Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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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 , In 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 ...
... serpent . " The serpent , with inflated breast , In 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 ...
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... serpent , " 66 one of imix the symbols for the sea , canah . Then the two are placed , one on each side of the geometrical figure image of the peninsula , to typify the two gulfs whose waters bathe its shores - on the left that of ...
... serpent , " 66 one of imix the symbols for the sea , canah . Then the two are placed , one on each side of the geometrical figure image of the peninsula , to typify the two gulfs whose waters bathe its shores - on the left that of ...
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... serpent worshippers , who lived in crowded cities and were famous for their beautiful women and exhaustless treasures , were doubt- 1 Valmiki , Ramayana , vol . ii . , p . 26. " In olden times there was a prince of the Danavas , a ...
... serpent worshippers , who lived in crowded cities and were famous for their beautiful women and exhaustless treasures , were doubt- 1 Valmiki , Ramayana , vol . ii . , p . 26. " In olden times there was a prince of the Danavas , a ...
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