THE MAYA
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- 1. Yucatec Mayan name of the fourth Tzolkin day sign, the Seed.
- 3. A permutational table of the Tzolkin.
- 7. The yearly 365-day calendar.
- 9. Quiché Mayan word for the 260-day Tzolkin count.
- 10. Mayan name for the feathered serpent.
- 12. Yucatec Mayan name of the fourteenth Tzolkin day sign, the Jaguar.
- 13. Important postclassic city in the Yucatán.
- 14. Yucatec Mayan name of the first Tzolkin day sign, the Alligator.
- 16. Quiché Mayan name for a calendar day keeper.
- 18. Yucatec Mayan name of the fifteenth Tzolkin day sign, the Eagle.
- 19. Yucatec Mayan name of the nineteenth Tzolkin day sign, the Storm.
- 20. The postclassic-period invaders of the Yucatán peninsula.
- 21. The order of jaguar priests responsible for prophecy.
- 26. The largest named period of the calendar. A period of 1.26 billion years.
- 27. Yucatec Mayan name of the seventeenth Tzolkin day sign, Earth.
- 31. The black western bacab.
- 33. Yucatec Mayan name of the second Tzolkin day sign, the Wind.
- 34. “One god,” or “the giver of movement and measure.”
- 37. The gods of the four directions.
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- 2. The southern yellow bacab.
- 3. The nine lords of the underworld.
- 4. A calendar period of just under 400 years.
- 5. Yucatec Mayan name of the twentieth Tzolkin day sign, the Sun.
- 6. Yucatec Mayan name of the twelfth Tzolkin day sign, the Road.
- 8. Yucatec Mayan name of the sixth Tzolkin day sign, Death.
- 9. The four junction roads of Maya mythology.
- 11. The red eastern bacab.
- 13. Yucatec Mayan name of the fifth Tzolkin day sign, the Serpent.
- 15. Yucatec Mayan name of the eighteenth Tzolkin day sign, the Mirror.
- 17. Pre-Mayan site in the south of Mexico considered the possible birthplace of the Long Count.
- 18. Yucatec Mayan name of the ninth Tzolkin day sign, the Moon.
- 22. Mayan greeting meaning, “I am another yourself.”
- 23. A calendar period of just under 400 years.
- 24. Important postclassic city in the Yucatán.
- 25. Yucatec Mayan name of the sixteenth Tzolkin day sign, the Vulture.
- 26. The flood that destroyed the last world.
- 28. Yucatec Mayan name of the seventh Tzolkin day sign, the Deer.
- 29. Yucatec Mayan name of the thirteenth Tzolkin day sign, the Reed.
- 30. Yucatec Mayan name of the eleventh Tzolkin day sign, the Monkey.
- 32. A day; also used as a mantra.
- 35. Yucatec Mayan name of the third Tzolkin day sign, the House.
- 36. Yucatec Mayan name of the eighth Tzolkin day sign, the Rabbit.