The Numic (Sleep) Peoples & The Book of Mormon

Synchronicity of Modern Lehi descendants' (?) name, "Numic (Sleep)," and the admonition to Book of Mormon forbearers, "Awake from a deep sleep."

From: "Dean J Mansfield" <mansfielddj@hotmail.com>
To: <sterlingda@greaterthings.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 10:57 AM
[Posted to Dean Mansfield's Newsletter]
Subject: The Numic (Sleep) Peoples & The BoM

Subject: Is The Book Of Mormon Hebrew?

Shalom!

      One wonders, sometimes, how words play into the principle of
  synchronicity?  I mentioned yesterday how close SHOSHONI seems to
  be to SHOMRONI (Samaritan--descendant of Joseph) and PENATEKA
  to PENTATEUCHOS (another spelling just found for this tribe is
  PIHNATUKHA).  Then there is the associating with "honey-eaters."

     Today I came across another interesting "synchronicity."  In
  the BoM we read:

     "O that ye would awake!  Awake from a deep SLEEP, yea, even
     from the SLEEP of hell, and shake off the awful chains by
     which ye are bound, which are the chains which bind the
     children of men, that they are carried away down to the
     eternal gulf of misery and woe."  (2 Nephi 1:13)

     "And in the morning, the Lord caused a deep SLEEP to come upon
     the Lamanites, yea, and all their task-masters were in a
     profound SLEEP."  (Mosiah 24:19)

     "And Moroni had prepared his men with weapons of war; and he
     went to the city of Gid, while the Lamanites were in a deep
     SLEEP . . ."  (Alma 55:16)

     In the first scripture, Lehi is giving this admonition to his
  sons, Laman and Lemuel, fathers of the Lamanites.  He begs them
  to awaken from their deep SLEEP.  Then the next two quotes we
  find are in reference to their descendants and deep SLEEP is used
  again in an allegorical way if we consider the first quote, but
  also in a real, practical way.  What is the significance of this?

     As I pointed out, the Indians of the Great Basin I have
  identified with the primary descendants of Lehi, or the Shoshoni
  nation.  This includes the Utes, Paiutes, Bannocks, Comanches,
  Chemehuevi, and some other tribes.  They are called "Numic
  peoples" based on the fact that they call themselves "Numa"
  or "Numu," meaning "people" or "human beings."  So their language
  is called Numic, which is considered to be a branch of Uto-Aztecan.

     What caught my attention in reading this was the word "Numa."
  In Hebrew, "Numah" (NUN,MEM,HEY) means SLEEP.  It is a state of
  sleep and drowsiness.  Did the name, "Numah," stick with the
  Lamanites because of father Lehi's early admonition and the
  subsequent history that involved incidents of SLEEP.  Or is this
  just one of those strange synchronicities which involves no real
  linguistic connection?  Or is it just a coincident with no real
  significance whatsoever?   "Manasseh" means "Forgetting."  Are
  "Numah" and "Manasseh,"  SLEEP & FORGETTING involved in a real
  way here???  Dean.

This page posted on March 13, 2001