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 135
on a gigantic scale (fig. 45). It cannot but be recognized, moreover, that a high edifice presenting a regular series of cones, and extending from east to west, would have afforded an excellent means of registering the varying positions of heavenly bodies. To observers looking towards it from tlie… … terminate in points, each gable being perforated with thirty win¬ dow-like openings, arranged in seven horizontal rows. The pur¬ pose of these gable-like piles has been a riddle to the archaeologists, who have visited Uxmal. Dr. Win. H. Holmes, from whose val¬ uable works I cite the above…
Civilization -- History · Mayas -- Antiquities · Calendar, Mexican · Mythology · Calendar · Swastikas
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