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theancientwayoflife · 21 hours

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~ Cylinder Vessel with Palace Scene.

Place of origin: Guatemala, Petén, Dos Pilas or vicinity

Culture: Maya, lk style

Date: A.D. 740–800

Medium: Slip-painted ceramic with post-fire pigment.

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retrogamingblog2 · 2 months

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Artist Sita Cardenas made a set of Kanto Starter Pokemon Mugs in Mayan art style

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archaeoart · 7 months

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The Great Turtle at Quiriguá, Guatemala, circa 1894.

#archaeology #history #mayan #maya #guatemala #sculpture

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tropic-havens · 9 months

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Mayan man on the Yucatán Peninsula, México

#mexico #caribbean #tropical #mayan #beach

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bluhdandbutter · 5 months

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Mayan croc vessel, Mexico AD 300-600, Los Angeles Country Museum of Art

#history #ancient artifacts #archaeology #mayan #mexico #mesoamerica #creature

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sol-nocturno · 1 year

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Josué Maychi on teaching Maya to the Wakanda Forever cast and a word play in one of Namor's lines.

The actor told us about a word play that only Maya speakers can understand. ---spoiler ahead--- “There is a phrase that Namor says that I had to translate that goes: 'Máansa'ab u nej miis tin wich' which in Spanish literally means 'They passed the cat's tail in front of my face with the hope of an alliance'. If you see cats, jaguars or panthers wag their tails when they go hunting because it is a way of hypnotizing their prey, so that image is what happened to Namor, that someone did that to him with their tail. I proposed it to the director and he loved it, because it refers to the panther that warned Namor, ” he said. Josué Maychi told us that in English the phrase was translated as: "I was blinded with the hope of an alliance", which in Maya metaphorically means that someone was deceived, since in Spanish or English it is not literal.

Compillation of Namor's lines in Yucatec Mayan In the interview for Cultura Colectiva, Josué Maychi, who plays the shaman in Black Panther : Wakanda Forever, spoke about his experience in the film in which at the same time, he collaborated as the Yucatec Maya coach for Mabel Cadena and Tenoch Huerta, every day for a period of seven months. “No one knew anything about Maya and my first approach with the actors was to ask them if they could pronounce the consonants and sounds that do not exist in Spanish, English or other languages, and I was very happy to discover that they could pronounce them” he commented.

How was the process of teaching Maya? “We had sessions by Zoom and then in Atlantla we had scheduled meetings because I needed to listen to them. The first thing I taught them was the sound of the words, because in Maya there are five types of vowels that have to do with time, and if if they prolongued (a vowel) it can mean one thing or another. I asked them to imagine their lines as a melody and also gave them recorded audios to listen to, read and even write. For example, Mabel created her own way of writing, she created her own writing to have a personal approach to the language, ” he said.

Do you remember any funny anecdote? “There is a phrase that we say in the film that is Líik’ik Talokan, (there's Wakanda Forever) which is said by the people of Wakanda. Once, Álex Livinalli wrote to me and asked what we could say for the world we were creating, about the new universe and in Maya. I thought about it and thought it might be that phrase, which means something like 'Long live Talokan' or 'Rise Talokan'. I proposed it to them, they proposed it to the production, they loved it and it was integrated into the script, ” he said. Finally, the actor pointed out that the representation of indigenous languages IS very important to him and mentioned that there are Mayan people who have proudly written him messages of gratitude, since they understood what they saw on the big screen.

#wakanda forever #black panther #talokan #talokanil #josue maychi #yucatec mayan #mayan #language #interview #namor #namora #attuma #marvel #mcu #spoiler #spoilers #tenoch huerta #mabel cadena #alex livinalli

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satoru-is-the-way · 1 year

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Avatar!Quaritch x Na'vi! Reader.

MASTER LIST (AVATAR WAY OF WATER)

" Given Enough"

(Series!)

SPOILERS FOR AVATAR 2

A/N: PLEASE READ. So I have decided I am in love with Avatar Rick Quaritch. I can't help it. So here is my mini fanfiction. I will be basing the character and her village on Mayan culture-ish because well I am Mayan. It will still have Eywa and all the Avatar stuff, just more in-depth to another culture and their ways. I may borrow some animals from Avatar TLA because of the tribe idea I have. So if you recognize some of the animals that's why. I will be using the Yucatan Mayan language but with translations side by side for their own dialect. Any questions ask me!

Warnings: Smut(SOME chapters I will add a warning), cussing, murder, derogatory names, death, depression, and more when added.

