tailieunhanh - The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations

In February, 1898, while engaged upon the translation and commentary of the anonymous Hispano Mexican MS. of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Library, of Florence, my interest was suddenly and unexpectedly diverted from my self-imposed task by the circumstances described in the opening pages of the present publication. Laying my work aside, as I then supposed, for a few days only, I seized the new thread of investigation with a keen and enthusiastic interest, little knowing that it, in turn, was not only to hold me fast for nearly three years, but was to lead me out of my original field of research, into distant, and to. | The Fundamental Principles of Old and New by Zelia Nuttall 1 The Fundamental Principles of Old and New by Zelia Nuttall The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at http license Title The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations Author Zelia Nuttall Release Date April 20 2010 Ebook 32066 Language English Character set encoding ISO 8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF OLD AND NEW WORLD CIVILIZATIONS The Fundamental Principles Of The Fundamental Principles of Old and New by Zelia Nuttall 2 Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious Sociological and Calendrical Systems. By Zelia Nuttall Honorary Special Assistant of the Peabody Museum Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Member of the Philosophical Society Philadelphia Honorary Member of the Archaeological Association Univ. of Pennsylvania Corresponding Member of the Antiquarian and Numismatic Society of Philadelphia of the Anthropological Society of Washington of the Societá Italiana d Antropologia of the Société de Géographie de Genève of the Sociedad Cientifico Antonio Alzate Mexico and of the Société des Américanistes de Paris. Archaeological and Ethnological Papers Of The Peabody Museum Harvard University Vol. II. Cambridge Mass. Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology. March 1901. CONTENTS Editorial Note. Author s Preface. The Fundamental Principles Of Old And New World Civilizations. Appendix I. Comparative Table of some Quechua Nahuatl and Maya Words. Appendix II. A Prayer-meeting of the Star-worshippers. Appendix III. Comparative Lists of Words. .