Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... word Maya , that everybody knows is a mere Spanish corruption of Mayab , the ancient name of the country . " In asserting that the true name ( nombre ver- dadero ) of the peninsula in ancient times was Mayab , Señor Ancona does not ...
... word Maya , that everybody knows is a mere Spanish corruption of Mayab , the ancient name of the country . " In asserting that the true name ( nombre ver- dadero ) of the peninsula in ancient times was Mayab , Señor Ancona does not ...
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... meaning of the word Mayab is a " sieve , " a " tammy , " I wrote : " It is very difficult , without the help of the ... Maya text of that interesting old document . It was with consider- able surprise that I then discovered that several ...
... meaning of the word Mayab is a " sieve , " a " tammy , " I wrote : " It is very difficult , without the help of the ... Maya text of that interesting old document . It was with consider- able surprise that I then discovered that several ...
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... Maya writers , typical of the sea , whose billows they compared to the undulations of a serpent in motion . They therefore called the ocean canah , a word whose radical is can , " serpent , " the meaning of which is the " mighty serpent ...
... Maya writers , typical of the sea , whose billows they compared to the undulations of a serpent in motion . They therefore called the ocean canah , a word whose radical is can , " serpent , " the meaning of which is the " mighty serpent ...
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... Maya calendar . Literally these words mean the " vigorous sun . " If , however , we inter- pret the symbol phonetically , it gives us " the country of the king , which is surrounded by water ; " " the kingdom in the midst of water ...
... Maya calendar . Literally these words mean the " vigorous sun . " If , however , we inter- pret the symbol phonetically , it gives us " the country of the king , which is surrounded by water ; " " the kingdom in the midst of water ...
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... Maya word for sun . But kin is also the title of the highpriest of the sun . As in Egypt and many other civilized countries , so in Mayach , the king was , at the same time , chief of the state and of the religion , as in our times the ...
... Maya word for sun . But kin is also the title of the highpriest of the sun . As in Egypt and many other civilized countries , so in Mayach , the king was , at the same time , chief of the state and of the religion , as in our times the ...
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