Ray A wrote:The Nehor wrote:If there was more history I'd agree but outside of a few wars that are told about in detail (Captain Moroni) and discussion of some politics there's almost nothing. The Book of Mormon also never mentions birds, pottery, or trees (outside an allegory to a tree they may not have had). Migrations north are mostly described in one sentence that some people went north. Some may have died in a blizzard and eaten bison but it's not inconsistent with the rest of the book that this would be left out.
Funny how it doesn't mention domesticated dogs:The ancient Maya, a group of people who lived throughout southern Mexico and Central America, used domesticated dogs on a daily basis as a food source, hunting aide, and an element in religious and spiritual rituals.
Despite the fact that the amount of dog use varied throughout time and place, people of the coastal regions of the Maya area placed more importance on dogs due to their constant availability as a source of protein and their ability to rapidly reproduce. Breeding and raising domesticated dogs required low energy use. Fish and other hunted animals were not as reliable as dogs as a food resource, and it required more energy and time to capture these animals for consumption. Overall, it is difficult to generalize how the Maya used dogs because of the comparison of dog deposits to other fauna and how the amount of dog deposits differs among sites from various periods. Because of this variation, it is not certain if the function of dogs altered from a food source to that of a religious symbol over time. Besides becoming a meal, dogs were also used as hunting and traveling companions and were scavengers in the home.
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Now let me guess....there's another name for "dog" in the Book of Mormon, right?
Dogs look sorta like little horses. Maybe the horses in the Book of Mormon were actually dogs. Also, you have Curelom and Cumoms. Maybe those were Nephite words for dogs.