Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Updated Book of Mormon Map

After making the Antediluvian Map, I decided to "upgrade" the Book of Mormon Map that I posted on here before. So, here it is:



I just added some Jaredite cities, and some late Nephite cities around the Narrow Neck of Land and Northward. Also, I color coded the "pins" for the city placements:

Blue = Nephite
Red = Lamanite
Yellow = Jaredite





Saturday, January 16, 2010

Antediluvian Map

I've been working on this for the past few days in-between logo design projects. I started out with an illustration of Pangaea, and then I brought everything else together on top of it. I researched where the oldest mountains in the world are, and some "pre-historic" lakes. Then, I placed Adam-Ondi-Ahman right where it should be, and came up with a possible layout for everything else according to what it says in Genesis. I'm not saying this is accurate, it's just a way to visualize the world of Adam and Enoch. I also put Zion (the city of Enoch) where the modern-day Gulf of Mexico is, according to a suggestion by Joseph Fielding Smith. The land of Nod, which is where Cain went after he was cursed, was East of Eden. Conveniently, just East of Eden on my map, there is an area between two rivers that I put the City of Enoch (the son of Cain). It happens to be the same location as what would later become Babylon, the archetype of wickedness in the Old Testament world. I just thought that was an interesting coincidence.

The Land of Cush is also called Ethiopia, and also happens to be the same bit of land as the modern Africa. Eden is North America, Havilah is South America, Nod is the Middle East, and Assyria is Asia. Europe is to the West of Assyria, India is to the East of Cush, and to the south-west is Antarctica with Australia on the south-eastern coast.