Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... walls of the ruined palaces and temples of the Mayas , that are being torn to pieces by individuals commissioned by certain institutions in the United States and other places to obtain curios to adorn their museums , regardless of the ...
... walls of the ruined palaces and temples of the Mayas , that are being torn to pieces by individuals commissioned by certain institutions in the United States and other places to obtain curios to adorn their museums , regardless of the ...
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... Walls covered with bas - reliefs , inscrip- tions and sculptures carved in marble , containing the pane- gyrics of rulers , the history of the nation , its cosmogonical traditions , the ancient religious rites and observances of its ...
... Walls covered with bas - reliefs , inscrip- tions and sculptures carved in marble , containing the pane- gyrics of rulers , the history of the nation , its cosmogonical traditions , the ancient religious rites and observances of its ...
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... walls — were as much a mystery to the people , as to the mul- titudes which have since contemplated them with amazement , during centuries , to the present day . 1 Bishop Landa , speaking of the edifices at Izamal , asserts that the ...
... walls — were as much a mystery to the people , as to the mul- titudes which have since contemplated them with amazement , during centuries , to the present day . 1 Bishop Landa , speaking of the edifices at Izamal , asserts that the ...
Page xli
... walls of an apartment in one of the edifices at Kabah , caused me to devote many months to the study of the Maya text of that interesting old document . It was with consider- able surprise that I then discovered that several pages at ...
... walls of an apartment in one of the edifices at Kabah , caused me to devote many months to the study of the Maya text of that interesting old document . It was with consider- able surprise that I then discovered that several pages at ...
Page xlii
... walls of their palaces and temples ; and to learn that these ancient personages had already been converted , at the time the author of the Troano MS . wrote his book , into the gods of the elements , and made the agents who produced the ...
... walls of their palaces and temples ; and to learn that these ancient personages had already been converted , at the time the author of the Troano MS . wrote his book , into the gods of the elements , and made the agents who produced the ...
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Abbé Brasseur adorned Akkadian alphabet Americanist ancestors ancient Maya archæology Asia assertion AUGUSTUS LE PLONGEON Brinton called Caribbean Sea Chaldean chap Chichen Cogolludo Coh's Memorial Hall color Cosas de Yucatan cosmogonic earth Egypt Egyptians emblem existed Father figure Fresco Painting funeral chamber gods Greek hand head Herodotus Hindoos Hist History of Egypt Ibid India inhabitants inscriptions island Khafra 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 Osiris palaces Palenque 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 tion to-day translation tree Troano Uxmal verse warrior West Western Continent worship writing Yucatan