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Sorenson: "There is an animal which they call chic, wonderfully active, as large as a small dog, with a snout like a sucking pig. The Indian women raise them": Difference between revisions
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Sorenson: "The early Americans did...have a native pig. The Aztecs called it pisote...often applied to the peccary or wild pig"
John L. Sorenson:
“Swine” are mentioned twice in the Book of Mormon; once in 3 Nephi 14:6, where the Lord uses the term figuratively, and once in Ether 9:18 where swine are described as an animal useful for food. The early Americans did, however, have a native pig. The Aztecs called it pisote, which means basically "glutton” and was often applied to the peccary or wild pig. “In regard to the peccary,” notes Sorenson, “the Nahuatl terms quauhcoyametl and quahpizotl were developed after the conquest to distinguish the native species from the introduced Castilian pig....”[1]
Notes
- ↑ John L. Sorenson, An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Co. ; Provo, Utah : Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1996 [1985]),297–290.