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 158
r circumstances by seven distinct personages of the same rank and position. Involuntarily one thinks of the period of en¬ forced fast and vigil which marks the attainment of manhood and is still obligatory amongst North American tribes, amongst whom it only ends when they have entered into… … skins with the heads were specially pre¬ pared for the ceremonial when youths were admitted into (lie ranks of knighthood, the last rite of which was the piercing of their ears and the enlargement of the orifice made.1 “ The skins of lions, with the heads, had been prepared, with sold ear-pieces in…
Civilization -- History · Mayas -- Antiquities · Calendar, Mexican · Mythology · Calendar · Swastikas
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