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	Maya (people) - MSN Encarta
		Maya (people), group of related Native American peoples of the Mayan linguistic stock, living in Mexico, in the states of Veracruz, Yucatán, Campeche, Tabasco, and Chiapas, and also in the greater part of Guatemala and in parts of Belize and Honduras.
		Among the other politically significant peoples are the Huastec of northern Veracruz; the Tzental of Tabasco and Chiapas; the Chol of Chiapas; the Quiché, Cakchiquel, Pokonchi, and Pokomam of the Guatemalan highlands; and the Chortí of eastern Guatemala and western Honduras.
		The Maya peoples developed a method of hieroglyphic notation and recorded mythology, history, and rituals in inscriptions carved and painted on stelae (stone slabs or pillars), on lintels and stairways, and on other monumental remains.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576077/Maya_(people).html (944 words)

	Maya Civilization - MSN Encarta
		The people known as the Maya lived in the region that is now eastern and southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, and western Honduras.
		Maya astronomers observed the movements of the sun, moon, and planets, made astronomical calculations, and devised almanacs (calendars combined with astronomical observations).
		A Maya nobleman wore an embroidered cotton loincloth trimmed with feathers; a robe of cotton, jaguar skin, or feathers; sandals; and an elaborate feather headdress that was sometimes as large as himself.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576077/Maya_Civilization.html (2113 words)

	Heart of the Mayan World
		The Spanish conquest of Guatemala's Maya people began in February 1524, when conquistador Pedro de Alvarado led an army of Spaniards and Mexican natives into the highlands and met a Quiché army at what is today Quetzaltenango.
		The last Maya city to be conquered belonged to the Itzá, on the island where the town of Flores is now found in Guatemala's Petén department, near the abandoned city of Tikal.
		Maya life was, and still is, intricately linked to the planting and harvesting of corn, a staple in the Guatemalan diet for thousands of years.
	www.questconnect.org /guat_heart_mayan_world.htm (1916 words)

	Maya Archaeology and the Political and Cultural Identity of Contemporary Maya in Guatemala - Maya Info
		Today the Classic Maya are being portrayed as a great ancient society with achievements in astronomy, mathematics, architecture and other sciences that existed for a certain period of time until for unknown reasons their civilization collapsed and the people disappeared.
		People from my own community Chichicastenango are represented as the true continuity of the Great Mayas when doing their rituals and sacrifices, when, in fact, the expressions of spirituality also evolve while people still consider themselves Maya.
		Collaboration in Maya people has been addressed primarily by negotiation with nearby communities over the labour of excavation, and over potential subsequent development of touristic infrastructure, which are positive for local economic benefits but do not reconnect present communities with their historical past.
	www.mayainfo.org /mayaworks/ren.asp (3834 words)

	Mexico File's Articles
		The Maya people have lived in the Yucatán peninsula of what is now called México for at least 11,000 years, developing cities, a hieroglyphic writing system and calendar, centuries before the European Dark Ages.
		But what many in "Maya studies" fail to realize is that it is precisely the brutality of inquisition-type torture and forced cultural change by Spanish friars and mercenaries, designed to remake us according to some European image, that is responsible for a disconnectedness between past and present Mayas.
		As for most ethnic people dominated by another group or culture, the Maya are often divided, between those who dedicate themselves to the continuation of our culture, and those who give in to the system of rewards established during colonialism, believing that they can simply leave their "Maya-ness" behind in the pursuit of economic advancement.
	www.mexicofile.com /mayapeople.htm (2865 words)

	Mayan World: the people, Quintana roo, Campeche, Chiapas, Yucatan, Mexico
		The Classic Period of the Maya is considered to have begun around 200 A.D. and lasted until 1000 A.D. This period is sometimes referred to as the flowering, flourishing or high period of the Maya as a civilization.
		To understand the Maya approach to astronomy you have to understand that to the Maya the Gods moved the planets, even the sun and moon were controlled by the Gods.
		The Maya observed the sky and kept calendars to predict solar and lunar eclipses, the cycles of the planet Venus, and the movements of constellations.
	www.mayan-world.com /people.htm (3545 words)

