Chapter VIII

ANCIENT AMERICAN CIVILIZATION AND SUPPOSED OLD WORLD
ANALOGIES. — ARCHITECTURE, SCULPTURE, AND HIEROGLYPHICS.

Analogies, Real and Fancied — MAYA ARCHITECTURE — The American
Pyramid — The Palace of Palenque — The French Roof at
Palenque — The Trefoil Arch — Yucatanic Architecture — Uxmal
— The Casa de Monjas — Kabah — Casa Grande of Zayi — QUICHÉ
ARCHITECTURE — Copan — Circus of Copan — Description by
Fuentes — Utatlan — NAHUA ARCHITECTURE — Remains in Oajaca
— Mitla — Grecques at Mitla — Remains in the State of Vera
Cruz — Cholula — Pyramid of Xochicalco — The Temple of Mexico
— Teotihuacan — Los Edificios of Quemada — Maya and Nahua
Architecture Compared — Old World Analogies — SCULPTURE — Of
the Mounds — At Palenque — At Uxmal — Of the Nahuas — Ancient
American Art and its Old World Analogies — Egyptian Tau at
Palenque — Serpent Sculpture — Nahua Symbolism probably
Asiatic — HIEROGLYPHICS — Maya MSS. and Books — Landa’s
Alphabet — Attempts at the Interpretation of Maya MSS. by
Bollaert, Charencey, and Rosny — Rosny’s Classification of
the Hieroglyphics — Hopes that a Key has been Discovered —
The Mexican Picture-writing — Aztec Migration Maps.