THE MYTHOLOGY OF ALL RACES _IN THIRTEEN VOLUMES_ LOUIS HERBERT GRAY, A.M., PH.D., EDITOR GEORGE FOOT MOORE, A.M., D.D., LL.D., CONSULTING EDITOR LATIN-AMERICAN BY HARTLEY BURR ALEXANDER, PH.D. PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA VOLUME XI BOSTON MARSHALL JONES COMPANY M DCCCC XX [Illustration: PLATE I.] Top face of the monolith known as the "Dragon" or the "Great Turtle" of Quirigua. This is one of the group of stelae and "altars" which mark the ceremonial courts of this vanished Maya city (see Plate XXIII); and is perhaps the master-work not only of Mayan, but of aboriginal American art. The top of the stone here figured shows a highly conventionalized daemon or dragon mask, surr…
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