Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... characters , that are likewise Egyptian.1 Any one who can read hieratic Egyptian inscriptions will have no diffi- culty in translating said legend by the aid of a Maya diction- ary , and thus finding irrefutable evidence : 1. That Mayas ...
... characters , that are likewise Egyptian.1 Any one who can read hieratic Egyptian inscriptions will have no diffi- culty in translating said legend by the aid of a Maya diction- ary , and thus finding irrefutable evidence : 1. That Mayas ...
Page xxxi
... characters that , being known to many of the nobil- ity , remained in usage . 2 With the old orders of priesthood , and the students , the knowledge of the hieratic or sacred mode of writing had disappeared . The legends graven on the ...
... characters that , being known to many of the nobil- ity , remained in usage . 2 With the old orders of priesthood , and the students , the knowledge of the hieratic or sacred mode of writing had disappeared . The legends graven on the ...
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... characters and paintings they could get hold of in which were written their histories , and that in order to take from them all remembrances of their ancient rites . ” 1 Those who undertook to write the narrative of the Conquest and the ...
... characters and paintings they could get hold of in which were written their histories , and that in order to take from them all remembrances of their ancient rites . ” 1 Those who undertook to write the narrative of the Conquest and the ...
Page xlii
... character is composed of two letters , equivalent to Maya and Greek letter A , so entwined as to form the character equal to the Greek and Maya K , but forming a mon- ogram that reads aac , the Maya word for " turtle . " X it Before ...
... character is composed of two letters , equivalent to Maya and Greek letter A , so entwined as to form the character equal to the Greek and Maya K , but forming a mon- ogram that reads aac , the Maya word for " turtle . " X it Before ...
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... character stands for ahau , the word for king , and we have already Л ' The adjoining map ( Plate IV . ) was constructed by Professor J. W. Spen- cer according to his own original researches and geological studies in the island of Cuba ...
... character stands for ahau , the word for king , and we have already Л ' The adjoining map ( Plate IV . ) was constructed by Professor J. W. Spen- cer according to his own original researches and geological studies in the island of Cuba ...
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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