	Maya's victims - Heroes Wiki
		Eight residents of a Central American town—A town boy witnesses Maya and Alejandro's presence at the death of eight residents killed in a manner consistent with Maya's ability.
		A coyote, his assistant, and their passengers—When the coyote insists on leaving Maya's brother Alejandro behind, he, his assistant, and the entire group of his passengers are all killed by Maya's ability.
		Maya is responsible for the deaths of individuals...
	heroeswiki.com /Maya's_victims (447 words)

	mayan culture mexico riviera maya
		The Maya people were spread out over a territory of about 500 thousand square kilometers, covering the present-day Mexican states of Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Chiapas and Campeche, and the Central American countries of Guatemala, Belize, the western portion of El Salvador and Honduras.
		For this reason, it cannot be said that the Maya culture is a dead culture; to the contrary, it survives in its people, in the form of legends, sayings and customs which keep the magic and knowledge of a millennial wisdom alive.
		Even though the Maya culture remains present in the Riviera Maya, through the many indigenous communities still found here which preserve the traditions, religion and social structure of the Maya people, the splendor of ancient Maya civilization is most evident in the numerous archaeological sites in this area.
	www.seamonkeybusiness.com /mayan_culture_mexico.htm (810 words)

	Civilization.ca - Mystery of the Maya - The Maya today
		Maya regions have also been subjected to intense political upheaval in recent decades, with significant loss of life and economic devastation.
		Maya intellectuals have also begun to realize that diverse Maya language groups must band together if their culture and languages are to survive.
		Most heartening of all to some observers, Maya populations are actually increasing rather than dwindling in numbers, and some believe that the Maya's heightened awareness of their strength as one people with a glorious past and an ability to adapt may help them survive for centuries to come.
	www.civilization.ca /civil/maya/mmc08eng.html (882 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Maya
		The Maya people as a whole is considered the longest lasting civilization of the New World.
		In reality, Maya glyphs are read in "paired columns", meaning that the first glyph block is on the top left, the second is immediately to the right of the first, the third is under the first, the fourth under the second, and so forth.
		The Mayas, on the other hand, heard the syllables "ah", "beh", "seh" (as "a", "b" and "c" would be pronounced in Spanish), and so forth, and naturally gave the glyphs with these phonetic values.
	www.ancientscripts.com /maya.html (1830 words)

	Mayan Civilization
		The ancient Maya civilization occupied the eastern third of Mesoamerica, primarily the Yucatan Peninsula.
		The son of Maya archaeologists George and Gene Stuart, he made his first trip to Maya ruins at the age of three, and by 1984, at 18, was so skilled at deciphering glyphs that he became the youngest recipient ever of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant.
		Maya weavers embroider their wares with diamond motifs that are virtually identical to the cosmological patterns depicted on the lintels of ancient temples at Yaxchilan and other Maya sites.
	www.indians.org /welker/maya.htm (6103 words)

	Guatemala Mayan Ruins
		The Maya World defines the geographical boundaries of the ancient Maya empire which spread through the countries of Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, western Honduras and the five Mexican states of Yucatán, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Campeche and Chiapas.
		The Maya were one of the most brilliant and powerful cultures known to Mesoamerica, indeed their civilization spanned a period of 3,000 years.
		The oldest of the Maya cities, it is believed that this is where the Maya consolidated their culture; here their writing system was perfected and where their calendar started.
	www.dirla.com /guatemalamaya.htm (1926 words)

	Introduction to the Ancient Maya People
		The Maya people were one of the groups of people that lived in Mesoamerica.
		Many scientists think that all of the people in ancient Mesoamerica, and North America, were descendants of the people who migrated across the land bridge between Asia and North America during the last great ice age.
		Maya people traded and sold food, jewelry, pottery, weapons, tools, clothing, and many other things in their markets.
	www.manatee.k12.fl.us /sites/elementary/samoset/3boltonmayafluency1a.htm (237 words)

