Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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Page xiii
... memory of the prodigious magnitude of the Atlantic island as related by their ancestors , and of its , governing for many periods all the islands in the Atlantic sea . From this isle one may pass to other large islands beyond , which ...
... memory of the prodigious magnitude of the Atlantic island as related by their ancestors , and of its , governing for many periods all the islands in the Atlantic sea . From this isle one may pass to other large islands beyond , which ...
Page xix
... memory of her brother - husband , but also a superb mausoleum in which were placed his remains and a statue representing him . On the top of the monument was his totem , a dying leopard with a human head - a veritable sphinx . Once ...
... memory of her brother - husband , but also a superb mausoleum in which were placed his remains and a statue representing him . On the top of the monument was his totem , a dying leopard with a human head - a veritable sphinx . Once ...
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... memory of those who built them , and of the object for which they had been erected . Yet before their eyes were their façades , covered with sculptures , inscriptions , figures of human beings and of animals , in the round and in bas ...
... memory of those who built them , and of the object for which they had been erected . Yet before their eyes were their façades , covered with sculptures , inscriptions , figures of human beings and of animals , in the round and in bas ...
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... memory of these adulterated traditions was already fading from the mind of the aborigines . " Of the people who first settled in this kingdom of Yucathan , " he says , " nor of their ancient history , have I been able to find any more ...
... memory of these adulterated traditions was already fading from the mind of the aborigines . " Of the people who first settled in this kingdom of Yucathan , " he says , " nor of their ancient history , have I been able to find any more ...
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... memory they venerated , the 1 Cogolludo , Hist . de Yucathan , lib . iii . , chap . x . , p . 147. Landa , Las Cosas , chap . iv . 2 3 Ibid . , lib . iv . , chap . xviii . , p . 229. Landa , Las Cosas , chap . iv . Landa , Las Cosas de ...
... memory they venerated , the 1 Cogolludo , Hist . de Yucathan , lib . iii . , chap . x . , p . 147. Landa , Las Cosas , chap . iv . 2 3 Ibid . , lib . iv . , chap . xviii . , p . 229. Landa , Las Cosas , chap . iv . Landa , Las Cosas de ...
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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