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	Mayan Collection
		Color reprints available from "Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan" by Frederick Catherwood published in 1844.
		Mayan stelae reproduction 1972-1982 by James A. McBride II, Architect, from his original Mayan rubbings 1970-1971.
		First edition color prints of watercolor and ink drawings of the Guatemalan villagers and Mayan stelae by Robert Von Zimmerman.
	www.mayancollection.com (110 words)

	Mayan Civilization
		The figurine of a seated captive is also representative of Mayan society as it depicts someone in the process of a bloodletting ceremony, which included the accession to kingship.
		Mayan dialects of Qhuche, Cakchiquel, Kekchi, and Mam are still spoken today, although the majority of Indians also speak Spanish.
		Propelled by a series of dramatic discoveries, Mayanism has been transformed over the past 30 years from an esoteric academic discipline into one of the hottest fields of scientific inquiry--and the pace of discovery is greater today than ever.
	www.indians.org /welker/maya.htm (6103 words)

	Mayan Gods and Goddesses - Crystalinks
		Mayan god of rain, especially important in the Yucatan region of Mexico where he was depicted in Classic times with protruding fangs, large round eyes, and a proboscis-like nose.
		In post-Classic Mayan and Toltec ruins, reclining figures known as the Chacs Mool are thought to represent the rain god.
		Tzultacaj (Tzuultaq'ah): For the Mayan Indians of central Guatemala, known as Kekchl, this was the god of the mountains and valleys.
	www.crystalinks.com /mayangods.html (4879 words)

	Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department: Mayan Cichlid (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mayan cichlids possess small caniform teeth for grasping prey, but rely primarily on large pharyngeal tooth pads for the mastication of their prey, in particular, hard-shelled invertebrates.
		Mayan cichlids are reported to obtain a maximum size of 394mm total length and a weight of 1,130g although this is far beyond the average.
		Owing to its size and palatable flesh, the Mayan cichlid is targeted by artisanal fishers and is the focus of a number of aquaculture facilities in many parts of its native range.
	www.flmnh.ufl.edu /fish/Gallery/Descript/MayanCichlid/MayanCichlid.html (1117 words)

	Mayan hieroglyphic script and languages
		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.
		A gripping account of the decipherment of the Mayan script can be found in Breaking the Maya Code, by Micheal D. Coe.
		The Mayan script is logosyllabic combining about 550 logograms (which represent whole words) and 150 syllabograms (which represent syllables).
	www.omniglot.com /writing/mayan.htm (741 words)

	The Mayan Calendar - Mayan Majix - Ian Xel Lungold - Mayan Astrology
		The Mayan Calendar - Mayan Majix - Ian Xel Lungold - Mayan Astrology
		Mayan Tzolkin Calendar - Mayan Calendar page about
		Click Here to view the Mayan Majix site Map
	www.mayanmajix.com (30 words)

	History & info - the Mayan calendar
		The pyramid was used as a calendar: four stairways, each with 91 steps and a platform at the top, making a total of 365, equivalent to the number of days in a calendar year.
		When the Long Count was put into motion, it was started at 7.13.0.0.0, and 0 Yaxkin corresponded with Midwinter Day, as it did at 13.0.0.0.0 back in 3114 B.C.E. The available evidence indicates that the Mayas estimated that a 365-day year precessed through all the seasons twice in 7.13.0.0.0 or 1,101,600 days.
		We can therefore derive a value for the Mayan estimate of the year by dividing 1,101,600 by 365, subtracting 2, and taking that number and dividing 1,101,600 by the result, which gives us an answer of 365.242036 days, which is slightly more accurate than the 365.2425 days of the Gregorian calendar.
	www.webexhibits.org /calendars/calendar-mayan.html (1295 words)

	Mayan mathematics
		To the devote Christian that Landa was, the Mayan religion with its icons and the Mayan texts written in hieroglyphics appeared like the work of the devil.
		Also since the Mayan numbers were not a true positional base 20 system, it fails to have the nice mathematical properties that we expect of a positional system.
		Yet the Mayan number system is certainly capable of being used for the operations of multiplication and division as the authors of [Amer.
	www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/HistTopics/Mayan_mathematics.html (2414 words)

	Mayan mathematics
		To the devote Christian that Landa was, the Mayan religion with its icons and the Mayan texts written in hieroglyphics appeared like the work of the devil.
		Also since the Mayan numbers were not a true positional base 20 system, it fails to have the nice mathematical properties that we expect of a positional system.
		Yet the Mayan number system is certainly capable of being used for the operations of multiplication and division as the authors of [Amer.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/HistTopics/Mayan_mathematics.html (2414 words)

	Mayan Family
		The Mayan language family comprises five sub-families and includes many languages that are spoken in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize.
		In Chiapas, all the languages are Mayan (except Zoque), as are virtually all the indigenous languages of Guatemala.
		Many Mayans do not have enough land to grow all the corn they need for their families, nor do they have enough wooded area on their land to provide them with firewood, so they seek land wherever they can find it.
	www.sil.org /mexico/maya/00i-maya.htm (1263 words)

