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Jaredites: Olmecs, descendants of Ham

6/10/2022

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Brother of Jared seeing the finger of the Lord
The Jaredites (named for the Book of Mormon character Jared) emigrated to this continent aboutt 1,500 yrs before the Nephites in little M&M shaped boats lit with small stones that glow cause God touched them

There have been several theories about who they would be in ancient Indigenous culture both as descendants of Ham and the People called Olmecs

“Descendants of Ham: Some early Latter Day Saints, including Apostle Parley P. Pratt believed the Jaredites were descendants of Ham, based on the group’s origins near the Tower of Babel, and initial migration into the Valley of Nimrod, an area associated with the descendants of Ham.”

“Olmecs: Some Mormon apologists have argued for substantial parallels between the Jaredites and the Olmecs. For example, one scholar asserted that writings an ancient Native American historian, Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl, wrote about a group of people who came from the great tower to Mesoamerica.”

“22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. 24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. 25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.”

Ham's descendants were cursed cause they got Noah drunk and "saw the nakedness of his father.” 

“You must not think, from what I say, that I am opposed to slavery. No! The negro is damned, and is to serve his master till God chooses to remove the curse of Ham.” - Prophet Brigham Young, New York Herald, May 4, 1855, as cited in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Spring 1973

Brigham Young and many other Christians used these verses to justify enslavement of Africans as divine.

The theory that Olmecs came from African peoples is shared by others as well

“Olmec alternative origin speculations: Some writers suggest that the Olmecs were related to peoples of Africa - based primarily on their interpretation of facial features of Olmec statues.”
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    I am nicholas b jacobsen, an artist, researcher, historian, educator, and organizer. I am a trans-non binary Euro-settler raised in the Nuwu lands of so-called Utah. My family has been Mormon and Utahn for as long as either of those concepts have existed. My ancestors sacrificed everything--their identities, homelands, jobs, health, & safety to become Mormon, Utahn, U.S. American, & white--to settler their Zion. I take it as my personal responsibility to unsettle what my ancestors settled. and to help my fellow settlers do the same through writing, art, and community building.

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