	Yucatan Adventure ▫ Mayan Rituals
		He is a highly respected Maya Priest and a powerful J’Men who celebrates the sacred Maya ceremonies dedicated to the welfare of the community, crops, and whose work blesses the land with ancestral energies and celestial protection.
		Maya rhythmic invocations are singed along with prayers and chanting; dancing under the moonlight inside a circle of candles is part of this beautiful ancient ritual.
		Maya villages prepare with up most care and reverence the “altar” in which the food and beverage for their dead loved ones is to be placed during the first three days of November each year.
	www.yucatanadventure.com.mx /mayanrituals.htm (1816 words)

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		As Maya archaeology expanded in the early decades of the 20th century, many new texts were discovered on stone and pottery, providing material for testing this hypothesis.
		Later work has gone beyond lists of rulers to clarify the family relationships among the people named in the inscriptions, and it has become clear that during the Classic period rule in Maya society was passed from father to son, much as it was in the hereditary monarchies of Europe.
		Most Maya texts describe only major episodes in the lives of rulers and only those that bear directly on their status as lord, such as birth, accession to the throne, death and burial.
	www.mc.maricopa.edu /dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/legacy/mayan_lost_tribes/maya_writing/writing.html (3409 words)

	Introduction to the Ancient Maya People
		To explain to readers where the Maya people came from and what their cities were like.
		To convince people that the Maya were the most interesting group of people that lived in Mesoamerica.
		Poor people lived in palaces and rich people lived in huts.
	school.discovery.com /quizzes30/patstream1/mayaintro.html (289 words)

	Maya.html
		The ancient Maya people were a group of Native Americans who lived primarily in Central America.
		When a king or nobleman died, the Maya people believed that he became one with the gods and would go to live in the sky with them.
		Most all of the Maya peoples clothes were woven with important symbols of the city, family and of the weavers themselves.
	lsa.colorado.edu /~lsa/texts/Maya.html (1141 words)

	Maya Maps for MayaPags
		It was built as a portal to the underworld in the 8th century, where Maya kings might defeat the Lord Death and return in dreams and visions.
		Tulúm was a seacoast fortress and port city for the vast trading empire the Maya established, perhaps allied with the Olmec civilization to the north.
		Maya Environment--Political, altitude, rainfall and temperature maps showing this area's environment.
	www.kstrom.net /isk/maya/mayamap.html (811 words)

	The Maya Today
		Throughout hundreds of years of outside efforts to oppress and assimilate, the Maya people have continued to hold on to their unique way of life.
		Most Maya families are maize farmers and they still use the slash and burn method for their milpas.
		During the 1980's the Kekchi Maya of Guatemala found themselves in the middle of a conflict between leftist guerrillas and the government.
	www.jaguar-sun.com /mayanow.html (584 words)

	Mexico History - The Classic Period Part 3, The Maya
		The Maya make up the largest homogenous group of Indians north of Peru, inhabiting a vast area that encompasses Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and parts of the states of Tabasco and Chiapas, as well as Guatemala, Belize and parts of western Honduras and El Salvador.
		In building their ceremonial centers the Maya followed the design typical of all Mesoamerica, constructing tall pyramidal temples, warren-like single story palaces and the ubiquitous ball court around a broad central plaza.
		There is a baroque quality to the artistic style of the Maya, as evidenced in their exotic murals, polychrome ceramics, finely detailed stelae, altars and other stone work.
	www.mexconnect.com /mex_/hclassic3.html (535 words)

