A primer of Mayan hieroglyphics / by Daniel G. Brinton.

  • Daniel Garrison Brinton
Date:
1895]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A primer of Mayan hieroglyphics / by Daniel G. Brinton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lesson is the same. The design is surrounded by the signs of the twenty days, beyond which the field (not shown in this cut) is apportioned to the four cardinal points and the deities and time-cycles connected with them. Fig. io.—Our First Parents. (From the Cortesian Codex.) Again it is Life within Space and Time which the artist pre-* sents. The earth is not represented ; but we readily recognize in conventionalized form the great Tree of Life, across it the celestial Vase, and above it the cloud-masses. On the right sits Cuculcan, on the left Xmucane, the divine pair called in the Fopol Vuh “the Creator and the Former, Grandfather and dfrand-
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