La Maya is a mountain of the Pennine Alps, overlooking St-Martin in the canton of Valais. It lies between the Val d'Hérens and the Val de Réchy, west...
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Kobe, Japan Maya Station, a railway station in Kobe, Japan La Maya (mountain), an alp in Switzerland Al Maya or Maya, a town in Libya Maya (religion),...
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The Maya Mountains are a mountain range located in Belize and eastern Guatemala, in Central America. The Maya Mountains were known as the Cockscomb or...
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Mayan or Maya mythology is part in of Mesoamerican mythology and comprises all of the Maya tales in which personified forces of nature, deities, and the...
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of suicide, represented with a rope around her neck. mountain god of the Postclassic Kʼicheʼ Maya Assumed to have been the Classic name of God K (Bolon...
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with few hills or mountains and a generally low coastline. The territory of the Maya covered a third of Mesoamerica, and the Maya were engaged in a dynamic...
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The traditional Maya or Mayan religion of the extant Maya peoples of Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras, and the Tabasco, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Campeche...
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The Mayan architecture of the Maya civilization spans across several thousands of years, several eras of political change, and architectural innovation...
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2012 phenomenon (redirect from 2012 and the Maya Calendar)
Maya Calendar Mystery and Math, Surviving Yucatan". Yucalandia.com. 16 November 2012. Retrieved 25 December 2012. "Miles llegan a Chichén Itzá con la...
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in front of a mountain cave (belonging to the Flower Mountain); several persons are walking and kneeling on a large serpent. The Maya maize god is shown...
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Maya Ying Lin (born October 5, 1959) is an American architect, designer and sculptor. Born in Athens, Ohio to Chinese immigrants, she attended Yale University...
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in Maya culture was the ritual offering of nourishment to the gods and goddesses. Blood was viewed as a potent source of nourishment for the Maya deities...
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discovery and opening of the Maize Mountain – the place where the corn seeds are hidden – is still one of the most popular of Maya tales. In the Classic period...
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territory of the Late Postclassic Maya states and polities into the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain. The Maya occupied the Maya Region, an area that is now...
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The Maya Biosphere Reserve (Spanish: Reserva de la Biosfera Maya) is a nature reserve in Guatemala managed by Guatemala's National Council of Protected...
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The Maya Hero Twins are the central figures of a narrative included within the colonial Kʼicheʼ document called Popol Vuh, and constituting the oldest...
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Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (CMHI) and other sources (see References). Note : Ignore the Spanish definite article "El" or "La" (and their...
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Amaiur-Maya (Basque: Amaiur; Spanish: Maya de Baztán; officially: Amaiur-Maya) is a village in the municipality of Baztan in the autonomous region of Navarre...
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The Maya calendar is a system of calendars used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and in many modern communities in the Guatemalan highlands, Veracruz, Oaxaca...
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Yudoma-Maya Highlands – 500 km (310 mi) (section of the East Siberian System of mountains) Aberdare ranges, Kenya Ahaggar Mountains Ahmar Mountains Amaro...
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Ancient Maya art comprises the visual arts of the Maya civilization, an eastern and south-eastern Mesoamerican culture made up of a great number of small...
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Doyle's Delight (category Mountains of Belize)
in Belize at 1,124 m (3,688 ft). It lies on the Maya Divide, the main ridge line of the Maya Mountains in southwestern Belize. The name Doyle's Delight...
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Maya Deren (born Eleonora Derenkovskaya, Ukrainian: Елеоно́ра Деренко́вська; May 12 [O.S. April 29] 1917 – October 13, 1961) was a Ukrainian-born (then...
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The Maya Region is cultural, first order subdivision of Mesoamerica, located in the eastern half of the latter. Though first settled by Palaeoindians by...
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Kʼicheʼ people (redirect from K'iche' Maya)
after the decline of the Maya Civilization with the Classic collapse (c.300 – c.950 AD). Kʼicheʼ lay in a highland mountain valley of present-day Guatemala;...
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Maya stelae (singular stela) are monuments that were fashioned by the Maya civilization of ancient Mesoamerica. They consist of tall, sculpted stone shafts...
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Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya (Russian: Майя Михайловна Плисецкая; 20 November 1925 – 2 May 2015) was a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, choreographer...
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Huastec people (category Maya peoples)
marker. This feature was retained in Q'anjob'al (a Maya language, spoken in the Cuchumatanes mountains of Guatemala), but lost in other branches. (Yucatecan...
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The Maya Lowlands are the largest cultural and geographic, first order subdivision of the Maya Region, located in eastern Mesoamerica. The Maya Lowlands...
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Mesoamerican chronology (redirect from Maya Classic Period)
Tepeyolohtli, the "Heart of the Mountain" The exact causes of the Olmec decline are unknown. In the Pacific lowlands of the Maya Area, Takalik Abaj c. 800 BCE...
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