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12 America, or has some ancient wizard, by magic art, suddenly transported us to the south of the Asiatic peninsula, in Cambodia, in the old city of Angor-Thom? There also we find similar altars, figures of serpents, and the bird-headed god.

This bird, symbol of the principal female divinity, is met with in every country where Maya civilization can be traced—in Polynesia, Japan, India, Chaldea, Egypt, Greece, as in Mayach and the ancient city of Tiahuanuco on the high plateaus of the Peruvian Andes. In Egypt the vulture formed

the headdress of the Goddess Isis, or Mau, whose vestments were dyed with a variety of colors imitating feather work. Everywhere it is a myth. In Mayach only we may perhaps