Bah

Christian apologetic had spread far enough by the AD 200s that Julius Africanus was able to launder stories to force a solar eclipse (and Byzantine earthquake) to a full moon. The Christian apologists launder Africanus accordingly. But we're here for the New World; we are here to evaluate the Book of Mormon.

Reported there are Francisco de Avila's Huarochiri Manuscript and Pedro Cieza de León's "El Señorío De Los Incas", The Chronicle of Peru part II. In the former: the sun was gone for five days. Stones knocked against one another. Shepherds were attacked by their own sheep whether they were running away in the fields or hiding in their homes. Even the mortars and pestles (grinders and their bowls) are said to have rebelled against their owners. In the latter: there was a people before the Incans. These ancient people experienced a period without light. So they prayed until the sun finally rose from Lake Titicaca, and in the midday, a white man who carried great authority came into the land. He is said to have turned hills into plains, and vice versa. Fountains sprang from the very stones. He was a man to be venerated, and those ancient people regarded him as the Maker of everything.

The former made me laugh because, as apparently I keep having to remind my readers, Peru had no sheep. We in North America have the Ovis canadensis but nobody has domesticated this, and it never came to the Andes. Some kid with a headful of freaking Encyclopedia Brown could tell you.

As to the latter, I'll deal with that next.

CHINESE FOOD 4/16: Let's call that blogger what he is - The Forger. From China, he launders Chan Kei Thong. And I'll go further - if it happens now it happened then. If Arian "Nicene" Christians lie today then Eusebius lied, then.