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The Mask of Pakal is a funerary jade mask found in the tomb of the Mayan king, K’inich Janaab’ Pakal inside the Temple of the Inscriptions at the Maya city of Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico. Considered a master piece of Mesoamerican and Maya art , the mask is made with over 346 green jade stone fragments, the eyes are made with shell, nacre ...
Long-nosed masks (commonly believed to be of the Maya rain god Chaac) are found on many Puuc buildings. Beyond the impressive decorative elements of Puuc architecture, the use of a concrete core is also considered an architectural advance beyond the earlier Maya technique of using larger stones (set on top of one another in lime and mud mortar ...
Chashm-e-Baddoor (Persian, Urdu: چشمِ بد دور, Hindi: चश्म-ए-बददूर) is a slogan extensively used in Iran, North India and Pakistan to ward-off the evil eye (which is called nazar in the region). It is a Persian language derivation which literally means "far be the evil eye". [1]
Taube, Karl (1993), Aztec and Maya Myths. British Museum Press. Taube, Karl (2009), The Maya Maize God and the Mythic Origins of Dance. In: Geneviève Le Fort et al. (eds.), The Maya and their Sacred Narratives. Text and Context in Maya Mythologies (Proceedings of the 12th European Maya Conference, Geneva 2007). Acta Mesoamericana 20: 41-52.
The most important source on traditional Maya religion is the Mayas themselves: the incumbents of positions within the religious hierarchy, diviners, and tellers of tales.
Dzibanche was a major Maya city and the early capital and place of origin of the Kaan dynasty, a powerful Maya lineage that conquered and dominated a large territory of the central Maya lowlands during the Mesoamerican Classic period and later ruled from the great city of Calakmul. [3]
Maya (/ ˈ m ɑː j ə /; Devanagari: माया, IAST: māyā), literally "illusion" or "magic", [1] [2] [3] has multiple meanings in Indian philosophies depending on the context. In later Vedic texts, māyā connotes a "magic show, an illusion where things appear to be present but are not what they seem"; [ 2 ] [ 4 ] the principle which ...
However, the Maya themselves would claim that the alux are the spirits of their ancestors, or the spirits of the land itself, preceding contact with Western civilization. The supposition that aluxob featured in the mythical traditions of the pre-Columbian Maya is possibly supported by similar conceptions postulated from depictions in pre ...