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	Maya civilization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Maya civilization is a historical Mesoamerican civilization, which extended throughout the northern Central American region which includes the present-day states of Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras and parts of El Salvador, as well as the southern Mexican states of Chiapas, Tabasco and the entirety of the Yucatán peninsula.
		The Maya configured constellations of gods and places, saw the unfolding of narratives in their seasonal movements, and believed that the intersection of all possible worlds was in the night sky.
		Maya rulers figured prominently in many religious rituals and often were required to practice bloodletting, such as using sculpted bone or jade instruments to perforate their penises, or drawing thorn-studded ropes through their tongues.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maya_civilization (4789 words)

	Pre-Columbian Maya dance
		This time the dance was done with a male who has an ax in one hand and a serpent in the other, and a women who is grasping the lower body of the snake.
		Some interesting depictions of Maya dance of the Classic era are found on Maya ceramics and in the famous murals of Bonampak.
		Dance was a central component of social religious and political endeavors for the ancient Maya.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/pre_columbian_maya_dance (997 words)

	pre-Columbian art and architecture -> The Cultures of Central America on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Maya cities were ceremonial centers, and some of the edifices may be more properly identified as sculptured monuments.
		Maya architectural styles are found in three main regions: the Petén district (Uaxactún and Tikal); the cities of the river valleys, such as Piedras Negras and Palenque ; and the cities of central and N Yucatán (Uxmal).
		The cause of the collapse of the Maya civilization is not precisely understood.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/preColum_TheCulturesofCentralAmerica.asp (1313 words)

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		As Maya cities spread throughout the varied geography of Mesoamerica, the extent of site planning appears to be minimal; their cities being built somewhat haphazardly as dictated by the topography of each independent location, Mayan architecture tends to integrate a great degree of natural features.
		The Maya writing system (often called hieroglyphics from a vague superficial resemblance to the Ancient Egyptian writing, to which it is not related) was a combination of phonetic symbols and ideograms.
		The Maya calculation of the length of the solar year was somewhat superior to the Gregorian Calendar.
	www.askmytutor.co.uk /m/ma/maya_civilization.html (2470 words)

	Mayan Gods and Goddesses
		The Maya expected the Muluc years to be the greatest years, because the god presiding over these years was the greatest of the Bacab gods.
		Cizin is often depicted on pottery and illustrated in the codices in the form of a dancing skeleton, holding a smoking cigarette.
		Probably the most ubiquitous of all is the being known as Bolon Tzacab (first called God K by archaeologists), a deity with a baroquely branching nose who is thought to have functioned as a god of royal descent; he is often held as a kind of sceptre in rulers' hands.
	www.crystalinks.com /mayangods.html (2420 words)

	Hopi/Moqui
		This dance was not important in a ceremonial sense; instead it is known as a pastime dance.
		These dances were simply social and did not have the deep significance of dances such as the Snake dance.
		The celebrated Snake dance, actually a rain dance, is considered one of the most spectacular of Native American ceremonies.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/nativeamericans/hopi.htm (546 words)

	Mayan art and books on preHispanic archaeology and ancient artifacts of precolumbian Belize, Mexico, Guatemala, and ...
		Sub-areas of the Maya are the Chenes, with Santa Rosa Xtampak being an important ruin.
		Maya is both a noun and an adjective.
		Scholars who study art history of the Maya area usually practice what is known as iconography, the study of meaning in art.
	www.maya-art-books.org (2965 words)

	Morien Institute Ancient Mysteries Bookshoppe - The Maya - books about the ancient Pre-Columbian Civilizations & ...
		A Forest of Kings is the story of Maya kingship, from the beginning of its institution and the first great pyramid builders two thousand years ago to the decline of Maya civilization and its destruction by the Spanish.
		"Though Maya script, symbolism, and mythology are not yet fully understood, research from the last 25 years is showing that the Maya, once seen as "simple" peaceful people, are now thought to have lived in rival city-states waging war to capture prisoners who were often sacrificed to enhance the power of rulers.
		The ancient Mayas were the only fully literate precolumbian people in the Americas, and Henderson incorporates deciphered Maya texts in his reconstruction of ancient Maya societies.
	www.morien-institute.com /mayabooks.html (1495 words)

