The Two Cumorah Solution
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2023 2:06 am
The Two Cumorah Solution
This is some information I discovered on line, mostly during the Pandemic while working from home. (bored
)
Louis Edward Hills, at the time a member of The First Quorum of the Seventy of The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, headquartered in Independence, MO, wrote three books limiting the Geography of The Book of Mormon to Central America.
(Hills did not call it āMesoamerica.ā)
HathiTrust, a repository of books in the Public Domain, has linked to the three books from GoogleBooks. Google scanned them from separate libraries, not necessarily in this order:
* The Library of Congress
* Princeton
* University of Wisconsin-Madison
I created tinyurls to each scanned book. Each book contains the āMesoamericaā map, some have called āMormonās Mapā and/or the āSorenson Model.ā
The third scanned book with a 1924 publication date, is missing the map. But I own two physical copies of the 1924 book, a First and Second Edition, which I purchased off of Amazon in 2021. The First Edition that I own has the fold-out map. The second edition has a forward by his daughter Louisa Hills, published after her Fatherās death in 1925, but contains the same 1924 publication date.
Her second marriage was performed by her Father in her Fatherās home, at 201 S. Willis Avenue, Independence, Missouri. That is the address where M2C was created on April 1917.
Look up the address on a search engine to see the modest house still standing. I gleaned that information from RLDS documents, which Iām currently keeping to myself.
This is the listing on Amazon for one of the 1924 books I purchased on July 27, 2021:
https://www.amazon.com/New-Light-Americ ... 160&sr=8-2
HathiTrust:
https://tinyurl.com/LEHills1918book
https://tinyurl.com/LEHills1918map
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https://tinyurl.com/LEHills1919book
https://tinyurl.com/Hills1919Map
https://tinyurl.com/LEHills1924book
The 1918 & 1919 books, Hills compared The Book of Mormon to the Maya Civilization. The 1924 book is actually a series of lectures by L.E. Hills compiled into a book.
On page 139 is the Two Cumorah idea:
https://tinyurl.com/LEHills1924bookM2C
On page 130, Hills references a March 25, 1911 article by H.A. Stebbins, an older member of the RLDS Church, born Jan 1844, who came up with the Two Cumorah idea, due to the RLDS Churchās āCommittee on American Archaeologyā using a hemispheric map. Thatās a typo or printerās error. The actual date is March 11, 1911.
Hills is quoting Stebbins as an appeal to authority, to incorporate his Two Cumorah theory and the geography of The Book of Mormkn, into a limited area in Central America, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
Go to page 245 of this .pdf and read the March 15, 1911 article by Stebbins. If you are familiar with the arguments of F.A.R.M.S., you will see the originals here, such as the idea that the New York Cumorah was merely called Cumorah, due to tradition, but that the actual Hill Cumorah is still undiscovered somewhere in Mexico.
The Two Cumorahs idea, was due to a false Hemispheric model. Zarahemla/Land of Nephi in South America was too far from Cumorah in New York.
(This is a large .pdf that will load better on a desktop or tablet, vs a phone, due to possible memory constraints.)
http://www.latterdaytruth.org/pdf/100225.pdf
There are currently two organizations in Missouri who promote L.E. Hills ideas:
The Hill Cumorah Expedition Team:
https://hillcumorahexpeditionteam.com or http://hceti.org/ ā¦andā¦ https://www.bomf.org/
Two organizations in Utah promote L.E. Hillsās ideas:
BookofMormonCentral
https://bookofmormoncentral.org/
Interpreter Foundation
https://interpreterfoundation.org/
FAIRLDS - based in Florida(?)
https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/
The books are also found here:
https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org ... s?lang=eng
The book called the āStick of Josephā is an annotated RLDS version of The Book of Mormon with Maya-themed images, annotated by L.E. Hills himself.
ENJOY!
This is some information I discovered on line, mostly during the Pandemic while working from home. (bored
)Louis Edward Hills, at the time a member of The First Quorum of the Seventy of The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, headquartered in Independence, MO, wrote three books limiting the Geography of The Book of Mormon to Central America.
(Hills did not call it āMesoamerica.ā)
HathiTrust, a repository of books in the Public Domain, has linked to the three books from GoogleBooks. Google scanned them from separate libraries, not necessarily in this order:
* The Library of Congress
* Princeton
* University of Wisconsin-Madison
I created tinyurls to each scanned book. Each book contains the āMesoamericaā map, some have called āMormonās Mapā and/or the āSorenson Model.ā
The third scanned book with a 1924 publication date, is missing the map. But I own two physical copies of the 1924 book, a First and Second Edition, which I purchased off of Amazon in 2021. The First Edition that I own has the fold-out map. The second edition has a forward by his daughter Louisa Hills, published after her Fatherās death in 1925, but contains the same 1924 publication date.
Her second marriage was performed by her Father in her Fatherās home, at 201 S. Willis Avenue, Independence, Missouri. That is the address where M2C was created on April 1917.
Look up the address on a search engine to see the modest house still standing. I gleaned that information from RLDS documents, which Iām currently keeping to myself.
This is the listing on Amazon for one of the 1924 books I purchased on July 27, 2021:
https://www.amazon.com/New-Light-Americ ... 160&sr=8-2
HathiTrust:
https://tinyurl.com/LEHills1918book
https://tinyurl.com/LEHills1918map
**
https://tinyurl.com/LEHills1919book
https://tinyurl.com/Hills1919Map
https://tinyurl.com/LEHills1924book
The 1918 & 1919 books, Hills compared The Book of Mormon to the Maya Civilization. The 1924 book is actually a series of lectures by L.E. Hills compiled into a book.
On page 139 is the Two Cumorah idea:
https://tinyurl.com/LEHills1924bookM2C
On page 130, Hills references a March 25, 1911 article by H.A. Stebbins, an older member of the RLDS Church, born Jan 1844, who came up with the Two Cumorah idea, due to the RLDS Churchās āCommittee on American Archaeologyā using a hemispheric map. Thatās a typo or printerās error. The actual date is March 11, 1911.
Hills is quoting Stebbins as an appeal to authority, to incorporate his Two Cumorah theory and the geography of The Book of Mormkn, into a limited area in Central America, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
Go to page 245 of this .pdf and read the March 15, 1911 article by Stebbins. If you are familiar with the arguments of F.A.R.M.S., you will see the originals here, such as the idea that the New York Cumorah was merely called Cumorah, due to tradition, but that the actual Hill Cumorah is still undiscovered somewhere in Mexico.
The Two Cumorahs idea, was due to a false Hemispheric model. Zarahemla/Land of Nephi in South America was too far from Cumorah in New York.
(This is a large .pdf that will load better on a desktop or tablet, vs a phone, due to possible memory constraints.)
http://www.latterdaytruth.org/pdf/100225.pdf
There are currently two organizations in Missouri who promote L.E. Hills ideas:
The Hill Cumorah Expedition Team:
https://hillcumorahexpeditionteam.com or http://hceti.org/ ā¦andā¦ https://www.bomf.org/
Two organizations in Utah promote L.E. Hillsās ideas:
BookofMormonCentral
https://bookofmormoncentral.org/
Interpreter Foundation
https://interpreterfoundation.org/
FAIRLDS - based in Florida(?)
https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/
The books are also found here:
https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org ... s?lang=eng
The book called the āStick of Josephā is an annotated RLDS version of The Book of Mormon with Maya-themed images, annotated by L.E. Hills himself.
ENJOY!