Sacred Mysteries Among the Mayas And the Quiches 11500 Years Ago Their Relat
Sacred Mysteries Among the Mayas And the Quiches 11500 Years Ago Their Relat
Augustus Le Plongeon
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It is not of Eygptian origin. It has its prototype in the conoidal pillar, surmounted by a sphere, used by the Babylonians as symbol of hfe and death; death being but the beginning or nursery of life. This emblem was only a reminiscence of the yaxche, the sacred tree of the Mayas, under the roots of which, the natives assert, is always to be found a source of pure cold water. The trunk of the yaxche, from the foot to the top, forms a perfect cone from which the main branches shoot in an horizon...tal direction. Its leafy top, seen from a dis- tance, presents the appearance of a half sphere of verdure. The cone, the tau and the criLX-ansata 134 SACRED MYSTERIES AMONG were for those initiated to the mysteries the same symbol, emblematical of Deity, of the life to come, of the dual powers, of fertility. The Mayas and other peoples of Central America, in the sculptures or paintings, always represented their sacred trees with two branches shooting horizontally from the top of the trunk, thus presenting the appearance of a cross or tau.
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