Maya is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MAYA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Sanskrit) in Buddhist philosophy, the power to produce illusions
• a member of an American Indian people of Yucatán and elsewhere in Central America.
• the language of the Maya, still spoken by about half a million people.
• illusion, esp the material world of the senses regarded as illusory
• The name for the doctrine of the unreality of matter, called, in English, idealism; hence, nothingness; vanity; illusion.
• a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy
• a family of American Indian languages spoken by Maya
• a member of an American Indian people of Yucatán and elsewhere in Central America.
ADJECTIVE:
• relating to the Maya or their language.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the power to produce illusions, in Hindu philosophy

Words related to MAYA

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Words that contain MAYA

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How to use MAYA in a sentence

• The most ancient language of Central America, the ground on which all the succeeding languages have been planted, is the Maya.
• It can, indeed, be shown beyond doubt that there were various points of contact between the Aztec and Maya civilizations.
• Thus the derivation of the word from the Maya radical is clear.
• They are in nowise akin to the Maya stock, although they are so classed in Mr.
• The history of the Maya from the earliest times to the present day.
• Some of the indian towns through which we passed, with curious Maya names, were interesting.
• The Chamula outbreak in 1868, and the Maya war just ended, are examples of this smouldering hatred.
• The lines of thought which finally led to the elaboration of the full-blown Maya theory may be traced with considerable certainty.
• The former, though the avowed enemy of Buddhism, introduced into Hinduism the doctrine of Maya described by Indian critics as crypto-Buddhism.
• This system is quite as pure and quite as simple as the Maya, but differs from it in some important particulars.
• Various ceremonials occurring at intervals throughout the Maya year which included sacrifices to the gods, evidently took up a large part of the time of the people.
• According to the Maya calendar there were four days only which could come at the beginning of the year and these came in succession.
• The first day of this month, according to Landa, corresponds to August 5 of our year and this is the height of the rainy season in the Maya region.
• This is a very frequent method of representing the serpent in the Maya stone carvings.
• There are few other examples of full drawings of the crocodile in the Maya writings.
• Only a few water birds are shown in the Maya works.
• In the Maya pantheon, god M is usually considered the war god, as he is almost always armed with a spear.
• This Moan bird has an important place in the Maya pantheon, as it is the representative in many places of god A, the Death god.
• This bird does not seem to appear in the Maya drawings.
• There is little resembling an ape in the Maya signs although it has been remarked that the sign may show the open jaws and teeth of this animal.
• Enough for the purpose if the list is closed with the prediction of a Maya priest, cherished by the inhabitants of Yucatan long before the Spaniard desolated their stately cities.
• It is therefore possible that this mark of distinction may be of some value in determining the relation of the Maya to the Gregorian calendar.
• The second characteristic which strikes one is the fact that Miss Maya Das has remained Indian.
• It is only Maya which is unsatisfactory because it is partial.
• His mother was named Maya and was also of the Sakya clan.
• He then enters the womb of his mother Maya in the shape of a white elephant, which event she sees in a dream.

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