Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... language names were 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 ...
... language names were 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 ...
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... language . We have already seen that can also means serpent , ' the symbols for the sea , canah . are placed , one on each side of the geometrical figure image of the peninsula , to typify the two gulfs whose waters bathe its shores ...
... language . We have already seen that can also means serpent , ' the symbols for the sea , canah . are placed , one on each side of the geometrical figure image of the peninsula , to typify the two gulfs whose waters bathe its shores ...
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... language meant the " first land , " the " land just sprouted , " also the " hard land , " the " terra firma , " as we learn from the sign of aspiration , hardness , coagulation , placed each side of the body of the calabash , to ...
... language meant the " first land , " the " land just sprouted , " also the " hard land , " the " terra firma , " as we learn from the sign of aspiration , hardness , coagulation , placed each side of the body of the calabash , to ...
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... language , which is a sort of monument to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contrib- uted a stone . ( Ralph Waldo Emerson , Essays , XX . , " Nominalist and Realist . " ) IN ages long lost in the abyss ...
... language , which is a sort of monument to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contrib- uted a stone . ( Ralph Waldo Emerson , Essays , XX . , " Nominalist and Realist . " ) IN ages long lost in the abyss ...
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... language , the traditions , the architecture , astronomy , ' cosmogony , and other sciences — in a word , the civilization of their mother country . It is this civilization that furnishes us with the means of ascer- taining the role ...
... language , the traditions , the architecture , astronomy , ' cosmogony , and other sciences — in a word , the civilization of their mother country . It is this civilization that furnishes us with the means of ascer- taining the role ...
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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