Zion
Pronunciation: ZY-un The Definition The Lord said to Achee: “Zion is the Community of the righteous / The establishers of the Covenant / Those who turn aside from walking in the way of the people” (I Achee 12:70). The Handbook notes this is the only ancient definition of Zion that has been found, from a […]
Salem
Pronunciation: SAY-lem Founded After the Flood After the Flood, the company traveled southwest in search of the spring Arvade used to speak of, and found it on the valley floor near good garden ground and pasturage for their sheep and goats, where water issued out from the bottom of a cliff. They started a settlement […]
Sea of Ba-ah
Pronunciation: SEE uv BAH-ah Where Heleah Once Stood For seven days the ark was driven eastward by the wind, past hilltops crowded with the wicked, who cursed Noah and then turned on one another as the last of the hills went under. At the end of those seven days the valley of Heleah was no […]
Mount Mahujah
Pronunciation: MOWNT mah-HOO-jah Also Called Harari and Ri’shoniy. It is “the mountain who has three names” — one name for the Holy Order of Elda, one for the Order of Melchizedek, and one for the Order of Zedeqetelebab (Melchizedek, Little Book 2:96 and note 140). Named by the First Parents Yaatsekawd climbed the mountain to […]
Village of Nod
Pronunciation: NOD Where the First Parents Dwelt On the slopes of Mount Mahujah, at the lower reaches of the hill Pethach, in the land of Moladeth, lies the village of Nod — where Yaatsekawd and Cavah dwelt after they left Eden (Grandmothers 1:12). The Valley of Simca Rising up from Nod toward the hill Pethach […]
Niphilim Wars
Pronunciation: NIH-fih-lim How They Began The wars began in the valleys of Heleah after Mehujael — the wicked Lamech’s own grandfather — took in the abandoned Zillah, who bore him another Niphilim child. Children conceived to hold the spirits of the Decadarchoi infested the land, and violence became universal. The wicked used the element of […]
Heleah
Pronunciation: heh-LEE-ah The Meaning of the Name “The name Heleah means to be very remote and removed beyond the horizon” — and because of this, the children of Kenneh found themselves in the midst of the floods that would come (Enoch, Seth 3:38). The Lay of the Land To the west, north, and east of […]
Oaks of Pethach
Pronunciation: OHKS uv puh-THAK Also Called Ayil — the name of the two oaks themselves (Seth 2:23). When Yaatsekawd gave each thing in creation its definition, the oaks asked him, “Who are we,” and he said, “You are Ayil / the strength of God,” and the Lord entered them with His strong presence (Seth 4:111–112). […]
Land of Anach
Pronunciation: ann-ACK The Meaning of the Name “Now to the south and west of the land of Moladeth in the morning shadow of the mountain of the domain of Gabriel is a place that is called the land of Anach and it is called this because it is a land where those who dwell there […]
Qumran
Pronunciation: koom-RAHN The Modern Name for Secacah Qumran is the modern Arabic name for the site the books call Secacah. Qumran means “the unbelievers,” so named because the graves found there do not face Mecca (Handbook, p. 140). A Place Set Apart for Watches Qumran was designated for the very specific use as a facility […]