Queen Moo's Talisman: The Fall of the Maya Empire

								


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QUEEN MOO’S TALISMAN

  THE FALL OF THE MAYA EMPIRE

  BY
ALICE DIXON LE PLONGEON.

  AUTHOR OF
“Here and there in Yucatan”—“Yucatan, its Ancient
Palaces and Modern Cities,” etc.

  New York.
PETER ECKLER, PUBLISHER,
35 Fulton Street.

  SOLE AGENT,
Dr. Augustus Le Plongeon, 18 Sidney Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.


London, England.—Keegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Paternoster
House Charing Cross Road, W. C.

  QUEEN MOO’S TALISMAN

  Entered according to act of Congress, June. 1902,
by ALICE DIXON LE PLONGEON,
in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.


All rights reserved.
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                    To Doctor Augustus Le Plongeon,

             whose works inspired these pages, their author

            dedicates them: not as a worth offering, but as

                             A Small Token

        Of loving endeavor to gratify his oft expressed desire.



                      Brooklyn, N. Y., May, 1902.
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  ILLUSTRATIONS.


Engraved by F. A. RINGLER & CO., of New York, from photographs
and drawings by


Dr. Augustus Le Plongeon.


PLATE                                                              PAGE

    I. Author's portrait (Frontispiece).

   II. Prince Coh in battle—tracing from fresco painting on           35

         walls of Coh's funeral chamber, in Memorial Hall at

         Chic[-h]en.
III. Mausoleum of High Priest Cay, at Chicħen.                      41

   IV. Queen Móo's portrait—Demi-relief on entablature of east        43

         façade of Governor's House at Uxmal.

    V. Portrait of High Priest Cay. From a sculpture on the           47

         west side of the pyramid called the Dwarf's House

         at Uxmal. (Discovered on June 1st, 1881, by Dr. Le

         Plongeon).

   VI. Prince Coh's portrait. His statue discovered by Dr. Le         53

         Plongeon at Chicħen in 1875.
VII. Prince Coh's Memorial Hall at Chicħen. Restoration by          55

         Dr. Le Plongeon.
VIII. Prince Aac's Portrait. From a sculptured wooden lintel         61

         over the door of the funeral chamber in Memorial Hall

         at Chicħen.



       APPENDIX—MUSIC.



   IX. Invocation to the Sun.                                         36

    X. He and She.                                                    36

   XI. The Dancers' Song.                                             37