The Mysterious MayaBetween approximately A.D. 250 and 900, "the Maya created one of the most distinguished civilizations of all antiquity," writes author George Stuart. |
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Page 89
... Landa around 1566 , " is the country with the least earth I have ever seen , since all of it is one living rock .... " Anyone who knows the north- ern peninsula would readily agree , and probably add that it is among the most monotonous ...
... Landa around 1566 , " is the country with the least earth I have ever seen , since all of it is one living rock .... " Anyone who knows the north- ern peninsula would readily agree , and probably add that it is among the most monotonous ...
Page 122
... Landa worried over the old Maya religious customs and beliefs , but he observed them closely and wrote an ex- tremely valuable record of them . " Having assembled , clothed in their or- naments , at the house of the lord , first they ...
... Landa worried over the old Maya religious customs and beliefs , but he observed them closely and wrote an ex- tremely valuable record of them . " Having assembled , clothed in their or- naments , at the house of the lord , first they ...
Page 138
... Landa ordered public rites of penance ; the sacred Maya texts were burned . Scholars still lament this loss , and Landa noted that it caused the Maya " much affliction . " ALL BY DAVID ALAN HARVEY Mound Sound of sun - dried henequen ...
... Landa ordered public rites of penance ; the sacred Maya texts were burned . Scholars still lament this loss , and Landa noted that it caused the Maya " much affliction . " ALL BY DAVID ALAN HARVEY Mound Sound of sun - dried henequen ...
Contents
Beginnings of the Maya Way | 17 |
An Age of Splendor | 37 |
The Blending of Worlds | 89 |
Copyright | |
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