Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... - that are on each side of it . The whole hieroglyph , name of the peninsula , reads therefore 1 Landa , Las Cosas de Yucatan , chap . xxxiv . , p . 206 . u - Mayach , the place of the ancestor's vérêtrum INTRODUCTION . xlvii.
... - that are on each side of it . The whole hieroglyph , name of the peninsula , reads therefore 1 Landa , Las Cosas de Yucatan , chap . xxxiv . , p . 206 . u - Mayach , the place of the ancestor's vérêtrum INTRODUCTION . xlvii.
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... side by the symbol imix . Who can fail to see that this figure bears a strik- ing resemblance to the Egyptian sign that Dr. Young translates ma , and Mr. Champollion asserts to be simply the letter M ? By a strange coincidence , if ...
... side by the symbol imix . Who can fail to see that this figure bears a strik- ing resemblance to the Egyptian sign that Dr. Young translates ma , and Mr. Champollion asserts to be simply the letter M ? By a strange coincidence , if ...
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... side . very great effort of the imagina- tion to understand what this sign is meant for . A single ' Landa , Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan , p . 204 . glance will suffice to satisfy us that the drawing is INTRODUCTION . lv.
... side . very great effort of the imagina- tion to understand what this sign is meant for . A single ' Landa , Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan , p . 204 . glance will suffice to satisfy us that the drawing is INTRODUCTION . lv.
Page lvii
... side of the geometrical figure image of the peninsula , to typify the two gulfs whose waters bathe its shores - on the left that of Mexico , on the right the Caribbean Sea . That this was the idea of the invent- ors of the symbol is ...
... side of the geometrical figure image of the peninsula , to typify the two gulfs whose waters bathe its shores - on the left that of Mexico , on the right the Caribbean Sea . That this was the idea of the invent- ors of the symbol is ...
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... side of the base of the sprout , the which is made to repose on the curled figure to represent the curling of the smoke as it ascends into the air from the crater of the volcanoes among the mountains , indicated , as on our maps , by ...
... side of the base of the sprout , the which is made to repose on the curled figure to represent the curling of the smoke as it ascends into the air from the crater of the volcanoes among the mountains , indicated , as on our maps , by ...
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