Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... Maya writings we also meet with the solution of that much mooted question ... Maya language . Two of these narratives are illustrated - that contained in the ... word , is the name of one of the letters of the Greek alphabet , rearranged ...
... Maya writings we also meet with the solution of that much mooted question ... Maya language . Two of these narratives are illustrated - that contained in the ... word , is the name of one of the letters of the Greek alphabet , rearranged ...
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... word Maya . None , how- ever , seem to have known its true origin . The reason is very simple . At the time of the invasion of the country by the turbu- ' Antonio de Herrera , Hist . general de los hechos de los Castellanos en las islas ...
... word Maya . None , how- ever , seem to have known its true origin . The reason is very simple . At the time of the invasion of the country by the turbu- ' Antonio de Herrera , Hist . general de los hechos de los Castellanos en las islas ...
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... word Maya : none has succeeded ; for , instead of consulting the Maya books that escaped destruction at the hands of the Zumarragas , Landas , and Torquemadas , they have appealed to their imagination , as if in their fancy they could ...
... word Maya : none has succeeded ; for , instead of consulting the Maya books that escaped destruction at the hands of the Zumarragas , Landas , and Torquemadas , they have appealed to their imagination , as if in their fancy they could ...
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... word Maya , that everybody knows is a mere Spanish corruption of Mayab , the ancient name of the country . " In asserting that the true name ( nombre ver- dadero ) of the peninsula in ancient times was Mayab , Señor Ancona does not ...
... word Maya , that everybody knows is a mere Spanish corruption of Mayab , the ancient name of the country . " In asserting that the true name ( nombre ver- dadero ) of the peninsula in ancient times was Mayab , Señor Ancona does not ...
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... word Mayab is a " sieve , " a " tammy , " I wrote : " It is very difficult ... Maya text of that interesting old document . It was with consider- able ... Mayas . I was no less astonished than gratified to find an account of the events in ...
... word Mayab is a " sieve , " a " tammy , " I wrote : " It is very difficult ... Maya text of that interesting old document . It was with consider- able ... Mayas . I was no less astonished than gratified to find an account of the events in ...
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Abbé Brasseur adorned Akkadian alphabet Americanist ancestors ancient Maya archæology Asia assertion AUGUSTUS LE PLONGEON Brinton called Caribbean Sea Chaldean chap Chichen Cogolludo Coh's Memorial Hall color Cosas de Yucatan cosmogonic earth Egypt Egyptians emblem existed Father figure Fresco Painting funeral chamber gods Greek hand head Herodotus Hindoos Hist History of Egypt Ibid India inhabitants inscriptions island Khafra kings Kneph knowledge land Landa learned lineal measures Manners and Customs Maya books Maya civilization Maya dictionary Maya Empire Maya language Maya sages Maya word Mayach Mayapan meaning metre monuments Naacal Nahuatls natives Osiris palaces Palenque peninsula Plate Plongeon priests Prince Coh's Memorial Queen Móo Quichés remote ages represented Sacred Mysteries says sculptures serpent Sir Gardner Wilkinson Sphinx symbol tableau temples tion to-day translation tree Troano Uxmal verse warrior West Western Continent worship writing Yucatan