Word: quirigua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seeks to clinch his point by comparing Mayan architecture and sculpture with the buildings and statues of Egypt, Babylonia, India and Angkor-Vat in French Indo-China. The Mayas of what are now Guatemala, British Honduras and Yucatan, he says, could never have evolved the controversial earth-monster of Quirigua from native American animals; therefore this monster must be the makara, a legendary beast, part crocodile, part elephant, evolved by sculptors in Asiatic India...
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