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	Diego de Landa - Wikipedia
		De Landa was in charge of bringing the Roman Catholic faith to the Maya people after the Spanish conquest of Yucatán.
		Bishop Toral died in Mexico in 1571, allowing King Phillip II of Spain to appoint de Landa as the fourth-appointed Bishop of the Yucatán.
		Landa also created a valuable record of the Mayan writing system, which although inaccurate was used in the decipherment of the writing system at the end of the 20th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diego_de_Landa (573 words)

	Yuri Knorosov - Wikipedia
		At the instigation of a professor there, Knorosov 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 the Spanish alphabet into corresponding Maya hieroglyphs, based on input from a Mayan informant.
		De Landa, who during his posting to Yucatán had overseen the destruction of all the codices from the Maya civilization he could find, reproduced his alphabet in a work (Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán) intended to justify his actions once he had been placed on trial when recalled to Spain.
		He maintained that when de Landa had commanded of his informant to write the equivalent of the Spanish letter "b" (for example), the Mayan scribe actually produced the glyph which corresponded to the syllable, /bay/, as spoken by de Landa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yuri_Knorosov (1430 words)

	Bishop Diego de Landa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Bishop Diego de Landa, the second bishop of the Yucatan, is a central figure in Mayan history.
		Landa wrote down a sketchy summary of these in his book and these glyphs are being used to day to translate the remaining Mayan texts.
		Landa and others believed that the Spanish were so small in number that they had to use these tactics to scare the local population in order to achieve conquest.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/abcde/delanda_deigo.html (348 words)

	lifedeat.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Landa present almost every phase of the social anthropology of the ancient Mayas, the history of the Spanish discovery and conquest, the native and ecclesiastical history, religion and rituals, and the first knowledge of the hieroglyphic writing.
		Diego de Landa of the noble house of Calderon, was born in Alcarria (Toledo, Spain) on November 12, 1524.
		Diego de Landa gave us the symbols of days and months, as well as a so-called alphabet and a first knowledge of the hieroglyphic writing system in the Mayan pictorial manuscripts.
	users.online.be /kg000407/lifedeat.htm (4495 words)

	Ardengus
		He was elected bishop of Florence in 1231 where he introduced reforms and excommunicated the Patarini[?].
		Diego de Landa was the first bishop of Yucatan.
		It contains a Landa's manuscript seems to have lain neglected in the library, for priest Brasseur de Bourbourg, who, by means of it, has deciphered.
	www.wordlookup.net /ar/ardengus.html (270 words)

	Untitled Document
		In the 16th century, Diego de Landa, a Franciscan bishop, found 30 Mayan books which were filled with hieroglyphics.
		Diego de Landa worked in the Yucatán and did research on the Mayan holy calendar, the solarsystem's monthly symbols and tried to find an alphabetical code to unravel the Mayan texts.
		Diego de Landa tried to figure out the riddle of the symbols as early as the 16th century, but the key to interpreting the symbols were found only when Juri Knorosov noticed that instead of an alphabet, it was a question of an incomplete syllabic scripture.
	www.didrichsenmuseum.fi /maya/e_kulttuuri_kirj.htm (675 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Diego Lopez de Cogolludo
		His work, the "Historia de Yucatan", which appeared at Madrid in 1688, and was reprinted in 1842 and 1867, is an important work, full of information personally gathered at a time when older sources, written and oral, that have now partly disappeared, were accessible.
		Cogolludo consulted and used the writings of Bishop Diego de Landa to a considerable extent, but many of his statements must be taken with cautious criticism.
		He was a native of Alcalá de Henares in Spain, and took the habit of St. Francis at the convent of San Diego, 31 March, 1629.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04094b.htm (138 words)

	Untitled Document
		I could only imagine how it had seemed to de Landa, especially since the stone floor of the house was replaced within the Gridney's circle by the forest soil of my world.
		De Landa got out of the car with me; he would stay at my house until the Crown's agents came to make him an honored guest of the Kingdom.
		The smell of the coffee was unfamiliar to de Landa, but when he saw me drinking he drank it anyway.
	www.ahtg.net /faith.html (1947 words)

