Maya Glyph “And it Came to Pass” (Note #1).Īnd it came to pass that thus passed away the ninety and fifth years also (3 Nephi 2:1)Īnd it came to pass that the people began to wax strong in wickedness (3 Nephi 2:11)Īnd it came to pass in the thirteenth year there began to be wars (3 Nephi 2:4)Īnd thus did pass away the ninety and sixth year (3 Nephi 2:4)Īnd it had come to pass, yea, all things, every whit, according to the words of the prophets (3 Nephi 1:20)Īnd six hundred and nine years had passed away since Lehi left Jerusalem (3 Nephi 2:6) (This combined date and event indicator has not yet been noted in Maya texts. Linda Schele in1982 (21-25) translated and illustrated this frequently used word in Maya hieroglyphic texts in four types of directional indicators as “then it came to pass,” “until it came to pass,” “since it had come to pass,” etc.įig. Three decades later after advances in deciphering Maya hieroglyphics, David Stuart (1984: 5) gave a Proto-Cholan Maya reading of I U ti (see editor’s note #1) as “to finish, come to pass,” or Chontal ut with the same meaning. Eric Thompson (1950: 162-64) first discovered that a posterior Maya date indicator glyph meant “to count forward to”, and an anterior date indicator meant “to count backward to.” An equivalent spoken phrase was not known then in any Maya dialect. When Bruce Warren (1987: 62-64) examined studies of time indicator glyphs by leading Maya hieroglyphic scholars Linda Schele (1982) and David Stuart (1984), he was amazed by a striking Book of Mormon correspondence. Grandin had to persuade Joseph to let him punctuate the manuscript before printing without altering the text which included the many “and it came to pass” phrases. When Joseph sent the manuscript to Grandin Press for publication, there was no punctuation. Oliver Cowdery recorded Joseph’s translation as a running text without punctuation. A strange thing about Joseph Smith’s translation of the Book of Mormon plates is the extensive use (over 1500 times) of the phrase “and it came to pass”.
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