TgWvGUd7ns

Thank you for bringing that to my attention, Moksha. I appreciated how they brought up my discovery of the missing snout and presented a slide to that effect using pics from my website. I just want to say that I am 100% convinced and sure that Smith had the nose hacked out because of the controversy it would have caused to leave it intact. I so testify, I know it to be so. What Smith did to Anubis was a rotten thing to do. There is no excuse for that kind of behavior. It was shameful and wrong for him to do that. Today, the Church bears that shame and the prophets of Mormonism today are skunks who reek with foul odors. Shame on all of them! They stand rebuked before me -- Amen and amen.

video clip here

[Shulem]

I would like to state for the record that there are references to the Egyptian god Anubis in the Adam Clarke Commentary that may have been influential in convincing Smith to have the nose of Anubis hacked off from the lead plate. Smith was determined to convert the dog-headed Egyptian god into slave in order to make way for his original interpretation of the figure which he later realized was wrong.

Exodus 11:7

2. We know that one of their principal deities was Osiris, whose son, worshipped under the form of a dog, or a man with a dog's head, was called Anubis latrator, the barking Anubis. May he not be represented as deploring a calamity which he had no power to prevent among his worshippers, nor influence to inflict punishment upon those who set his deity at naught? Hence while there was a great cry, צעקה גדלה tseakah gedolah, throughout all the land of Egypt, because of the mortality in every house, yet among the Israelites there was no death, consequently no dog moved his tongue to howl for their calamity; nor could the object of the Egyptians' worship inflict any similar punishment on the worshippers of Jehovah.

In honour of this dog-god there was a city called Anubis in Egypt, by the Greeks called Cynopolis, the city of the dog, the same that is now called Menich; in this he had a temple, and dogs, which were sacred to him, were here fed with consecrated victuals.

Thus, as in the first plagues their magicians were confounded, so in this last their gods were put to flight. And may not this be referred to in Exodus 12:12, when Jehovah says: Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment? Should it be objected, that to consider the passage in this light would be to acknowledge the being and deity of the fictitious Anubis, it may be answered, that in the sacred writings it is not an uncommon thing to see the idol acknowledged in order to show its nullity, and the more forcibly to express contempt for it, for its worshippers, and for its worship.

2 Kings 17:31

The Avites made Nibhaz — This was supposed to be the same as the Anubis of the Egyptians; and was in form partly of a dog, and partly of a man. A very ancient image of this kind now lies before me: it is cut out of stone, about seven inches high; has the body, legs, and arms, of a man; the head and feet of a dog; the thighs and legs covered with scales; the head crowned with a tiara; the arms crossed upon the breasts, with the fingers clenched. The figure stands upright, and the belly is very protuberant.

2 Kings 17:41

Nibhaz, according to the rabbins, had the shape of a dog, much like the Anubis of the Egyptians. In Pierius's Hieroglyphics, p. 53, is the figure of a cunocephalus, a kind of ape, with a head like a dog, standing upon his hinder feet, and looking earnestly at the moon.

[Moksha]

Smith was determined to convert the dog-headed Egyptian god into slave in order to make way for his original interpretation of the figure which he later realized was wrong.

So Anubis was made to suffer in order to perpetuate the deception. Anubis lost his nose so that we may have milk before potted meat.

[Shulem]

Smith was determined to convert the dog-headed Egyptian god into slave in order to make way for his original interpretation of the figure which he later realized was wrong.

So Anubis was made to suffer in order to perpetuate the deception. Anubis lost his nose so that we may have milk before potted meat.

Prior to my discovery of observing the lead plate and how the original face had been altered, rearranged, and repurposed, everyone just assumed that the black slave had a human head even though the label and the entire scene indicated the person was Anubis. Nobody questioned why the carving of the face was mismatched with the character of the text or questioned whether the person carved on the plate was different than the person in the papyrus. Everyone just assumed that what was on the papyrus was a mirror like copy of what was in the Facsimile. But my demonstrating how Smith altered the plate in order to satisfy his translation serves to show that everything about Smith’s translations were based on him knowing that his translations were a catalyst to what he imagined while he interpreted the art and text. Smith realized his original interpretation that he had already shared with others was wrong so he had to alter the evidence in order to make it conform to his wishes. So, he had the nose hacked off and removed all indication that the head was that of a dog or jackal. But we see the ear remained intact because the person who removed the nose either refused to remove the ear or neglected to remove the ear.

One might think that Latter-day Saints today should be a little miffed that they’ve been fooled by the circumstances played out in the Anubis incident. Believers of the Book of Abraham have been played. They’ve been had! It all seems rather disconcerting.