What is Maya? Does it have a meaning?
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Here....I found this.\n\nMaya, in Hinduism, a term used in the Veda to mean magic or supernatural power. In Mahayana Buddhism it acquires the meaning of illusion or unreality. The term is pivotal in the Vedanta system of Shankara, where it signifies the world as a cosmic illusion and also the power that creates the world.
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I am writing this from personal knowledge and research--not cut and pasting it from some other site.\nThere are many different Mayan calendars, but the one you are talking about is the "Long Count" which doesn't end, as popularly thought, on 12-21-2012 (not 12-12-2012).  What happens is on that date the calendar rolls over from 12 Baktuns to 13 Baktuns (a Baktun is about 400 years long).  So technically the 12th Baktun ends 12-20-2012.\nOn 12-21-2012, there is also a grand astronomical alignment between the sun, the horizon and the milky way at dawn.  The sun will rise against the dark area of the milky way which the Maya thought of as the birth canal of the universe.  Actually that area is very close to the center of the galaxy (where stars are born).  When the sun comes out of the birth canal...it's (re)born, signifying the start of a new world age.  \nThis does NOT mean our old world ends at that moment. In fact it's already over and has been for years.\nRead "Maya Cosmogenesis 2012" by John Major Jenkins for a lot more on this subject. Read my 2012 article on my Jaguar Nights blog or my regular website for other information on that day.
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Stephens impressionistically described what was later identified as the ruined Maya city of Copan: "It lay before us like a shattered bark in the midst of the ocean, her masts gone, her name effaced, her crew perished, and none to tell whence she came, to whom she belonged, how long on her voyage, or what caused her destruction."\n\nThe typical Maya family (averaging five to seven members, archaeologists guess) probably arose before dawn to a breakfast of hot chocolate--or, if they weren't rich enough, a thick, hot corn drink called atole--and tortillas or tamales. The house was usually a one-room hut built of interwoven poles covered with dried mud. Meals of corn, squash and beans, supplemented with the occasional turkey or rabbit, were probably eaten on the run.\n\nsecond source\n\nNot all the cities were developed at the same time. At the beginnings of the Maya culture, the highlands raised the first edifices. In the apogee of the Classical Period, between 250 and 900 A.D., the lowlands witnessed the flourishing of great cities such as Tikal, located in the heart of the Guatemalan Petén. After that, the creative impulse moved to the plains and low plateaus of the south end of the Yucatán peninsula, where the Puuc cities saw their moment of glory.\n\nEach Maya city exhibits a unique style, although regions and epochs lent them certain common features. When we visit the ruins of the cities that seem to suddenly appear from the dense jungle, we cannot but admire the engineering workmanship which guaranteed the supply of provisions and water to the inhabitants; the fine stucco decorations; the stone estelas, dumb witnesses to the most advanced calendar system of those days; the ample and complex network of roads that criss-crossed all the land, keeping communications, commerce and interchange open to all Maya centres.\n\nThe names of the old cities are forgotten. The ones we use today were made up by explorers and missionaries, travelers and archaeologists. One of the few prehispanic names we keep is that of the City of the Wizards of the Water, Chichén Itzá.
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It is a reference to Lucifer, which is an erroneous name for Satan. Isaiah 14:12\nIt comes from Latin: lux : n. light.\nfero:v. to bear\nThe very word lucifer is a mistranslation of a Hebrew word, H'lel-bin-Shachar, literally, Glower son of the Dawn, the name of a minor Canaanite god. This was incorrectly translated into the Latin Vulgate Bible as lucifer. (Yes, with a lower case 'l'. It was NOT a personal name), which was a Roman name for the morning star, the planet first visible after dawn (usually venus sometimes mercury or mars).\nThe passage Issaih 14:4-21 is a taunt to to berate King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.\n\nI suspect you knew the answer you wanted before you posted the question.
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In Hinduism, an avatar or avatara (Sanskrit अवतार), is the incarnation (bodily manifestation) of an Immortal Being, or of the Ultimate Supreme Being. It derives from the Sanskrit word avatāra which means "descent" and usually implies a deliberate descent into mortal realms for special purposes.
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No, there isn't. And the Mayas didn't predict the end of the world.\n They were so advanced in cosmology that they created a 10.000 years calendar to predict solar and lunar solstis, for sacrefices, war, games....\n The Maya calendar stop at the 21-23 december 2012,it's on the same date that our solar system will be aline perfectly with the milky way.( we are right now under it )\n For them it was the end of an era, not the world. They said that with this phenomena, humanity will go from darkness into the light and open new frontier for us to explore.\nIn fact all the texts on the subject are not totally translated so nobody knows, when that happens, what will happen.\n No end of the world just a prediction like Y2K and other...
