Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... writing had disappeared . The legends graven on the façades of the tem- ples and palaces , being written in those characters , were no 46 See Appendix , note iii . ' Diego de Landa , Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan ( chap . vii . , p ...
... writing had disappeared . The legends graven on the façades of the tem- ples and palaces , being written in those characters , were no 46 See Appendix , note iii . ' Diego de Landa , Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan ( chap . vii . , p ...
Page xli
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Page xlv
... writer of that ancient book , and made on a map in my copy of Bowditch's Navigation an approximate tracing of the sub- merged valleys in the Caribbean Sea , in explanation of the Maya maps , showing why they symbolized said sea by the ...
... writer of that ancient book , and made on a map in my copy of Bowditch's Navigation an approximate tracing of the sub- merged valleys in the Caribbean Sea , in explanation of the Maya maps , showing why they symbolized said sea by the ...
Page li
... writers , either for ma , me , or mo . Some would - be critics among the Americanists , our contempo- raries , have accused the bishop of ignorance regarding the writing system of the Mayas , or of incompetency in transmit- ting to us ...
... writers , either for ma , me , or mo . Some would - be critics among the Americanists , our contempo- raries , have accused the bishop of ignorance regarding the writing system of the Mayas , or of incompetency in transmit- ting to us ...
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... 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 knew , 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 knew , as well as we do , how to calculate the latitudes and longitudes ; the epochs of the ...
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