	Lords of the Night - Bishop Antonio Guerrero, Lictor of Binah
		Diego de Landa was his name when he arrived under the behest of his master, Binah, issued command from the Demiurge himself.
		Diego's most heinous actions was the ruthless repression of a revivalist group, tracked down them like dogs and tortured them in all manner within the Lictor's grasp.
		And while history does note Diego de Landa's sadism, it also holds him in a high regard, his letters speaking of some respect for Mayan culture, less than his own, but still once mighty, though no longer.
	www.symbolique.net /kult/liber_lor_bishop.html (588 words)

	Millennium - Episode 6: Mexico
		Diego de Landa, a Franciscan friar sent by the Spanish to the present day Mexican province of Yucatan, was a keen chronicler of Mayan culture.
		But equally, he was a zealous Catholic who baptized thousands of Mayans a day to "save their souls." Trouble began when he discovered that the converted Maya continued to worship their own idols.
		A new bishop arrived to calm the hysteria; de Landa was condemned for his actions.
	learning.turner.com /cnn/millennium/ep6/ep6_sg1.html (160 words)

	The Plot Thickens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the mid-16th-century, one Bishop Diego de Landa came to the Americas to do the forced-conversion thang.
		The above quote is de Landa's own writing as quoted in Age of the Scribe: Deciphering the Secrets of the Mayas by Souren Melikian in the International Herald-Tribune.
		Given the determination of Bishop Diego de Landa, the second bishop of Yucatan in the mid-sixteenth century, it is a wonder that anything Maya survived.
	joe.sameperson.net /tpt/index.php?pid=456 (520 words)

	FAMSI - John Pohl's Mesoamerica - Maya Hieroglyphic Writing
		The earliest surviving European study of Maya hieroglyphic writing was made around 1566 by a Spanish bishop named Diego de Landa.
		Landa described the Maya calendar in detail and included drawings of glyphs.
		Part of the problem was also a longstanding failure to recognize glyphs as having phonetic values, even though Bishop Landa had originally reported that they did.
	www.famsi.org /research/pohl/pohl_mayawrite.html (895 words)

	Diego de Landa
		He founded the convent of Izamal, of which he was elected superior in 1553, and later became provincial of his order in Yucatan.
		His severity in repressing the licentious customs of the Spaniards made him many enemies, and he was accused of usurping the powers of the bishop, and ordered to Spain; but he was absolved by the council of the Indies, and in 1573 returned to Yucatan as second bishop of Merida.
		LANDA, Diego de (lan'dah), Mexican R. bishop, born in Cifuentes, Guadalajara, Spain, 17 March, 1524; died in Merida, Mexico, 30 April, 1579.
	www.famousamericans.net /diegodelanda (501 words)

	Dream of Maya: Chapter 8. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Using his knowledge of spoken Maya, Augustus intended to strengthen his argument that Landa's Maya alphabet was of some use in understanding Maya hieroglyphics.
		His premise was that the letters recorded by Landa's scribes were still in use then and probably corresponded to the glyphs carved in stone.
		Le Plongeon reasoned that Landa must have believed the only way to disengage the Maya from old beliefs was to take away all the books that were the key to their religious beliefs and translatable only by those who understood the glyphs.
	maya.csuhayward.edu /archaeoplanet/LgdPage/Dream/Ch08.htm (1213 words)

	Izamal: shrine of the Virgin of Izamal. Diego de Landa. Yucatan. Maya Missions. Espadaña Press
		The stern statue of Diego de Landa, (left) first bishop of Yucatán and infamous for his destruction of priceless Maya documents and artifacts, looks up from an adjacent plaza to his beloved monastery.
		Dedicated to the Virgin of Izamal, the beloved patron saint of Yucatán, the rambling monastery is built atop an ancient pyramid in the heart of this ancient Mayan city, one of the four principal temples in a ceremonial center sacred to Itzamná, Lord of the Sky and principal deity of the Itzá Maya.
		Behind the church sanctuary, which is covered by a handsome ribbed Gothic star vault, lies the elevated inner sanctum (camarín) of the Virgin of Izamal, where her sumptuously clothed and bejeweled image is often on display.
	www.colonial-mexico.com /Yucatan/izamal.html (518 words)