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It is NOT the end of their "time records" --their Long Count calendar is rolling over from 12 Baktuns to 13 Baktuns, not unlike our calendar going from 1999 to 2000, except that a Baktun is 400 years long.\n\nOn the date 13.00.00.00.00, which is 12-21-2012, this is what WILL happen (there's no "expect" about it): There will be an astrological alignment between the sun and the dark area of the Milky Way at dawn.  This alignment will not take place again for thousands of years.  The Maya believed that the dark area of the Milky Way was the birth canal of the universe so therefore, when the sun came up out of the dark area, it was being reborn.  \n\nA lot of people have interpreted that to mean that it's the end of the world.  Actually it's the beginning of a new one.  This world's already dead--that's why it's so awful right now.\n\n\nRead "Maya Cosmogenesis 2012" by John Major Jenkins for a lot more on this subject. Read my 2012 article on my Jaguar Nights blog for other information on that day.
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On the morning of the winter solstice, 12-21-2012, the sun will rise against the dark area of the Milky Way and be reborn.\n\nThere's a lot going around about the Mayan calendar ending (not true) and the world ending (also not true).  It's just a cool astronomical alignment that doesn't happen again for thousands of years.\n\nRead "Maya Cosmogenesis 2012" by John Major Jenkins for a lot more on this subject. Read my 2012 article on my Jaguar Nights blog for other information on that day.
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The Wikipedia says this: one facile with words, witch, shape-shifter, and animal co-essence. The last is a name for an entity, to which refers a widespread and ancient Mesoamerican belief that one part of the souls of humans (or human-like figures, such as gods), manifests itself as a sort of animal (or phenomenon, such as lightning) of a spiritual character. The Mayan term is way. The belief is still current in many parts of Mesoamerica, though the term may vary. Nagual has found its way into the Mexican Spanish idiom, with the meaning lie or trick.\nI am not one.
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I saw a program recently that indicated:\n\n"End of Days" and "the year 2012" in the same matrix.\n\nAnd of course this being the same year "2012" that the Mayan calendar ends.
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The Mayan name for merchants was ppolm.   These ppolm became highly respected and important members of Mayan society.
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It's the Mayan calendar, not the Aztec. And it doesn't end. It simply POINTS very strongly at a certain day: Dec 21, 2012. That day in the Long Count (the name of that particular calendar) is 13.00.00.00.00. The next day is \n13.00.00.00.01. No endings.\nWhat happens on that day is simply this: it's a grand astronomical alignment that takes 26,000 years to repeat (due to precession of the equinoxes). On that morning, which is the winter solstice, the sun rises against the background of the Milky Way, in particular a dark area toward its center. The Maya thought that dark spot was the birth canal of the universe. (Actually it's very close to the center of our galaxy). So what happens when the sun comes out a birth canal? It's REBORN. That's what it's about. Not endings. This world is already dead and we're in the birth pangs of that new world coming in.\nRead Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 by John Major Jenkins for more on this subject.
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Why do people ask questions that they can easily get answered by typing one word into a search engine and reading one of the links that come up?\n\nHonestly... go to google. Type Mayan into the search field. Then click on the first link you see. \n\nIt will tell you immediately about them and who knows, you may learn something new.
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Honestly I couldn't find that it meant anything in any language. The closest match is this:\n\nZenia\nPronunciation: (zē'nē-u, zēn'yu)\na female given name: from a Greek word meaning “hospitality.”
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http://www.earthmatrix.com/orbital/solar_system_maya.htm.\ncheck this out - i am also not sure about the correct answer
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The predictions of the Mayan Calendar have been accurate, and the changes predicted are already happening if you know what you look for. The end of the Mayan Calendar is not the end of the world but the end up an age and a birth into a new one. It's the crumbling of old forms and institutions, replaced by more egalitarian ones..the weakening of the dominance of the West and the left brain/masculine, and the strengthening of the East, the right brain and the "feminine"... it's also the birth of a more spiritually attuned age. The signs of this shift are everywhere, but certain people are focused more on what is going wrong.
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Depends on the Mayan language. Mayan is actually a language family, so I imagine there are several words for "crystal". My advice would be to look in a more extensive dictionary of a Mayan language. I found two online dictionaries online in Yucatec, one is quite large, but you have to click on the words individually to find out what they mean. The other does not have "crystal" specifically, but has the words for glass "píichi" and rock "tunich". There are also dictionaries available on Amazon in some of the Mayan languages.