Maya may refer to:
People and languages
- The Maya, Native American peoples of southern Mexico and northern Central America
- Maya civilization, their historical pre-Columbian civilization
- Mayan languages, the family of languages spoken by the Maya
- Yucatec Maya language, specific and most widespread Mayan language, frequently referred to simply as Maya
- Maya people (Australia), an Australian Aboriginal tribe
- Maya language (Australia), an Aboriginal language
- Badimaya language, an Aboriginal language of Australia, also known as "Parti-Maya"
- Maya language (Brazil), an unclassified language that may be related to the Panoan languages
Religion and mythology
- The Sanskrit word "Illusion".
- Maya (Jainism), translated as "greed"; one of the 18 traditional undesirables in Jainism
- Maya (illusion), a concept in Hindu and Dharmic philosophy
- Mayasura, a Hindu demon often known by the name Maya
- Queen Maya, the mother of the historical Buddha
Historical persons
- Maya (Egyptian) (13th century BC), the treasurer to Pharaoh Tutankhamun of Egypt
- Maya (Korean singer) (b. 1979), K-Pop singer
- Maya Angelou (b. 1928), African-American author and poet
- Maya Bond (b. 2000), Japanese American singer
- Maya Bond (actress) (b. 1931), Canadian actress
- Maya Deren (1917-1961), American avant-garde filmmaker
- Maya Gold (b. 1981), stage name of a Hungarian pornographic actress
- Maya Jobarteh (b. 1983), West African kora player
- Maya Lin (b. 1959), American architect and sculptor, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Maya Mishalska (b. 1974), Mexican actress
- Maya Plisetskaya (b. 1925), Russian ballerina
- Maya Ritter (b. 1993), Canadian actress
- Maya Rudolph (b. 1972), American actress and Saturday Night Live cast member
Geographical locations
- Maya, Australia, a location in Western Australia
- Maya Biosphere Reserve, a nature reservation in northern Guatemala
- Maya Karimata, an island in West Borneo, Indonesia
- Maya Mountains, a range in Guatemala and Belize
- Maya River, a river in the region of Sakha, Russia
- Mount Maya, a mountain in Kobe, Japan and the namesake of the Navy cruiser
Technology
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Maya Gallo, a character in the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me''
Art, film, literature, music, TV
- Apocalypto, a 2006 movie by Mel Gibson
- Maya, a 1999 book by Jostein Gaarder
- Maya, a song by the Incredible String Band from the 1968 album Wee Tam and the Big Huge
- Maya (album), by Banco de Gaia
- Maya (film), a 2001 film by Digvijay Singh
- Maya (1966 film), a 1966 American film starring Sajid Khan and Jay North.
- Maya (TV series), a U.S. television adventure series that ran from 1967 to 1968 and was a follow-up to the 1966 film
- Maya Memsaab, a 1992 Bollywood movie directed by Ketan Mehta
- Maya with Doll, a 1938 painting by Pablo Picasso of his daughter Maya
- Tamperer featuring Maya, a British pop group
Other
- Maya, the Filipino name for the Eurasian Tree Sparrow
- Maya Gold, a brand of orange-flavoured, organic chocolate produced by Green & Black's
- Maya sticks, pieces of resin-rich wood used as a firestarter
See also
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Maya civilization is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as its spectacular art, monumental architecture, and sophisticated mathematical and astronomical systems.
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Mayan languages (alternatively: Maya languages)[1] form a language family spoken in Mesoamerica and northern Central America. Mayan languages are spoken by at least 6 million indigenous Maya, primarily in Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize.
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Yucatec Maya ("Yukatek Maya" in the revised orthography of the Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala) is a Mayan language spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula, northern Belize and parts of Guatemala.
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Badimaya is an Australian Aboriginal language. It is a member of the Kartu subgroup of the Southwest branch of the Pama-Nyungan family.
Badimaya country lies in the area between Mt Magnet and Dalwallinu.
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Maya, perhaps also known as
Quixito, is a language found in Brazil. Its classification is unclear. It may be one of the Panoan languages or possibly Mayoruna.
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Maya (Sanskrit माया māyā
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In Hindu mythology, Maya (मय), or Mayasura (मयासुर) was a great ancient king of the Asura, Daitya and Rakshasa races upon earth. He was also the chief architect of the peoples of the netherworlds.