	Izamel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As we drove up to the central square we were greeted by a young traffic cop who ushered us away from the lovely shady spot we wanted and into a blisteringly hot parking spot 10 feet away.
		Anyhow, our guide explained that Landa was attempting to destroy the social and cultural basis of Maya culture in order to impose Catholicism upon it.
		To that end he not only destroyed all the books but also had the Cathedral we were about to see built out of the stones of the large temple in Izamal, which had been the religious center of the Yucatan.
	www.hahnfamily.com /yucatan00/day4a.htm (795 words)

	Millennium - Episode 6: Mexico - Focus Questions
		Why was de Landa so concerned with the presumed idol worship?
		The video offers two interpretations to explain Diego de Landa¹s actions.
		This segment is told primarily from the perspective of de Landa and the Spanish.
	learning.turner.com /cnn/millennium/ep6/e6s1_fq.html (284 words)

	Diego de Landa
		He is the author of the "Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan" in which he catalogs the Maya language, religion, culture and writing system.
		After hearing of some Maya supposedly recently converted to Christianity reverting to Idol worship, he ordered an Inquisition, followed by an auto de fe, in which all the Maya books (and perhaps 5,000 Maya) were burned on July 12, 1562.
		Only three Pre-Columbian Maya texts and fragments of a fourth survived.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/d/di/diego_de_landa.html (200 words)

	Mayan Script (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The earliest known writing in the Mayan script dates from about 250 BC, but the script is thought to have developed at an earlier date.
		In about 1566, the first bishop of Yucatan, Diego de Landa, compiled a key to the Mayan syllabary consisting of 27 Spanish letters and the Mayan glyphs with similar sounds.
		This became known as the Landa Alphabet and helped with the decipherment of the script, even though it was based on the false premise that the script was alphabetic.
	www.crystalinks.com /mayanscript.html (361 words)

	Virgin of Izamal. Diego de Landa. Yucatan. Mexico travel. Maya Missions. Espadaña Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The stern statue of Diego de Landa, first bishop of Yucatán and infamous for his destruction of priceless Maya documents and artifacts, looks up from an adjacent plaza to his beloved monastery.
		Dedicated to the Virgin of Izamal, the beloved patron saint of Yucatán, the rambling monastery is built atop a pyramid in the heart of this ancient Mayan city, only one of four great temple-pyramids sacred to Itzamná, Lord of the Sky and principal deity of the Itzá Maya.
		Behind the church sanctuary, which is covered by a Gothic star vault, lies the inner sanctum of the Virgin of Izamal, where her sumptuously clothed and bejeweled image is on display.
	www.west.net /~rperry/Yucatan/izamal.html (324 words)

	Armageddon Online - the 144000 of the Revelation of John
		The Maya, before killed by Bishop Diego De Landa, called the number of 144000 days a "Baktun" and the Hindu call it a dusk or dawn.
		The "new world colonist" (singular) who killed the maya was a Bishop.
		A Bishop who did that in ordinary of the Church (and for his own sake).
	forums.armageddononline.org /printthread.php?t=2133 (2864 words)

	light enterprises : spiritalk & articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		And a more recent one from the Bishop of Yucatan, his Excellency Diego de
		In fact, Bishop Diego de Landa is an embodiment of the subject of our
		The pious Bishop arrived to Mexico with the conquering Spaniard
	www.lightenterprises.com /articles.shtml (923 words)

	Tourism in Mexico:
		In the upper right is a Catholic Church built by peasants, who incorporated many ancient religious symbols in the church, like figures with feather headdresses.
		Bishop Diego de Landa in Izamal near the Izamal monastery on the left, also
		Bishop Landa ironically who destroyed many Mayan
	www.accd.edu /pac/lrc/Heritage_files/slide0052.htm (154 words)

	Yucatan Before and After the Conquest - Diego de Landa - William Gates
		Yucatan Before and After the Conquest - Diego de Landa - William Gates
		A 16th-century report by the first bishop of Yucatan, a dedicated ethnographer who has provided the most complete early European account of the Maya.
		With maps and handsome line drawings, the book is an unabridged facsimile of a limited edition published in 1937 by the Maya Society in Baltimore.
	www.longitudebooks.com /find/p/3709/mcms.html (85 words)

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