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To: SZonian; C19fan
C'mon you guys - it was really just deer/tapir pulling those chariots. Yeah that's the ticket.

After all, when Cortez and his horses arrived, the Aztecs simply called the unfamiliar horses "deer."

See

http://en.fairmormon.org/Book_of_Mormon/Anachronisms/Animals/Horses/Loanshifting:_deer_and_tapirst

So the use of the word "horse" in the BOM instead of the word "deer" makes perfect sense!

/pretzel

75 posted on 02/01/2012 11:39:46 AM PST by freedomlover (Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
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To: freedomlover; C19fan

82 posted on 02/01/2012 11:50:00 AM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political party's in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: freedomlover
So the use of the word "horse" in the BOM instead of the word "deer" makes perfect sense!

It works for santa!

117 posted on 02/01/2012 2:43:57 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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