The Legend of the Lost Book of Gold
Southeast Asia, the Book of Mormon, and the Malay Hypothesis
By KC Kern
Published on Wheat and Tares in the October 2011
Prologue
In 1827, Christian missionaries travelled into the jungles of Burma
to bring the gospel to...
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The Legend of the Lost Book of Gold
Southeast Asia, the Book of Mormon, and the Malay Hypothesis
By KC Kern
Published on Wheat and Tares in the October 2011
Prologue
In 1827, Christian missionaries travelled into the jungles of Burma
to bring the gospel to an indigenous group known as the Karen
people.
As the missionaries began teaching the Karens from the
Bible, they were astounded to discover that the Karens already
worshipped a deity they called “Y’wa”, had a detailed creation story
with striking parallels to the biblical Eden narrative, and had many
other folktales mirroring the traditional accounts found in
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Genesis.
That same year, a world away, Joseph Smith Jr.
obtained a mysterious artifact that would become the Book
of Mormon, published in New York in 1830.
This book told of an ancient lost civilization: a monotheistic
splinter from the house of Israel that settled a distant “promised land,” whose founding story involved
contentious brothers, some of whom embraced God’s w
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