Identifier: ingloriouscolumb00vini (find matches)
Title: An inglorious Columbus;
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Vining, Edward P. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Fig. 19.—Another representation of the sculptured tablet at Palenque. I am indebted for both cuts, as well as for most of thosewhich follow, to the courtesy of Mr. H. H. Bancroft, from whosegreat work, entitled The Native Races of the Pacific States,they are borrowed. It will be seen that while the several artists have differedsomewhat as to a number of the details, the general resemblanceto the usual Asiatic representations of Buddha, as shown in Fig.1, page 128, and Fig. 9, page 135, is equally striking in all thecopies. RELIGIOUS CUSTOMS AND BELIEFS. 593 The representations of Buddha by the Asiatics, when he isdrawn as occupying the central part of a picture, present him, asa rule, as seated upon the throne of lions (in Sanskrit, Shn- m ii;iiii iiw;i iiiiiriiiiNi;i; iiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiii II Hiill;llHillllllll;llllli llllllHIl i; III il nil lllllllllll;llll ll(ll;l;iH(l(HlilllTI;HI;lllllir;l lllliiii;iriiHi;!(ii(iiii; iiii)Ti iipiii *\ ii;i iimi;(iiiiiii
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Fio. 20.—Beau-relief in stucco at Palenque. hdsana ; in Thibetan, Sengti, or Senge chad ti, the seat of eightlions ). The throne is so called from the eight lions which sup-38 594 AN INGLOEIOUS COLUMBUS. port it ; in the drawings, however, two lions only are seen infront.--^ Fig. 20 (see last page) represents a cross-legged figurefound at Palenque, seated upon a similar couch,^^ upheld by theheads and forelegs of two of the American animals which mostnearly resemble the lion, and which are often called by thatname. Above the doors of the House of the Monks, at Uxmal,there are niches containing seated figures (see Fig. 21) which

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