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Through a comment on my blog, I've discovered new scripture, another testament of the Book of Mormon, if you will.

http://mentinah.com/main/about-the-records/read/vol_1/

Fascinating stuff, to be sure. What I love the most about it is the aping of the pseudo-Jacobean language of the Book of Mormon.

Apparently, this is the work of one Philip Landis, a convicted fraudster who now goes by the name of "Cloudpiler." He claims to have been inducted into the "Translation Council" of a previously unknown Native American tribe, the Nemenhah. Of course, you can be "adopted" into the tribe by paying $90 up front and then a monthly fee thereafter.

One wonders what the NAMIRS folks would do with his "glyph stone":

http://mentinah.com/main/mentinah/books/glyphstone.pdf

If nothing else, this guy is a perfect object lesson in how new religions are created.

Interesting that he spends a chapter (9) discussing the rites of the Council of Mothers:

"The Ways and Customs of the Ahmohnayhah Council of Mothers"

This all feels like a mixture of Native American customs (from an outsider's POV) and modified Mormon temple ceremonies. Sort of dry. Like eating chalk.

More on the Cloudpiler dude:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30893871/ns ... yLiJdQ7U1I

Now, it was also in that year ....

Wherefore, I built a ship, and it was after the pattern of the ship built by Nayfee ...

And it came to pass that we ...

Now, the journey through this part of the land became exceedingly strait, for we had thought to find a rich land with game and provision....

And it came to pass that one of the young men had given ...

And after the space of many days we left the great canyons ...

He's got it down. He must have also read a lot of apologetics where sort of similar ancient names are equated with Book of Mormon/Book of Abraham names.

through a glass, darkly... or not at all.

Good grief.