The North Americans of Antiquity: Their Origin, Migrations, and Type of Civilization ConsideredHarper & Brothers, 1879 - 548 หน้า |
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The North Americans of antiquity; their origin, migrations, and type of ... John Thomas Short ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 1880 |
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หน้า 195 - We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.
หน้า 217 - 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, from the other side of the sea where this Tulan is, and it is there that we were conceived and begotten...
หน้า 117 - ... heretofore discovered. It appeared by the situation of the skeleton, that the animal had been sunk with its hind feet in the mud and water, and unable to extricate itself, had fallen on its right side, and in that situation was found and killed as above described, consequently the hind and fore foot on the right side, were sunk deeper in the mud, and thereby saved from the effects of the fire...
หน้า 214 - ... lakes and the sea, the mountains and the valleys, and the heavens that were above all; and they comprehended all and admired exceedingly. Then they returned thanks to those who had made the world and all that therein was: We offer up our thanks, twice — yea verily, thrice ! We have received life; we speak, we walk, we taste; we hear and understand ; we know, both that which is near and that which is far off; we see all things, great and small, in all the heaven and earth. Thanks then, Maker...
หน้า 114 - No doubt, had the pelvic bone belonged to any recent mammifer other than man, such a theory would never have been resorted to ; but so long as we have only one isolated case, and are without the testimony of a geologist who was present to behold the bone when still engaged in the matrix, and to extract it with his own hands, it is allowable to suspend our judgment as to the high antiquity of the fossil.
หน้า 266 - And it is a significant fact, that in the map of their migrations presented by Gemelli, the place of the origin of the Aztecs is designated by the sign of water (atl standing for Aztlan\ a pyramidal temple with grades, and near these a palm-tree.
หน้า 225 - ... and Xbalanque stretched themselves voluntarily face down on a funeral pile, still in Xibalba, and died together. Their bones were pulverized and thrown into the river, where they sank and were changed into fine young men. On the fifth day they re-appeared, like man-fishes ; and on the day following in the form of ragged old men, dancing, burning and restoring houses, killing and restoring each other to life, and performing other wonderful things. They were induced to exhibit their skill before...
หน้า 207 - Asia, and Africa is marked with two large SS; upon the upper arms of two bars drawn from the opposite angles of each square, forming the point of union in the centre...
หน้า 357 - On entering the gateway there are two fine stone pyramids, moderately large and lofty, from which is suspended a hammock that contains two human figures, one of each sex, clothed in the Indian style. Astonishment is forcibly excited on viewing this structure, because, large as it is, there is no appearance of the component parts being joined together; and though entirely of one stone, and of an enormous •weight, it may be put in motion by the slightest impulse of the hand.
หน้า 118 - Indians, but of larger size. This was the only arrowhead immediately with the skeleton ; but in the same strata, at a distance of five or six feet, in a horizontal direction, four more arrow-heads were found. Three of these were of the same formation as the preceding. The fourth was of very rude workmanship. One of the last-mentioned three was of agate, the others of blue flint. These arrow-heads are indisputably the work of human hands. I examined the deposit in which they were embedded, and raised...