Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages A new and different approach to Atlantis by way of the Mayan civilization, thoroughly investigated, heavily illustrated and highly intriguing. |
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... language still spoken by several thousands of human beings . There we may read part of man's history and follow the progress of his civilization . The study - in situ - of the relics of the ancient Mayas has revealed such striking ...
... language still spoken by several thousands of human beings . There we may read part of man's history and follow the progress of his civilization . The study - in situ - of the relics of the ancient Mayas has revealed such striking ...
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... language , and more easily applied and understood , not being subject to changes , I have refrained from availing myself of it , in order not to increase the limits of the present work . I reserve the teachings that may be gathered from ...
... language , and more easily applied and understood , not being subject to changes , I have refrained from availing myself of it , in order not to increase the limits of the present work . I reserve the teachings that may be gathered from ...
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... language . Two of these narratives are illustrated - that contained in the Troano MS . , the other in the Codex Cortesianus . The third has been engraved on stone in relief , and placed for safe - keeping in a room in a building at ...
... language . Two of these narratives are illustrated - that contained in the Troano MS . , the other in the Codex Cortesianus . The third has been engraved on stone in relief , and placed for safe - keeping in a room in a building at ...
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... language and customs , and many of their traditions ; but nowhere , except in Yucatan , is the origin of their name to be found . Among the various authors who have written on that coun- try several have endeavored to give the etymology ...
... language and customs , and many of their traditions ; but nowhere , except in Yucatan , is the origin of their name to be found . Among the various authors who have written on that coun- try several have endeavored to give the etymology ...
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... language . The ancient armorial escutcheon of the country still exists on the western façade of the " sanctuary " at Uxmal , and in the bas - reliefs carved on the memorial monu- ment of Prince Coh at Chichen . The emblem represented on ...
... language . The ancient armorial escutcheon of the country still exists on the western façade of the " sanctuary " at Uxmal , and in the bas - reliefs carved on the memorial monu- ment of Prince Coh at Chichen . The emblem represented 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