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The fundamental principles of Old and New World civilizations : a comparative research based on a study of the ancient Mexican religious, sociological and calendrical systems (1901)

Nuttall, Zelia, 1858-1933 · Cambridge, Mass. : Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology · leaf 123

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in Scandinavia and is popularly named Thor’s hammer (fig. 38) . Merely as a curious analogy I point out that in fig. 25, no. 2, from the Vienna Codex, we have an American instance of a tau-shaped object held in the hand in a ceremonial rite. The late and lamented Baron Gustav Nordenskjold observed… … EGYPTIAN CROSS TAC CROSS, THOB'8 HAMMER iCrux aneata ) or st. Anthony’s cross Fig. 38. present day. By means of a photograph taken by Dr. A. War¬ burg of Berlin, whilst witnessing the Humis-katshina dance of the Moqui Indians at Oraibi, in May, 1896, 1 am able to affirm that the native dancers wear…

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