In North Central Turkey, about 100 miles south of the Black Sea, is an unforgettable archeological site: Hattusa, the capital of the Hittite Empire from about 1750 to 1250 BCE.

Situated atop a mountain plain overlooking far below a river on three sides and hence approachable from only one side, it was very difficult to attack. Most of the buildings have fallen, but the bases of the walls are still visible, as are remarkable stone gates decorated with lions, griffins, gods of war, soldiers, and birds of prey. Inside the open-air compound are a jade altar standing about three feet high and perhaps four or five feet long and wide as well as fragments everywhere of big terra cotta pots. Down the slope some distance from the main gate is a rock face on which is engraved an army marching off to war.

The provenance of the Hittites is clear. The lions, griffins, gods, and other statues are clearly Indo-European, as are the soldiers in their traditional dress. All of these things look much like what one would see in Iran's Persepolis or Greece's Mycenae, which were more or less contemporaneous with Hattusa. The Hittites were also avid historians, leaving some 30,000 cuneiform tablets from their own and other regional traditions, including the Anatolian Indo-European languages and the semitic Akkadian but also languages from as far afield as Egypt.

Last week a report was published on a new language discovered on some of those tablets. That language is Indo-European, apparently from the the Northwest, putting it closer to the Black Sea and the Straits. Although most of the records have not yet been translated, researchers are confident that some of them describe the mysterious people's religious rites. .

What is my purpose in describing this place and language? Well, first I would urge anyone who ever has a chance to visit the Hittite ruins to do so. The city is only a couple or three hours north of Ankara, and standing in the wind atop that rocky crest looking down over the cliffs toward the river to the north and, beyond that, the Black Sea, is life-changing.

But second, and more germane to RfM's purpose, is the fact that among the scores of languages and religions documented at Hatussa there is no trace of Hebrew or Reformed Egyptian, no hint of a Bible or a people who emerged from Egypt midway through the life of the Hittite Empire. This absence, along with a corresponding lack of evidence in Egypt, supports the general view that the Hebrew people and culture did not emerge from Canaan until some 500 years after the Exodus supposedly occurred.

It is also instructive to compare the Hebrew and Reformed Egyptian mentioned in the BoM with the new Anatolian language. Linguistic historians and archaeologists know a lot. They can take inscriptions from 3,500 years ago and quite easily identify the language family in which they were composed as well as getting a sense of the records' content. Yet in the Americas there is no trace of Hebrew or Reformed Egyptian in the continents' written/inscribed languages or in the languages that are still spoken. That's damning evidence given that 1600 years is not a lot of time in which for languages to disappear completely.


https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/new-indo-european-language-discovered/

https://www.archaeology.org/news/11765-230926-turkey-cuneiform-language



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/27/2023 10:08PM by Lot's Wife.

Reformed Egyptian is just as real as Elvish and Klingon. Except that Joseph didn't give any examples of the language except for a few doodles and he claimed the language was historical.

Reformed Egyptian is in fact less real than Elvish and Klingon, both of which are embodied in actual documents.

That's actually a good point.

It would suck if historians found out reformed Egyptian was an actual language. I am still staying out of the religion regardless of any discoveries just want to make that clear haha.

Come now..... it's obviously Jaredite, probably tells how to make dishes or maybe submarines.

Makes sense to me.

Jaredites leaving from the Black Sea, the Bosporus, and then the Mediterranean. . . Perhaps they settled the Americas from the East rather than the West!

Fascinating. And not just in an RFM way. Now you make me want to go to Hattusa just when I don't want to travel anymore. But I guess at least at Hattusa there wouldn't be hordes of people freshly off cruise ships taking selfies. So maybe . . .

I remain unconvinced of the veracity of this Hittite discovery...surely it was the nephites or jaredites or good old Enoch yadda yadda...for surely Joey the great made up names such as enish go ondash or sone such bull pucky and as we all know that is direct from the oracle...as for me and my house we firmly reject any evidence not in accordance with Joe...and we buy fruit loops for the wee mormons during sacrament meeting...let it be written...let it be done...I could support Rusty if he looked more like Yul Brynner