Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... painted , on the walls of the funeral chamber , the principal events of his and her life , just as the Egyptian kings had the events of their own lives painted on the walls of their tombs . Language is admitted to be a most accurate ...
... painted , on the walls of the funeral chamber , the principal events of his and her life , just as the Egyptian kings had the events of their own lives painted on the walls of their tombs . Language is admitted to be a most accurate ...
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... painted in bright colors pictures that would grace the parlors of our mansions , 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 ...
... painted in bright colors pictures that would grace the parlors of our mansions , 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 ...
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... paintings they could get hold of in which were written their histories , and that in order to take from them all remembrances of their ancient rites . " 1 Those who undertook to write the narrative of the Con- quest and the history of ...
... paintings they could get hold of in which were written their histories , and that in order to take from them all remembrances of their ancient rites . " 1 Those who undertook to write the narrative of the Con- quest and the history of ...
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Augustus Le Plongeon. # and Uxmal , whose history , portrayed in the mural paintings , is also recounted in the legends and the sculptures still adorn- ing the walls of their palaces and temples ; and to learn that these ancient ...
Augustus Le Plongeon. # and Uxmal , whose history , portrayed in the mural paintings , is also recounted in the legends and the sculptures still adorn- ing the walls of their palaces and temples ; and to learn that these ancient ...
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Augustus Le Plongeon. H The lines lightly etched here are painted blue in the. Page xlii . II . Plate M.
Augustus Le Plongeon. H The lines lightly etched here are painted blue in the. Page xlii . II . Plate M.
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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