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	Bishop Diego de Landa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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)

	Diego de Landa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Diego de Landa Calderón (1524 – 1579) was Bishop of Yucatán.
		De Landa also created a valuable record of the Mayan writing system, which despite its inaccuracies was later to prove instrumental in the later decipherment of the writing system.
		De Landa asked his informants (his primary sources were two Maya individuals descended from a ruling Maya dynasty, literate in the script) to write down the glyphic symbols corresponding to each of the letters of the (Spanish) alphabet, in the belief that there ought to be a one-to-one correspondence between them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diego_de_Landa (907 words)

	Diego de Landa -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		De Landa was in charge of bringing the (The Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy) Roman Catholic faith to the Maya people after the (additional info and facts about Spanish conquest of Yucatán) Spanish conquest of 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.
		Landa asked a Maya for the symbol for each of the letters of the alphabet, in the belief that there would be a one-to-one correspondance between the Spanish alphabet and the Mayan glyphs.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/di/diego_de_landa.htm (350 words)

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		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)

	Articles - Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Brasseur de Bourbourg's main interest in the document, however, was a section in which de Landa reproduced what he called "an alphabet" of the as-yet undeciphered Maya hieroglyphics or writing system of the ancient Maya civilization.
		In this passage de Landa had annotated the Mayan symbols (or glyphs) which supposedly corresponded to the letters of the spanish alphabet, as given to him by a Maya informant who he had quizzed.
		Brasseur de Bourbourg realised that this could prove to be the key to unlocking the secrets of the Maya script, and he announced this discovery when republishing the manuscript (in bilingual Spanish-French edition) in late 1863, under the title, Relation des choses de YucatÃ¡n de Diego de Landa.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Charles_Etienne_Brasseur_de_Bourbourg?mySession=2d58d8146ccb2de1e045cfb675bcb887 (2001 words)

	Mesoamerican Archaeoastronomy by James Q. Jacobs
		Landa reported the two types of months noted in Yucatan, and that the lunar month began with the appearance of the new moon.
		Landa provided drawings with the corresponding month names, and the four glyphs that fall on the initial days of the months, the year bearers.
		Stela 2 from Chiapa de Corzo, at 7.16.3.2.13 or 36 B.C., is the earliest.
	www.jqjacobs.net /mesoamerica/meso_astro.html (4630 words)

	Encyclopedia: Diego de Landa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar.
		Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (8 September 1814 - 8 January 1874) was a Belgian ethnographer.
		De Landa defended his actions by arguing that in the process of rooting out idolatory, he had discovered evidence of human sacrifice.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Diego-de-Landa (1851 words)

	Abecedaria: The De Landa Abecedario
		While de Landa may have been witness to Mayan child sacrifice, he is himself known for his exceptional cruelty in a very cruel time.
		Diego de Landa (1524-1579) was a Franciscan friar who arrived in Yucatán in 1549, and twelve years later became the Franciscan Provincial.
		The manuscript for the Relación was probably seen by late 16th century Spanish historians Lopez de Cogolludo and Herrera y Tordesillas (Thompson 1963), and was rediscovered in 1863 by the French antiquary Abbe Brasseur de Bourbourg in the Madrid Biblioteca de la Academia de la Historia.
	abecedaria.blogspot.com /2005/11/de-landa-abecedario.html (652 words)

	Friar Diego de Landa's Observations on the Yucatan - Possible Echoes from the Book of Mormon? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Related to de Landa's account of baptism in Mesoamerica is the later account of Mexican-born Spaniard, Mariano Veytia (1720-1778; full name: Mariano Fernandez de Echevarria y Veytia), who recorded what he learned from native Mexicans about their ancient history.
		But the fact the de Landa heard a legend from the natives hinting at a transoceanic voyage from the east should not be dismissed lightly.
		On pages 47-49, de Landa describes the horror of Mesoamerican human sacrifice, something that is, unfortunately, consistent with the practices of the Lamanites at the end of the Book of Mormon.
	www.jefflindsay.com /bme23.shtml (4626 words)

	lifedeat.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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)

	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 (159 words)

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		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)

