![]() ![]() The islands are named the "Comoros Islands".There is an island named Anjouan (also known as "Joanna" by some historically) in the Comoros and one of the port cities of that island is called "Meroni" (sometimes spelled "Merone").The capital city of the island Grand Comore is literally Moroni.To reiterate, there are two places that Joseph Smith could have gotten the name “Moroni” from and three places that he could have gotten “Cumorah” from according to these critics. On one of the islands in the Comoros, Anjouan (also sometimes called "Joanna" historically), there is a port city that is named "Meroni" (sometimes spelled "Merone").Īlternatively, as mentioned, it is possible that American whalers could have sailed in the Comoros and talked about their travels in settings where Joseph could have heard them. On the maps, he would have found that the capital city of one of the islands in the archipelago is Moroni. Joseph is supposed to have known about stories regarding Captain Kidd and either directly cribbed the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" (or names close to those two) from the stories or, inspired by Kidd’s and/or other pirates' exploits on the four islands of the Comoros Archipelago (which is almost sandwiched between Mozambique and Madagascar in the Mozambique Channel), gone to maps to learn more about the area and found names on those maps that he could use for the supposedly fictitious creation of the Book of Mormon. The argument typically starts with the Captain Kidd stories. Portrait of Captain William Kidd.Ĭritics of the Book of Mormon claim that Joseph Smith could have acquired the names “Moroni” and “Cumorah” from either maps he could have had access to as a youth, stories that he may have read associated with Captain William Kidd, or local Palmyra whalers that told stories of their journeys to places where Captain Kidd is also known to have operated.
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