Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... antiquity , be correct , what right have we to gainsay the assertion of the Mayas and of the Egyptians in claiming likewise priority for their people and their country ? It is but natural to suppose that intelligence in man was ...
... antiquity , be correct , what right have we to gainsay the assertion of the Mayas and of the Egyptians in claiming likewise priority for their people and their country ? It is but natural to suppose that intelligence in man was ...
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... antiquity , who during thirty - five years was at the head of the Neo - Platonic school of Athens , and was learned in all the sciences known in his days , in his " Com- " " mentaries on Plato's Timæus , " says : " The xii PREFACE .
... antiquity , who during thirty - five years was at the head of the Neo - Platonic school of Athens , and was learned in all the sciences known in his days , in his " Com- " " mentaries on Plato's Timæus , " says : " The xii PREFACE .
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... antiquity . In them are embodied many of the secret doctrines communicated , in their initia- tions , to the adepts in India , Chaldea , Egypt , and Samothra- cia - the origin of the worship of the cross , of that of the tree and of the ...
... antiquity . In them are embodied many of the secret doctrines communicated , in their initia- tions , to the adepts in India , Chaldea , Egypt , and Samothra- cia - the origin of the worship of the cross , of that of the tree and of the ...
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... antiquity ; and why the Mayas , who in their scheme of numeration adopted the decimal system , did not reckon by tens but by fives and twenties ; and why they used the twenty - millionth part of half the meridian as stand- ard of lineal ...
... antiquity ; and why the Mayas , who in their scheme of numeration adopted the decimal system , did not reckon by tens but by fives and twenties ; and why they used the twenty - millionth part of half the meridian as stand- ard of lineal ...
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... antiquity . " 3 The historiographer par excellence of Yucatan , Cogolludo , informs us that in his day - the middle of the seventeenth century - scarcely a little more than one hundred years after the Conquest , the memory of these ...
... antiquity . " 3 The historiographer par excellence of Yucatan , Cogolludo , informs us that in his day - the middle of the seventeenth century - scarcely a little more than one hundred years after the Conquest , the memory of these ...
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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