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What does the Book of Mormon state?
- II Nephi 6:99 [9:50] restates Isaiah 55:1
- II Nephi 9:28 [17:15] restates Isaiah 7:15
- II Nephi 9:35 [17:22] restates Isaiah 7:22
- II Nephi 11:99 [26:25] restates Isaiah 55:1
- The Book of Mormon does not state that milk and butter existed in the New World
At face value - Did milk and butter exist in the New World?
Statement
- Another early historian of Spain, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, recorded:
- In all these regions they visited, the Spaniards noticed herds of deer similar to our herds of cattle. These deer bring forth and nourish their young in the houses of the natives. During the daytime they wander freely through the woods in search of their food, and in the evening they come back to their little ones, who have been cared for, allowing themselves to be shut up in the courtyards and even to be milked, when they have suckled their fawns. The only milk the natives know is that of the does, from which they make cheese.
- Pietro Martire d'Anghiera, De Orbe Novo: The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr d'Anghera (1912), 2:259.
- (Supporting evidence for domesticated deer) Worlds of the Maya
- Ancient Households of the Americas
- https://docer.tips/von-hagen-victor-world-of-the-maya.html
- But of all these creator-destroyers the most notable was Fray Diego de Landa. His small book Relation de las Cosas de Yucatan (On the Things of Yucatan), written before 1566, is the principal source of late Maya history.
- Bishop Landa found the women "marvelously chaste" and correctly estimated them the "soul" of the household. Good housekeepers, they worked to pay the tribute tax. Good managers, they worked at night at their weaving and raised ducks to obtain plumes for feather weaving. They reared deer, monkeys, and coatis, which they suckled at their ample breasts.
Assessment
- Milk was available in Mesoamerica
