Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... 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 ; " and the Egyptians , according to Herodotus ...
... 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 ; " and the Egyptians , according to Herodotus ...
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... Maya , still spoken by thousands of human beings , and in which the inscriptions sculptured on the walls of the temples and palaces in the ruined cities of Yucatan are written , as are also the few books of the ancient Maya sages that ...
... Maya , still spoken by thousands of human beings , and in which the inscriptions sculptured on the walls of the temples and palaces in the ruined cities of Yucatan are written , as are also the few books of the ancient Maya sages that ...
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... Maya language ? Can they interpret one single sentence of the books in which the learning of the Maya sages , their cosmogonic , geographical , religious , and scientific attainments , are recorded ? From what source have they derived ...
... Maya language ? Can they interpret one single sentence of the books in which the learning of the Maya sages , their cosmogonic , geographical , religious , and scientific attainments , are recorded ? From what source have they derived ...
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... Maya sages and the inscriptions carved on the walls of their deserted temples and palaces be withheld from the world ? Must the errors they propagate be allowed to stand , and the propagators not be called upon to prove the truth of ...
... Maya sages and the inscriptions carved on the walls of their deserted temples and palaces be withheld from the world ? Must the errors they propagate be allowed to stand , and the propagators not be called upon to prove the truth of ...
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... Maya sages ( hidden about the beginning of the Christian era to save them from destruction at the hands of the devastating hordes that invaded their country in those times ) , and to learn from their contents the PREFACE . xxiii.
... Maya sages ( hidden about the beginning of the Christian era to save them from destruction at the hands of the devastating hordes that invaded their country in those times ) , and to learn from their contents the PREFACE . xxiii.
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