![]() After ruling out several avenues, Buchanan stumbled upon one that seemed plausible: In “Perilous Ponderings,” Fred Buchanan talked about how a chance encounter with the word “Moroni” in an atlas developed an off-and-on interest about a possible connection between the town, located in the Comoro Islands, and Joseph Smith. Near as I can tell, the first published source proposing the theory was Fred Buchanan in the June 1989 Sunstone magazine. Robert) Kidd? If not, you are in for a treat. Ever heard the one about Joseph Smith getting the names Moroni and Cumorah from the scandalous piratical tales of Captain William (a.k.a. With pirates at the box office, it seems appropriate to talk about how pirate legends may (or may not) have influenced the creation of the Book of Mormon. In order to use that village for source material, Joseph Smith would’ve had to view the name Meroni/Merone on one of the few detailed maps of Johanna island, which is unlikely. The name Moroni never appears in pirate lore, and is absent from all pre-1830 maps and literature, except for a mysterious village named Meroni/Merone on mid-1700s maps of the island Johanna. The name Comoro (or derivatives) rarely occurs in pirate lore, though the individual names of three islands in the Comoros (Johanna, Mohilla, Mayotta) often do. Turns out, Captain Kidd never set foot on Grande Comore island, the location of the current city Moroni, and he wasn’t even a pirate till months after he left the Comoro Islands. TL:DR – Some church critics claim Joseph Smith got the names “Moroni” and “Cumorah” from tales of Captain William Kidd’s exploits on the Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean.
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