Rajah Manchou Posted July 20, 2020 Author Posted July 20, 2020 (edited) 19 hours ago, Islamormoyid said: I noticed in one of V.I. Braginsky's papers a number of variants that Arabs used for the land round about Kedah. I find the variants interesting enough since they seem to imply that perhaps even Laman could be added to the variant list. Braginsky's lists variants "Rahma", "Arman", and "Larman". In medieval times, Rahma or Rahman was the name given to a mythical island nation on the opposite side of the world inhabited by Christians that have been set apart from the rest of the Christian world. To this day Romanians drop egg shells into rivers with the belief that they will float to the Island of Rahma, to provide food for the Rahmans. Braginsky proposes that this island was a faint understanding of Burma, known as Buraghman or Rahman, in medieval times. Another example of the origins of a real-world toponym matching the etymology of a Book of Mormon toponym is Comnor in the Book of Ether. I'bn Said and Dimasky both describe how the toponym for the land of Komoriyya is derived from the Kumr people, and that the Kumr had a king named Kamrun, which was the Arabic pronunciation of the Kumr word for hill or mountain. Likewise, the Book of Mormon Onomasticon project proposes that the toponym Cumorah comes from the Jaredite word Comnor. This doesn't seem an obvious match at first glance, but turns out the word Comnor is the result of typesetter's error. The original term in the Book of Mormon was Hill Comron, a direct hit. Book of Mormon: People of Morian cumr -> Hill Comron -> Cumorah (alternatively known as Ramah) Arabic Geographies: People of Kumr -> Kamrun (hill) -> Komorriya (alternatively known as Rahma) Edited July 20, 2020 by Rajah Manchou
Rajah Manchou Posted August 2, 2020 Author Posted August 2, 2020 (edited) Following the new papers pushing the populating of the Americas back to 25,000 BP, Razib Khan is now proposing that an Andaman-like group was the first to the Americas."I believe these new results likely open the possibility for a resolution of the mystery of why some groups in the Amazon seem to have “Australasian” genetic affinities. The result is robust. But it was hard to resolve with the Beringian standstill. The new chronology offers up an opportunity. Clearly the earlier populations before 20,000 years ago may have been the ancestors of the “Australasians” that are still hinted at in the Amazonians. I believe that these early people were members of what I have termed Clade-2 East Eurasians. This clade was dominant in South, Southeast Asia, Tibet, and present in coastal East Asia (Japan), during the Pleistocene. It has closer affinities to Oceanians than East Asians to the north."https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2020/07/23/how-the-amazonians-got-their-australasian Edited August 2, 2020 by Rajah Manchou 1
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