Hi Jeanie

I also looked up "cockatrice’s, dragons, satyrs, fiery flying serpents" in 2nd Nephi and that is all from where he is quoting from Isaiah... (Chs. 11 & 15, etc.) That's the hardest part to get through in the Book of Mormon.... It is mostly talking about the coming Millenial reign. Isaiah is a hard book to understand... very symbolic.

Yes symbolic use of mytical creatures as if they really existed quoted from another book as if it were speaking the absolute truth. For me this still doesn’t answer why these creature are in the book. If they are not real, and I strongly suspect that they are not, why include them in a book that is supposed to speak god’s truth? Why would a angle related myth to Joseph Smith to be included in TboM, why not stick to truth so later readers would have one more clue to the validity of it?

All the best Jeanie

Russell