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  2. Mayan languages - Wikipedia

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    un- one- tek "plant" wop jahuacte tree un- tek wop one- "plant" {jahuacte tree} "one jahuacte tree" un- one- tsʼit "long.slender.object" wop jahuacte tree un- tsʼit wop one- {"long.slender.object"} {jahuacte tree} "one stick from a jahuacte tree" Possession The morphology of Mayan nouns is fairly simple: they inflect for number (plural or singular), and, when possessed, for person and number ...

  3. Mesoamerican languages - Wikipedia

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    Maya glyphs in stucco at the Museo de sitio in Palenque, Mexico. An example of text in a Mesoamerican language written in an indigenous Mesoamerican writing system . Mesoamerican languages are the languages indigenous to the Mesoamerican cultural area, which covers southern Mexico, all of Guatemala , Belize , El Salvador , and parts of Honduras ...

  4. Maya religion - Wikipedia

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    The traditional Maya or Mayan religion of the extant Maya ... [71] that serves as a means of communication between the various ... ('Powerful One'). In Maya folk ...

  5. Maya script - Wikipedia

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    Although the Maya did not actually write alphabetically, nevertheless he recorded a glossary of Maya sounds and related symbols, which was long dismissed as nonsense (for instance, by leading Mayanist J. E. S. Thompson in his 1950 book Maya Hieroglyphic Writing) [21] but eventually became a key resource in deciphering the Maya script.

  6. Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of How the Mayan ...

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    The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but new research shows how it matches up to planetary cycles over a 45-year span

  7. Spanish conquest of the Maya - Wikipedia

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    Soconusco was an important communication route between the central Mexican highlands and Central America. It had been subjugated by the Aztec Triple Alliance at the end of the 15th century, under the emperor Ahuizotl, [44] and paid tribute in cacao. [21] The highland Kʼicheʼ dominated the Pacific coastal plain of western Guatemala. [37]

  8. Maya civilization - Wikipedia

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    Maya armies of the Contact period were highly disciplined, and warriors participated in regular training exercises and drills; every able-bodied adult male was available for military service. Maya states did not maintain standing armies; warriors were mustered by local officials who reported back to appointed warleaders.

  9. Middleworld - Wikipedia

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    The Maya also believed that their pyramid temples were sites at which these worlds could be transversed. Maya kings, by undergoing ritual and trance , could open portals which would allow the gods - inhabitants of the sky and under worlds, to communicate with Middleworld.