The North Americans of Antiquity: Their origin, migrations, and type of civilization consideredShort, John T. (John Thomas)
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The North Americans of Antiquity: Their origin, migrations, and type of civilization considered
Short, John T. (John Thomas)
Indians -- Origin; Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities; Indians of North America -- Antiquities
No Mound-builder Chronology Known — Maya Calendar — Landa on
the Calendar — Maya Days — Maya Months — The Katun — The
Ahau Katun or Great Cycle — The Maya System Adjusted to our
Chronology — The Adjustment by Perez — Intercalary Days —
The Nahua Calendar — The Sources — Divisions of the Mexican
Calendar — The Aztec Year — The Nemontemi — Aztec Months —
Aztec Days — Nahua Ritual Calendar — Mexican Calendar Stone
— Sources of Interpretation — History of the Stone — Its
Interpretation — Date of the Origin of the Calendar Stone
— Date of the Nahua Migration — Analogies with the Nahua
Calendar — RELIGIOUS ANALOGIES — Jewish Analogies — Deluge
Traditions — Supposed Parallels in Jewish and Mexican History
— Analogies of Doctrine — Analogies of Ceremonial Law —
Yucatanic Trinity Myth — Mexican and Asiatic Analogies —
Buddhism in the New World — Scandinavian Analogies — Mexican
and Greek Analogies — Brasseur de Bourbourg’s Comparisons.
CHAPTER X.
LANGUAGE AND ITS RELATION TO NORTH AMERICA
MIGRATIONS.
Diversity of Languages in America — Causes of Diversity —
Richness of American Languages — Polysynthesis — Grimm’s
Law — The Maya-Quiché Languages — Stability of the Maya —
Oldest American Language — The Maya compared to the Greek,
the Hebrew, the North European, the Basque, West African,
and the Quichua Languages — Epitome of Maya Grammar — The
Mizteco-Zapotec Languages — The Nahua or Aztec — The Classic
Tongue — Ancient and Modern Nahua — Epitome of Aztec Grammar
— Geographical Extension of the Aztec — In the South — In
the North-west — Buschmann’s Researches — The Sonora Family
— Opata-Tarahumar-Pima Family — Moqui and Aztec Elements
— Aztec in the Shoshone and in the Languages of Oregon
and the Columbian Region — Line of Aztec Elements — The
Nahua probably the Language of the Mound-builders — The
Otomi — Supposed Chinese Analogies — Japanese Analogies —
Geographical Names.
CHAPTER XI.
PROBABILITIES THAT AMERICA WAS PEOPLED FROM THE OLD WORLD
CONSIDERED GEOGRAPHICALLY AND PHYSICALLY.
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