Queen M'oo and the Egyptian sphinxРипол Классик, 1972 - 277 pages |
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... writing had disappeared. The legends graven on the facades of the temples and palaces, being written in those characters, were no ' See Appendix, note iii. '- Diego de Lands, Relacion dc lac 00m do Yucatan (chap. vii., p. 42): “Qua ...
... writing had disappeared. The legends graven on the facades of the temples and palaces, being written in those characters, were no ' See Appendix, note iii. '- Diego de Lands, Relacion dc lac 00m do Yucatan (chap. vii., p. 42): “Qua ...
Page xliii
... 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 which is the “ mighty serpent. ” The ...
... 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 which is the “ mighty serpent. ” The ...
Page xlv
... writer of that ancient book, and made on a map in my copy of Bowditch's Navigation an approximate tracing of the submerged valleys in the Caribbean Sea, in explanation of the Maya maps, showing why they symbolized said sea by the figure ...
... writer of that ancient book, and made on a map in my copy of Bowditch's Navigation an approximate tracing of the submerged valleys in the Caribbean Sea, in explanation of the Maya maps, showing why they symbolized said sea by the figure ...
Page li
... writers, either for ma, me, or mo. Some would-be critics among the Americanists, our contemporaries,2 have accused the bishop of ignorance regarding the writing system of the Mayas, or of incompetency in transmitting to us the true ...
... writers, either for ma, me, or mo. Some would-be critics among the Americanists, our contemporaries,2 have accused the bishop of ignorance regarding the writing system of the Mayas, or of incompetency in transmitting to us the true ...
Page lviii
... writer in the ruins of the ancient city of Mayapan, in 1880, proves conclusively that they had made advance in the science of astronomy. They blew, as well as we do, how to calculate the latitudes and longitudes; the epochs of the ...
... writer in the ruins of the ancient city of Mayapan, in 1880, proves conclusively that they had made advance in the science of astronomy. They blew, as well as we do, how to calculate the latitudes and longitudes; the epochs of the ...
Table des matières
lxii | |
LXHI Javelin Head and Arrow Points found with the Charred | 159 |
Portrait of Queen M60 From a demirelief adorning | 166 |
Portrait of Bishop Lands second Bishop of Yucatan | 169 |
LXVHI Mezzorelievo in Stucco on the Frieze of the Temple | 197 |
Fresco Painting in the Funeral Chamber of Prince Cohs | 222 |
The Lord of the Yucatan Forests From life | 236 |
Part of Facade of the Sanctuary at Uxmal Cosmic | 256 |
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