Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 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 tempter , perhaps out of spite against the prophetess Hul- dah , 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 tempter , perhaps out of spite against the prophetess Hul- dah , 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 his " Historia de Yucathan , " frankly admits that in his time ...
... 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 his " Historia de Yucathan , " frankly admits that in his time ...
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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 bas - reliefs , inscrip- tions and sculptures carved in marble , containing the ...
... 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 bas - reliefs , inscrip- tions and sculptures carved in marble , containing the ...
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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 façades of the tem- ples and palaces , being written in those characters , were no 1 See Appendix , note ...
... priesthood , and the students , the knowledge of the hieratic or sacred mode of writing had disappeared . The legends graven on the façades of the tem- ples and palaces , being written in those characters , were no 1 See Appendix , note ...
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Abbé Brasseur adorned Akkadian alphabet Americanist ancestors ancient Maya archæology Asia assertion AUGUSTUS LE PLONGEON Brinton called Caribbean Sea Chaldean chap Chichen Cogolludo Coh's Memorial Hall color Cosas de Yucatan cosmogonic earth Egypt Egyptians emblem existed Father figure Fresco Painting funeral chamber gods Greek hand head Herodotus Hindoos Hist History of Egypt Ibid India inhabitants inscriptions island Khafra 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 Osiris palaces Palenque 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 tion to-day translation tree Troano Uxmal verse warrior West Western Continent worship writing Yucatan