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Mayas

noun

An ethnic minority speaking Mayan languages and living in Yucatan and adjacent areas.

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"Mayas" Quotes from Famous Books

... well be considered as giving an explanation of the Maya name of this day character (ix). My conception, after one more link in the chain of evidence pointing toward it, is that the day-character system has become known to the Mayas through the medium of the cognate branches of Chiapas, for we frequently find the Tzental-Zotzil x corresponding to ...

— Day Symbols of the Maya Year • Cyrus Thomas

... dogs in the manger, and Ward is the worst of the lot. He knows no more of archaeology than a congressman. The man's a faker! He showed me a spear-head of obsidian and called it flint; and he said the Aztecs borrowed from the Mayas, and that the Toltecs were a myth. And he got the Aztec solar calendar mixed with the Ahau. He's ...

— The Lost Road • Richard Harding Davis

... Chickasaws, the Mandans of the Missouri, the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, the Muyscas of Bogota, the Botocudos of Brazil, the Araucanians of Chili, the Winnebagoes, all have possessed such a belief from time immemorial. The Mayas of Yucatan had a prediction which Father Lizana, cur of Itzamal, preserved in the ...

— Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel • Ignatius Donnelly

Words linked to "Mayas" : ethnic minority