member of a major pre-Columbian civilization of the Yucatán Peninsula that reached its peak in the 9th century a.d. and produced magnificent ceremonial cities with pyramids, a sophisticated mathematical and calendar system, hieroglyphic writing, and fine
member of a modern American Indian people of southern Mexico, Guatemala, and parts of Honduras who are the descendants of this ancient civilization
any of the Mayan languages; the historical and modern languages of the Mayas
the power, as of a god, to produce illusions
MAYA, the power to produce illusions, in Hindu philosophy [n]
of or pertaining to the Maya, their culture, or their languages
the production of an illusion
(in Vedantic philosophy) the illusion of the reality of sensory experience and of the experienced qualities and attributes of oneself
goddess personifying the power that creates phenomena