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maya
maya , in Hinduism, term used in the Veda to mean magic or supernatural power. In Mahayana Buddhism it acquires the meaning of illusion or unreality. The term is pivotal in the Vedanta system of Shankara, where it signifies the world as a cosmic illusion and also the power that creates the world... Read more
maya
maya , in Hinduism, term used in the Veda to mean magic or supernatural power. In Mahayana Buddhism it acquires the meaning of illusion or unreality. The term is pivotal in the Vedanta system of Shankara, where it signifies the world as a cosmic illusion and also the power that creates the world... Read more
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou , 1928-, African-American writer and performer, b. St. Louis, Mo. as Marguerite Johnson. She toured Europe and Africa in the musical Porgy and Bess (1954-55), then sang in New York City nightclubs, joined the Harlem Writers Guild, and took part in several off-Broadway productions, inc... Read more
Maya Ying Lin
Maya Ying Lin , 1959-, American architect and sculptor, b. Athens, Ohio. From an artistically distinguished Chinese family that immigrated to the United States in the 1940s, Lin was catapulted to prominence while a Yale undergraduate when her magisterially simple design for the Vietnam Veterans Mem... Read more
Palenque
Palenque , ancient city of the Maya in Chiapas, S Mexico, in the Usumacinta Valley. Its architectural elegance, adapted to tropical and topographical conditions, was a high point in the art of the Classic period. Stucco sculpturing and low-relief paneling reached their highest expression at Palenq... Read more
Uxmal
Uxmal , ancient city, northern Yucatán peninsula, Mexico. A Late Classic period Maya center situated in the Puuc hills, Uxmal flourished between 600 and 900. It is one of the finest expressions of Maya architecture known as the Puuc style. The site has such impressive structures as the uniq... Read more
Tikal
Tikal , ruined city of the Classic Period of the Maya , N central Petén, Guatemala. The largest and possibly the oldest of the Maya cities, Tikal consists of nine groups of courts and plazas built on hilly land above surrounding swamps (which may have been lakes in former times) and intercon... Read more
Chorotega
Chorotega , aboriginal people and language group of Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Little is known of the Chorotega, primarily beause of the absence of extensive ruins. Contemporaneous with the Maya to the northwest, they inhabited principally the Ulúa River valley and the Mosquito C... Read more
Quiché
Quiché , indigenous peoples of Mayan linguistic stock, in the western highlands of Guatemala; most important group of the ancient southern Maya . The largest of the contemporary native groups of Guatemala, numbering over a million, they live principally in the region between Quezaltenango ... Read more
Arthur Bowen Davies
Arthur Bowen Davies , 1862-1928, American painter and lithographer, b. Utica, N.Y., studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League, New York City. In 1893 he traveled in Europe and exhibited successfully on his return. A president of the Society of Independent Artists, he was la... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Maya"

Maya Religion
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying Maya Religion At the time of Spanish contact in the sixteenth century the Maya were not a single, unified political or cultural entity...overgeneralizations it is important to specify particular Maya cultures when mentioning sixteenth-century accounts. Aside... Read more
Maya
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures Maya PRONUNCIATION: MY-yuh LOCATION: Southeastern Mexico; Guatemala...evangelical Christianity 1 • INTRODUCTION Today's Maya are descended from one of the great civilizations of the...900 — that Mayan culture reached its peak and the Maya achieved their celebrated advances in architecture, ... Read more
Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya The Russian dancer Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya (born 1925) epitomized the best of Soviet ballet. The career of Maya Plisetskaya, the celebrated Soviet ballerina, choreographer... Read more
Maya Ying Lin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Maya Ying Lin Maya Ying Lin (born 1959) was an American architect whose two most important...Washington, D.C., and the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. Maya Ying Lin was born in 1959 in Athens, Ohio, a manufacturing and agricultural... Read more
Lin, Maya
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography Maya Lin Born: October 5, 1959 Athens, Ohio Asian American architect and sculptor Maya Lin is an American architect whose two most important works...Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. Family and childhood Maya Ying Lin was born on October 5, 1959, in Athens, Ohio, a... Read more
Angelou, Maya
