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Two sheep grazing on the steep slope near the very tip of Cape Kidnappers. In the sea in the background is \u201cMaui\u2019s Fish Hook,\u201d with which that demigod drew the North Island of New Zealand up out of the sea. (Wikimedia Commons public domain photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:<\/p>\n

Nibley Lectures: Come, Follow Me<\/em> Book of Mormon Lesson 8 \u201cO How Great the Plan of Our God!\u201d: \u00a02 Nephi 6-10<\/a><\/p>\n

During 1988, 1989, and 1990, Hugh Nibley taught Honors Book of Mormon classes for four semesters at Brigham Young University. The lectures were video-taped and audio cassettes and printed transcripts were made of the lectures. We believe these recordings will be interesting to listen to and valuable to your Come, Follow Me<\/em> study program this year. Each week, we will include the lectures covering the Book of Mormon chapters being studied that week.<\/p>\n

This week, we have lectures 18 and 19, covering 2 Nephi 3-8 and 2 Nephi 9, respectively.<\/p>\n

Note: Nibley did not have any lectures covering chapters 10 through 24 of 2 Nephi, so there will not be a post next week.<\/p>\n

All 112 lectures are immediately available in PDF, audio, video, and electronic formats, as well as in paperback books that are available for purchase. Links for all of the available online sources can be found in the Complete Bibliography for Hugh Nibley at https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/bibliographies\/hugh-w-nibley\/lectures\/<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Book of Mormon in Context Lesson 8: \u201cO How Great the Plan of Our God!\u201d 2 Nephi 6-10<\/a><\/p>\n

In the 28 January 2024 Come, Follow Me<\/em> segment of the Interpreter Radio Show, Steve Densley and John Thompson discussed Book of Mormon lesson 8, \u201cO How Great the Plan of Our God!\u201d covering 2 Nephi 6-10.<\/p>\n

A recording of their conversation was made, and it has now been stripped of commercial interruptions and made available to you at your convenience but at no charge. \u00a0The other segments of the 28 January 2024 radio show can be accessed at https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/interpreter-radio-show-january-28-2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Interpreter Radio Show can be heard in the Salt Lake City area each and every week of the year on Sunday evenings from 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640. \u00a0Or, if you\u2019re at sea or in space or otherwise located beyond the Salt Lake Valley, you can listen live on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A couple of years ago, two people on this Cape Kidnappers beach were swept out to sea by the landslide whose results are still visible in this Wikimedia Commons public domain photograph. Astonishingly, they were rescued and survived, though they were badly injured and, our guide told us, spent nine months of recovery in the hospital. We had exactly this same view from up on the cliffs\u2019 edge, earlier today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We spent the first part of today being driven around the pleasant little North Island coastal city of Napier<\/a>, where we saw some of the then-fashionable art deco buildings that were constructed in the aftermath of the devastating 1931 earthquake<\/a> that essentially destroyed the town and, destroying its original harbor, raised portions of it by roughly nine feet. \u00a0Then we headed out to Te Awanga, southward on Hawke\u2019s Bay, where we boarded a four-wheel-drive van from \u201cGannet Safaris Overland\u201d<\/a> (see the good video images at the link that I\u2019ve just provided here) in order to travel out onto the oddly named Cape Kidnappers, which is a headland that actually forms the southeastern boundary of the Bay.<\/p>\n

We saw magnificent views of the Pacific Ocean from the cape, as well as flocks of sheep and herds of cows and, at remarkably close range, thousands upon thousands of Australasian gannets, impressive large seabirds whose fledglings fly directly from New Zealand to Australia (twelve hundred or more miles away) and typically don\u2019t return to their mother colonies until their third year.<\/p>\n

I marvel at their ability to fly such a distance over the Tasman Sea (which the Ovation of the Seas<\/em> took more than two days nd nights to cross), without their elders, to a place that they\u2019ve never visited or seen before. \u00a0Such lengthy migrations as this one and the even longer journeys of other birds and of humpback whales and the like absolutely amaze me.<\/p>\n

There are two related but divergent stories about the English-language naming of Cape Kidnappers. \u00a0One of them, the version told by Captain James Cook, says that it was named after an attempt by local M\u0101ori to abduct a member of Cook\u2019s crew aboard HMS Endeavour <\/i>when Cook and his boat made landfall there on 15 October 1769. \u00a0The crew member was Taiata, who was the twelve-year-old nephew (or servant, or both) of Tupaia, the Tahitian arioi<\/a><\/em> who was serving as the Endeavour\u2019<\/i>s interpreter and guide. (This says something important, by the way: \u00a0A native-speaker of Tahitian could communicate \u2014 though not necessarily easily or precisely \u2014 with native-speakers of other Polynesian languages, including M\u0101ori.)<\/p>\n

Cook\u2019s journal states that Taiata was over the side of the ship (perhaps simply taking a swim) when a M\u0101ori fishing vessel approached the Endeavour<\/i>, offering fish for trade. \u00a0Suddenly, though, the M\u0101ori seized the boy and attempted to flee with him. Sailors from Endeavour<\/i>\u2032s deck immediately opened fire on the fishing boat, killing two M\u0101ori and wounding a third.<\/sup><\/p>\n

Taiata quickly jumped overboard and swam back to the Endeavour<\/i>, while the remaining M\u0101ori paddled their waka<\/em> shorewards with all their strength. A 4-pounder cannon was fired after them from Endeavour<\/i>\u2032s quarterdeck, but the M\u0101ori boat was soon out of range. \u00a0Here is Captain Cook:<\/p>\n

[O]ne of the fishing boat came along side and offer\u2019d us some more fish, the Indian Boy Tiata, Tupia\u2019s servant being over the side, they seized hold of him, pulld him into the boat and endeavourd to carry him off, this obliged us to fire upon them which gave the Boy an opportunity to jump over board and we brought the Ship too, lower\u2019d a boat into the Water and took him up unhurt. Two or three paid for this daring attempt with the loss of their lives and many more would have suffered had it not been for fear of killing the boy. This affair occation\u2019d my giveing this point of land the name of Cape Kidnappers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, the account given by the Ng\u0101ti Te Whatui\u0101piti, the M\u0101ori hapu<\/em> or sub-tribe involved in the story, is rather different: \u00a0According to them, the Rangatira or chief Te Rangikoianake and his son Hawea led a rescue party in hopes of freeing what they not unreasonably imagined to be a young M\u0101ori boy \u2014 they knew nothing, by this time, of Tahiti or Tahitians, and he would have looked like one of them<\/em> \u2014 who (they thought) was being held captive aboard the ship.<\/sup><\/p>\n

But now for the cape\u2019s other name: \u00a0Cape Kidnappers is known in M\u0101ori as Te Kauwae-a-M\u0101ui<\/i><\/span> . \u00a0That title means \u201cthe fish hook of M\u0101ui,\u201d and it refers to a well-known M\u0101ori\u00a0legend. Supposedly, the demigod M\u0101ui and his brothers were out fishing from their canoe (the South Island) one day when he caught a great fish and pulled it up out of the sea. \u00a0The body of that fish became the North Island and, accordingly, a common M\u0101ori name for the North Island is Te Ika-a-M\u0101ui<\/em> (\u201cThe Fish of M\u0101ui\u201d).<\/p>\n

Posted from the Pacific Ocean, just south of Napier, New Zealand<\/p>\n

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