Katun, period of twenty years marked by sculptured stone, 218, 219, 220, 221.
Kingsborough, 11, 57, 62, 78, 240, 246.
Kin (Maya)=sun, 217.
Kin-ich-ahua, one title of Maya supreme divinity, 36.
Kircher, 485.
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Knight, 470.
Kukulcan, Maya title for Mexican god Quetzalcoatl, 68;
meaning of name=divine serpent, 68, 69;
represented by feathered serpent in Yucatan and Mexico, 69;
tradition concerning, 69;
ruler of Chichen Itza, 69;
assumed offices of four rulers, 69;
established connection between Chichen Itza and Mexico, 93;
compared with culture hero of Bogota, 171;
Maya chief or lord, journeyed to Mexico and was there called, Quetzalcoatl, 206;
actual person, Maya high priest, Mexican culture hero, 207;
brought colony from Yucatan to Mexico, 208;
name signified “divine four,” 208;
title expressed by serpent on Copan stelæ, 220, 223;
represented by monolith “Divine Twin,” 262.
Kulkun, mountain in China, called king of mountains, summit of the earth, etc., 287.
Kushites, myth regarding origin of life, etc., 495.
Kwakiutl Indians, social organization and secret societies, 147;
compared with Maya, Mexican and Peruvian, 148.
Lacedæmon, ancient philosophy of, 487.
Lacouperie, T. de, 300, 302.
Land, conventional symbol of, 123.
Landa, Fra Diego de, 35, 69, 86, 191, 192, 206-220, 242, 281.
Language, differed in male and female communities, 193;
influence on ancient American symbolism, 284
(see Linguistics).
Laoutsze, founder of Taouism, 298, 534.
Laplace, 319.
Las Casas, 67.
Layard, 360.
Lea, Chinese word for Below, 118.
Left-hand;
left-handed was attribute of Mexican god, 12;
consecration of, in Mexico and Peru, 163, 164;
honorific title, 165;
on Copan altar, 228.
Legge, 286, 289, 290, 292, 296, 298, 299.
Lenormant, 566.
Leon, Cieza de, 136, 150.
Le Plongeon A., 93, 95, 184, 214.
Lepsius, 379, 460.
Levier, Emile, 477, 478.
Life of the Indians (same as Hispano-Mexican MS., Biblioteca Nazionale MS., or B. N. MS.).
Linguistics, traces of words associated with archaic set of ideas in Old and New World, 531;
comparative tables of words, Appendix I, 549; and Appendix III, 563.
Lion, sacred symbol in Egypt, 408.
Lizard, skin of, in connection with human sacrifice, and with goddess of earth and underworld, 91, 96, 98.
Lizana, 210.
Lloque Yupanqui, third Inca, 133.
Lockyer, Norman, 13, 14, 20, 162, 252, 376, 377, 381, 382, 384, 385, 386, 400.
Lorenzana, 68.
Lorillard City (see Menché), 210;
sculpture and art of, 234.
Lotus, as symbol in Egypt and India, 314, 320, 379, 413.
Loubat, Duc de, 230, 504.
Luna, Don Jose, 50.
Lunar year, 254.
Lunar periods, 256.
Lunar calendar in Mexico, 297;
in China, 297, 298.
Luschan, Felix von, 332, 356, 357.
Lysicrates, choragic monument of, 127.
Lycurgus, 457, 487.
Maghadas of India, 497.
Maghas of India compared with Mayas, 509;
a Finnic race, 519.
Maghi of Persia, 497.
Magnus, P., 477, 478.
Mahaffy, J. P., 417.
Maize, ceremonial, 78;
symbol of goddess of Earth, 91, 98;
used in ceremonial offerings by Californian Indians, 105;
on earth symbol in codices, 109, 117, 123;
on sculptures at Palenque and Copan, 237, 239, 243;
in Mexican New Year festivals, 241;
cultivation of, in very early times, 272, 275;
legacy of Corn Maidens and Daughters of Earth, 276;
as year symbol, 291.
Maler, Teobert, 184, 212, 213, 214.
Maltaya bas-relief, 359, 360.
Manco, Capac, 133;
founder of Cuzco, 156, 161, 186.
Manché, a tribe of Menché and Palenque, 235.
Mandaite pole-star worship, 321, 322, 556.
March, H. Colley, 23, 24.
Marcianus, 530.
Market stone of the City of Mexico, 245
(see Mexican Calendar Stone).
Marinus, 452.
Maritime intercourse between Old and New World, interrupted for many centuries by interregnum of Polaris, 531;
equatorial currents favoring migrations to New World, 524, 525;
evidence of Græco-Egyptian contact with Mexico, 538
(see Pre-Columbian contact).
Markham, Clements B., 132, 136, 142, 152, 160, 168, 510.
Marriage, in Mexico, sacred rites in connection with, 102;
laws governing, 176;
among the Hindu, 316;
on New Year's day in Babylonia and Assyria, 331, 346;
in ancient Egypt, 441;
festivals, in India and in Mexico connected with worship of Pleiades, 498
(see Heaven and Earth, union of).
Marroquin, 80.
Maspero, 437, 518.
Master builders, ah-men, Maya name for;
aman-teca, Mexican name for, 234;
kinship between those of Central America and Mexico, and the trained builders of cosmical structures in the Old World, 517, 529, 532, 533.
Maudslay, Alfred P., 120, 121, 170, 172, 215, 216, 218, 219, 221, 222, 223, 227, 229, 230, 233, 234, 235, 236, 239, 504.
Mayapan, capital of confederacy of Mayas, 69;
ancient capital of Yucatan, 86;
Ho, another name for, 206;
Ichpa, another name for, 206;
ancient chronicles, 209, 211;
Cocomes, people of, 211-216.