Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... given by the ancient Maya archives ? In the appendix are presented , for the first time in modern ages , the cosmogonic notions of the ancient Mayas , re - discov- ered by me . They will be found identical with those of the other ...
... given by the ancient Maya archives ? In the appendix are presented , for the first time in modern ages , the cosmogonic notions of the ancient Mayas , re - discov- ered by me . They will be found identical with those of the other ...
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... themselves . I have besides given many references whose correctness it is not difficult to ascertain . 66 This is not a book of romance or imagination ; but a work- one of a series - intended to give ancient America XX PREFACE .
... themselves . I have besides given many references whose correctness it is not difficult to ascertain . 66 This is not a book of romance or imagination ; but a work- one of a series - intended to give ancient America XX PREFACE .
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... given a peculiar title to his own dominions , seems to have had no general name . One district was called Chacan , another Cepech , another Choaca , another Mayapan , and so on . Mayapan , how- ever , was a very large district , whose ...
... given a peculiar title to his own dominions , seems to have had no general name . One district was called Chacan , another Cepech , another Choaca , another Mayapan , and so on . Mayapan , how- ever , was a very large district , whose ...
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... given to the peninsula on account of the scarcity of water on its surface , and intimated that it was derived from the two vocables ma , " no , " and ha , " water " — " without water . ” Brasseur , ' following his own pet idea , combats ...
... given to the peninsula on account of the scarcity of water on its surface , and intimated that it was derived from the two vocables ma , " no , " and ha , " water " — " without water . ” Brasseur , ' following his own pet idea , combats ...
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... given to the birthplace of their ancestors by the Egyptians , and on that of the tradition handed down among the aborigines of Yucatan , admitting that one of the names given to the peninsula , Mayab , was cor- ' See Appendix , note v ...
... given to the birthplace of their ancestors by the Egyptians , and on that of the tradition handed down among the aborigines of Yucatan , admitting that one of the names given to the peninsula , Mayab , was cor- ' See Appendix , note v ...
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Abbé Brasseur adorned Akkadian alphabet America Americanist ancestors ancient Maya archæology Asia assertion AUGUSTUS LE PLONGEON Brinton called Caribbean Sea Chaldeans chap Chichen Cogolludo color composed Cosas de Yucatan earth Egypt Egyptians emblem existed Father Fresco Painting funeral chamber gods Greek hand head Herodotus Hindoos Hist History of Egypt Ibid India inhabitants inscriptions island kings Kneph knowledge land Landa learned lineal measures Manners and Customs Maya books Maya civilization Maya dictionary Maya Empire Maya language Maya sages Maya word Mayach Mayapan meaning metre monuments Naacal Nahuatls natives origin Osiris Palenque passim peninsula Plate Plongeon priests Prince Coh's Memorial Queen Móo Quichés remote ages represented Sacred Mysteries says sculptures serpent Sir Gardner Wilkinson Sphinx symbol tableau temples Thoth tion to-day traditions translation tree Troano Uxmal verse warrior West Western Continent worship yellow Yucatan