On the Trail of the Plates of Mormon

Here is part of two letters I sent to the publisher of the Archives. I am by no means an expert on languages. I just did some digging on Google and found the information I was looking for.

Letter 1:

“I translated the word Nemenhah from an unlikely source. It means “many fish of two waters”. I believe this is a reminder to the people of where they came from. They are like the fish of the sea who have migrated from another area. The two waters is in reference that their ancestors came from across two waters- the Atlantic and the Pacific. The fish could be representing Hagoth, who travels upon the sea and fish are sometimes migratory. Whales were at one time thought to be fish and Hagoth’s expedition survived on large fish in the Gulf of Mexico. The hah part is Egyptian and may have come from the god Huh, the god of millions and when used as a verb means to search continually. Hagoth was searching for a long time for a land of his own away from the Gadiatonhem.
How did I learn of all this? From a reference in David Stewart, jr’s work on the Four Sons of Horus found on 72languages.com http://www.72languages.com/foursonsofhorus.pdf . If you read the section on his explanation of the hieroglyphics and their true meanings you will find a symbol exactly the same as in Sahnempet page 19. The double chevron means waters and is mem and the single chevron is fish and is nun. The symbol for hah may be the original cuneiform . David Stewart has said that the Egyptians sometimes mixed cuneiform and hieroglyphic. The Egyptians may have lost or changed the original cuneiform to it’s present form. I need to study more on cuneiform to know for sure. “Hah” I have found usually with names of royalty or people.
This morning I was reading a little bit of Sweet Breezes paper you sent me and there was a part where she talks about the Jaredite languages. When I saw the symbols for the Nemenhah a light bulb went off. I was able to read the symbols and they looked familiar. So, I went back to 72languages.com and looked for that reference. Everything was the same except for the Hah part, which I learned from other sources. I am going to try to figure out the rest of the symbols on the page and on the figure on the first page of the Books. So, unless you know David Stewart and his work which I don’t believe you do, this is another good hit for authenticity of the records. After I get a reply from you I will post this on my blog. Just thought I would share this with you first.
Let know what you think. By the way, has anyone else done this kind of research on the archives? Just curious.
Talk to you later.
Randy”

Letter 2:

“I found out some more things on the word Nemenhah. Nemen is yiddish for trustee or to get/take:
http://www.wikiled.com/yiddish-english-nemen-Default.aspx
http://www.wikiled.com/English-yiddish-trustee-Default.aspx
http://www.cs.uky.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~raphael/dictionary.cgi

• nem verb, participle genumen, take, begin (with infinitive)
  • ayngenem adjective, pleasant ongenem adjective, ongenemen adjective, angenem adjective
    • umayngenem(אומאײַנגענעם) adjective, umongenem adjective, umangenem adjective, unpleasant
  • oyf mi’ttsunemen = oyf aroystsunemen take-out (food)
• nemen_(נאמן) plural nemonem(נאמנים), gender m, trusted person
• nomen plural nemen, gender m, name

With these definitions you would get son of trusted one. Put all these definitions together you would get: Take the names of the son of the trusted person. Since Nemenhah could be read either way, left to right or right to left you would still get the same meaning. Right to left: son of trusted one. Left to right: trusted one of son. A father and son trusted line.
One more thing. Nemen is a river in Lithuania. It is the English version of Nemunas. It means river. The Nemunas is considered the father of all rivers in Lithuania. The same as the Colorado River. The people of Hagoth were first people of the river. The Colorado River could be considered the father of all rivers. You said “hah” means comes from. The people of Hagoth comes from the river.
If anyone outside the tribe questions on whether this is a made up name, you can show them these e-mails with my explanations. Between the Egyptian root meanings and the Hebrew definitions this is definitely a true word and not made up. I know you you have always believed this but to someone just learning the Archives and the tribal name this may seem like a made up name. I wonder if someone did a study like this with the other names of the archives they would find greater meanings behind the people.”

If this is a made up word someone did a lot of research to cover everything. I don’t believe it is after this little bit of research. Too many coincidences not to be.

Here is a part of the commentary on the Mentinah Archives over at Greaterthings .

“Mentinah” Inserted Alphabetically in the NT Lexicon

“Mentinah” inserts between word 3304 (menounge: “yes indeed, yes verily”) and word 3305 (mentoi; “indeed, truly, certainly) in the New Testament lexicon. Word 3303 also means “indeed truly.”

Prior to that is a very interesting and remarkable phenomenon. In his numbering of the words of the New Testament, James Strong went from 3202 to 3303, skipping the numbers 3203 through 3302. This typographical error is the only numbering error in both the New and Old Testament lexicons. Despite this singular error, James Strong’s numbering has been the standard for over a century. In our context, this omission conveys the idea of something “missing,” — additional scripture now found in this case.

The word following 3305 is meno: “to remain, abide, dwell, live,” conveying the idea of this account of those who dwelt in America beyond those recorded in the Book of Mormon.”

This is very interesting information which further shows me that these are authentic records or the work of a very brilliant person. From what I have learned already I chose to believe that these are authentic records.