Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1896 - 277 pages |
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... memory of the prodigious magnitude of the Atlantic island as related by their ancestors , and of its governing for many periods all the islands in the Atlantic sea . From this isle one may pass to other large islands beyond , which are ...
... memory of the prodigious magnitude of the Atlantic island as related by their ancestors , and of its governing for many periods all the islands in the Atlantic sea . From this isle one may pass to other large islands beyond , which are ...
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... memory of her brother - husband , but also a superb mausoleum in which were placed his remains and a statue representing him . On the top of the monument was his totem , a dying leopard with a human head — a veritable sphinx . Once ...
... memory of her brother - husband , but also a superb mausoleum in which were placed his remains and a statue representing him . On the top of the monument was his totem , a dying leopard with a human head — a veritable sphinx . Once ...
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... memory of those who built them , and of the object for which they had been erected . Yet before their eyes were their façades , covered with sculptures , inscriptions , figures of human beings and of animals , in the round and in bas ...
... memory of those who built them , and of the object for which they had been erected . Yet before their eyes were their façades , covered with sculptures , inscriptions , figures of human beings and of animals , in the round and in bas ...
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... memory of these adulterated traditions was already fading from the mind of the aborigines . “ Of the people who first settled in this kingdom of Yucathan , " he says , " nor of their ancient history , have I been able to find any more ...
... memory of these adulterated traditions was already fading from the mind of the aborigines . “ Of the people who first settled in this kingdom of Yucathan , " he says , " nor of their ancient history , have I been able to find any more ...
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... memory they venerated , the 3 ' Cogolludo , Hist . de Yucathan , lib . iii . , chap . x . , p . 147. Landa , Las Cosas , chap . iv . 2 3 Ibid . , lib . iv . , chap . xviii . , p . 229. Landa , Las Cosas , chap . iv . Landa , Las Cosas ...
... memory they venerated , the 3 ' Cogolludo , Hist . de Yucathan , lib . iii . , chap . x . , p . 147. Landa , Las Cosas , chap . iv . 2 3 Ibid . , lib . iv . , chap . xviii . , p . 229. Landa , Las Cosas , chap . iv . Landa , Las Cosas ...
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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.