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography Maya Angelou Born: April 4, 1928 St. Louis, Missouri African American author, poet, and playwright Maya Angelou — author, poet, playwright, stage and screen...woman's discovery of her self-confidence. Eventful early life Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson on April 4, 1928, in... Read more
Maya Angelou
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Maya Angelou Maya Angelou (born 1928) — author, poet, play wright, stage and screen...recalls a young African American woman's discovery of her self-confidence. Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri... Read more
Maya Deren
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Maya Deren Maya Deren (1917-1961) wore many hats in her brief lifetime: avant-garde filmmaker...this time, possibly at Hammid's suggestion, Deren changed her first name to Maya, the Sanskrit word for illusion. At the time of her marriage Deren was primarily... Read more
Maya Plisetskaya
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...sensitivity to emotional nuance. Her roles ranged from Odette-Odile in the romantic Swan Lake to the passionate title role in Carmen. Her memoir, I, Maya Plistetskaya (tr. 2001), reveals the difficulties she suffered as an artist in the Soviet Union. Read more
maya
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition , in Hinduism, term used in the Veda to mean magic or supernatural power. In Mahayana Buddhism it acquires the meaning of illusion or unreality. The term is pivotal in the Vedanta system of Shankara, where it signifies the world as a cosmic illusion and also the power that creates the world. Read more

Dictionary entries related to "Maya"

Deren, Maya
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers DEREN, Maya Nationality: Russian/American. Born: Kiev...Hodson, and Catrina Neimans, The Legend of Maya Deren: A Documentary Biography and Collected...Alcide, Dialogues th é oriques avec Maya Deren: du cin é ma exp é rimental... Read more
Excerpt from Maya in Exile: Guatemalans in Florida (1990, by Allan F. Burns)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History EXCERPT FROM MAYA IN EXILE: GUATEMALANS IN FLORIDA (1990...rural destruction" forced over 600,000 rural Maya Indians into exile in Mexico and the United...adapted to their new environment. In his book, Maya in Exile: Guatemalans in Florida, from which... Read more
Maya
Book article from: A Dictionary of First Names Maya ♀ Latinate version of May or a respelled form of the name of the Roman goddess Maia , influenced...great’, seen also in Latin maior ‘larger’. In the case of the American writer Maya Angelou (b. 1928 as Marguerite Johnson), Maya is a nickname which she acquired in early ... Read more
maya
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable maya in Hinduism, the supernatural power wielded by gods and demons; in Hinduism and Buddhism, the power by which the universe becomes manifest; the illusion or appearance of the phenomenal world. The word comes from Sanskrit māyā ‘create’. Read more
Meshes of the Afternoon
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON USA, 1943 Director: Maya Deren Production: Black and white, 16mm; running...sources list 14 minutes. Released 1943. Screenplay: Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid; editor: Maya Deren; photography: Alexander Hammid. Cast: Maya... Read more
Mayer
Book article from: Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes ...Eritrea, flayer, Freya, gainsayer, layer, Malaya, Marbella, Maya, Mayer, Nouméa, obeyer, payer, player, portrayer, prayer...jambalaya, Jeremiah, Josiah, Kintyre, latria, liar, lyre, Maia, Maya, Mayer, messiah, mire, misfire, Nehemiah, Obadiah, papaya, pariah... Read more
Menchú, Rigoberta
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...campaigner for human rights. Menchú was born into a Quiché Maya farming family in the Guatemalan Highlands. Her community was...in 1981 and began to publicize the systematic killing of the Maya people. She helped found the UN working group on the rights of... Read more
Maia
Book article from: A Dictionary of First Names Maia ♀ See Maya . Read more
Thurman, Uma
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...divorced 1992); 2) the actor Ethan Hawke, 1998, one daughter: Maya Ray Thurman-Hawke. Education: Attended the Professional Children...Irvin) (as Miss Beaumont); The Duke of Groove (Dunne) (short) (as Maya) 1996 Beautiful Girls (Ted Demme) (as Andrea); The Truth about... Read more
Mayan architecture
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Mayan architecture. A Meso-American people, the Maya built ( c. C2 BC– c. AD 900) very steep battered platforms on which monumental structures were created. The remains of many... Read more

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Maya's Indian bread.(Short story)
Magazine article from: Highlights for Children; 11/1/2007; ; 409 words ; [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Maya shook the water droplets from her hands...I'm ready to learn to make chapatis. Maya pulled out two small mixing bowls--one...chapati flour and poured it into her bowl. Maya scooped a heaping cup of flour, but some... Read more
Maya A Precious Prism.
