Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... tion between two gulfs , and that the inventors were acquainted with their extent and contour . Not a few , even among well - read people , often express a doubt as to the ancient Mayas having possessed accurate in- formation respecting ...
... tion between two gulfs , and that the inventors were acquainted with their extent and contour . Not a few , even among well - read people , often express a doubt as to the ancient Mayas having possessed accurate in- formation respecting ...
Page lxiv
... tion to generation , for centuries , the name of that inscrip- tion . They still call it Akab - ɔib , the awful , the tenebrous writing . 1 Sir Gardner Wilkinson , Manners and Customs of Ancient Egyptians , vol . iii . , p . 70. “ Kui ...
... tion to generation , for centuries , the name of that inscrip- tion . They still call it Akab - ɔib , the awful , the tenebrous writing . 1 Sir Gardner Wilkinson , Manners and Customs of Ancient Egyptians , vol . iii . , p . 70. “ Kui ...
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... tion to the question , How was this uniformity in the time of observance preserved , not only in far distant quarters of the globe , but also through that vast lapse of time since the Peru- vian and the Indo - European first inherited ...
... tion to the question , How was this uniformity in the time of observance preserved , not only in far distant quarters of the globe , but also through that vast lapse of time since the Peru- vian and the Indo - European first inherited ...
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... tion known in historic times . This people had an abundant literature , and they were the inventors of a system of writing which was at first hieroglyphic . Of the people who invented this system of writing very little is known with cer ...
... tion known in historic times . This people had an abundant literature , and they were the inventors of a system of writing which was at first hieroglyphic . Of the people who invented this system of writing very little is known with cer ...
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... tion for Orientalists and philologists . They are not yet agreed as to its meaning , simply because they do not know to what language it belongs nor whence came the people who raised the monument . We are told they were strangers in the ...
... tion for Orientalists and philologists . They are not yet agreed as to its meaning , simply because they do not know to what language it belongs nor whence came the people who raised the monument . We are told they were strangers in the ...
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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