Magellan, Ferdinand, 124
Maharal (Rabbi Juda Leow c. 1525–1609),
26–27, 209
Maldonado, Lorenzo Ferrer de, 164, 165
Manasseh (tribe), 1, 9, 106, 113
as America, 196–198
in prophecy, 12, 76, 147
and Scotland, 3–4
Manuel I (1469–1521), 128, 136
Marco Polo (1254–c. 1324), 114, 164, 207
Matthew of Paris (c. 1200–1259),
109–110, 149
Maya, 6
McKinley, President William
(1843–1901), 4, 26, 215–216, 218
Mecca, 14, 106, 108, 114, 123, 214, 236
Medes/Media, cities of 11, 22, 37, 39, 48,
49, 69, 71, 74, 87, 90, 100, 103, 104,
199, 202
Mediterranean, 29, 32, 39, 43, 92, 101,
103, 123, 125
Melvile, Herman, 57
Mercator, Gerardus (1512–1594), 145, 164,
245 n 50
Messianism
and “natural redemption,” 20, 110–111,
114
ten tribes and, 12, 18–20, 25–26, 46, 54,
55, 61, 72, 82–84, 102, 106, 111, 115,
117–119, 123,131–132, 147, 154, 172–177,
184, 187–188, 216, 220, 222, 225
mestizo, 136.See alsoNative Americans
migrations, 24, 34, 145, 189, 191,
194–196, 201
millenarianism, 11, 172–177, 187
Milton, John (1608–1674), 169, 202
Mongolia, 164
Mongols, 108–111, 114, 145, 189
Montesinos, Antonio de, 161
Montezinos, Antonio (Aharon Ha-Levi),
135–138, 160–162, 167, 173–174, 178,
184, 217, 224
Mormons and Mormonism, 6, 12–13, 96,
184–187, 194, 198, 212, 219.See also
Lindelof, O.S. J.; Nephi; Pratt,
Orson; Smith, Joseph
Moses, 54, 67, 74, 78, 81, 92, 95, 109,
152, 154, 186
Mosul, 101.See alsoNineveh
mountains, 1, 2, 9, 13, 23, 26, 34, 39,
54, 63, 73, 76, 77, 83, 85, 87, 103,
104, 109, 110, 120, 127, 131, 136,
138, 152, 154, 174, 202, 217.
See also individual mountain
names
Mountains of Darkness, 1, 13, 23,
76–77
Mu ̈nchhausen, Karl Friedrich
Hieronymus von, 210
Mu ̈nster, Sebastian (1488–1552), 142–148,
152–154Nahavand (Iran), 72, 103
Najran (in Arabia), 92, 94, 105
Naphtali (tribe), 1, 48, 95, 104, 145
and Ethiopia, 87, 94
in Ortelius, 149, 152–153
Native Americans, 97, 141–142,
160–162, 165–166, 174–175,
181–185, 201, 205.See alsoJewish
Indian Theory
Nazis, 2, 193, 225
Nephi, Prophet, 185
Nestorians, 6, 101.See alsoEastern
Christians
Neubauer, Adolf (Adolphe), 2, 73, 74,
77, 90
new christians (Marranos, Conversos),
115–116, 135–136, 159–160, 173–174,
176
Nile (river), 98, 123–124, 127
Nineveh, 42–44, 59, 158–159, 207
Norse and Nordification, 142–146,
190–193
North Pole, 12, 14, 16, 20, 96,
148–149, 154, 186, 212.See also
Arctic Circle