Diego de Landa Calderón, O.F.M. (12 November 1524 – 29 April 1579) was a Spanish Franciscan bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Yucatán. He led...

pre-Columbian Maya script, which the 16th-century bishop of Yucatán, Diego de Landa, recorded as part of his documentation of the Maya civilization. Despite...

Relación de las cosas de Yucatán was written by Diego de Landa around 1566, shortly after his return from Yucatán to Spain. In it, de Landa catalogues...

of Chilam Balam, Lacandon ethnography, the Madrid Codex, the work of Diego de Landa, and the Popol Vuh. Depending on the source, most names are either Yucatec...

footballer Benny Landa (born 1946) Israeli entrepreneur and inventor Diego de Landa (1524 – 1579), fourth bishop of Yucatán Daniel Landa (born 1968), Czech...

tribes of Israel. One of the first to recognise the distinction was Diego de Landa in a 1566 manuscript: "At times they sacrificed their own blood, cutting...

Yukatek Maya, as transcribed by 16th-century sources (in particular, Diego de Landa and books such as the Chilam Balam of Chumayel). Phonemic analyses of...

Yucatec deities Hunhau and Uacmitun Ahau mentioned by Spanish Bishop Diego de Landa. Hunhau is the lord of the Underworld. Iconographically, Hunhau and...

wrote his dissertation on the "de Landa alphabet", a record produced by the 16th century Spanish Bishop Diego de Landa in which he claimed to have transliterated...

ancient Maya people who would conduct sacrifices into it. As Friar Diego de Landa observed in 1566 after visiting Chichen Itza: "Into this well they have...

was in 1934) about the conquistadors. Landa, Fray Diego de, Relación de las cosas de Yucatán. Colección Crónicas de América, Dastin, Madrid, 2002, ISBN 84-492-0227-2...

arguing that the so-called "de Landa alphabet" contained in Bishop Diego de Landa's manuscript Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán was made of syllabic...

cotoch, meaning "our houses, our homeland". "Cotoch" is the name used by Diego de Landa to refer to the region in 1566. Catoche was the location of the first...

Itzcoatl (1430s), the burning of Maya codices on the order of bishop Diego de Landa (1562), and the burning of Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka (1981)...

original on 2024-02-10. Retrieved 2023-03-10. de., Landa, Diego (31 August 2010). Relación de las cosas de Yucatán. Linkgua. ISBN 978-84-9897-653-3. OCLC 1327853176...

more numerous. The ethnohistorical sources – such as Diego de Landa's Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan, compiled from native sources in the 16th century –...

cuzas and other stones of varied colors." In Relación de las cosas de Yucatán, Diego de Landa reports that Maya mothers would artificially induce cross-eyedness...

gymnast Diego José de Cádiz (1743–1801), Spanish Capuchin friar Diego de Landa, 16th-century bishop of Yucatán Diego Klattenhoff, Canadian actor Diego Lerman...

Título de Totonicapán, the Kʼicheʼ language Rabinal Achi, the Annals of the Kaqchikels, the Yucatec Songs of Dzitbalche and Diego de Landa's Relación de las...

which had originally been written by the Spanish cleric Diego de Landa sometime around 1566. De Landa had been one of those charged with disseminating the...

system. The Catholic Church and colonial officials, notably Bishop Diego de Landa, destroyed Maya texts wherever they found them, and with them the knowledge...

goddess, Ixchel. The main source on the 16th-century Yucatec Maya, Bishop Diego de Landa, combines the four Chaacs with the four Bacabs and Pauahtuns into one...

codical deities, Ixchel corresponds to the Goddess O. In the 1500s, Diego de Landa called Ixchel “the Goddess of making children”. He also mentioned her...

into the alleged abuses of the Maya by Diego de Landa, employing Gaspar Antonio Chi as his interpreter; Landa would eventually be acquitted, and follow...

described by Friar Diego de Landa in the manuscript known as Yucatán at the Time of the Spanish Encounter (Relación de las cosas de Yucatán). Almost three...

destroyed by Diego de Landa in July 1562. Bishop de Landa hosted a mass book burning in the town of Maní in the Yucatán peninsula. De Landa wrote: We found...

Itzcoatl (1430s), the burning of Maya codices on the order of bishop Diego de Landa (1562), and the burning of Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka (1981)...

and politician, brother of Ron Cleofé Calderón, Argentine botanist Diego de Landa Calderón, an early bishop in the Yucatán Elena Amat Calderón (1910–2006)...

goddess occurs in the Relación of the 16th-century Spanish inquisitor Diego de Landa: They said also and held it as absolutely certain that those who hanged...

wood with long twisted gourds at the ends" still existed by the time Diego de Landa wrote his Relación in 1566. The Maya used many different types of flutes...