Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... temple of Kabul at Izamal . This legend I have selected because it is written with hie- ratic Maya characters , that are likewise Egyptian.1 Any one who can read hieratic Egyptian inscriptions will have no diffi- culty in translating ...
... temple of Kabul at Izamal . This legend I have selected because it is written with hie- ratic Maya characters , that are likewise Egyptian.1 Any one who can read hieratic Egyptian inscriptions will have no diffi- culty in translating ...
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... temples and palaces of the Mayas . May this work receive the same acceptance from students of American archæology and universal history as was vouchsafed to " Sacred Mysteries among the Mayas and the Quiches . " It is written for the ...
... temples and palaces of the Mayas . May this work receive the same acceptance from students of American archæology and universal history as was vouchsafed to " Sacred Mysteries among the Mayas and the Quiches . " It is written for the ...
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... temples , stately palaces , the work of learned architects , now heaps of débris crumbling under the inexorable tooth of time and the impious hand of iconoclastic collectors of relics for museums . Among these the statues of priests and ...
... temples , stately palaces , the work of learned architects , now heaps of débris crumbling under the inexorable tooth of time and the impious hand of iconoclastic collectors of relics for museums . Among these the statues of priests and ...
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... 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 desolation . They destroyed the principal cities ...
... 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 desolation . They destroyed the principal cities ...
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... temples and sanctuaries , offering in them sacrifices , sometimes of men , women , and children ; and that their construction dated back to a very high antiquity . " 3 The historiographer par excellence of Yucatan , Cogolludo , informs ...
... temples and sanctuaries , offering in them sacrifices , sometimes of men , women , and children ; and that their construction dated back to a very high antiquity . " 3 The historiographer par excellence of Yucatan , Cogolludo , informs ...
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Abbé Brasseur adorned Akkadian alphabet 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 palaces 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