Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1896 - 277 pages |
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... painted blue , and held holy . We have seen these victims , painted blue , represented in the ancient fresco paint- ings . The image of Mehen , the engendered , that ancestor of all beings , seated in the cosmic egg , was painted blue ...
... painted blue , and held holy . We have seen these victims , painted blue , represented in the ancient fresco paint- ings . The image of Mehen , the engendered , that ancestor of all beings , seated in the cosmic egg , was painted blue ...
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... paintings they invariably painted their skin a reddish brown , as did the Mayas ? From remote antiquity to our day , among all nations civilized or savage , red has been and is typical of courage , war , contention ; and , by contrast ...
... paintings they invariably painted their skin a reddish brown , as did the Mayas ? From remote antiquity to our day , among all nations civilized or savage , red has been and is typical of courage , war , contention ; and , by contrast ...
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... painted red . The Egyptians regarded him as the creator of all things visible and invisible . Were we not told of it by the writers on Egyptian manners and customs , we would learn it from the meaning of the name in the Maya language ...
... painted red . The Egyptians regarded him as the creator of all things visible and invisible . Were we not told of it by the writers on Egyptian manners and customs , we would learn it from the meaning of the name in the Maya language ...
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A Dying Sphinx a leopard with a human head that | lxii |
Portrait of Bishop Landa second Bishop of Yucatan | 27 |
Autograph of the Historian Father Lopez de Cogolludo | 169 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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Abbé Brasseur adorned Akkadian alphabet Americanist ancestors ancient Maya archæology Asia assertion Augustus Le Plongeon Brinton called Caribbean Sea Chaldean chap Chichen Clement of Alexandria Cogolludo Coh's Memorial Hall color 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 Osiris palaces Palenque 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 tion to-day translation tree Troano Uxmal verse warrior West Western Continent worship writing Yucatan