Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... represents it " as a very large and fertile country , well watered by abundant streams ; and he refers to a decree enacted by the Senate of Carthage toward the year 509 B.C. , intended to stem the current of emi- gration that had set ...
... represents it " as a very large and fertile country , well watered by abundant streams ; and he refers to a decree enacted by the Senate of Carthage toward the year 509 B.C. , intended to stem the current of emi- gration that had set ...
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... representing him . On the top of the monument was his totem , a dying leopard with a human head - a veritable sphinx . Once established in the land of her adoption , did she order the erection of another of his totems - again a leopard ...
... representing him . On the top of the monument was his totem , a dying leopard with a human head - a veritable sphinx . Once established in the land of her adoption , did she order the erection of another of his totems - again a leopard ...
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... representing the events in the history of certain personages who had flourished at the dawn of the life of their nation ; scenes that had been enacted in former ages were portrayed in very beautiful bas - reliefs . But these speaking ...
... representing the events in the history of certain personages who had flourished at the dawn of the life of their nation ; scenes that had been enacted in former ages were portrayed in very beautiful bas - reliefs . But these speaking ...
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... represented under any shape . Yet , by lashes , torture , death even , the victims were compelled to pay homage to these images , with rites and ceremonies the purport of which they were , as their descendants still are , unable to ...
... represented under any shape . Yet , by lashes , torture , death even , the victims were compelled to pay homage to these images , with rites and ceremonies the purport of which they were , as their descendants still are , unable to ...
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... represents the northern by this monogram that reads aac , " turtle . " By this sign the two others , he intends to convey to the mind of his readers that the submerged places to which he refers are situated be- tween the two western ...
... represents the northern by this monogram that reads aac , " turtle . " By this sign the two others , he intends to convey to the mind of his readers that the submerged places to which he refers are situated be- tween the two western ...
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Abbé Brasseur adorned Akkadian alphabet 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 palaces 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