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Mayan
Mayan Ma"yan, a.
1. Designating, or pertaining to, an American Indian
linguistic stock occupying the Mexican States of Veracruz,
Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, and Yucatan, together with a
part of Guatemala and a part of Salvador. The Mayan
peoples are dark, short, and brachycephallic, and at the
time of the discovery had attained a higher grade of
culture than any other American people. They cultivated a
variety of crops, were expert in the manufacture and
dyeing of cotton fabrics, used cacao as a medium of
exchange, and were workers of gold, silver, and copper.
Their architecture comprised elaborately carved temples
and places, and they possessed a superior calendar, and a
developed system of hieroglyphic writing, with records
said to go back to about 700 a. d.
2. Of or pertaining to the Mayas.
Meaning of Mayan from wikipedia
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Mayan or
mayan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Mayan most
commonly refers to: Maya peoples,
various indigenous peoples of
Mesoamerica and northern...
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Mayan (stylized as
MaYaN) is a
Dutch symphonic death metal band
founded by
vocalist Mark Jansen,
guitarist Frank Schiphorst, and
keyboardist Jack Driessen...
- well over 6
million individuals,
speak more than twenty-eight
surviving Mayan languages, and
reside in
nearly the same area as
their ancestors. The Archaic...
- The
Mayan languages form a
language family spoken in Mesoamerica, both in the
south of
Mexico and
northern Central America.
Mayan languages are spoken...
- a more traditional,
culturally distinct life,
often speaking one of the
Mayan languages as a
primary language. One of the
largest groups of Maya live...
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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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Mayans M.C. (also
known simply as
Mayans) is an
American crime drama television series created by Kurt
Sutter and
Elgin James, that
premiered on September...
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Spanish conquest of the Maya in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Though modern Mayan languages are
almost entirely written using the
Latin alphabet rather than...
- The
Mayan numeral system was the
system to
represent numbers and
calendar dates in the Maya civilization. It was a
vigesimal (base-20)
positional numeral...
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Sharer &
Traxler 2006, p.1. "Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal". UNESCO. "Lost
Mayan city
found in
Mexico jungle by accident". www.bbc.com.
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