Mesoamerican epic poetry and saga: What is epic?
To what extent Nahuatl epic corresponds to this type of epic literature remains to be seen. read more
2012: Prophecies of the Maya Calendar
Is it true the world will end in 2012? Is the ancient Maya prophecy true? What exactly is supposed to occur on December 21, 2012? Does the Maya calendar really predict a cataclysmic event on that date?
read moreCampeche: on the edge of the Maya world
Located in the southwestern portion of the Yucatán Peninsula along the Gulf of Mexico, the State of Campeche was named after the ancient Maya Kingdom of Ah Kin Pech (Canpech). For thousands of years, the Yucatec Maya has been the dominant Mayan language throughout the Yucatán Peninsula, including Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo.
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Tribute page from the Codex Mendoza
Tribute Page from the Codex Mendoza
The tribute payable (displayed in most browsers when mouse is positioned over image) is:
2 strings of beads of jadeite, a green semi-precious stone
a total of 4,0...
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Did You Know? Mayan pyramid in Tabasco, Mexico, has possible Roman links
ROMANS in Mexico?
I've always tried to maintain an open-minded attitude towards history, but even I was incredulous when I first heard this suggestion. And you certainly won't find it in most history ...
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The Books of Chilam Balam - part two
The Yucatecan Books of Chilam Balam, which comprise the Chumayel, Tizimin, Mani and others, are notoriously difficult to translate and interpret because of archaic or obsolete words in th...
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Primary sources of Maya history - part two
Four major cultural areas provide us with the most extensive documentation in Mesoamerica: the Valley of Mexico (Aztec), Northern Yucatan (Lowland Maya), Western Oaxaca (Mixtec), and Guatemala (Highlan...
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The Books Of Chilam Balam and the Trojan War Of Yucatan
In writing of the Persian Wars, Herodotus, our earliest Greek historian of note, declared that his purpose in writing of the attempts by the Persian kings Darius and Xerxes to invade Greece was to ensu...
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Primary sources of Maya history - part three
Decipherment of the Maya hieroglyphic system of writing represents perhaps the greatest breakthrough in unravelling the history of the ancient Maya. Estimates vary on the actual percentage of the glyph...
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Primary sources
The Maya, Aztecs, and other peoples of ancient Mexico had a very strong sense of their own history, which they went to great lengths to preserve. But in some ways, their concept of history differed rad...
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The Books of Chilam Balam - part one
The Books of Chilam Balam are indigenous Maya chronicles written in northern Yucatan during the century or so following the Spanish Conquest. The surviving texts we have are copies of the origin...
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Primary sources of Maya history - part one
The most extensive documentation for the native historical tradition in Mesoamerica comes from the Valley of Mexico and surrounding area. This is hardly surprising, for the main thrust of the Spanish C...
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Primary sources of Maya history - part five
Controversy is a fact of life. Complete agreement on any subject is hardly to be expected. The study of Maya hieroglyphs is no exception. In fact, scholarly differences of opinion can be just as viciou...
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Primary sources of Maya history - part four
In the last column we looked briefly at the history of the decipherment of the Maya hieroglyphic writing system and some of the modern myths about the ancient Maya propagated by certain popular writers...
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The Mayan Civilization Time Line
Based on the 'Mystery of the Maya'
OVERVIEW
B.C.
1000-1000
Olmec
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Mesoamerican Religions and Multiverses: Part Two
It is generally assumed that the idea of other universes is the unique product of "post-modern" thinking based on the Theory of Relativity and quantum mechanics. But the ancient Aztecs and Maya probabl...
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La Civilización Maya: Conflicto Histórico, Parte 2
El libro del Chilam Balam de Chumayel es el más importante de los códices o manuscritos propiamente mayas que hasta hoy se conocen. Este libro recoge tradiciones orales de la historia maya; parte de ...
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The Maya Civilization, references
REFERENCES
De la Garza, Mercedes, y León-Portilla, Miguel,
Literatura Maya.
Compilación de textos: Popol Vuh, Memorial de Sololá, Libro de Chilam Balam de Chumayel, Rabinal A...
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La Civilizacion Maya , Referencias Y Sitios En La Red Mundial
REFERENCIAS
(
Sitios Redes)
De la Garza, Mercedes, y León-Portilla, Miguel,
Literatura Maya.
Compilación de textos: Popol Vuh, Memoria...
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The Maya Civilization, Maya Numerals And Calendar
Mayan Numeric System
Ancient Maya discovered two fundamental ideas in mathematics: positional value and the concept of zero. This feat was accomplished by only one other great culture of antiquity, th...
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La Civilización Maya, Numerales y Calendario Mayas
Numerales y Calendario Mayas
Sistema numérico
Los antiguos mayas descubrieron dos ideas fundamentales en matemáticas: el valor posicional y el cero. Sólo otra gran cultura de la antigü...
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Bibliography For - The Ancient Maya
BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR:
The Ancient Maya
An Exploration of Trade & Commerce
During the Mayan Period
By David Conrad
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The Ancient Maya - A Commercial Empire
The ancient Maya achieved compelling and impressive socio-economic complexity during pre-conquest period. Extraordinary ancient cities such as Tikal and Caracol are scattered through out eastern Mexico...
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Did you know? A sacred game
The ancient game of amalla was not mere sport. The ballcourt was a "middleworld" between gods and humans, a battleground for the cosmic tension between life and death, good and evil, sacrifice and...
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The Maya Civilization: Historical Conflict with the Spaniards
The Maya Civilization
Historical Conflict Part 2
(To Part 1)
"Just because of the crazy times, because of the crazy priests, is it that sadness overtook us, that 'Christianity' o...
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