Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... representing him . On the top of the monument was his totem , a dying leopard with a human head - a veritable sphinx . Once established in the land of her adoption , did she order the erection of another of his totems - again a leopard ...
... representing him . On the top of the monument was his totem , a dying leopard with a human head - a veritable sphinx . Once established in the land of her adoption , did she order the erection of another of his totems - again a leopard ...
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... representing the events in the history of certain personages who had flourished at the dawn of the life of their nation ; scenes that had been enacted in former ages were portrayed in very beautiful bas - reliefs . But these speaking ...
... representing the events in the history of certain personages who had flourished at the dawn of the life of their nation ; scenes that had been enacted in former ages were portrayed in very beautiful bas - reliefs . But these speaking ...
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... represented under any shape . Yet , by lashes , torture , death even , the victims were compelled to pay homage to these images , with rites and ceremonies the purport of which they were , as their descendants still are , unable to ...
... represented under any shape . Yet , by lashes , torture , death even , the victims were compelled to pay homage to these images , with rites and ceremonies the purport of which they were , as their descendants still are , unable to ...
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... represented by the dots . . . . , and of small circles , O , images of volcanoes . As to the 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 ...
... represented by the dots . . . . , and of small circles , O , images of volcanoes . As to the 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 ...
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... represents Land , Broken shading submergence to 600 feet HONDUR Parama CARIBBEAN Orinaco River 1 1 I 1 1 parts of the earth they. PACIFIC YUCATAN haman ANTILLEAN LANDS by JW Spencer Barthell Deep HON Haitian DOMINGO WINDWARD. Page xliv ...
... represents Land , Broken shading submergence to 600 feet HONDUR Parama CARIBBEAN Orinaco River 1 1 I 1 1 parts of the earth they. PACIFIC YUCATAN haman ANTILLEAN LANDS by JW Spencer Barthell Deep HON Haitian DOMINGO WINDWARD. Page xliv ...
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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