Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1896 - 277 pages |
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... archæology . And so it is , indeed . Mine is not the fault , however , although it may be my misfortune , since it has surely entailed upon me their enmity and its conse- quences . But who are those pretended authorities ? Certainly not ...
... archæology . And so it is , indeed . Mine is not the fault , however , although it may be my misfortune , since it has surely entailed upon me their enmity and its conse- quences . But who are those pretended authorities ? Certainly not ...
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... archæology and universal history as was vouchsafed to " Sacred Mysteries among the Mayas and the Quiches . " It is written for the same purpose and in the same spirit . AUGUSTUS LE PLONGEON , M.D. NEW YORK , January , 1896 ...
... archæology and universal history as was vouchsafed to " Sacred Mysteries among the Mayas and the Quiches . " It is written for the same purpose and in the same spirit . AUGUSTUS LE PLONGEON , M.D. NEW YORK , January , 1896 ...
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... archæologist , and the historian as a most interesting field of study . Its area of seventy - three thousand square miles , covered with dense forests , is literally strewn with the ruins of numerous antique cities , majestic temples ...
... archæologist , and the historian as a most interesting field of study . Its area of seventy - three thousand square miles , covered with dense forests , is literally strewn with the ruins of numerous antique cities , majestic temples ...
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... archæological division of the National Museum ( Smithsonian Institution ) at Washington . Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge , chap . v . , No. 331. " The Palenque Tablet in the United States National Museum . " Dr. Ed . Seler ...
... archæological division of the National Museum ( Smithsonian Institution ) at Washington . Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge , chap . v . , No. 331. " The Palenque Tablet in the United States National Museum . " Dr. Ed . Seler ...
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... archæologist , the historian , and the ethnologist ; while the architect may learn from it many useful lessons . John L. Stephens , who visited it in 1842 , speaks of it as a casket containing the most precious jewels of ancient ...
... archæologist , the historian , and the ethnologist ; while the architect may learn from it many useful lessons . John L. Stephens , who visited it in 1842 , speaks of it as a casket containing the most precious jewels of ancient ...
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Page 42 - But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the Lord came upon him.
Page 88 - With regard to their language, most of the words are of Indian origin. They are found, in part, with little variation, in the Sanscrit...
Page lxv - German genius, and it is not the less real that perhaps we should not meet in either of those nations a single individual who corresponded with the type. We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language...
Page 143 - Chuen. The country of the hills of mud, the land of Mu was sacrificed: being twice upheaved it suddenly disappeared during the night, the basin being continually shaken by volcanic forces. Being confined, these caused the land to sink and to rise several times and in various places. At last the surface gave way and ten countries were torn asunder and scattered. Unable to stand the force of the convulsions, they sank with their 64,000,000 of inhabitants 8060 years before the writing of this book.
Page 71 - There was only immobility and silence in the darkness, in the night. Only the Creator, the Maker, Tepeu, Gucumatz, the Forefathers, were in the water surrounded with light. They were hidden under green and blue feathers, and were therefore called Gucumatz.
Page 98 - ... branch at his birth, and this branch or tendril reached the ground when he was to be made king. Taneua, a bamboo used on the occasion, was said to draw its roots out of the ground at the approach of the ceremony, and to leap into the hand of the person who was sent for it. The inauguration ceremony, answering to coronation among other nations, consisted in girding the king with the maro ura, or sacred girdle of red feathers; which not only raised him to the highest earthly station, but identified...
Page 263 - THE ROOT OF LIFE WAS IN EVERY DROP OF THE OCEAN OF IMMORTALITY, AND THE OCEAN WAS RADIANT LIGHT, WHICH WAS FIRE, AND HEAT, AND MOTION. DARKNESS VANISHED AND WAS NO MORE; IT DISAPPEARED IN ITS OWN ESSENCE, THE BODY OF FIRE AND WATER, OR FATHER AND MOTHER.
Page 83 - As soon as the intestines had been removed from the bod}', they were properly cleansed, and embalmed in spices and various substances, and deposited in four vases. These were afterwards placed in the tomb with the coffin, and were supposed to belong to the four Genii of Amenti, whose heads and names they bore. Each contained a separate portion.