Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1896 - 277 pages |
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... earth than the new - born babe knows of his sur- roundings or how he came . The learned , wranglers on this shadowy and dim point ' Haeckel , Ernst , Hist . of Creation , vol . ii . , p . 326 . forget that all leading geologists now ...
... earth than the new - born babe knows of his sur- roundings or how he came . The learned , wranglers on this shadowy and dim point ' Haeckel , Ernst , Hist . of Creation , vol . ii . , p . 326 . forget that all leading geologists now ...
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... earth's surface , has appeared on every part of it where the biological conditions have been propitious to his develop- ment and maintenance ; and that the production of the various species , with their distinct , well - marked ...
... earth's surface , has appeared on every part of it where the biological conditions have been propitious to his develop- ment and maintenance ; and that the production of the various species , with their distinct , well - marked ...
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... earth ; also to make known the fact that Mayach - not India - is the true mother of nations . Then , perhaps , will be awakened , in the mind of those in whose power it is to do it , a desire to save and preserve what remains of the ...
... earth ; also to make known the fact that Mayach - not India - is the true mother of nations . Then , perhaps , will be awakened , in the mind of those in whose power it is to do it , a desire to save and preserve what remains of the ...
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... earth . At the request of friends , and to show that the reading of Maya inscriptions and books is no longer an unsolved enigma , and that those who give themselves as authorities on ancient Maya palæography are no longer justified in ...
... earth . At the request of friends , and to show that the reading of Maya inscriptions and books is no longer an unsolved enigma , and that those who give themselves as authorities on ancient Maya palæography are no longer justified in ...
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... earth by the escaping gases , represented by the dots .... , . and of small circles , O , images of volcanoes . As to the character is composed of two letters , equivalent to Maya and Greek letter A , so entwined as to form the ...
... earth by the escaping gases , represented by the dots .... , . and of small circles , O , images of volcanoes . As to the character is composed of two letters , equivalent to Maya and Greek letter A , so entwined as to form the ...
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Abbé Brasseur adorned Akkadian alphabet America Americanist ancestors ancient Maya Archæology Aryans Asia assertion Augustus Le Plongeon Brinton called Caribbean Sea Chaldean chap Chichen Cogolludo color composed Cosas de Yucatan cosmogonic Creator earth Egypt Egyptians emblem Father four funeral chamber gods Greek hand head Herodotus Hindoos Hist History of Egypt Ibid India inhabitants inscriptions Khafra kings Kneph 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 nations of antiquity natives origin Osiris Palenque peninsula Plate Plongeon priests Prince Coh's Queen Móo Quichés regarded remote ages represented Sacred Mysteries says sculptures serpent Sir Gardner Wilkinson Sloka Sphinx symbol tableau temples tion to-day totem translation tree Troano Uxmal verse warrior West worship yellow Yucatan
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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.