Re: 2 Nephi: De Anatolean migrations after the fall of Lydia and Croesus in 547bC to Persian king Cyrus

[Nick Youngh]

In my previous postings, I identificated the major events and persons
of the Mormon Book 1 Nephi:
- Mormon doomprophet Lehi was Biblical doomprophet Jeremiah.
-The Mormon murder of Laban was the the Biblical murder of Gedalyah
- Mormons father in law of the murderer: Ishmaël was biblical murderer
Ishmaël.
- The Mormon daughters of Ishmaël were the Biblical princesses of the
house of David
-The Mormon river Laman and the valley of Lemuël was Pharao's Nile-Red
Sea Canal and the Bitterlakes
- Mormon Ireantum was historical Erytrea.
- Mormon seatravel to America was the historical circumnavigation of
Africa by Pharao Necho.
- The Mormon Liahona was an historical Armillary globe
- The Mormon landfall of Lehi was same pronounced Lycia.
All those identification makes 1 Nephi an historical record of the
voluntary deportation of the last Jews from Judea under Jeremiah
arouind 600bC, still celebrated by the Jews as the Fest of Gedalyah.

That makes us interested which historical events will be described in
the 2nd Book Nephi in the BoM in the middle of the 6th century bC in
the Greek and Phoenician city states of Anatolia in present Turkya.

The BoM gives itself the following sumary:
> Lehi Dies and His Posterity are Divided
> Nephi continues the narrative by recording the death of Lehi.[7] In
> this passage, he also records what is known as "the Psalm of Nephi",
> where he pleads for the Lord to forgive his weaknesses, make him
> strong so he can conquer his enemies, and redeem his soul.[8]
> After the death of Lehi, Laman and Lemuel and others rebel against
> Nephi and try to kill him.[9][10] Nephi leaves the area with those who
> listen to him and travel far away to establish another settlement.[11]
> He takes the brass plates and other records, along with the ball or
> compass.[12] They call this new place Nephi, choose Nephi to be their
> king, and call themselves the people of Nephi, or Nephites.[13] They
> observe the Law of Moses as it is recorded in the brass plates.[14]
> They also prosper exceedingly, and build a temple like the temple of
> Solomon.[15]
> Nephi also begins arming his people using the sword that Laban had as
> a model for production.[16] At this time, the people with Laman and
> Lemuel and others who remained behind had their skin turn dark, as a
> sign that the people of Nephi are not to mix with them until they
> repent.[17]
These events are dated by the BoM in the period 588-560

At that time Lycia and Ionian Anatolia were under the rule of the
Mermnades of Lydia. Wikipedia:
> it was not until the reign of Croesus (560–545 BC) that the cities of Ionia fell completely under Lydian rule of king Croesus,who himself was defeated by the Persian king Cyrusin 547bC
> The defeat of Croesus by Cyrus was followed by the conquest of all the
> Ionian cities. These became subject to the Persian monarchy with the
> other Greek cities of Asia.

It was for this reason that the rulers of those Greek city states
moved with their citizens to other suitable inhabitated places in
Russia, Greece, Italy and Anatolia.
We have met a few migrations allready in 1 Nephi, like Miletus,near
Lycia, as the town of the said inventor of the Armillary Globe:
Anaximander. Wikipedia:
> Pliny the Elder mentions 90 colonies founded by Miletus in his Natural History (5.112).Under which
> Apolonia,Odessos,Tomis,Histria,Tyras,Olbia,Panticapaeum,Theodosia, Tanais, Phanagoria, Pityus,Dioscurias, Phasis,
> Trapezunt, Amisos, Sinope.
Most of them new Greek Jewish cities around the Black Sea and on the
Crimea
An other migrations we allready know from the parabel of the olive
tree by Zenos, who was the same as the paradox of the olive tree by
Zeno of Elea which was settled by the migration of the Focaeans of
Tarsessos and Geryones fame.

(Wikipedia)
> According to Herodotus: in 545 BC Ionian Greeks fled Phocaea, in
> modern Turkey, besieged by the Persians. After some wanderings (8 to
> 10 years) at sea, they stopped in Reggio Calabria where, probably,
> they were joined by Xenophanes who was at the time at Messina, and
> then moved North along the coast and founded the town of Hyele, later
> renamed Ele, and then, eventually, Elea. The location is nearly at the
> same latitude as Phocaea. (Cca. 1' 20" North)

So we have to look for more migrations from Greek city states,
besieged by the Persians around 550bC to find the historical
migrations of the Nephites over land to the land Nephi and the
Mulekites over Sea to Zarahemlah.
We find them with the Chalybes and Teos. (Wikipedia)

> Teos (Greek: Τέως) or Teo was a maritime city of Ionia, on a peninsula
> between Chytrium and Myonnesus, colonized by Orchomenian Minyans,
> Ionians, and Boeotians.
> Teos was a flourishing sea-port with two fine harbours until Cyrus the
> Great invaded Lydia and Ionia (ca. 540 BC). The Teans found it prudent
> to retire overseas, to the newly founded colonies of Abdera in Thrace
> and Phanagoria on the Asian side of the Cimmerian Bosporus.-

> The Chalybes (Χάλυβες, Χάλυβοι), also called Khalib (Georgian:
> ხალიბები, Khalibebi (plural), ხალიბი, Khalibi (singular)) were a tribe
> of Classical Antiquity credited with the invention of the iron
> industry. They settled in north Anatolia, near the shores of the Black Sea, from
> the Halys to Pharnakeia and Trabzon in the east and as far south as
> Lesser Armenia. Immediately to the east of the Khalib lived the
> related Khaldi or Kardu people, thought to be the ancestors of the
> Georgians (Kartvelebi). The Chalybs are also thought to be proto-
> Georgians. Χάλυψ, the tribe's name in Greek, means "tempered iron, steel", a term
> that passed into Latin as chalybs, "steel". That, in turn, is cited as
> a possible origin for Excalibur, the name of King Arthur's legendary
> sword. Sayce derived the Greek name Chalybe from Hittite Khaly-wa,
> "land of Halys"[1].

So this was the general outline of my decoding of the BoM book 2 Nephi
and I will place a 5 postings giving the evidence
of the identifications.

- The trek of Nephi was the historical migration of the Chalybes to
Pontus
- The travel of the Mulekites to Zarahemlah was the migration of Teos
by boat to the Crimea
- The sword of Laban was an Excalibur.
- The grave and temple of Nephi digged up in the Thracian graves in
Romania
- Were the Mormon brothers the Mermnades of Lydia

Who cannot wait so long could read and comment my postings allready on
my own site