A new evidence for Facsimile 1
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 5:49 am
I am not even sure where to start, so I will start with.... aside from this is a complete set up for members of the church that are looking for any reinsurance that the Book of Abraham is indeed about Abraham, that "a lions couch is not an alter."
He specifically stated that Facsimile 1 is a Lion couch scene, "because the alter looks like a lion." I am not remotely a Egyptologist, I am not close to being a expert on the Book of Abraham, but, I have studied it a bit about it and listened to RFM's classic 13 hr interview with Robert Ritner on my daily commute 3 or 4 times. Not to mention I have access to Google and AI....and there is nothing I have read, listened to, or found that would support a lions bed as being an alter.
I have read and heard it called a embalming table, funerary couch, bier, a bed for rituals, a bed, but never an alter from any source outside of Mormonism.
A positive was, for about 5 seconds, Kerry said he was wrong on Execration Rituals after listening to Ritner. But then it went south and he tried to make a point that in these rituals the priests often used knifes performing them on figurines, basically voodoo dolls; subtly tying it to Abraham almost being sacrificed with a knife on the "alter."
About half way through Kerry makes a point to say this new theory is making him take more seriously the missing scroll theory. Is he moving away from the catalyst theory, if I remember correctly he was hinting at?
Towards the beginning he made a remark in regard to changing his mind after listening to Ritner on Execration magic, and said he is not like other people who dlb. down on their theories, even if wrong....I could not help but to think of Gee?
There is a lot more of the same garbage, but in the end, at least for me it came across as Smoot playing the straight man (Abbott) with leading questions setting up Kerry (Costello).
Take it away Paul if you are interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSI7knxTAqc
He specifically stated that Facsimile 1 is a Lion couch scene, "because the alter looks like a lion." I am not remotely a Egyptologist, I am not close to being a expert on the Book of Abraham, but, I have studied it a bit about it and listened to RFM's classic 13 hr interview with Robert Ritner on my daily commute 3 or 4 times. Not to mention I have access to Google and AI....and there is nothing I have read, listened to, or found that would support a lions bed as being an alter.
I have read and heard it called a embalming table, funerary couch, bier, a bed for rituals, a bed, but never an alter from any source outside of Mormonism.
A positive was, for about 5 seconds, Kerry said he was wrong on Execration Rituals after listening to Ritner. But then it went south and he tried to make a point that in these rituals the priests often used knifes performing them on figurines, basically voodoo dolls; subtly tying it to Abraham almost being sacrificed with a knife on the "alter."
About half way through Kerry makes a point to say this new theory is making him take more seriously the missing scroll theory. Is he moving away from the catalyst theory, if I remember correctly he was hinting at?
Towards the beginning he made a remark in regard to changing his mind after listening to Ritner on Execration magic, and said he is not like other people who dlb. down on their theories, even if wrong....I could not help but to think of Gee?
There is a lot more of the same garbage, but in the end, at least for me it came across as Smoot playing the straight man (Abbott) with leading questions setting up Kerry (Costello).
Take it away Paul if you are interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSI7knxTAqc
