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... given to the character by Bishop Landa ? I fancy I hear our learned Americanists asking ; and I answer , In a very simple manner , knowing as I do the genius of the Maya people and their language . The ancient armorial escutcheon of the ...
... given to the character by Bishop Landa ? I fancy I hear our learned Americanists asking ; and I answer , In a very simple manner , knowing as I do the genius of the Maya people and their language . The ancient armorial escutcheon of the ...
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... given , in the most remote ages , to that part of the Maya Empire known on our maps as the peninsula of Yucatan . reads , Mayach , the " land just sprung , " the " primitive land , " the " hard land . " The symbol itself is an ...
... given , in the most remote ages , to that part of the Maya Empire known on our maps as the peninsula of Yucatan . reads , Mayach , the " land just sprung , " the " primitive land , " the " hard land . " The symbol itself is an ...
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... given to places , objects , tribes , individuals , or animals , in ac- cordance with some peculiar inherent properties possessed by them , such as shape , voice , customs , etc. , and to countries on account of their climate ...
... given to places , objects , tribes , individuals , or animals , in ac- cordance with some peculiar inherent properties possessed by them , such as shape , voice , customs , etc. , and to countries on account of their climate ...
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... given to all the statues of the rulers and other illustrious personages in Mayach it con- firms the fact of their geographical attainments . If we com- pare , for instance , the outlines of the effigy of Prince Coh discovered by the ...
... given to all the statues of the rulers and other illustrious personages in Mayach it con- firms the fact of their geographical attainments . If we com- pare , for instance , the outlines of the effigy of Prince Coh discovered by the ...
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... given to the banana tree , symbol of their country , whose broad leaf is yet a token of hospitality 66 1H . T. Colebrooke , " Memoirs on the Sacred Books of India , " Asiatic Researches , vol . ii . , pp . 369-476 , says : Maya is ...
... given to the banana tree , symbol of their country , whose broad leaf is yet a token of hospitality 66 1H . T. Colebrooke , " Memoirs on the Sacred Books of India , " Asiatic Researches , vol . ii . , pp . 369-476 , says : Maya is ...
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Abbé Brasseur adorned Akkadian alphabet America Americanist ancestors ancient Maya archæology Asia assertion AUGUSTUS LE PLONGEON Brinton called Caribbean Sea Chaldeans chap Chichen Cogolludo color composed 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 origin Osiris Palenque passim 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 Thoth tion to-day traditions translation tree Troano Uxmal verse warrior West Western Continent worship yellow Yucatan