Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... sciences , and civilization of the mother country . Why , then , not admit that that which occurs in our day has taken place in past ages ? Is not man the same in all times ? Has not the stronger always imposed his ideas on the weaker ...
... sciences , and civilization of the mother country . Why , then , not admit that that which occurs in our day has taken place in past ages ? Is not man the same in all times ? Has not the stronger always imposed his ideas on the weaker ...
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... sciences and of astronomy in particular . 99 If philology , like architecture , may serve as guide in fol- lowing the footsteps of a people in its migrations on the face of the earth , then we may safely affirm that the Mayas , at some ...
... sciences and of astronomy in particular . 99 If philology , like architecture , may serve as guide in fol- lowing the footsteps of a people in its migrations on the face of the earth , then we may safely affirm that the Mayas , at some ...
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... sciences of the mother country they had so recently abandoned . They were aped , and their ways readily adopted , by the descendants of the first Maya settlers , who had become more or less contaminated with the habits , superstitions ...
... sciences of the mother country they had so recently abandoned . They were aped , and their ways readily adopted , by the descendants of the first Maya settlers , who had become more or less contaminated with the habits , superstitions ...
Page 100
... science . By this they perhaps wished to indi- cate that men of that color , coming from Pátâla , the antip- odes , 1 imported to India , with civilization , the knowledge of letters , arts , and sciences . In Polynesia , red is still ...
... science . By this they perhaps wished to indi- cate that men of that color , coming from Pátâla , the antip- odes , 1 imported to India , with civilization , the knowledge of letters , arts , and sciences . In Polynesia , red is still ...
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... sciences , their history , and their religious tenets , with the rites and observances which they practised , were contained in volumes written in alphabetical and ideo- graphic characters on prepared deer - skin ( parchment ) , or on ...
... sciences , their history , and their religious tenets , with the rites and observances which they practised , were contained in volumes written in alphabetical and ideo- graphic characters on prepared deer - skin ( parchment ) , or on ...
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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