	Amazon.com: Maya Cosmos: Books: David Freidel,Linda Schele,Joy Parker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		If you want the REAL story on who the Maya are and how their spiritual and cultural beliefs have evolved over the last 5,000 years, this is the book for you.
		Maya Cosmos has gathered a creation story that can be placed now in the archeo-astronomical tradition of the world.
		Maya Cosmos is the first book I have read that has looked at the archeo-astronomy of the Maya and the Olmec and has given archeo-astronomers a valuable resource.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0688140696?v=glance (2808 words)

	UPM \|\| In the News
		PHILADELPHIA, PA 2004 - The worldview of the Maya people of Central America, ancient and modern, is the focus of the 22nd annual Maya Weekend at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology March 26 through 28, 2004.
		Penn Museum's own Simon Martin, Research Specialist in Maya Epigraphy and internationally renowned Maya hieroglyphics expert, presents the final lecture of the weekend on Sunday, focusing on the symbolism and meaning of chocolate, or cacao, to the ancient Maya as revealed through their inscriptions and art.
		The Annual Maya Weekend is supported in part by contributions The Pre-Columbian Society at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, and Far Horizons Archaeological and Cultural Trips, sponsors of the opening night reception.
	www.museum.upenn.edu /new/news/fullrelease.php?which=108 (926 words)

	Renewal of Life/Planeta.com
		To the Maya, this is a sacred place: the crystalline waters were the primordial sea that existed before the first world emerged.
		He is well-versed in the pre-Columbian records left to us by the ancient Maya in their monuments, their architecture and their artifacts, and is thus highly qualified to discern the connections that the modern-day Tz'utujil Maya of Santiago Atitlaan are making with their forebears.
		Linda Schele always felt that the most important work she did was not her academic accomplishments, but her ability to restore to the Maya so much of the history that had been wrested from them for 500 years.
	www.planeta.com /planeta/99/0499guate.html (2214 words)

	Mesoweb Books
		In The Ancient Maya of the Belize Valley: Half a Century of Archaeological Research, edited by James F. Garber, pp.
		The Proceedings of the Maya Hierolglyphic Workshop: Tikal and its Neighbors.
		Maya Dynastic Territorial Expansion: Glyphic Evidence for Classic Centers of the Pasion River, Guatemala.
	www.mesoweb.com /books/biblio_fj.html (1569 words)

	GUATEMALAN MAYA CULTURE
		The World of the Maya has many faces: some of them ancient as found carved on towering temples, other as modern as those of the people who live in Guatemala today.
		They are the descendants of a mighty Maya people whose customs and traditions are still part of the fabric of Guatemalan life.
		While Spanish and Indian cultures integrate into the country's "mestizaje", the purest of the Maya influences can be found in both the performing and design arts.
	www.quetzalnet.com /MayaCulture.html (1151 words)

	MAYA SORCERERS AND THEIR SUCCESSION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Another problem with Proskouriakoff's analysis of Maya art stems from her belief that her identification of robed and skirted figures in Maya art as women pulls the rug out from under those who had believed Maya priests were depicted on monuments.
		She further noted this misconception of Maya leadership has dominated the literature on the Maya to such an extent that colonial and even some modern Maya revolts and revivalist movements are commonly interpreted as attempts to re-establish 'Maya monarchies'.
		The primary task for the Maya acolyte is to learn to manipulate the seeds, paralleling Landa's 'small stones', contained in the divining bundle and to memorize the sacred calendar with its associated prognostics (Tedlock 1982).
	www.mayaglyphs.net /t168-1.html (6562 words)

	Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya
		The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya is the first-ever English-language dictionary of Mesoamerican mythology and religion.
		Mary Miller and Karl Taube draw on their research in the fast-changing field of Maya studies, and on the latest Mexican discoveries, to produce an authoritative work that will serve as a standard reference for students, scholars, and travelers.
		She is the author of The Art of Mesoamerica, Maya Art and Architecture, The Murals of Bonampak, and coauthor, with Linda Schele, of The Blood of Kings.
	www.wwnorton.com /thamesandhudson/arch_new/527928_arch.htm (295 words)

