For Martin and others, Calakmul's identity as the snake-head state is secure. From Wordnik.com. [The Search for Site Q] Reference
"Sspill!," the snake-head hissed, turning brown, and became a small, tan griffin. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon on a Pedestal]
This text includes the snake-head emblem glyph as the first glyph of the inscription. From Wordnik.com. [Site Q Sculptures] Reference
He pushed forward as best he could, afraid that the snake-head would leave before Li found him. From Wordnik.com. [The Stone Monkey]
As the huge snake-head came close, the centaur bellowed a warning and struck it across the nose. From Wordnik.com. [The Source of Magic]
The inscriptions at La Corona also include numerous references to political events involving the snake-head site. From Wordnik.com. [The Search for Site Q] Reference
Until we have examined these sites, I think it's just too early to pass judgment on whether Calakmul is the snake-head site. From Wordnik.com. [The Search for Site Q] Reference
This text includes the snake-head emblem glyph some scholars have associated with Calakmul (first glyph of the second line). From Wordnik.com. [Site Q Sculptures] Reference
This text includes the snake-head emblem glyph some scholars have associated with Calakmul (second glyph of the third line). From Wordnik.com. [Site Q Sculptures] Reference
"Ah, but you should be," Sang-drax returned, his snake-head swiveling, trying to see Marit and Hugh, who lurked on his blind side. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Labyrinth]
If Calakmul is the snake-head state, why does its glyph figure so prominently in texts on monuments that clearly did not come from that site?. From Wordnik.com. [The Search for Site Q] Reference
This text includes the snake-head emblem glyph some scholars have associated with Calakmul (second part of the second glyph on the fourth line). From Wordnik.com. [Site Q Sculptures] Reference
Though several inscriptions found at the site contained the snake-head emblem glyph, it was clear from the syntax that it was the name of a foreign place. From Wordnik.com. [The Search for Site Q] Reference
KC flipped open the latch and lifted the cover, displaying the snake-head staff, its head with silver teeth and ruby eyes dazzling beneath the bright security lights. From Wordnik.com. [The Thieves of Darkness] Reference
Most epigraphers think that Calakmul is the snake-head state because inscriptions there refer to it as a sovereign polity, while elsewhere it appears as a foreign state. From Wordnik.com. [New Maya Site Found] Reference
While many of these bear the snake-head emblem glyph, according to Martin, like the monuments on Mathews 'list they do not appear to come from Calakmul, a site that has produced few such ceramics. From Wordnik.com. [The Search for Site Q] Reference
Take one ounce of powdered snake-head (herb), and one drachm each of aloes and prickly ash bark; powder these, and to one-half teaspoonful of this powder add a teaspoonful of boiling water and a teaspoonful of molasses. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
Meanwhile, Calakmul, in southern Campeche, Mexico, was gaining recognition as a candidate for the mysterious snake-head state, an idea put forth some years earlier by Joyce Marcus of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. From Wordnik.com. [The Search for Site Q] Reference
The snake-head emblem glyph has been found in inscriptions at sites in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico, attesting the site's once preeminent position in the Classic Maya world (see ARCHAEOLOGY, November/December 1995). From Wordnik.com. [The Search for Site Q] Reference
Sellitto and Eddie Deng were setting up a takedown site at Sellitto's house, where they could collar him without the risk of bystanders 'getting killed in a shoot-out with the homicidal snake-head and capture any bangshous with him. From Wordnik.com. [The Stone Monkey]
The epigrapher Peter Mathews, now of the University of Calgary, called the undiscovered city from which the panels came Site Q. Stuart also says that the "inscriptions at La Corona also include numerous references to political events involving the snake-head site.". From Wordnik.com. [New Maya Site Found] Reference
The source of this panel is unknown, but it seems to belong with a number of other unprovenienced monuments in American and European collections: the inscriptions on many of these panels include a snake-head emblem glyph, and texts begun on several of them continue on others in the set. From Wordnik.com. [New Maya Site Found] Reference
Unlike the majority of these inscriptions, however, references to the snake-head state on Site Q monuments describe it not as a foreign polity, but rather as a sovereign, suggesting that the sculptures came from a site, or even sites, under Calakmul's dominion too weak to possess an emblem glyph. From Wordnik.com. [The Search for Site Q] Reference
In 1989 Houston and David Stuart, then a graduate student at Vanderbilt University, identified two place names that appeared in several Calakmul inscriptions, Oxte'tun (Three Stone Place) and Nab Tunich, the meaning of which is still unclear, and suggested that these were the names of places controlled by the snake-head state. From Wordnik.com. [The Search for Site Q] Reference
While Martin, Stuart, and others believe that Calakmul is the snake-head state and that the monuments assigned to Site Q belong to at least one of Calakmul's subordinate polities, scholars such as Richard Hansen of the University of California, Los Angeles, contend that Site Q and the snake-head site are one and the same city, whose ruins have yet to be found. From Wordnik.com. [The Search for Site Q] Reference
That latter quality showed its snake-head to me but once, peeping out very cautiously. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
Bangle bracelets have a subtle bejeweled snake adornment, twisted snake earrings and snake-head pendants. From Wordnik.com. [Press of Atlantic City: Editorials] Reference
The snake-head, Chelone glabra, grew close to the shore, while a kind of coreopsis, turning its brazen face to the sun, full and rank, and a tall dull red flower, Eupatorium purpureum, or trumpet-weed, formed the rear rank of the fluvial array. From Wordnik.com. [A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers] Reference
"We discovered that mini bus drivers across the NTB were spreading the snake-head rumor to passengers. From Wordnik.com. [The Jakarta Post Breaking News] Reference
(such was his pronunciation) "on the hills, which some call lion-heart, and others snake-head. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America] Reference
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