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 462
458 KEY-NOTE OF ANCIENT scheme or ground-plan upon which the most ancient form of gov¬ ernment in Greece has been shown to have also rested. As to the image of the Minotaurus on the obverse of the Berlin coin: to anyone familiar with the widespread system of figuring the state under the form of a… … Fig. of symbolizing its ruler as its head, the image appears intelligible as that of the quadruplicate state. The circumstance that the head is that of a bull seems to indicate that, like the Egyptians, the Cretans applied the title “ bull ” to their king ; thence perhaps the fable that the island…
Civilization -- History · Mayas -- Antiquities · Calendar, Mexican · Mythology · Calendar · Swastikas
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![An illustration from Pandora, das ist, Die edleste Gab Gottes, oder, Der werde vnnd heilsamme Stein der Weysen, mit welchem die alten Philosophi, auch Theophrastus Paracelsus, die vnvolkom[m]ene Metallen, durch Gewalt des Fewrs verbessert, sampt allerley schädliche vnd unheilsame Kranckheiten, innerlich vnd eusserlich haben vertrieben : ein Guldener Schatz, welcher durch einen Liebhaber diser Kunst, von seinem Untergang errettet ist worden, vnnd zu Nutz allen Menschen, fürnem[m]lich den Liebhabern der Paracelsischen Artzney, erst jetz in Truck verfertiget (1582)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-pandoradasistdie00epim-177-23.webp)