	Guatemala Unlimited - Native Villages
		The World of the Maya has many faces: some of them as ancient as those found carved in towering temples, others as modern as those of the people who live in Guatemala today.
		These are the descendants of a mighty Maya people whose customs and traditions are still part of the fabric of Guatemalan life.
		The purest of the Maya influences can be found in both the performing and design arts.
	members.aol.com /guatemala1/html/natvil.htm (1056 words)

	The Aztec, the Maya, and the Inca (from dress) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		At the opposite end of the climatic scale were peoples of central and southern America whose civilizations flourished in pre-Columbian times—notably the Aztec, Maya, and Inca.
		The Aztec and Maya lived in a hot climate and so wore a minimum of clothing, although their garments were brightly coloured and decorated.
		The Maya of Mesoamerica, along with the Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of Peru, made up the high civilizations of the American Indians at the time of the Spanish conquest.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-14020?tocId=14020 (915 words)

	The Popol Vuh The Sacred Book of the Mayas!
		Xpiyacoc and Xmucané, the old man and the old woman (in Maya, xnuc is "old woman"), equivalents of the Mexican gods Cipactonal and Oxomoco, the sages who, according to the Toltec legend, invented their astrology and arranged the counting of time, that is, the calendar.
		At last, Hunbatz and Hunchouén came and began to dance; but when the old woman saw their ugly faces, she began to laugh, unable to control her laughter, and they went away at once and she did not see their faces again.
		Hunbatz and Hunchouén returned dancing, and came as far as the center of the court of the house grimacing and provoking their grandmother to laughter, until finally she broke into loud laughter.
	www.geocities.com /athens/academy/7286/popolvuhmain.html (19378 words)

	Statement of Significance and Impact of Project
		The Maya ethnographic record suggests that the community is a highly significant unit that defines social and political identity (Wolf 1959, Redfield 1941, Redfield and Villa Rojas 1934, Thompson 1970, Vogt 1976, Farriss 1984).
		God K is closely associated with ancestors in Maya mythology, and an effigy eccentric in the form of this deity was found in close proximity to Structure I and its associated burials.
		Grube (1992:211) notes that a particular form of Maya dance commemorating accession recorded on Lintels 1 and 42 at Yaxchilan involved the bestowal of the God K scepter.
	www.albany.edu /anthro/fac/masson2/1996/BELRPT96.htm (19805 words)

	Pre Hispanic Mexico
		Rough and smooth barrel shape green jade carved beads with a central larger translucent green spherical bead.
		A deep, olive-green, carved, semi-translucent stone pendant depicting a stylized human figure with arms crossed with hands on shoulders, perforated at the waist for suspension.
		Each carved as an openwork floret with multiple preforations worked to imitate the ceiba flower, which served as the pattern for earflares worn by Classic Maya kings.
	www.howardnowes.com /Pcme.html (1517 words)

	Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Drawn primarily from the permanent collection, the exhibition will unite musical instruments of extraordinary rarity with their depictions in different mediums, and explore the connections between musical and ritual iconography in ancient Mesoamerican art.
		Archaeological finds attest to the great variety of instruments and forms of musical expression and dance in the Maya world, the Aztec territories, and the extensive Andean empire of the Inca.
		“It is clear from historical evidence that music and dance in the ancient cultures of the Americas were often closely linked to ritual and ceremony,” notes Gillett G. Griffin, faculty curator of pre-Columbian and Native American art, who developed the exhibition with John Burkhalter, musician and independent scholar.
	www.princetonartmuseum.org /pop_press_rele.cfm?id=44 (292 words)

	The Enigma of Aztec Sacrifice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		When they had hauled them up to a small platform in front of the shrine where they kept their accursed idols we saw them put plumes on the heads of many of them; and then they made them dance with a sort of fan in front of Huichilobos.
		Cortés and his men were the only Europeans to see the human sacrifices of the Aztecs, for the practice ended shortly after the successful Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire.
		The temple-pyramids of the Maya and the Toltecs, and the pre-Aztec site at Teotihuacán in the valley of Mexico, resemble those of the Aztecs in appearance and probably had similar uses.
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /aztecs/sacrifice.htm (2982 words)

