One of his recent threads and a trip to SLC a few months ago I had has put the SLC temple on my mind. I'm fascinated with the general idea of Tartaria--a conspiracy that has roots in a more grounded concept of a country called Tartary in Asia that was largely erased or downplayed in history--the general conspiracy of Tartaria has grown so much but it generally revolves around doubting the official stories of many of the beautifully crafted buildings found throughout the world, particularly Greco-Roman architecture of the medieval era and 1700s/1800s. Doubting the time they were made in according to history and/or doubting the level of technology they were made with according to how official history frames the technological levels of previous eras. This conspiracy can get pretty out there; space tech, antiqui-tech, star forts, Christ's Millennial Reign already came and went and we exist in apostasy and confusion before the end of it all. There are a lot of varying views on this topic.
Questions regarding the history, level of technology used in creation, and dates of construction for many extravagant works of architecture (especially the Greco-Roman-looking stuff) found on United States lands that are attributed to the 1700s and 1800s has become perhaps the most discussed aspect of Tartaria in circles interested in this conspiracy theory. And the Salt Lake City temple (and a lot of other locations in Utah) has caught the eye of a lot of buried history conspiracy theorists. Some of them are arguing that the Salt Lake City temple (and many other buildings in North American lands) are left over buildings from previous civilizations and these buildings were inherited by those who would occupy what is called the United States.



(Note the completed temple in the first image with an undeveloped surrounding area followed by an uncompleted temple surrounded by a developed area in the second and third images which also lack the remains of an old brick wall present in the first image)
(I do not necessarily believe in ALL things suggested in this thread or suggested in the varying views of the Tartaria conspiracy and mudflood conspiracy but I think they are interesting and I believe them to an extent, particularly on the matter of the history of some buildings in Utah)
Streets of Tartaria and Jon Levi are two content creators that explore this topic and both have looked into the Salt Lake City temple.
So why does the SLC Temple descend so far below surface level?



Does the story about the United States scaring the saints so they buried their temple honestly and adequately address this? I'd have to imagine people building a church would rank pretty low on potential issues the United States had with Brigham's Utah, necessitating a need for the Brighamites to bury 14+ feet of construction of a temple below surface level.
So if the story of the Saints having to cover the temple up is completely true or only true to a certain extent, does it adequately address why the Salt Lake City temple descends so far below surface level? Where did the manpower and tech come from to dig so far below the surface, and then cover all that fancy marble construction up again?
What makes so much building found below surface level stand out so much is a branch off from the general Tartaria conspiracy is something called the mudflood conspiracy, that argues throughout the world you can see evidence all over of buildings having lower levels that are buried but convey a sense that at a different time, those lower levels were at a surface level but became buried in something generally attributed to catastrophic disasters (God sweeping away and starting over at different times with different people?):

Another curious relic of Utah's history showing off architectural strength and beauty unlikely to be produced by people with limited resources in an empty valley and a level of architectural strength and beauty we'd never find in a low-key resort today: The old Saltair resort



And of course it was destro-err was lost to us from a fire.
Look at what it was replaced with by people with better infrastructure, more money, more resources and better technology

The original Salt Palace of Salt Lake City. Guess what happened to it? Lost in a fire, yup. Look at our country's history. Over and over, these work-of-art buildings thrown up by people with ox, cart and hammer all go out in fire, making them out of sight and out of mind



Check out the beauty it was replaced with by people with better infrastructure, more money, more resources and better technology:


Thought this was interesting. The palace of King Brigham's favorite wife, destroyed in 1921
Ether 2: 8 wrote:And he had sworn in his wrath unto the brother of Jared, that whoso should possess this land of promise, from that time henceforth and forever, should serve him, the true and only God, or they should be swept off when the fulness of his wrath should come upon them.
Alma 37: 28 wrote:For behold, there is a curse upon all this land, that destruction shall come upon all those workers of darkness, according to the power of God, when they are fully ripe; therefore I desire that this people might not be destroyed.
Mosiah 21: 26 wrote:Nevertheless, they did find a land which had been peopled; yea, a land which was covered with dry bones; yea, a land which had been peopled and which had been destroyed; and they, having supposed it to be the land of Zarahemla, returned to the land of Nephi, having arrived in the borders of the land not many days before the coming of Ammon.
Jarom 1: 10 wrote:And it came to pass that the prophets of the Lord did threaten the people of Nephi, according to the word of God, that if they did not keep the commandments, but should fall into transgression, they should be destroyed from off the face of the land.
2 Nephi 27: 9 wrote:But the book shall be delivered unto a man, and he shall deliver the words of the book, which are the words of those who have slumbered in the dust, and he shall deliver these words unto another;

The truth is out there.
