Initial Findings on Feasting Habits of Mormons in their Common Gathering Locations (A very unofficial site!)	Other Mysteries Click this link to proceed to the new Mysteries page. Research Email List

This presentation is one of continuing development. As each bit of data is accumulated whole new interesting aspects of Mormon consumption and feasting habits hopefully will revel themselves. These pages are intended to be updated as new information and findings are revealed.

Even though this is an unfinished work we felt its presentation in this format would help in the research by allowing insight and comment from others who may have made related observations or have more specific knowledge (that is not secret or sacred) about the subject of intrest. Please forgive the almost `stream of consciousness' format, annotations and observations that have been presented without complete supportive evidence.

The Beginning of the Study:
The interest to do this study came about when an opportunity presented itself to investigate the principle local gathering places of Mormon groups when these facilities where totally unoccupied. The things found where amazing, interesting, intriguing and only lead to a greater desire to investigate further mysteries.

The Buildings:
All the building have been found to be of very similar floor plans. All appear to have been designed around functional patterns for regular events and feasts. Each area of the building would seem to have design features for different feasts, although there are some common findings that bind all rooms and areas together.

The Chapel:

Mystery Colored Spheroids:

An obvious part of any feast here involves small colored,1/4" spheroids made of some kind of prepared (cooked?) grain. They appear to be either `popped' or created by filling foam into round molds and the result is an object mostly filled with air, as their density is very low. Their preparation must be done elsewhere might be brought to the chaple for part of the sacrificial feast perhaps in a kind of procession. These spheroids are almost always only found on the carpet and not on the pews. Usually only remains of these spheres are found as the majority have been carefully crushed into the fiber of the carpet. Because of their bright and various colors this must be a joyus event and celebration..

A possible comparison is to the ceremonies occurring a Jewish wedding where a glass is wrapped in cloth and broken by stomping. (Only here there is no glass shards or cloth fibers in evidence). Whatever the ceremony, if must involve sound, as the spheroids, although mostly air, have a hardened exterior that provides as sharp `crunching' sound when stomped.

Golden Toruses:

In addition to colored spheroids, the second most common finding is the remains of tiny toruses (Much like a fossilized Kripsy Kream doughnuts. Only without the soft cream glaze…. Just krisp!). These are slightly larger than the colored spheroids. Being about 3/8" to 1/2" in diameter. Variation here is not in color but by density and coating. Some are plain and only cooked. Others have what appears to be a white frost coating and some are found with a high gloss finish.

The variations in diameters only reflect a difference in density not a greater amount of food content.

When crushed these golden toruses do not have the same sound qualities as the predominate spheroids, and are probably only used for some sort of background sound. (Perhaps like the tapes of ocean sounds or whale songs that are used to sooth and relax).

Other Chapel Findings:
Other findings in the Chapels indicate that there are many other items brought to the feasts. But combined they appear to represent only about 10% to 15% of our findings. Only very incomplete descriptions are available at this time:

Mirrored Labeled Cones:
	Something wrapped in a labeled mirror like coating. 1/2" in diamater by 1/2" high there is good evidence that the object is conical as the discarded wrapping hold their shapes well. Only parts of the labels have been found and the best we can do is a partial decipherment which yields: "H…sey's Kis..s". Some day we hope to find a complete wrapping that will solve this name mystery.

Cylinders with Brown and White wrapping:

All that has been found are plasticized paper wrapping that shows the partial inscription reading "TO..SIE R..L". Almost every one of these wrappers has been found flattened and looking like it had been sucked on. A couple where found brushed up to the edge of the chapel walls out of traffic areas and provided our clue that the objects they contained are most likely cylindrical in shape. These are about 1/4" in diameter by about 1/2" long.

• Paper Cylindrical Sticks:
  These have presented not real clues for their purpose yet. Every one is about 4" long and about 1/8" in diameter. All have one end still holding a true shape and the other end is always frayed. There have been suggestions that the frayed end shows tooth markings but this is still unconfirmed.

• Sacrificial Stains (?):
  One of the greatest mysteries is the tremendous amount of unidentified stains! It really is not thought that they are part of any sacrificial ritual, as it is a well known fact that blood sacrifice was eliminated 2000 years ago. (We just don't know what else to call them.) Until the actual cause is found they are being simply classed into very simple categories. Size, Color, Texture and then crossed indexed and mapped by locations . Hopefully a pattern will emerge to reveal their cause and purpose.

Other Rooms:
Other areas of the buildings being studied are:

• The Great Empty Event Hall:
  A very large room (sometimes larger than the chapel) which is identified by netted rings mounted on vertical boards at each end of the room. Found in this room are various geometric floor markings not present in any other room in the buildings.

• Feast Preparation Area:
  Not every facility has one of these obvious areas. If not present, how are the various feast items prepared?

• Smaller Gathering Rooms:
  There are multitudes of these all mostly for what would appear to be gatherings of 10 to 20 people. There is an obvious division of use based on the size of the tables and chairs found in each room. Some are for Mormons of much smaller stature (perhaps children?).

• Administrative Offices:
  The purpose of these rooms as offices is very much confirmed by the adjacent, much smaller closets where the computers and other devices are stored when not in use.

  We know these extremely small connecting closets are for storage only. In may of them signs are found which state "Clerks Caves or Clerks Closets" But these can only be a humorous reference as there is no possible way a clerk (let alone more that one) could function in the space provided with the amount of equipment and other stored items present.

The Continung Effort:
As these areas reveal their secrets the information will be presented here along with the same request for additional insight from those more knowledgeable about the use of the facilities and the feasting habits of Mormons. Our intital feeling is that each room or area has specific foods or feasts associated with it. Although common items are found in all rooms, some will have specific things found no where else in the building. And locations of where things are left will vary greatty from room to room. Clarification of possible meaning will be presented in future updates to this site.

Or you can correspond direclty to Ed R at treefolk@quixnet.net

Last updated June 4, 2001 (Created June 13, 2000)
Copyright © 2000 Ed & Dotti Rountree