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US
/ˈmaɪən/
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NOUN
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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
Mayans had a system of writing and an accurate calendar - a family of American Indian languages spoken by Mayas
How To Use Mayan In A Sentence
- The herds and bands of elephants, horses, dancing girls and musicians, and scenes from the Ramayana come alive on the outer walls of the temple.
- Maybe he'd find some ancient Mayan herbal remedy to rejuvenate him. COMPULSION
- Even the organ console was designed to match the Mayan decor of the theater.
- Ritha Chatterjee once wrote that Damayanti had brought to Kathak ‘flowing lines and sculpturesque poses.’
- Both the Mayans and Aztecs believed the cacao bean had magical, or even divine, properties18), suitable for use in the most sacred19) rituals of birth, marriage and death.
- They emerge from the luxuriant foliage like lost Mayan temples.
- Secondly, at the time of the Mayans there was no extensive agriculture in Venezuela.
- The facades on the buildings that conform the quadrangle are adorned with elaborate representations of Mayan huts, rectangles and Chac masks, with superimposed ornaments such as carved loops, lattices, small columns, human shapes, birds and monkeys. The Maya civilization, cities of the Maya
- Tourists visit Mayan ruins, take jungle safaris, and explore a long barrier reef.
- It's actually an island, a fourteen-mile sliver of sandy beaches whose name means ‘golden snake’ in the native Mayan language, and back then, a mere 120 people enjoyed its honeyed shores.
