Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... language still spoken by several thousands of human beings . There we may read part of man's history and follow the progress of his civilization . The study - in situ - of the relics of the ancient Mayas has revealed such striking ...
... language still spoken by several thousands of human beings . There we may read part of man's history and follow the progress of his civilization . The study - in situ - of the relics of the ancient Mayas has revealed such striking ...
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... language , and more easily applied and understood , not being subject to changes , I have refrained from availing myself of it , in order not to increase the limits of the present work . I reserve the teachings that may be gathered from ...
... language , and more easily applied and understood , not being subject to changes , I have refrained from availing myself of it , in order not to increase the limits of the present work . I reserve the teachings that may be gathered from ...
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... language . Two of these narratives are illustrated - that contained in the Troano MS . , 2 the other in the Codex Cortesianus . The third has been engraved on stone in relief , and placed for safe - keeping in a room in a building at ...
... language . Two of these narratives are illustrated - that contained in the Troano MS . , 2 the other in the Codex Cortesianus . The third has been engraved on stone in relief , and placed for safe - keeping in a room in a building at ...
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... 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 their ...
... 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 their ...
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... language of their forefathers , the name even of the mother country to their new abodes - so we may imagine it happened with the Mayas at some remote period in the past . 1 See Appendix , note iv .; Cogolludo , Hist . de Yucathan , lib ...
... language of their forefathers , the name even of the mother country to their new abodes - so we may imagine it happened with the Mayas at some remote period in the past . 1 See Appendix , note iv .; Cogolludo , Hist . de Yucathan , lib ...
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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