	Why 2012?
		Scholars have known for decades that the 13-baktun cycle of the Mayan "Long Count" system of timekeeping was set to end precisely on a winter solstice, and that this system was put in place some 2300 years ago.
		The Mayan scholar Munro Edmonson believes that the Long Count was put in place around 355 B.C. This may be so, but the oldest Long Count date as yet found corresponds to 32 B.C. We find Long Count dates in the archeological record beginning with the baktun place value and separated by dots.
		Drawing from an impressive amount of iconographic evidence, and generously sharing the process by which she arrived at her discovery, the Sacred Tree is found to be none other than the crossing point of the ecliptic with the band of the Milky Way.
	www.levity.com /eschaton/Why2012.html (4477 words)

	Maya Mayan
		In the past, the Mayan had a writing system and their codices were decorated with bright drawings and glyphs.
		The Mayan calendrical vision of planetary evolution began around 22,000 years ago and was divided into Sun cycles of 5,200 years with the beginning of the 5th Sun cycle on December 21, 2012 when they anticipated the fulfillment of Mayan prophecy to occur - a radical change in human consciousness.
		The Mayan identity was woven into these sacred textiles and their designs were drawn both from mythology and local history.
	www.spiritsongs.org /Maya_Mayan_Ancient_Civilization.htm (5351 words)

	The Mayas
		Therfore, the decline of the urban centers after 900 AD did not involve titanic social change so much as religious change; it is believed by some scholars that the abandonment of the cities was primarily due to religious proselytizing from the north.
		Now as then the Mayans did not employ sophisticated fertilization techniques, so the plot of land would be exhausted in two to four years (some archaeologists estimate that it may have taken as long as seven years if the Mayans weeded by hand rather than using tools).
		Most of the Mayan gods were reptilian and they all had dual aspects, that is, each god had a benevolent aspect and a malevolent aspect.
	www.wsu.edu:8001 /~dee/CIVAMRCA/MAYAS.HTM (1920 words)

	Mexico History - The Classic Period Part 3, The Maya
		Mayan settlements were situated close to cenotes, natural water holes that allowed for survival in an inhospitable tropical climate.
		Kukulcan was the Mayan name for the feathered serpent, god of the ruling caste.
		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)

	Mayan prophecy
		The Mayan leaders couldn't see far enough into the future to plan for and solve the human problems they faced: too many people on too little land, destruction of their own environment, farming techniques and deforestation that depleted soil nutrients, droughts (partly brought on by their deforestation programs), and so on.
		Drawing from an impressive amount of iconographic evidence, and generously sharing the process by which she arrived at her discovery, the Sacred Tree is found to be none other than the crossing point of the ecliptic with the band of the Milky Way.
		Apparently that was only part of the picture, for the Sacred Tree that [the Mayan king] Pacal ascends in death is more than just the ecliptic, it is the sacred doorway to the underworld.
	skepdic.com /maya.html (1604 words)

	Mayan Math
		The Mayans devised a counting system that was able to represent very large numbers by using only 3 symbols, a dot, a bar, and a symbol for zero, or completion, usually a shell.
		This means that, instead of the number in the second postion having a value 10 times that of the numeral (as in 11 - 1 × 10 + 1 × 1), in the Mayan system, the number in the second place has a value 20 times the value of the numeral.
		Sometimes this number will be expressed in the shorthand 3.10.6.13.17 in writings on the Mayan numeration system, especially when discussing dates that are recorded in stelae or monuments.
	www.hanksville.org /yucatan/mayamath.html (419 words)

	Mayan Calendar
		The time keeping system of the Mayans was a combination of several cycles that meshed together, marking the movement of the Sun, Moon and Venus.
		In this unification it seems that it is the West, the Maya and some other Native American peoples, that is providing the calendrical knowledge about the cosmic plan, while it is the East, the Vedic and Buddhist traditions that is carrying the time-less wisdom of the Self.
		In this article, the history and meaning of the Mayan calendar is explored, as well as its impact on civilization today and in the future.
	www.thewildrose.net /mayan_calendar.html (777 words)

	Chocolate Deities: Mayan Calendar, Mayan Calendar
		According to the ancient Mayan Calendar (and its derivitive, the Aztec Solar Calendar Wheel shown here) the Golden Age is only 7 short years away.
		For the Mayans, everything that exists is an aspect of consciousness, so their calendar describes the evolution of consciousness through time.
		The Mayans believed that we are connected to this core through invisible threads that stretch from our solar plexus along a beam of light that passes through the Sun to the center of the universe.
	www.chocolatedeities.com /deityl.php?deity=calendar (728 words)

	The Maya Civilization, Cities of the Maya - BY LUIS DUMOIS
		Another good example of this type of ornamental sculpture is found in one of the rooms of the Palace, where a cross-eyed Mayan priest shows his carefully modeled face from a doorhead.
		The facades on the buildings that conform the quadrangle are adorned with elaborate representations of Mayan huts, rectangles and Chac masks, with superimposed ornaments such as carved loops, lattices, small columns, human shapes, birds and monkeys.
		Inside the Puuc zone, Kabah is one of the Mayan cities most easily accessed, since it is located to the side of the Pyramid Highway that runs from Campeche to Mérida.
	www.mexconnect.com /mex_/travel/ldumois/maya/ldmayacity.html (2047 words)