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		Diego de Landa arrived in Mexico in 1549 as a 25-year-old friar, and was instrumental in the destruction of many thousands of Maya idols.
		Landa was called back to Spain in 1563 after colonial civil and religious leaders accused him of "despotic mismanagement." He spent a year in prison, and while his guilt or innocence was being decided, he wrote his book in defense of the charges.
		Landa was ultimately cleared and was allowed to return to the New World in 1573, where he became a bishop and resumed his previous methods of proselytizing.
	www.cancun-vacation.biz /maya_history.htm (2410 words)

	CNN.com - Millennium - MM Recap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It is the story of Friar Diego de Landa, who founded and led the Franciscan mission in the Mexican province of Yucatan more than 400 years ago.
		More than a quarter of a million Mayan souls were awed by de Landa and his small band of friars, and all his energies went into baptism.
		De Landa may have foreseen danger in this approach, but believed that without baptism these people had no hope of salvation.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/1999/millennium/16/media.recap/content2.1.html (150 words)

	Mayan Spirituality
		Yet Diego de Landa, in his zeal to destroy what he deemed idolatry, was mistaken.
		Although Diego de Landa, a Franciscan priest, was a fanatic who had his share of Spanish critics, his naming as a bishop shortly after his book-burning rampage indicates he carried out imperial and ecclesiastical policy.
		In many ways a throwback to Diego de Landa, neo-Pentecostal preachers brand practitioners of Maya religion as devil worshipers, and blame their alleged idolatry for the lack of economic development experienced by the country's Indigenous majority.
	gbgm-umc.org /response/articles/Mayan.html (2311 words)

	Maya mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Apart from epigraphic inscriptions on monuments (which deal primarily with commemorations and dynastic successions), only three complete Maya texts and a fragment of a fourth have survived through the years.
		The majority of the Maya codices were burned by Europeans like Bishop Diego de Landa during their conquest of Mesoamerica and subsequent efforts to convert the Mayan people to Christianity.
		References to the Bacabs are found in the writings of sixteenth-century historian Diego de Landa and the various Mayan histories known as the Chilam Balams.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bacabs (2247 words)

	Early Belize History, Page 5
		In 1568 Juan de Garzon, at his own expense mounted an expedition composed of Spanish soldiers and Mayan troops to invade the area to the West and he burned many villages and towns, burned Mayan books and religious icons, captured men and women, travelling eighty leagues to the West.
		Even when Landa had gone to Spain for his court trial to account for his actions and returned to the Yucatan in 1573 as bishop, succeeding Toral, as Bishop, Landa used his office to subordinate his position for the crown to the order of the Franciscans.
		Diego de Landa talks in his memoirs of a great tree near one village, upon which the branches were filled with women hung by their necks and their infant children in turn hung dangling from their feet.
	216.46.163.69 /earlyhistory/5.html (3422 words)

	For a Balanced History of the American Indian
		After putting down the uprising, Sandoval and his men took 400 "princes and chieftains" as prisoner, that is, in addition to an unknown number of natives of lesser rank, all of whom conquistador Cortés had burned to death "for the sake of justice." Does Mr.
		Diego de Landa, an important figure in the Spanish subjugation of the Mayas, describes in Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán (translated as Yucatán Before and After the Conquest), the case of a young Mayan woman who had been abducted from Bacalán by Captain Alonso Lopez de Avila.
		Thus did Diego de Landa, who was appointed Bishop of Yucatán in 1573, record events in the region.
	www.ihr.org /jhr/v18/v18n2p24_Bruckner.html (2793 words)

	Izamal - Dilos Holiday World
		San Antonio de Padua convent was built between 1553 and 1561 on top of the remains of a major Mayan city.
		The Convent houses the patron saint of Izamal and of Yucatan, the miraculous Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, whose image was originally brought from Guatemala by Friar Diego de Landa, the second bishop of Yucatan.
		Serene and elegant, she can be admired in her altarpiece during the mass or in her niche, where one can enter from the vestry in the back by a monumental stone staircase.
	www.dilos.com /location/14712 (290 words)

