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Mayan Civilization
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  • She spoke of the ancient medicines of other tribes, the Aztecas, Mayas, and even of those in the old, old country, the Moors.†   (source)
  • Albert told them about the ancient Mayans.†   (source)
  • "Mayan spiritual chants," he said.†   (source)
  • Partners In Health had found a donor to pay for a mental health project there: the disinterment and proper reburial of Mayan Indians who had been slaughtered by the Guatemalan army and dumped in mass graves.†   (source)
  • Level Three's a killer—they got us right before we solved the Mayan puzzle.†   (source)
  • One of the new arrivals from the FCI was Morena, a Spanish woman who looked like a deranged Mayan princess.†   (source)
  • Let's talk about the Mayan ruins.†   (source)
  • I look at civilizations that have collapsed: Rome, Greece, China, the Aztecs, the Mayas.†   (source)
  • It was originally domesticated by the Mayans.†   (source)
  • But as I grew older and explored my own starker regions more assiduously, I kept stumbling across pyramids, Mayan campfires, the rubble of Huns—civilizations that had no right of access to the terrain of a Southern boy's soul.†   (source)
  • The game was a lot like basketball, except that the losers were sacrificed to the Mayan gods.†   (source)
  • They had to have been Mayan songs, not Spanish.†   (source)
  • The Mayan chants, from the first day he'd given me the ride.†   (source)
  • We are Mayan people; we speak twenty-two different Mayan languages.†   (source)
  • Nobody, not even a Mayan, could say they weren't.†   (source)
  • From the early Hebrews who made burnt offerings at the Temple, to the Mayans who beheaded humans atop the pyramids of Chichén Itzá, to Jesus Christ, who offered his body on the cross, the ancients understood God's requirement for sacrifice.†   (source)
  • And Mayan ruins.†   (source)
  • Every sort of prisoner is represented; sad-looking middle-aged upper-class white men, their wire-rim glasses sometimes askew or broken; proud cholos looking vaguely Mayan and covered in gang markings; white women with bleached-out hair and very bad orthodontia; skinhead types with swastika tattoos on their faces; young black men with their hair bushed out because they had been forced to undo their cornrows; a skinny white father-and-son pair, obvious because they were the spitting image of each other; a towering black man in extra-heavy restraints who might be the most imposing figure I have ever seen; and of course, me.†   (source)
  • We drove along with just the Mayan chants for a few minutes, long enough for me to actually start to get used to them.†   (source)
  • "Mayan spiritual chants," he repeated.†   (source)
  • Estevan took off his shirt and lay back against the front of the boat, his hands clasped behind his head, exposing his smooth Mayan chest to the sun.†   (source)
  • Do Cherokees look like Mayans?†   (source)
  • What's Mayan, exactly?†   (source)
  • Young Maize God (carved stone, Mayan, Honduras, c. A.D. 680-750).†   (source)
  • The Mayan version of the world-end is represented in an illustration covering the last page of the Dresden Codex.†   (source)
  • World-end: Rain Serpent and Tiger-claw Goddess (ink on tree-bark paper, Mayan, Central America, c. A.D. 1200-1250).†   (source)
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