	Native Americans - Mayan
		While much earlier literature refers to professional rulers and priests, the present view is that the higher-status individuals were more probably heads of patrilineages, and that much of the religious complex was centered on ancestor worship rather than on universalist gods.
		In contrast to the civilizations of central Mexico, urbanization and occupational differentiation in the Mayan region were poorly developed, even during the Classic period.
		A brief history of the Mayan civilization with a link to an article on transoceanic diffusion.
	www.nativeamericans.com /Mayan.htm (2194 words)

	Earthcode: New Revelations on the Mayan Calendar ~ The Next Nine Years
		The Mayan calendar is NOT an instrument for tracking the procession of time as previously thought, but as a meter and measure of the evolution of human consciousness.
		Calleman has lectured about the Mayan calendar in nine different countries and was one of the main speakers at the conference about the Mayan calendar organized by the Indigenous Council of the Americas in Merida, Yucatan, 1998.
		The Mayan calendar ends on October 28, 2011, by which time Creation's exposure rate will have accelerated such that it presents itself in total, all in one moment thus ending any and all considerations of time and space as any barrier to Consciousness.
	paulapeterson.com /New_Revelations_Mayan_Calendar.html (7310 words)

	Introduction, Mayan Kids.com
		The Mayan religion centered around the worship of many nature gods.
		Their amazing architecture remain as great ruins at centers they used for religious ceremonies, including Palenque, Uxmal, Copán, Tikal and Chichén Itzá.
		A few centers continued until the Spanish arrived in the 16th century.
	www.mayankids.com /mkintro.htm (116 words)

	Exodus 2006 - The Mayan Calendar and the Sun
		We have few surviving relics of the Mayans, but there are many impressive stone constructions in South America, and these suggest that there was some relationship with the Egyptian cultures in ancient times.
		The Mayan start date of our era is similar to the start date for the Egyptian civilisation, according to modern archaeologists.
		When Maurice came to study the Mayan calendar he noticed that there was a great similarity between the time cycles predicted for solar magnetism and the cycles inherent to the Mayan calendar system.
	exodus2006.com /6maya.htm (1077 words)

	GORP - Made Up of Time - Mayan Mexico
		Ever the beautiful eccentric, unlike most Mayan cities that depended on cenotes, Palenque is actually near a dependable water source, the Otulum River, and a number of smaller rivulets cross the site.
		The Mayans constructed an aqueduct to carry water from the river to the city.
		The ruins are from the post-classic era of Mayan civilization, and are not as fine as those at Chichen or Palenque.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/location/latamer/mexico/arc_maya.htm (1662 words)

	The Rise and Fall of the Mayan Empire
		Within sight of the Mayan ruins, in the Petén region of Guatemala near the border with Mexico, the population is growing again, and rain forest is being cut to make farmland.
		During the rainy season from June to December, the bajos are too muddy, and in the dry season they're parched.
		Mayan Mysteries -- article by NASA's Earth Observatory about research on the Maya and modern-day efforts to protect both the people and the wildlife in the area.
	science.nasa.gov /headlines/y2004/15nov_maya.htm (1138 words)

	History & info - the Mayan calendar
		The pyramid was used as a calendar: four stairways, each with 91 steps and a platform at the top, making a total of 365, equivalent to the number of days in a calendar year.
		When the Long Count was put into motion, it was started at 7.13.0.0.0, and 0 Yaxkin corresponded with Midwinter Day, as it did at 13.0.0.0.0 back in 3114 B.C.E. The available evidence indicates that the Mayas estimated that a 365-day year precessed through all the seasons twice in 7.13.0.0.0 or 1,101,600 days.
		We can therefore derive a value for the Mayan estimate of the year by dividing 1,101,600 by 365, subtracting 2, and taking that number and dividing 1,101,600 by the result, which gives us an answer of 365.242036 days, which is slightly more accurate than the 365.2425 days of the Gregorian calendar.
	webexhibits.org /calendars/calendar-mayan.html (1295 words)

	The Mayan Prophecies
		The authors demonstrate how the Mayan Holy Number 1,366,560 days, known as the birth of Venus and the basis of their calendar, indicates ancient knowledge of sun spot cycles and their effect on the human race.
		By a process of extraordinary detective work he cracked the code of the Mayan calendar making it possible for other scholars and explorers to translate the many dated inscriptions to be found on buildings, stelae and other ancient Mayan artefacts.
		Adrian Gilbert, Cotterell's co-author for the Mayan Prophecies, is the co-author of the number one international best-seller The Orion Mystery, regarded by many as the greatest breakthrough in Egyptian, pyramid research this century.
	www.knowledge.co.uk /xxx/cat/mayan (1876 words)

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