Magazine article from: Black Issues Book Review; 3/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; As a poet and personality, Maya Angelou always commands that we expect...entirely fitting that the month in which Maya Angelou celebrates her birthday--April...the stuff of which legacies are made. Maya has lived a thousand lives as a black... Read more
Exploring the ancient civilization of the Maya.
Magazine article from: Highlights for Children; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; For thousands of years the ancient Maya lived in southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize...dedicated to their rulers and gods. The Maya used highly developed systems of astronomy...flourishing for more than 1,500 years, the Maya civilization started to decline, and they... Read more
Maya ceramics.(Current and Coming)(pottery exhibition at the George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Ontario)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 9/1/1999; ; 630 words ; In ancient Maya culture there was no linguistic distinction...than in the painted pottery of the Classic Maya Period, which seamlessly combines all three...objects comprise the show, which is entitled Maya Universe: Classic Maya Art, Patronage and... Read more
The ancient Maya: transport students back in time to the world of the ancient Maya, whose great empire in the Yucatan Peninsula endured from 2500 B.C.-1550 A.D.(MAYA ACTIVITIES)
Magazine article from: Instructor (1990); 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...sharing the pull-out Masterpiece Poster, Maya Culture, from the center of this issue...study and discuss the images of ancient Maya artifacts, which include jewelry, a mask...of the many great stone temples that the Maya built. Next, ask students: What do you... Read more
Royal visions; art of the Maya courts.(The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art (1986), fundamentally changed our understanding of Maya historical iconography, a remarkable curatorial...multidimensional, social and lived aspects of the Maya nobility. (1) Created by Yale University... Read more
Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya: Theory, Comparison, and Synthesis, vol. 1.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/2003; ; 543 words ; Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya. Volume I, Theory, Comparison, and Synthesis...decipherment of the hieroglyphs of the Classic Maya (circa 250-1000 C.E.) for what they reveal...together a set of articles investigating Maya courtly life, using archaeological, epigraphic... Read more
DE LA SEXUALIDAD MAYA A LA EVANGELIZACION.(TT: From Mayan sexuality to evangelization.)(Reseña)(Columna)
Magazine article from: Américas (Spanish Edition); 5/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Virgins: The Colonization of Yucatecan Maya Sexual Desire, por Pete Sigal. Austin...sexualidad basado en documentos en idioma maya, explora la transformación de las...241;olas sobre la sexualidad, el ethos maya evolucionó hacia un nuevo sistema... Read more
Costa Maya: something new under the Mexican sun. (Port of the Month).
Magazine article from: Cruise Travel; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...ship, Celebrity's Zenith, docked at Costa Maya, the newest Mexican cruise port on the Yucatan peninsula's Caribbean shore. Costa Maya is the official designation of some 100...cruise port, also known as Puerto Costa Maya. It's a surprising view from above the... Read more
Mentorship and Maya healing: NLJ's interview with Rosita Arvigo: herbalists Maria Muscarella and Nikki Solomon interview the renowned practitioner about learning from lineage and passing on those lessons.(strong roots)(Interview)
Magazine article from: New Life Journal; 8/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; Rosita Arvigo is a recognized authority on Maya healing techniques and medicinal plants...whom was Don Elijio Panti, the renowned Maya shaman of Belize. She is the founder and...practice is eclectic. My mixture is made up of Maya medicine, Naprapathy, herbology, spiritual... Read more