The native races of the Pacific states of North America, Volume 5 |
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Acamapichtli according Acolhua Acosta Acxitl Ahau Ahpop allies Amer America Anáhuac ancient Antiq army arrived authorities Axayacatl Azcapuzalco Aztec Boturini Brasseur de Bourbourg brother Cakchiquel Camargo capital century Chalcas Chiapas Chichimec Chicomoztoc chief Chimalpopoca Cholula civilization Clavigero coast Codex Codex Chimalpopoca conquest Culhua Culhuacan death descendants Duran emperor empire followed Guatemala Gucumatz Hacavitz Herrera Hist Huemac Huetzin Huexotzincas Itza Itzcoatl Ixtlilxochitl king Kingsborough Kingsborough's Mex lake land later lords Maxtla Maya Mayapan Mexicans Mexico migration Miztecs monarch Monarq Montezuma Nahua nations native Nauhyotl Nezahualcoyotl Nezahualpilli Nouvelles Annales Olmecs origin period Popol Vuh priests princes probably provinces Quetzalcoatl Quiché Quinantzin record region reign Sahagun says Spaniards Spanish writers Teatro temple Tepanec Tezcuco Tezozomoc theory throne tion Tlapallan Tlascala Tlascaltecs Tlatelulco Tollan Toltec Torquemada traditions tribes Tulan Utatlan Vetancvrt Veytia Votan Xibalba Xolotl Yucatan
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Page 88 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
Page 3 - False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often long endure; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, as every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.
Page 159 - Culebras, had bored ; that he marked it, and that he passed by the houses of the thirteen Culebras. He relates that in returning from one of his voyages he found seven other families of the Tzequil nation who had joined the first inhabitants, and recognized in them the same origin as his own, that is, of the Culebras.
Page 108 - Furdustrander and Kialarnes ; but they were driven by westerly gales to the coast of Ireland, where, according to the accounts of some traders, they were beaten and made slaves. Karlsefne, together with Snorre and Biarne, and the rest of the ships...
Page 103 - ... in the archives of Copenhagen. These manuscripts were for a time supposed to be lost, but were ultimately found safely lodged in their repository in the monastery library of the island of Flato, from whence...
Page 180 - Four persons came from Tulan, from the direction of the rising sun, that is one Tulan. There is another Tulan in Xibalbay and another where the sun sets, and it is there that we came; and in the direction of the setting sun there is another where is the god: so that there are four Tulans; and it is where the sun sets that we came to Tulan...
Page 108 - Karlsefne and his company had erected their dwelling-houses a little above the bay; and there they spent the winter. No snow fell, and the cattle found their food in the open field. One morning early, in the beginning of 1008, they descried a number of canoes coming from the 8.W.
Page 130 - That the American race differs essentially from all others, not excepting the Mongolian ; nor do the feeble analogies of language, and the more obvious ones in civil and religious institutions and the arts, denote anything beyond casual or colonial communication with the Asiatic nations ; and even these analogies may perhaps be accounted for, as Humboldt i suggested, in the mere coincidence arising from similar wants and impulses in nations inhabiting similar latitudes.
Page 84 - ... defence from their enemies, so amongst the Mexicans and the Indians of Michoacan and Honduras an ark was held in the highest veneration, and was considered an object too sacred to be touched by any but the priests. The same religious reverence for the ark is stated by Adair to have existed among the Cherokee and other Indian tribes inhabiting the banks of the Mississippi, and his testimony is corroborated by the accounts of Spanish authors of the "6 Id., p.
Page 116 - ... the skins of buffaloes, stretched underneath a frame made of willow or other boughs, and shaped nearly round, like a tub ; which the woman carries on her head from her wigwam to the water's edge, and having stepped into it, stands in front, and propels it by dipping her paddle forward, and drawing it to her, instead of paddling by the side.