Deseret (Book of Mormon)

Latter-day Saint scholar Hugh Nibley (extending the work of Egyptologist Sir Alan Gardiner[5]) suggested an etymology by associating the word "Deseret" with the ancient Egyptian deshret (Egyptian: 𓂧𓈙𓂋𓏏𓋔), a term he translated as the "bee crown" of the Lower Kingdom,[6] but which non-LDS scholarly sources translate as the "Red Crown".

Brigham Young—governor of Utah Territory from 1850 to 1858 and president of the LDS Church from 1847 to 1877—favored the name as a symbol of industry.

Young taught that Church members should be productive and self-sufficient, a trait he had perceived in honeybees.

He said that Utah - Anglicized from "Yuta" - is what the Spanish called the Utes, and his research indicates that it meant "meat eaters".

Various businesses and organizations use "Deseret" as part of their name, particularly those that have connections to the LDS Church.

The provisional 1849 boundaries of the State of Deseret, named after the word for honeybees in the Book of Mormon . The proposed boundary of Deseret is the dotted line, while the Utah Territory is blue and outlined in black; boundaries are not exact.