	Maya Society of Minnesota
		A contemporary K'iche' Maya ritual-drama, La Conquista recounts the military defeat of the K'iche' by the Spanish in 1524 and is considered the national dance of Guatemala.
		Our Maya Society membership has been represented at many of these and they are a wonderful opportunity to both get a firsthand look at "what's hot" and current, but also a chance to get to meet some of the people making significant contributions to our knowledge and understanding of the ancient Maya.
		The Maya Society of Minnesota is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing educational experiences about the ancient and modern Maya and related cultures for its members and the public.
	www.hamline.edu /mayasociety (3270 words)

	Playa del Carmen - Mayan Ruins Of Tulum
		The Maya didn't use wagons or beasts of burden, simply because their were no suitable big mammals in the area.
		The flyers begin by climbing the tall pole, then each of four of the men slip a foot into a loop at the end of a rope that is wound around the top of the pole.
		At the right moment, the four flyers release themselves from the small cap on the pole and fall to earth, circling around the pole in expanding circles as the rope unwinds, eventually touching ground.
	www.playa.info /playa-del-carmen-info-mayan-ruins-of-tulum.html (1344 words)

	Field Trip: Celebrate Mexico
		Mexico's diversity has roots in the indigenous peoples who settled there before European colonization, such as the Aztecs and the Toltec.
		Inhabiting what is now southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras, the Maya were the first group of people in the New World to keep historical records.
		Mexico's rich culture can be understood through its painting, literature, dance, and other areas of everyday life.
	teacher.scholastic.com /fieldtrp/socstu/celebmex.htm (241 words)

	Amazon.com: Ancient Mexico : The History and Culture of the Maya, Aztects and Other Pre-Columbian Peoples: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Among the civilizations represented in nearly 450 illustrations are the Maya, the Aztecs, and the Toltecs.
		Nearly every extant structure and artifact created by the Maya, Aztecs, Olmecs, and other peoples of the pre-Columbian era--works of surpassing and timeless magnificence--have some spiritual, religious, or ritualistic significance, and the role of religion in every aspect of life is historian and archaeologist Longhena's underlying theme.
		This book is packed with information and color photographs of the ancient cultures of Mexico, from the Olmecs to the Zapotecs to the Mayas to the Aztecs.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1556708262?v=glance (1016 words)

	SAPL: Websites - Mexico
		You can find out the meaning of the word, the traditional makeup of the ensemble, the relationship between the music and dance, the famous Mariachi Vargas, and the ways mariachi is used in celebrations.
		The Mexican Folk Dance Directory listed on the sidebar is potentially useful to patrons wishing to contact folk dance groups, schools and organizations.
		Maya Adventure - Maintained by the Science Museum of Minnesota, this is an excellent site especially as an educational tool.
	www.sanantonio.gov /library/web/mexico.asp (4957 words)

	Honduras This Week Cultural
		In this dance, the women sway from side to side, their arms free to realize the type of movements that would reflect the meaning or feelings inspired by the song.
		In this dance, one man plays the devil while another man, whom the devil cannot tolerate, keeps touching all the women, and especially the devil's wife.
		An all girl dance group was recruited to perform for the National Garifuna Folklore Ballet, who receive salaries from the Ministry of Culture.
	www.marrder.com /htw/mar98/cultural.htm (10411 words)

	University of North Carolina Institute of Latin American Studies Yucatec Maya Program
		This is a teaching resource manual for secondary school teachers containing numerous articles, bibliographies, maps, graphs, two sets of slides (one on pre-Columbian art, the other on Brazil), and a cassette of Latin American folk music.
		Subjects covered are: art, history, music, food, dance, literature, geography, politics, film, and a special section on the country of Brazil.
		Below are links to the Yucatec Maya course information.
	www.unc.edu /depts/ilas/currmat.html (353 words)

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