Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... four millions of human beings , four different authors have left descriptions in the 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 ...
... four millions of human beings , four different authors have left descriptions in the 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 ...
Page xxxix
... four hundred breasts , as they were wont to represent the Ephesian goddess . Again , this explanation did not suit Señor Eligio Ancona , 3 1Ramon de Ordoñez y Aguiar , the author of Historia de la Creacion del cielo y de la Tierra , was ...
... four hundred breasts , as they were wont to represent the Ephesian goddess . Again , this explanation did not suit Señor Eligio Ancona , 3 1Ramon de Ordoñez y Aguiar , the author of Historia de la Creacion del cielo y de la Tierra , was ...
Page xlix
... four black dots 66 serpent . " This are the numerical four , and another ideographic sign for the name of the country - Can , is why it is placed at the foot of the at the top to signify that it is the are juxtaposed to the character ...
... four black dots 66 serpent . " This are the numerical four , and another ideographic sign for the name of the country - Can , is why it is placed at the foot of the at the top to signify that it is the are juxtaposed to the character ...
Page lvii
... four lines drawn in the lower part , as if to shade it . If we con- sider each line as equivalent to one unit , their sum represents the numerical four - can - in the Maya language . We have already seen that can also means serpent ...
... four lines drawn in the lower part , as if to shade it . If we con- sider each line as equivalent to one unit , their sum represents the numerical four - can - in the Maya language . We have already seen that can also means serpent ...
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... four broad , bound with wooden boards , and wrapped up in curiously em- broidered silk . C. F. Gordon Cumming , In the Himalayas and on the Indian Plains , p . 438 . 2 John L. Stephens , Incidents of Travels in Yucatan , vol . ii . , p ...
... four broad , bound with wooden boards , and wrapped up in curiously em- broidered silk . C. F. Gordon Cumming , In the Himalayas and on the Indian Plains , p . 438 . 2 John L. Stephens , Incidents of Travels in Yucatan , vol . ii . , p ...
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