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Mayan

Mayan \Ma"yan\ (m[aum]"yan), a.

  1. Designating, or pertaining to, an American Indian linguistic stock occupying the Mexican States of Veracruz, Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, and Yucatan, together with a part of Guatemala and a part of El Salvador. See 2nd Maya.

  2. Of or pertaining to the Mayas.

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Mayan

Mayan most commonly refers to:pushan

  • Mayan people, various indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica and northern Central America
  • Maya civilization, pre-Columbian culture of Mesoamerica and northern Central America which is the birthplace of pushan
  • Mayan languages, language family spoken in Mesoamerica and northern Central America
  • Yucatec Maya language, language spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula and northern Belize

Mayan or Mayan may also refer to:

  • Mayan, Semnan, Iran
  • Mayan stage, geological period that occurred during the end of the Middle Cambrian
  • Mayan (band), a Dutch symphonic metal band
Mayan (band)

MaYaN is a Dutch symphonic death metal band founded by vocalist Mark Jansen, keyboardist Jack Driessen and guitarist Frank Schiphorst. The name of the band was chosen by Jansen out of his fascination for the ancient Maya civilization.

On September 6th, 2013, Nuclear Blast released a press statement that confirmed that Laura Macrì and Henning Basse, who were guest and tour members for the first album, have become full-time members.

In 2015, Rob van der Loo left the band to focus on Epica and an upcoming new project. Roel Käller took his place as the bassist. Next to that, George Oosthoek (ex- Orphanage) joined the band as growling vocalist.

Mayan (software)

Mayan (or Mayan EDMS) is a web-based free/libre document management system for managing documents within an organization. All functionality is available in its free public version. It has an active community of volunteers and third-party service and support providers.

Its largest installation as of June 2012 is Puerto Rico's main permit agency (20,000+ documents).

Usage examples of "mayan".

And out of that same epoch came the great Olmec sculptures, the inexplicably precise and accurate calendar the Mayans inherited from their predecessors, the inscrutable geoglyphs of Nazca, the mysterious Andean city of Tiahuanaco .

Space and Prinz squatted near the campfire, too excited to drinking balche, the Mayan drink compound of bark and honey fermented in water, and they were slightly intoxicated.

Somewhat reminiscent of Mayan art, they also partook of Balinese temple paintings.

Mayans, King Chaac, had said only he knew of the existence of this place.

Mayan sovereign, Chaac, and his daughter, Monja, suddenly tried to get Doc out of the fight-rescue him.

Doc had left the Valley of the Vanished, he had arranged with King Chaac, chief of the Mayans, to listen in on a radio on every seventh day.

Other languages focused on by the project included Somali, Slovenian, and a Mayan Indian language, Chorti, that is spoken in parts of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

Renny declared, playfully cracking soft rocks with his ironlike fists to awe and amuse a young Mayan.

He could tell by her diminutive stature and the shape of her eyes and cheekbones that she was one of the Lacandon, the descendants of the ancient Mayan kings who once ruled the land before the arrival of the conquistadores.

Sylvanus Morley, a noted Mayanist active in the early 1900s, had derived a formula for the conversion of Mayan dates to dates in the modern calendar, but apparently it had not occurred to him that someone might want to convert from the modern calendar to the Mayan.

Since this Mesoamerican ritual has not really been practised for five centuries, we have the perspective to reflect on the tens of thousands of willing and unwilling sacrifices to the Aztec and Mayan gods who reconciled themselves to their fates with the confident faith that they were dying to save the Universe.

How could these ancient monoliths possibly be related to the Mayan calendar and the Mesoamerican culture, halfway across the world?

Mayan ruins, hoping to identify the Mesoamerican pyramid the artist of Nazca had drawn upon the desert pampa, as well as a means of saving humanity from the prophesied destruction to come.

This was Prentiss Petersham, the attorney who represented the Mayan Museum.

It was obvious that Petersham did not intend to spend the afternoon on matters that concerned the Mayan Museum.