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Queen Māyā was the birth mother of the historical Buddha, Siddhārtha of the Gautama gotra, and sister of Mahapajapati Gotami the first woman ordained by the Buddha. "Māyā" means "illusion" or "enchantment" in Sanskrit and Pāli.
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Maya was the Treasurer during the reign of Pharaoh Tutankhamun of the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt. He was also an important official under Horemheb; noted for restoring the burials of several earlier Pharoahs in the Royal Necropolis in the years following the deaths of
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Maya (마야) (born Kim Young Sook (김영숙) on 17 November 1979) is a Korean singer. Her family includes one brother and 3 sisters. Her hobbies are skiing and scuba diving. She was educated at the Seoul Institute of the Arts.
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Maya Bond (Japanese: マヤ人〔マヤ語 ボンド; born August 5, 2000 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese-born American indie and experimental music singer-songwriter and drummer from Austin,
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Maya Deren (April 29, 1917, Kiev – October 13, 1961, New York City), born Eleanora Derenkowsky, was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, poet, writer and photographer.
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Maya Sona Jobarteh is a Malian musician. She was born in 1983 into one of the five principal Kora-playing Griot families from West Africa. She is the granddaughter of the Master Griot of his generation, Amadu Bansang Jobarteh, and cousin of the well-known, celebrated Kora player
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Maya Ying Lin (Chinese: 林瓔; Pinyin: Lín Yīng; born October 5, 1959) is an American artist who has become known for her work in sculpture and landscape art. She is the niece of Lin Huiyin.
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Maya Mishalska (born Maya Mishalska Harasymowicz on December 8, 1974 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Mexican actress
She began playing the violin at the age of six. Through ten years of studies at the Music Conservatory, she looked for an opportunity to experiment in theatre.
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Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya (Russian: Майя Михайловна Плисецкая
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Maya Ritter (born November 9, 1993 in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada) is a young Canadian actress.
Film
- Chasing the Devil -- Supporting/Teen Angela -- Network Lifetime
- Right Hand Man -- Supporting/Young Raquel -- Right Hand Man Films/Christopher Smets
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Maya Rudolph (right) with Donatella Versace
Birth name Maya Khabira Rudolph
Born July 27 1972 (1972--) (age 35)
Gainesville, Florida,
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Maya Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera Maya) is a nature reserve in Guatemala managed by Guatemala's National Council of Protected Areas (CONAP). It comprises Laguna del Tigre National Park, the Mirador Basin, the Sierra del Lacandón National Park, the Río Azul
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Maya Karimata (also called Maya or Maja) is an island in Ketapang district in Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. Its area is 992,1 km2. It belongs to the Borneo archipelago and is situated at Lat: 1.15º S Long : 109.55º E The highest altitude of the island is 509 m.
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Maya Mountains are a mountain range in Belize and eastern Guatemala. The tallest mountain is Victoria Peak at 3,675 feet (1,120 m). The peak is located about 256 km (160 mi) south of Belmopan, Belize's capital.
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Origin Dzhugdzhur Mountains
Mouth Aldan River
Basin countries Russia
Length 1,087 km
Avg. discharge 1,180 m³/s
Basin area 171,000 km²
Maya River (Russian:
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Mount Maya (摩耶山, maya-san
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Maya (Japanese: まや Kanji: 摩耶) was one of four Takao-class heavy cruisers, designed to be an improvement over the previous Myōkō-class design.
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Type Military trainer aircraft
Manufacturer Aero Vodochody
Designed by Z. Rublič and K. Tomá?
Maiden flight 5 May 1959
Introduced 1961
Status Retired; popular civilian warbird
Primary users Soviet Air Force
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Maya is a high-end 3D computer graphics and 3D modeling software package originally developed by Alias Systems Corporation, but now owned by Autodesk as part of the Media and Entertainment division. Autodesk acquired the software in October 2005 upon purchasing Alias.
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The Maya Signature Series is an 6 string electric guitar created by Washburn Guitars for Disturbed guitarist Dan Donegan.
It consists of 2 different models and specifications.
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Maya Gallo was a fictional character on the former NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me!, where she was played by Laura San Giacomo. Originally, Maya was intended to be the show's main character, but the series instead began to more prominently feature David Spade's character Dennis
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