Queen M'oo and the Egyptian sphinxРипол Классик, 1972 - 277 pages |
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Augustus Le Plongeon. her husband—purposely disfigured by the scheming Jewish priest Hilkiah, who made the woman appear to have yielded to her tempte-r, perhaps out of spite against the prophetess Huldah, she having refused to ...
Augustus Le Plongeon. her husband—purposely disfigured by the scheming Jewish priest Hilkiah, who made the woman appear to have yielded to her tempte-r, perhaps out of spite against the prophetess Huldah, she having refused to ...
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... priests destroyed by fire the only sources of information—the books and ancient records of the Maya philosophers and historians. Father Lopez de Cogolludo, in “ 'Historia de Yucathan,” 1 frankly admits that in his time no information ...
... priests destroyed by fire the only sources of information—the books and ancient records of the Maya philosophers and historians. Father Lopez de Cogolludo, in “ 'Historia de Yucathan,” 1 frankly admits that in his time no information ...
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... priests and kings, mutilated and defaced by the action of the elements, the hand of time and that of man, lie prostrate in the dust. Walls covered with has-reliefs, inscriptions and sculptures carved in marble, containing the panegyrics ...
... priests and kings, mutilated and defaced by the action of the elements, the hand of time and that of man, lie prostrate in the dust. Walls covered with has-reliefs, inscriptions and sculptures carved in marble, containing the panegyrics ...
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... priests who had charge of the libraries in the temples and colleges, in order to save the precious volumes from the hands of the barbarous tribes from the west. These, entering the country from the. south, came spreading ruin and ...
... priests who had charge of the libraries in the temples and colleges, in order to save the precious volumes from the hands of the barbarous tribes from the west. These, entering the country from the. south, came spreading ruin and ...
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... priesthood, and the students, the knowledge of the hieratic or sacred mode of writing had disappeared. The legends graven on the facades of the temples and palaces, being written in those characters, were no ' See Appendix, note iii ...
... priesthood, and the students, the knowledge of the hieratic or sacred mode of writing had disappeared. The legends graven on the facades of the temples and palaces, being written in those characters, were no ' See Appendix, note iii ...
Table des matières
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LXHI Javelin Head and Arrow Points found with the Charred | 159 |
Portrait of Queen M60 From a demirelief adorning | 166 |
Portrait of Bishop Lands second Bishop of Yucatan | 169 |
LXVHI Mezzorelievo in Stucco on the Frieze of the Temple | 197 |
Fresco Painting in the Funeral Chamber of Prince Cohs | 222 |
The Lord of the Yucatan Forests From life | 236 |
Part of Facade of the Sanctuary at Uxmal Cosmic | 256 |
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Abbé adorned Akkadian Akkadian language alphabet ancestors ancient Maya Asia assertion Augustus Le Plongeon Brasseur Brinton called Caribbean Sea Central America Chaldeans chap Chichen Cogolludo Coh’s Memorial Hall color cosmogonic earth edifices Egypt Egyptians emblem existed Father fields figure find fire first five flower Fresco Painting funeral chamber gods Greek hand head Herodotus Hindoos Hist India inhabitants inscriptions island Khafra kings knowledge land Landa learned lineal measures Manners and Customs Maya books Maya civilization Maya language Maya word Mayach Mayapan meaning metre monuments Mysteries Naacal Nahuatls natives Osiris Palenque peninsula Plate Plongeon priests Prince Coh’s Memorial Queen M60 remote ages represented sacred Sacred Mysteries sacrifices says scientific sculptures serpent Sir Gardner Wilkinson Sphinx symbol tableau temples Thoth tion to-day translation tree Troano Uxmal verse warrior West Western Continent worship writing yellow Yucatan