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Babylon, Maya etymology of its Chaldeans used the metre . 207
Chaldean names

33 Chaldean magicians exorcised with
Babylonian standard of measures . 207 Maya words

40
Balam, why regarded as protec-

magicians first welcomed, and
tor of crops

234 later condemned to death, in
and Chacs not the same
233 Rome.

39
Balché, sacred liquor (note) 111 Challenge to Dr. Brinton . 204
Bel-Marduk, god, his name Maya, 73 Children, carried astride the hip in
Bird, emblem of Deity in Sandwich Mayach and India .

132
Islands
74 Cocom, killed by his nobles

· 105
offering to God of Rain 111 Cogolludo, biographical sketch of . 172
symbol of principal female

wrote the most complete his-
divinity

12 tory of Yucatan .

xxxiii, 230
Blue, mourning color of Mayas, 89 Consulting fate on the entrails of a
of Egyptians 90
peccary

134
Books, Maya, written in alpha- Cosmic egg, origin of all things 73
betical characters

xxxi Cosmic diagram, Chaldean and
Brahmins, origin of, obscure 17 Hindoo amplifications of the
borrowed their science from

Maya

26
others

17 Cosmogonic conceptions, epito-
Burmah, Mayas in

201 inized in names of cardinal num-

bers
Can, title of Maya rulers . 4 notions, base of Maya reli-
its important meanings 93 gious conceptions

215
Cans, initiated into Sacred Mys- Creator, his attempts to make
teries :

200

perfect man
Carchemish, commercial city of the Creation Tableau, explained . 70
Khati.

62

-, figure in cosmic egg of. 75
Cardinal points, Maya, how Creation, various accounts of 256
named
236 Cremation of bodies

87
genii of, according to -, preparation of bodies for 138
Maya writings

219 Criticisms on Abbé Brasseur's work, 242
Carian and Maya woman's dress, 63 Cross, emblem of Rain God among
Caribbean Sea, its emblem a deer . xliv Mayas

103
Carthaginians, America visited by, xii rarely found in Maya sculp-
Carvings of lintel at entrance to tures

110
Prince Coh's funeral chamber. Custom of proffering love with a
Their meaning

122 fruit
Central America, ancient Maya Curio hunters, guilty of leze-his-
Empire
5 tory

xxii
Chaldeans, primitive, Maya colo- Cynocephali, represented with God
nists
29 of Death at Uxmal .

115
-, strangers in Babylonia. 32 Cynocephalus, indigenous to Cen-
tral America, not to Egypt

116

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Danavas, of Maya origin

2 Egyptian pyramid, king's chamber,
Decimal system, use of, proved by measurements of

209
Maya ruins

211 Egyptians pointed to the West as
why used by the Mayas, 220 home of their ancestors

52
used by Egyptians 210 not of Aryan stock

187
Defilement, presence of corpse a,

-, primitive, strangers in the
(note) 138 valley of the Nile

52
Defence of Abbé Brasseur

240 received their sciences from
Desert of Shur, its name a Maya the Mayas

219
word.

58 Emblems, Maya, interpreted 258
Destruction of Mu, described by of the universe, the simplest
Maya authors
146 that of the Mayas

14
told in the names of End of Can dynasty

143
the Greek letters

149 Enmity of Sun and Serpent, tradi-
narrated in Egyptian tional among all nations

123
archives

149 | Entablature of Memorial Hall,
Dhyan Chohans, four Maharajahs meaning of ornamentation 120
of the Hindoos
217 Errors of Abbé Brasseur

243
Diagram, mystic, of the Mayas . 220 Esoteric meaning of cardinal num-
Dragon, emblem on banners of bers, Maya

222
Khans in Asia

199

of numbers in various
Dress of laborers, alike in Ma- countries

220
yach and Egypt

132 doctrine of creation, Maya, 216
Maya, in olden times. 83 cosmic diagram of Mayas . 16
Drowned valleys of Antillean lands, xliv Evolution of creation, doctrine of,
Durability of pigments used by among various ancient nations. 71
Mayas
88 Maya doctrine of

79

Exact sciences known to the
Early Christians plunged Western Mayas

Europe into ignorance
Egyptian civilization, infancy of, Failure of scholars to read Maya
unknown
51 hieroglyphics

248
its origin must be sought Fate, read by ceremony of Pou,
in the West

53

(note) 129
Art, maturity of
201 | Feast of Feralia

10
Sphinx, the enigina of history, 159 Feathers worn by kings and war-
opinion of various wri- riors

xlv
ters regarding it

insignia of gods and kings,
painted red
95

(note) 100
its position relative to Festival of ancestors, among all
the pyramid

160 nations at same time of year . 11
-, buildings surrounding it, 160 First Principle, the, a thrice un-
names at base of . 161 known darkness .

219
whose portrait was it . 162 Fire, the essential element 187, 261

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Francisco De Cordova, first Span- Homen, God of Volcanic
iard who landed in Mayach, xxviii Forces

· (note) 148
French, modern measurements of Horned snake, sacred in Egypt
the earth, accord with those of a and Mayach

5
remote, unknown race

208
symbol of royalty

5
Fresco paintings, at Chichen, Huldah, prophetess, consulted 251
admired by John L. Stephens 200 Huns, were they the founders of
in Memorial Hall .
6 Copan, Palenque, etc.?

189
disfigured by visitors 127

history of Prince Coh Immaculate Conception, doctrine
in
6 of, its origin

220
Funeral customs of Mayas and Immortality, the Mayas believed
Egyptians.
84 in

261
urns, charred viscera pre- India, British invasion of

195
served in red oxide of mercury Inscription on Creation Tableau,
in

87 Egyptian and Maya
vases, Canopi in Egypt.

on mastodon trunk, esoteric
Maya meaning of word

85
meaning of

260

on Kabul mound in Egyp-
Genii of the cardinal points, tian characters.

