Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... serpent , the Ah- ac - chapat of the Mayas , and afterward carried its worship to Akkad and to Babylon . In these cosmogonic notions we also find the reason why the number ten was held most sacred by all civilized nations of antiquity ...
... serpent , the Ah- ac - chapat of the Mayas , and afterward carried its worship to Akkad and to Babylon . In these cosmogonic notions we also find the reason why the number ten was held most sacred by all civilized nations of antiquity ...
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... ( serpent ) and the Cat - ayo ( cucumber tree ) . The penin- sula , then divided into many districts or provinces , each gov- erned by an independent ruler who had given a peculiar title to his own dominions , seems to have had no general ...
... ( serpent ) and the Cat - ayo ( cucumber tree ) . The penin- sula , then divided into many districts or provinces , each gov- erned by an independent ruler who had given a peculiar title to his own dominions , seems to have had no general ...
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... serpent " Can ; but we see in the Troano MS . that this was the name of the whole of the Maya Empire , not the peninsula alone . Señor Ancona , notwithstanding his sneers , is not quite sure of being right in his criticism , for he also ...
... serpent " Can ; but we see in the Troano MS . that this was the name of the whole of the Maya Empire , not the peninsula alone . Señor Ancona , notwithstanding his sneers , is not quite sure of being right in his criticism , for he also ...
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... serpent head was , for the Maya writers , typical of the sea , whose billows they compared to the undulations of a serpent in motion . They therefore called the ocean canah , a word whose radical is can , " serpent , " the meaning of ...
... serpent head was , for the Maya writers , typical of the sea , whose billows they compared to the undulations of a serpent in motion . They therefore called the ocean canah , a word whose radical is can , " serpent , " the meaning of ...
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... serpent . " The serpent , with inflated breast , suggested by the contour of the Maya Empire , was adopted as a symbol of the same . Its name became that of the dynasty of the Maya rulers , and their totem . We see it sculptured on the ...
... serpent . " The serpent , with inflated breast , suggested by the contour of the Maya Empire , was adopted as a symbol of the same . Its name became that of the dynasty of the Maya rulers , and their totem . We see it sculptured on the ...
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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