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  2. Maya priesthood - Wikipedia

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    The town priest was called ah kʼin, a word with a basic meaning of 'diviner' (kʼin by itself meaning 'sun' or 'day'). [12] The ah kʼinob had the responsibility of conducting public and private rituals within individual towns throughout the province.

  3. Kohen - Wikipedia

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    Kohen (Hebrew: כֹּהֵן ‎, kōhēn, , "priest", pl. כֹּהֲנִים ‎, kōhănīm, [koˈ(h)anim], "priests") is the Hebrew word for "priest", used in reference to the Aaronic priesthood, also called Aaronites or Aaronides. [1]

  4. Maya religion - Wikipedia

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    Nowadays, a 'daykeeper', [63] [64] or divinatory priest, may stand in front of a fire, and pray in Maya to entities such as the 260 days; the cardinal directions; the ancestors of those present; important Mayan towns and archaeological sites; lakes, caves, or volcanoes; and deities taken from published editions of the Popol Vuh. People also ...

  5. Mayanism - Wikipedia

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    One example of early Mayanism is the creation of a group called the Mayan Temple by Harold D. Emerson of Brooklyn, a self-proclaimed Maya priest who edited a serial publication titled The Mayan, Devoted to Spiritual Enlightenment and Scientific Religion between 1933 and 1941. [15]

  6. Maya civilization - Wikipedia

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    The Maya priesthood was a closed group, drawing its members from the established elite; by the Early Classic they were recording increasingly complex ritual information in their hieroglyphic books, including astronomical observations, calendrical cycles, history and mythology.

  7. Priest - Wikipedia

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    In Hebrew, the word for "priest" is kohen (singular כהן kohen, plural כּהנִים kohanim), hence the family names Cohen, Cahn, Kahn, Kohn, Kogan, etc. Jewish families with these names belong to the tribe of Levi (Levites – descended from Levi, the great-grandfather of Aaron) and in twenty-four instances are called by scripture as such.

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  9. List of Maya gods and supernatural beings - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of deities playing a role in the Classic (200–1000 CE), Post-Classic (1000–1539 CE) and Contact Period (1511–1697) of Maya religion.The names are mainly taken from the books of Chilam Balam, Lacandon ethnography, the Madrid Codex, the work of Diego de Landa, and the Popol Vuh.