Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... lived ; and that the peninsula had been upheaved from the bot- tom of the sea by the action of volcanic forces , whose centre of activity was in his time , as it still is , in the mountains of Guatemala , far away in the interior of the ...
... lived ; and that the peninsula had been upheaved from the bot- tom of the sea by the action of volcanic forces , whose centre of activity was in his time , as it still is , in the mountains of Guatemala , far away in the interior of the ...
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... lived in crowded cities and were famous for their beautiful women and exhaustless treasures , were doubt- · • 1 Valmiki , Ramayana , vol . ii . , p . 26. " In olden times there was a prince of the Danavas , a learned magician endowed ...
... lived in crowded cities and were famous for their beautiful women and exhaustless treasures , were doubt- · • 1 Valmiki , Ramayana , vol . ii . , p . 26. " In olden times there was a prince of the Danavas , a learned magician endowed ...
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... lived in convents , practising occultism . They were called gymnosophists by the Greeks , and were re- garded as very wise men.2 But it must be remembered that the period between the establishment of the Vedic settlements on the ...
... lived in convents , practising occultism . They were called gymnosophists by the Greeks , and were re- garded as very wise men.2 But it must be remembered that the period between the establishment of the Vedic settlements on the ...
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... lived for more than forty years on the 1 Dr. Brinton presumes to criticise , without adducing his reasons for so doing , the assertion made by the author that the ancient Maya architects made use , in the construction of their edifices ...
... lived for more than forty years on the 1 Dr. Brinton presumes to criticise , without adducing his reasons for so doing , the assertion made by the author that the ancient Maya architects made use , in the construction of their edifices ...
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... lived in times anterior to those when King Canchi and his family reigned over Mayach . Their history has come to us , in the sacred book of the Quichés , in the form of a myth . Deified after their death , as all rulers were , the ...
... lived in times anterior to those when King Canchi and his family reigned over Mayach . Their history has come to us , in the sacred book of the Quichés , in the form of a myth . Deified after their death , as all rulers were , the ...
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