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The truth of the matter is, that these opinions are mere conjectures, simple hypotheses, and their advocates know no more when and where man first' appeared on earth than the new-born babe knows of his surroundings or how he came.
The truth of the matter is, that these opinions are mere conjectures, simple hypotheses, and their advocates know no more when and where man first' appeared on earth than the new-born babe knows of his surroundings or how he came.
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The Maya sages doubtless had reached similar conclusions, since they called their country Mayach; that is, “ the land first emerged from the bosom of the deep,” “ the country of the shoot ...
The Maya sages doubtless had reached similar conclusions, since they called their country Mayach; that is, “ the land first emerged from the bosom of the deep,” “ the country of the shoot ...
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If we are to believe Tertullian and other ecclesiastical writers, the Christians, during the first centuries of the Christian era, held in abhorrence all arts and sciences, which, like literature, they attributed to the Muses, ...
If we are to believe Tertullian and other ecclesiastical writers, the Christians, during the first centuries of the Christian era, held in abhorrence all arts and sciences, which, like literature, they attributed to the Muses, ...
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In the first she caused to be painted, on the walls of the funeral chamber, the principal events of his and her life, just as the Egyptian kings had the events of their own lives painted on the walls of their tombs.
In the first she caused to be painted, on the walls of the funeral chamber, the principal events of his and her life, just as the Egyptian kings had the events of their own lives painted on the walls of their tombs.
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In the appendix are presented, for the first time in modern ages, the cosmogonic notions of the ancient Mayas, re-discovered by me. They will be found identical with those of the other civilized nations of antiquity.
In the appendix are presented, for the first time in modern ages, the cosmogonic notions of the ancient Mayas, re-discovered by me. They will be found identical with those of the other civilized nations of antiquity.
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LXHI Javelin Head and Arrow Points found with the Charred | 159 |
Portrait of Queen M60 From a demirelief adorning | 166 |
Portrait of Bishop Lands second Bishop of Yucatan | 169 |
LXVHI Mezzorelievo in Stucco on the Frieze of the Temple | 197 |
Fresco Painting in the Funeral Chamber of Prince Cohs | 222 |
The Lord of the Yucatan Forests From life | 236 |
Part of Facade of the Sanctuary at Uxmal Cosmic | 256 |
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