[freedomlover]

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

[SZonian]

[Elsie]

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

It works for santa!