Some of Joseph Smith’s (Lesser Known) Big, Beautiful Bullseyes

[kirtland r.m.]

The target of this thread, the Western Hemisphere and the Book of Mormon, Columbus, and a series of evidences all included in the link below. Good information here, enjoy. Here is a sample.
Gidgiddoni
Gidgiddoni is a pretty weird name. It shows up as the name of a great prophet/military leader in 3rd Nephi. Look at those two d’s just sitting there – sitting there like a Simpsons character looking to the left. Really, if Joseph Smith was going to use an ancient name with likely Israelite roots – he should have just stuck to the ones already mentioned in the Bible, right?
Well lucky for today’s list he didn’t:
“The name Gidgiddoni, with its reduplication and doubled consonant, is unusual for a Hebrew name. We now know that it is not. It is a well attested name in Neo-Assyrian records. It comes from the same Assyrian empire that is discussed so extensively in the works of Isaiah. The name is mentioned many times in Assyrian records, covering a number of individuals. It is spelled a number of ways:

• Gíd-gi-da-nu (SA A 1: 152:6) 

• Gíd-gi-da-a-n (SA A 1: 152 r 9) 

• [Gíd-g]i-da-a-[ni] (SA A 1: 152 r 6) 

• [Gí]d-gi-da-a-[ni] (SA A 1: 39 :4) 

• Gíd-gi-da-a-nu (SA A 6: 31 r 23) 

• Gíd-gíd-da-nu (SAA 11: 123 ii 13)
• Gíd-gíd-da-[nu] (SAA 12: 51 r 12)

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[nightlight]

Great stuff, bro