Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... writing was then invented . The incidents regarded as most worthy of being remembered and preserved for the knowledge of coming generations were carved on the most enduring material in their possession - stone . And so it is that we ...
... writing was then invented . The incidents regarded as most worthy of being remembered and preserved for the knowledge of coming generations were carved on the most enduring material in their possession - stone . And so it is that we ...
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... writers ? Inquiries are often made as to the causes that led to the interruption of the communications between the inhabitants of the Western Continent and the dwellers on the coasts of the Mediterranean , after they had been renewed by ...
... writers ? Inquiries are often made as to the causes that led to the interruption of the communications between the inhabitants of the Western Continent and the dwellers on the coasts of the Mediterranean , after they had been renewed by ...
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... writers , the Christians , during the first centuries of the Chris- tian era , held in abhorrence all arts and sciences , which , like literature , they attributed to the Muses , and therefore regarded as artifices of the devil . They ...
... writers , the Christians , during the first centuries of the Chris- tian era , held in abhorrence all arts and sciences , which , like literature , they attributed to the Muses , and therefore regarded as artifices of the devil . They ...
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... writers who regard it as a myth , corresponds ex- actly to that of Queen Móo and her brother - husband Prince Coh , whose charred heart was found by me , preserved in a stone urn , in his mausoleum at Chichen . Osiris , we are told ...
... writers who regard it as a myth , corresponds ex- actly to that of Queen Móo and her brother - husband Prince Coh , whose charred heart was found by me , preserved in a stone urn , in his mausoleum at Chichen . Osiris , we are told ...
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... writing from the same masters . Who were these ? 2. That some of the ruined mon- uments of Yucatan are very ancient , much anterior to the Christian era , notwithstanding the opinion to the contrary of the self - styled authorities on ...
... writing from the same masters . Who were these ? 2. That some of the ruined mon- uments of Yucatan are very ancient , much anterior to the Christian era , notwithstanding the opinion to the contrary of the self - styled authorities on ...
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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