199
Maya and others

86 Intimate relation of Mayas with
Geometric symbology of the primitive Chaldeans.

72
Mayas and others.

15 Invocation to God of Rain. Its
Gift of cloaks to victors in athletic historical interest

106, 232
games.

132 Ishtar, goddess, her name Maya, 60
Goddess Isis, the bird an emblem of, 13 Isis, the Good Mother, in Egypt,
God of Rain, invocations to 104 like Maya in Greece, India, and
symbolized by image Mexico

167
of Southern Cross

109 Itzaes, abandoned their homes
Greek alphabet, why letters of Izamal, description of stucco bas-
same value are placed apart

· 150
relief at

. 197
Gucumatz, emblem of Creator 71

Jehovah, name of, numerical value 221
Ilakaptah, a Maya word

48 Jesus, last words spoken by in
Hanuman, veneration for, in Maya tongue
Ceylon

78
Kabul, Afghan capital .

195
etymology
47 temple in Izamal

. 196
Hieroglyphics, Maya, not the Kanaan, a Maya word

58
same as those of Copan and Pa- Katish, name of the city of, a
lenque
81 Maya word

62
on Kabul mound, interpre- Khan or Can, its meaning

199
tation of

197 Eastern title, emblematized
Maya, their true key found, 198 as a dragon

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Khati, name of the, a Maya word, 61 Maya Empire, emblems of, ex-
King Menes, his name a Maya plained

1
word

48 a powerful nation in remote
Knowledge among Mayas, privi- ages

xxxviii
lege of priesthood and nobility, xxxi colonists settled on the banks

of the Nile in Nubia.

44
Land of Mu, pride of the ocean 144

called their settlement
its emblem after de-

Maioo
struction

xliv origin of tree, serpent, cross,
its ten provinces

. 66
and elephant worship

25
Plato's Atlantis xli rulers, how represented after
Landa, Bishop, a Maya scholar . li death .

5
his biography

169 Empire, symbolized as a tree, xlix
destroyed Maya books 170

represented as a serpent, 125
preserved Maya letters and

buildings, some of very great
signs for days
171 antiquity

xxxiii
Language, gauge of a nation's

colonists called the Valley of
spirit

1 the Nile Chem, also Ain; mean-
an accurate guide in trac- ing of these names

47
ing relationship between various

sages believed America the
peoples

xvi
oldest continent .

xi
a knowledge of Maya nec-

esoteric meaning of yellow 93
essary for understanding sculp-

mother of gods and men 73
tures

112 remains, destroyed by curio
Legend on each side of cosmic hunters

xxiii
egg, its explanation

books reveal origin of some
Leleges, ancient name of Carians, myths and traditions.

xvii
Maya

63 conquest of India anterior to
Likbabi, etymology of the name 36 the Aryan

22
Lineal measure, true standard of

geographers acquainted with
the Maya .

213 contour of American continent. 59
adopted by the Mayas, 224 civilization, ancient, unknown
Lip ornaments, American
118 to chroniclers

Xxxiv
Lizana, Bernardo, biographical

decadency of, its cause, xxxi
sketch of.
181 books, description of

174

a universal name among na-
Magic words, supposed cure for tions of antiquity
hydrophobia, Maya .

41 writings relate the destruc-
Map of Maya Empire explained . xliii tion of Plato's Atlantis

xviii
Masons, wandering, measured the

colonists, went to the land of
circumference of the earth 208 Canaan

57
Mastodon, God of the Ocean. 110 history written in books 5
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Maya history, important events Mayas familiar with trigonome-
carved in stone.
6 try

223
philosophers, their notions,

an eminently religious people, 215
cosmogonic and others, portrayed

did not artificially deform
in sculpture
74 their skulls

81, 158
etymology of the word by vari-

geologists and geographers . xliv
ous authors

39 established colonies west of
and Hindoo cosmic evolution the River Indus.

27
identical

16 established colonies in the
migration to the banks of the

country called Akkad

28
Nile, antiquity of

55 little acquainted with rules of
not a dead language, an aid perspective.

128
in finding origin of ancient civi-

, proofs of their communication
lizations

20 with natives of Asia and Africa, XV
word for fire, analyses of 262 adopted religious practices of
names among all civilized

Nahuatls

xxxi
nations of antiquity.

58 and Egyptians, acquired civ-
Mayas addicted to giving nick- ilization from same masters 54
35 intensely patriotic.

200
scientists and artists

lviii

believed that the spirits of
Cans called themselves Chil- their great men reanimated stat-
dren of the Sun.

xlvi ues in which their ashes were
likened the earth to a caldron preserved

139
and to a calabash

lxii Mayach, fruit offering a pro-
colonizers, astronomers, and posal of marriage in

252
architects

(note) 2 not India, mother of nations 23
used vegetable colors

128

great personages of, deified, xxxi
ate the hearts of enemies slain Mayapan, ruins of

105
in battle
157 city of, destroyed.

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traces of the, found in all his- Meaning of the name Akkad, a puz-
torical nations of antiquity

3 zle for scholars; its interpretation, 28
and Aryans seem to have had

of Prince Coh's name. 157
no communication with each Measurements of Maya gnomon . 212
other.

21 Mehen, serpent accompanying the
believed in reincarnation 139 Creator in Egypt

75
believed in the eternity of Memorial Hall of Prince Coh at
being .

90 Chichen, by whom erected 6
treatment of, and of their

—, description of

7
descendants, by the Spaniards · 176 Metre, its use by the Mayas 203

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