Abraham and an Angel vs the Priest of Elkenah

In our religion we believe that Abraham was nearly sacrificed by an evil Egyptian priest,  (the Priest of Elkenah).  An angel of God appeared and saved Abraham.  Abraham's bonds were loosed or maybe they would  have been burst  by heavenly power. The priest was zapped by the angel so he, the evil priest,  could not continue his evil intentions on Abraham.  Then the angel smote the alter that it was destroyed.  God spoke to Abraham and told him it was time to leave the land.  After the Lord smote Chaldea with a great famine.

So, Abraham left the Land of Ur where he was from.  That is now part of modern Iraq.  In Abraham's time it was a port city by the Persian Gulf but time changes things and now it is quite a few miles from the coast, but it is still on the Euphrates River.  In Abraham's day it was under control of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

Abraham and an Angel vs the Priest of Elkenah 

Abraham left Ur shortly after they tried to offer him as a human sacrifice.  That would make sense.  I would not stick around my hometown if the locals were trying to kill me.  Plus, of course, Abraham was following the command of God.  The Pearl of Great Price is a book with writings of Moses and Abraham.  In that book we learn that even Abraham's father had left off worshiping the true and living God.  Abraham was determined to follow God.  He would not worship the gods of the Chaldeans and Egyptians.  The Egyptian priests were offering children and young virgin women who would not worship idols, as sacrifices to their idol gods and Abraham had told them that it was evil so that is why the priests wated to do away with Abraham.  At the time Abraham was still called Abram.

There is a ziggurat in the background.  The Ziggurat of Ur is an ancient step pyramid basically.  It is interesting how much it looks like pyramids in Mesoamerica.  Mesoamerica is Mexico and Central America.  I lived in both the country of Guatemala and Mexico.  I studied archaeology in Mexico during my college years.  I lived in Guatemala as a boy.  My father started a medical mission in the mountains of Guatemala. I actually went to part of my first grade year in Guatemala.  We, Mormons or members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, believe that at least some of the ancient America inhabitants came from the Old World ...from the Middle East area.  So some of the Native Americans are descended from Middle Easterns.  We believe that some of those who came here to the Americas were descended from Abraham.  Maybe that is why many of the ancients in the Americas built step pyramids.

Note:  Some of the drawing is Egyptian Gods and other parts are Persian in origin.   Since this happened in Persian when Egypt ruled the area.