Being a king among the Mayas was a serious business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus]

This is interesting, because some of our scholars now believe the Mayas were the inventors of the calendar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

The Mayas were a literary people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1] Reference

The Mayas named their next longer period of time an ahau.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

We can not affirm that we know this to be true of the Mayas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

He states that the traditions of the Mayas uphold this view.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

Many theories have been advanced as to the origin of the Mayas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

The Mayas either never had this cycle, or had abandoned its use.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

On the main street of Las Mayas there are various small businesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Las Mayas: A Neighborhood in Hell] Reference

From 1000 to 1200, A.D., was the golden era of the Mayas in Yucatan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

The Mayas of Yucatan have a legend of a town of hares under the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference

America, especially among the Mayas of Yucatan, Guatemala, and Honduras.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

Mayas, Totonacos, Chinantecos and Lacandones are prominent, among others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tropical Humid Forests ecoregion (CEC)] Reference

We will now turn our attention to the ruins in the territory of the Mayas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

The residents of Las Mayas do not blame the police for the lack of security.    From Wordnik.com.  [Las Mayas: A Neighborhood in Hell] Reference

Saturn-day, Sun-day, Moon-day, etc., for the Mayas each day was itself divine.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME AND MEASUREMENT] Reference

We give a table showing the arrangement of the days of the year among the Mayas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

Bishop Landa informs us that the Mayas "had great and immoderate dread of death.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 4, No. 1] Reference

Page 13Caribbean they didn't know who the Mayas were or the Incas, or the Aztecas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Katushka Olave, December 9, 1998. Interview K-0659. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

The Nahuas on the north and the Mayas on the south included the civilized nations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

The Mayas preserved orally a body of traditions, history, and religious prophecies.    From Wordnik.com.  [G. The Americas, 1000-1525] Reference

It may be that the length of an ahau varied among the different tribes of the Mayas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

Who brought the dialect of Homer to America? or who took to Greece that of the Mayas?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria] Reference

Unlike the Mayas, the ancient Greeks were not obsessed by the temporal aspect of things.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME AND MEASUREMENT] Reference

I look at civilizations that have collapsed: Rome, Greece, China, the Aztecs, the Mayas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Willingness To Work For Solutions] Reference

Death evidently had an important significance in the mythologic conceptions of the Mayas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 4, No. 1] Reference

It served but to throw a sunset glow over the doomed tribes and civilization of the Mayas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

The Mayas are said to have placed the commencement of the year about the sixteenth of July.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

Oh, and he stole the bones of dead Mayas from a graveyard so that he could “study” them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Victory in the War of Wrecks] Reference

Carlos Castro a resident of Las Mayas told El Universal that the police is terribly outgunned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Las Mayas: A Neighborhood in Hell] Reference

The Mayas seem to have been further advanced in the art of writing than their Nahua neighbors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

Landa tells us, the Mayas believed that whoever hanged himself did not go to the underworld, but to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 4, No. 1] Reference

Please allow me, ladies and gentlemen, to say some words about my country and the Civilization of the Mayas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Lecture] Reference

In all Central America are the Mayas, and in South America, some of the South America, not the whole South America, we are the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Katushka Olave, December 9, 1998. Interview K-0659. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Despite this astonishing achievement the Mayas never seem to have grasped the idea of time as the journey of one bearer and his load.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME AND MEASUREMENT] Reference

The Mayas discovered the mathematic ZERO value, at about the same time that it was discovered in India and later passed on to the Arabs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Lecture] Reference