Mayas is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MAYAS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• MAYA, (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.
• an ethnic minority speaking Mayan languages and living in Yucatan and adjacent areas
• 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 MAYAS

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How to use MAYAS in a sentence

• The cliff-dwellers and the Mayas, Incas, and Toltecs.
• The high-water mark of ancient American civilization was touched by the Mayas, the race who inhabited the peninsula of Yucatan and vicinity.
• Let us rather ask what accounts the Mayas themselves gave of the origin of their arts and their ancestors.
• After he had completed his work in Chichen Itza, he founded and named the great city of Mayapan, destined to be the capital of the confederacy of the Mayas.
• These Mayas often die for spite, or because they have made up their mind to do so.
• From the Aztecs, the Tlaxcalans, Mixtecs, Zapotecs and Mayas, we may hope much in the future.
• Progreso and Merida were visited, and our work was done upon the Mayas living near the town of Tekax.
• This god possesses a very tall tree on mount Mayas.
• The calendar of these two peoples is fundamentally the same as that of the Mayas.
• Numerous calculations in the codices make it clear that the Mayas had a good knowledge of astronomy.
• It is therefore not strange that it should have attracted the attention of the Mayas and found a place in their writings.
• It seems to be one of the main elements in the religion and consequently in the art of the Mayas and Mexican peoples.
• Stempell thinks they may be ravens, but this is very doubtful, for the raven probably was unknown to the Mayas, since its range is to the northward.
• We are not yet ready to advance an explanation of the reason why the owl should occupy such a prominent position in the art of the Mayas.
• It is, therefore, natural that the Mayas held it in great awe and used it as a symbol of strength and courage.
• Moreover, the water opossum is a small animal, hardly as big as a rat, of shy and retiring habits, and so is unlikely to figure in the drawings of the Mayas.
• As for the significance of the jaguar in the life of the Mayas, it may be said that this animal seems to have played a most prominent part.
• The dog played a large part in the religion both of the Mayas and the Mexican peoples.
• It is unlikely that the Mayas had much acquaintance with these animals since they range more to the northward than the area of Maya occupation.
• And on this side of the ocean the Incas, the Mayas, the unknown races before them, and the Aztecs of Mexico all built in stone and worked in metal.
• Beyond all others the Mayas, resident on the peninsula of Yucatan, would seem to have approached nearest a true phonetic system.
• The Haitians were probably relatives of the Mayas of Yucatan.
• The Tupis and Caribs, the Mayas and Creeks, entertained very similar expectations.
• The traders whom Columbus met were doubtless Mayas, coming from some of the great fairs or markets.

Similar words containing MAYA without suffix s

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