Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... characters , that are likewise Egyptian . ' Any one who can read hieratic Egyptian inscriptions will have no diffi- culty in translating said legend by the aid of a Maya diction- ary , and thus finding irrefutable evidence : 1. That ...
... characters , that are likewise Egyptian . ' Any one who can read hieratic Egyptian inscriptions will have no diffi- culty in translating said legend by the aid of a Maya diction- ary , and thus finding irrefutable evidence : 1. That ...
Page xxxi
... characters that , being known to many of the nobil- ity , remained in usage . 2 With the old orders of priesthood , and the students , the knowledge of the hieratic or sacred mode of writing had disappeared . The legends graven on the ...
... characters that , being known to many of the nobil- ity , remained in usage . 2 With the old orders of priesthood , and the students , the knowledge of the hieratic or sacred mode of writing had disappeared . The legends graven on the ...
Page xli
... character is composed of two letters , equivalent to Maya and Greek letter A , so entwined as to form the character equal to the Greek and Maya K , but forming a mon- ogram that reads aac , the Maya word for " turtle . " · · it X Before ...
... character is composed of two letters , equivalent to Maya and Greek letter A , so entwined as to form the character equal to the Greek and Maya K , but forming a mon- ogram that reads aac , the Maya word for " turtle . " · · it X Before ...
Page xlv
... character stands for ahau , the word for king , and we have already ' The adjoining map ( Plate IV . ) was constructed by Professor J. W. Spen- cer according to his own original researches and geological studies in the island of Cuba ...
... character stands for ahau , the word for king , and we have already ' The adjoining map ( Plate IV . ) was constructed by Professor J. W. Spen- cer according to his own original researches and geological studies in the island of Cuba ...
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... character by Bishop Landa ? I fancy I hear our learned Americanists asking ; and I answer , In a very simple manner , knowing as I do the genius of the Maya people and their language . The ancient armorial escutcheon of the country ...
... character by Bishop Landa ? I fancy I hear our learned Americanists asking ; and I answer , In a very simple manner , knowing as I do the genius of the Maya people and their language . The ancient armorial escutcheon of the country ...
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