Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages A new and different approach to Atlantis by way of the Mayan civilization, thoroughly investigated, heavily illustrated and highly intriguing. |
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... antiquity , be correct , what right have we to gainsay the assertion of the Mayas and of the Egyptians in claiming likewise priority for their people and their country ? It is but natural to suppose that intelligence in man was ...
... antiquity , be correct , what right have we to gainsay the assertion of the Mayas and of the Egyptians in claiming likewise priority for their people and their country ? It is but natural to suppose that intelligence in man was ...
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... antiquity , who during thirty - five years was at the head of the Neo - Platonic school of Athens , and was learned in all the sciences known in his days , in his " Com- mentaries on Plato's Timæus , " says : " The xii PREFACE ..
... antiquity , who during thirty - five years was at the head of the Neo - Platonic school of Athens , and was learned in all the sciences known in his days , in his " Com- mentaries on Plato's Timæus , " says : " The xii PREFACE ..
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... antiquity . In them are embodied many of the secret doctrines communicated , in their initia- tions , to the adepts in India , Chaldea , Egypt , and Samothra- cia - the origin of the worship of the cross , of that of the tree and of the ...
... antiquity . In them are embodied many of the secret doctrines communicated , in their initia- tions , to the adepts in India , Chaldea , Egypt , and Samothra- cia - the origin of the worship of the cross , of that of the tree and of the ...
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... antiquity ; and why the Mayas , who in their scheme of numeration adopted the decimal system , did not reckon by tens but by fives and twenties ; and why they used the twenty - millionth part of half the meridian as stand- ard of lineal ...
... antiquity ; and why the Mayas , who in their scheme of numeration adopted the decimal system , did not reckon by tens but by fives and twenties ; and why they used the twenty - millionth part of half the meridian as stand- ard of lineal ...
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... antiquity . " 3 The historiographer par excellence of Yucatan , Cogolludo , informs us that in his day - the middle of the seventeenth century - scarcely a little more than one hundred years after the Conquest , the memory of these ...
... antiquity . " 3 The historiographer par excellence of Yucatan , Cogolludo , informs us that in his day - the middle of the seventeenth century - scarcely a little more than one hundred years after the Conquest , the memory of these ...
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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