The Ten Tribes of Israel Historically Identified with the Aborigines of the Western Hemisphere |
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... feast of Tabernacles - their altar stands on twelve stones -their mourning lasts a year . - Their customs of women are like those of the Jews , their language is concise , masculine , full of energy , resembling the Hebrew ; one word ...
... feast of Tabernacles - their altar stands on twelve stones -their mourning lasts a year . - Their customs of women are like those of the Jews , their language is concise , masculine , full of energy , resembling the Hebrew ; one word ...
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... feast they celebrated ; hence it may be inferred from the stone which M. Humboldt describes , as dedicated to Tez- catlipoca , which supposition will serve to explain the nature of the ancient symbol worn on the advanced foot of the ...
... feast they celebrated ; hence it may be inferred from the stone which M. Humboldt describes , as dedicated to Tez- catlipoca , which supposition will serve to explain the nature of the ancient symbol worn on the advanced foot of the ...
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... feast is called the feast of the Lords , viz . ancients- it lasted four days from the first of Ocelotl , ( the sign of the earth ) to the fourth earthquakes , or destructions . In the seventy - second plate of the Borgian MS . , Yztapal ...
... feast is called the feast of the Lords , viz . ancients- it lasted four days from the first of Ocelotl , ( the sign of the earth ) to the fourth earthquakes , or destructions . In the seventy - second plate of the Borgian MS . , Yztapal ...
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... feasts of eight days , and regulated the intercalations of the Toltic year . He preached peace to man , and would permit no offering to the divinity than the first fruits of the harvest . From Cholula , Quetzalcoatl passed on to the ...
... feasts of eight days , and regulated the intercalations of the Toltic year . He preached peace to man , and would permit no offering to the divinity than the first fruits of the harvest . From Cholula , Quetzalcoatl passed on to the ...
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... feasts . " " There were places allotted to the rearing of birds for the sacrifices , and gardens in which odoriferous herbs and flowers were used for the altar . " " All the old historians speak with wonder of the multitude of places of ...
... feasts . " " There were places allotted to the rearing of birds for the sacrifices , and gardens in which odoriferous herbs and flowers were used for the altar . " " All the old historians speak with wonder of the multitude of places of ...
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Acosta affirm America amongst ancestors ancient Antiq appear arrival Assyria Aztecs behold believed Boturini called Casas ceremonies chapter Chiapa Chiapanese chief children of Israel Cholula circumcision Clavegero Columbus continent Cortez Creator customs death declared descended divine earth Egypt Father feast festival gold Gomara hand hath heaven Hebrew Hebrew language Herrera Hispaniola Hist historians holy Huayna Capac Incas Indians inhabitants Jerusalem Jews king kingdom land language laws manner Messiah Mexican Empire Mexican paintings Mexico Montezuma nations never observes Pachacamac person Peru Peruvians possessed present preserved priests prophet province Quetzalcoatl redeemed religion religious remarkable represented resemblance rites sacred sacrifice Sahagun saith the LORD says sent serpent shew signifies Spain Spaniards Spanish speak Spirit stones symbol Temazcalli Temple Tezcatlipoca thee things thou Toltics Torquemeda tradition tribes unto Votan words worship writes YEHOVAH Yutican
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Page 350 - These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Page 334 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
Page xxxvii - And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land: for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
Page 152 - Spirit, and I will show wonders in the heavens, and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke : the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.
Page 350 - Blessed be the Lord God of Israel ; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, and hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David ; as he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began...
Page xxx - Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath. And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun ; and for the precious things put forth by the moon...
Page 333 - Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers...
Page xxxiii - And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
Page 336 - Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth : who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously...
Page xii - The land shall not be sold for ever : for the land is mine ; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.