	AGENCIA DE NOTICIAS ORBITA - Diego Torres estampa sus manos en el paseo de la fama peruano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		El paseo de la fama está destinado sólo para los personajes nacionales e internaciones más queridos ene Perú.
		Los encargados de elegir al personaje que le toca participar de esta distinción se basan en la popularidad del artista y sus logros.
		Diego viene a Lima a presentar Andando su último disco, que cuenta con la participación de Joaquín Sabina, Juan Luís Guerra y Lucho González, y como su nombre lo dice nos va llevando a través de canciones muy personales por esos viajes que el artista ha realizado a lo largo de su carrera.
	www.agenciaorbita.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3502&Itemid=0 (281 words)

	Mayan mathematics
		Landa helped the Mayan peoples in the Yucatán peninsular and generally tried his best to protect them from their new Spanish masters.
		Landa seems to have been surprised at the distress this caused the Mayans.
		The Wayeb was considered an unlucky period and Landa wrote in his classic text that the Maya did not wash, comb their hair or do any hard work during these five days.
	www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/HistTopics/Mayan_mathematics.html (2374 words)

	CNN.com - Millennium - MM Recap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Defeated, de Landa took his case back to Spain, where eventually he did clear his name.
		As a result of de Landa's inquisition, there was a significant shift in the Mayan power structure: The elders taken into custody were soon replaced and a new balance of power emerged in the villages.
		Perhaps Diego de Landa, as conqueror of souls, had been the unwitting agent of a Mayan plot.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/1999/millennium/16/media.recap/content2.6.html (191 words)

	Cultural Readings - Landa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Only an abstract of Landa's original manuscript survives; this is the first printed edition of the abstract, published by the abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg, a French antiquarian who located, translated, and edited numerous manuscripts in the mid-19th century.
		As the Franciscan Provincial in the Yucatan, Landa had seen in the Mayan Indians not simple converts to the true faith but duplicitious idolaters unable to surrender their attachments to a pagan past.
		He brought in suspects for interrogation, instituted an Inquisition, and, in a spectacular auto-da-fé, destroyed thousands of "idols." For his troubles, Landa was recalled to Spain by his superiors.
	www.library.upenn.edu /exhibits/rbm/kislak/colonial/landa2.html (175 words)

	Providence and Perdition: Fray Diego De Landa Justifies His Inquisition Against the Yucatecan Maya - Questia Online ...
		The evidence suggests that Landa's reading of and response to the Mayan' apostasies were shaped by the millenarian ideas of Spanish Franciscanism.
		The guardian of the monastery instituted an impromptu investigation, interrogating suspects with the use of torture, collecting the idols which were turned over by the Indians, and holding a small auto-da-fé to pronounce and carry out sentences against the offenders.
		Detailed accounts of Landa and the inquisition can be found in France V. Scholes and Ralph L. Roys, "Fray Diego de Landa and the Problem of Idolatry in Yucatán", in Co-operation in Research (Washington, D.C., 1938), pp.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=97810395 (489 words)

	phorum - Консилиум - зарубежные заметки по работам Фоменко (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Diego De Landa found this concept marvellous and barely credible, thereby betraying much about the prevailing historiographical paradigm in medieval Europe.
		Even later, it is not clear whether De Landa even began to understand the concepts of history, chronology and calendrics as at the time of writing he still seems to think history had something to do with the katuns.
		Salamanca Professor de Arcilla “...published two papers in which he stated that the whole of history preceding the 4th century had been falsified”.
	phorum.icelord.net /read.php?f=17&i=13202&t=13202 (2214 words)

	Hort 306 - READING 14-2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The cornfield, the col, was their preoccupation; "the greatest number of them were cultivators...who applied themselves to harvesting maize," said Diego de Landa.
		Landa noted that there "are few places where one digs down that water cannot be found, sometimes within one meter." Irrigation techniques are inseparable from a developed agriculture.
		The pre-Inca civilizations in Peru, whose rainless coasts were more of a challenge to the primitive mind than the situation which faced the Mayas, solved their problems by the construction of an elaborate system of irrigational aqueducts, water often being brought down for hundreds of miles.
	www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/history/lecture14/r_14-2.html (2216 words)

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