Queen M'oo and the Egyptian sphinxРипол Классик, 1972 - 277 pages |
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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—tn site—of the relics of the ancient Mayas has revealed such striking analogies ...
... 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—tn site—of the relics of the ancient Mayas has revealed such striking analogies ...
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... language, and more easily applied and understood, not being subject to changes, I have refrained from availing ... Maya monuments for a future occasion; restricting my observations now principally to the Memorial Hall at Chlchen ...
... language, and more easily applied and understood, not being subject to changes, I have refrained from availing ... Maya monuments for a future occasion; restricting my observations now principally to the Memorial Hall at Chlchen ...
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... Maya. language. Two of these narratives are illustrated—that contained in the Troano MS,2 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 Chicken ...
... Maya. language. Two of these narratives are illustrated—that contained in the Troano MS,2 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 Chicken ...
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... Mayas, of their customs and manners, of their scientific or artistic attainments ? Do they understand the Maya language ? Can they interpret one single sentence of the books in which the learning of the Maya sages, their cosmogonic ...
... Mayas, of their customs and manners, of their scientific or artistic attainments ? Do they understand the Maya language ? Can they interpret one single sentence of the books in which the learning of the Maya sages, their cosmogonic ...
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... language of their forefathers, the name even of the mother country to their new abodes—so we may imagine it happened with the Maya-s at some remote period in the past. For it is a fact that, wherever we find their. 1See Appendix, note in ...
... language of their forefathers, the name even of the mother country to their new abodes—so we may imagine it happened with the Maya-s at some remote period in the past. For it is a fact that, wherever we find their. 1See Appendix, note in ...
Table des matières
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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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Abbé adorned Akkadian Akkadian language alphabet ancestors ancient Maya Asia assertion Augustus Le Plongeon Brasseur Brinton called Caribbean Sea Central America Chaldeans chap Chichen Cogolludo Coh’s Memorial Hall color cosmogonic earth edifices Egypt Egyptians emblem existed Father fields figure find fire first five flower Fresco Painting funeral chamber gods Greek hand head Herodotus Hindoos Hist India inhabitants inscriptions island Khafra kings knowledge land Landa learned lineal measures Manners and Customs Maya books Maya civilization Maya language Maya word Mayach Mayapan meaning metre monuments Mysteries Naacal Nahuatls natives Osiris Palenque peninsula Plate Plongeon priests Prince Coh’s Memorial Queen M60 remote ages represented sacred Sacred Mysteries sacrifices says scientific sculptures serpent Sir Gardner Wilkinson Sphinx symbol tableau temples Thoth tion to-day translation tree Troano Uxmal verse warrior West Western Continent worship writing yellow Yucatan