Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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Page xxix
... regarded as suzerain by the other chieftains , previous to the destruction of his capital by the people , headed by the nobility , they having become tired of his exactions and pride . This rebellion is said to have taken place seventy ...
... regarded as suzerain by the other chieftains , previous to the destruction of his capital by the people , headed by the nobility , they having become tired of his exactions and pride . This rebellion is said to have taken place seventy ...
Page xxxii
... regarded them , as their descendants do still , with rev- erential fear . There were recorded the legends of the past- a dead letter for them as for the learned men of the present age . There , also , on the interior walls of many ...
... regarded them , as their descendants do still , with rev- erential fear . There were recorded the legends of the past- a dead letter for them as for the learned men of the present age . There , also , on the interior walls of many ...
Page xxxvi
... regarded Ku , the Divine Essence , the uncreated Soul of the World , as the only Supreme God , not to be represented under any shape . Yet , by lashes , torture , death even , the victims were compelled to pay homage to these images ...
... regarded Ku , the Divine Essence , the uncreated Soul of the World , as the only Supreme God , not to be represented under any shape . Yet , by lashes , torture , death even , the victims were compelled to pay homage to these images ...
Page xli
... regarded as accu- rate ( Plate III . ) . On it I have traced , in dotted lines , figures that will enable any one to easily understand why the Maya author symbolized the Caribbean Sea as a deer , and the empire of Mayach as a tree ...
... regarded as accu- rate ( Plate III . ) . On it I have traced , in dotted lines , figures that will enable any one to easily understand why the Maya author symbolized the Caribbean Sea as a deer , and the empire of Mayach as a tree ...
Page lviii
... regarded as inauspicious . During these , as on the third day of the Epact among the Egyptians , all business was sus- pended ; they did not even go out of their houses , lest some misfortune should befall them . All those calculations ...
... regarded as inauspicious . During these , as on the third day of the Epact among the Egyptians , all business was sus- pended ; they did not even go out of their houses , lest some misfortune should befall them . All those calculations ...
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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