Studies in Central American Picture-Writing
by Edward S. Holden
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About this eBook
- Author
- Holden, Edward S. (Edward Singleton), 1846-1914
- Title
- Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245
- Credits
- Produced by PM for Bureau of American Ethnology, Julia Miller, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PM: Language and Literatures: Indigenous American and Artificial Languages
- Subject
- Mayan languages -- Writing
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 23562
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23562
- Release Date
- November 20, 2007
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. J. W. POWELL, DIRECTOR. — STUDIES IN CENTRAL AMERICAN PICTURE-WRITING.
- 2.TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4.STUDIES IN CENTRAL AMERICAN PICTURE-WRITING. — I. — II. MATERIALS FOR THE PRESENT INVESTIGATION. — III. SYSTEM OF NOMENCLATURE. — IV. IN WHAT ORDER ARE THE HIEROGLYPHS READ? — V. THE CARD-CATALOGUE OF HIEROGLYPHS. — VI. COMPARISON OF PLATES I AND IV (COPAN). — VII. ARE THE HIEROGLYPHS OF COPAN AND PALENQUE IDENTICAL? — VIII. HUITZILOPOCHTLI (MEXICAN GOD OF WAR), TEOYAOMIQUI (MEXICAN GODDESS OF DEATH), MICLANTECUTLI (MEXICAN GOD OF HELL), AND TLALOC (MEXICAN RAIN-GOD), CONSIDERED IN RELATION TO CENTRAL AMERICAN DIVINITIES. — IX. TLALOC, OR HIS MAYA REPRESENTATIVE. — X. CUKULCAN OR QUETZALCOATL. — XI. COMPARISON OF THE SIGNS OF THE MAYA MONTHS (LANDA) WITH THE TABLETS.
- 5.Index
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