	McClung Museum - MAYA: Portraits of a People
		The cultural history of the Maya is interwoven with that of the Olmec, Zapotec, Mixtec, Aztec, and other peoples who at various times and places made their own distinctive contribution to the greater cultural area that anthropologists call Mesoamerica.
		The Maya saga began some 2,500 years ago, when the Preclassic pyramid cities Calakmul, Nakbe, and others began to rise among the farming hamlets in the rain forest of the central Yucatán Peninsula as centers of burgeoning regional states.
		The southernmost Maya, in the Guatemala highlands, fell to the Spaniards shortly afterward.
	mcclungmuseum.utk.edu /specex/maya/maya.htm (891 words)

	Mayan Spirituality
		Imposing Christian beliefs produced generations of Maya who became Christians to survive, who went to mass but in their hearts still felt the presence of the sacred altars below the cathedral floor, who practiced what became a syncretic faith mixing their ancestors' faith with elements of the colonial master's religion.
		Maya leaders have complained that the graves of their ancestors are seen as curiosities, their altars converted into tourist traps and their culture reduced to marketable folklore.
		As conservative evangelicals and Maya leaders have changed their approaches to interreligious relations in recent years, so too are Roman Catholics wrestling with the changing landscape.
	gbgm-umc.org /Response/articles/Mayan.html (2311 words)

	Maya Economics
		People of the ethnic groups began arriving into Maya communities to purchase domestic animals such as swine and other commodities such as rice and beans.
		Most Maya young people of today have attended and are still attending grade schools, but there is need for the introduction of industrial economic activities among the Maya people for a better way of life and for the educated youths to do their part.
		Timber industry is very limited because the Maya do not yet have the resources and training to develop their own sawmills, and thus must work for foreign companies who do not respect the environment or our culture.
	geography.berkeley.edu /ProjectsResources/MayanAtlas/MayaAtlas/economics.htm (569 words)

	CULTUREFOCUS: Pictures of Maya people of Guatemala and Mexico.
		The ancient Maya of central America built one of the greatest civilizations of the western hemisphere.
		Certainly the Maya and other peoples of the New World like the Aztecs and Inca were themselves capable of brutalities, but they could not withstand the genocidal warfare inflicted by the Europeans with their firearms and horses.
		The Maya have strived to preserve their traditional spirituality despite the arrival of Catholicism with its rituals, saints and priests.
	www.culturefocus.com /guatemala_maya.htm (688 words)

	Civilization.ca - Mystery of the Maya - Maya society
		The southern Maya in the mountain valleys chose to unite under high-ranking chiefs of kings, but most of the lowland Maya resisted the pressure to conform, preferring tribal confederacies that recognized no power above their village patriarchs.
		There may be several reasons why the Maya moved away from the small farming communities ruled by local officials to the complex kingdoms of the Classic period.
		The northern Maya also moved into a new phase as they came under the influence of their Toltec neighbours and other groups that settled in the Yucatán.
	www.civilization.ca /civil/maya/mmc12eng.html (706 words)

	Menu: MayaPages Organized by Topic
		The Maya are not gone--Chiapas Maya in Mexico have been much in the news, and more than 10,000 Guatemalan Mayan refugees from the terror live in the U.S., while the war there against indigenous people goes on.
		Recently, the glyphs of the stone-recorded language, together with the Pop Wuj book written by desperate Mayas in the 16 century to preserve their culture under the Spanish onslaught, and oral histories of elders, have begun to yield a human history, as well as the ancient sciences.
		Educational support for the large-screen film "Mystery of the Maya" made jointly by the governments of Canada and Mexico, which premiered at CMC April '95, with special outdoor exhibits.
	www.kstrom.net /isk/maya (758 words)

	The Maya , People of the Pyramids
		Mayas also offered their own blood spread on pieces of bark paper as well as actual human sacrifices to please and honor the gods.
		Until the mid-20th century, little of the Maya’s writing could be deciphered except for the symbols representing numbers dates, and rulers names and denoting such events as birth, death, and capture.
		The Maya’s main crop was maize (corn), which was used for many of their cuisines.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/76592 (1615 words)

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