Tag List: @the-wanderer-2022 @zootsutra @anyzandy @kneelingforvillains @dioriez @mylovelyreblogs @dinobae-replyacc @voodoogoul @freshmoneyalmondathlete @thedumboneforsomereason @world-dominating-kitty @scarletpines @sofiebstar @vampire-hunter @cypherpt5fttaehyung @strangerdeeznuts @simpingfor-wakasa @tranquiiit @ellieparker @girlblogger2002 @happycupcakeenthusiast @willow-sages

IF YOU WANT TO BE ON IT ASK!

Summary:

(Y/n) (L/n) is the Olo'eyktan'a first born and future Tsahìk. She was raised to be a strong leader in wait of her time to be chosen a mate and take her mother's place. Their tribe is large in numbers and strong-hearted. There is not much known about the people, the Kaminaljuyú. They had little contact with humans before Jake Sullivan sent them back into the stars.

After a wounded Quaritch retreated he stumbled upon their village encountering (Y/n). She was unsure of him at first but saw this could be a sign of peace if she helped him. Her father approved of allowing him into the village for now. But Quaritch had his own plan. Why not fool the king's daughter? Use her to become the leader of what seemed to be the largest clan he had ever seen. Starting a civil war amongst the Navi would be the easiest way to get to Jake and the while Sullivan family,since human power cannot do it.

But what happens when he falls in love? Does he follow through with his plan? Or stay dedicated to his kind, the humans?

Chapters:

1 -The Invader

2 -Flying is lesson one

3 -Seasons change (SMUT)

4-The Metkayina

5-Always the Fool

6 -Love (SMUT) (30th)

#avatar x reader #na'vi avatar #avatar way of water #jake sully #neytiri #sully family #water tribe #metkayina #omatikaya #Mayan #colonel quaritch #Colonel quaritch avatar #colonel quaritch x reader #avatar x you #Avatar x Navi

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shisabun-art · 5 months

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Does this count as a gijinka? Meh, I'll say it does!

Monsterverse Rodan!

Since his home is a volcanic island off the coast of Mexico, I leaned heavily on Mayan/Olmec inspiration.

#gijinka #kaiju #rodan #godzilla #monsterverse #mayan #olmec #legendary godzilla #legendary rodan

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eopederson · 6 months

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Glifos mayas, Copán, Honduras, 2003.

#glphys #archaeology #mayan #copán #honduras #2003 #photographers on tumblr #black and white

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memories-of-ancients · 7 months

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Carved vase, Mayan, 750-900 AD

from Dumbarton Oaks

#history #antiquities #art #mayan #precolumbian art #mayan art

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vintagehomecollection · 7 months

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'My design for a master bedroom and bath en suite combines strong architectural elements resembling Mayan temple forms, with thick walls and massive volume, and furniture I designed with rich woods, such as macassar, which were in vogue in the 1920s. I had the walls done in a frescolike finish, creating a mysterious, ancient atmosphere,' shares Juan Montoya of this classically inspired bedroom.

Interior Visions: Great American Designers and the Showcase House, 1988

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retrogamingblog2 · 10 months

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Artist Sita Navas made a set of Kanto Starter Pokemon Mugs in Mayan art style

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randomnoteforfuturereference · 1 year

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This has probably been already-hashed and rehashed, but bears noting for my fellow non-indigenous folk with the release of Wakanda Forever:

"Maya" refers to the peoples, culture, society, etc. And it's the same whether it's plural or singular.

"Mayan" refers to the general language group.

And it's a very diverse ethnolinguistic group, with lots of mutual unintelligibility. Someone speaking Maya (yeah the Yucatec Maya language is called "Maya"...) in the Yucatán Peninsula is unlikely to understand someone speaking K'iche in the Guatemalan Highlands.

#namor #maya #wakanda forever #black panther #mayan

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tropic-havens · 8 months

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Mayan woman in México

#mexico #mayan #tropical #people

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reasonsforhope · 10 months

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"Beneath 1,350 square miles of dense jungle in northern Guatemala, scientists have discovered 417 cities that date back to circa 1000 B.C. and that are connected by nearly 110 miles of “superhighways” — a network of what researchers called “the first freeway system in the world.”

Scientist say this extensive road-and-city network, along with sophisticated ceremonial complexes, hydraulic systems and agricultural infrastructure, suggests that the ancient Maya civilization, which stretched through what is now Central America, was far more advanced than previously thought.

Mapping the area since 2015 using lidar technology — an advanced type of radar that reveals things hidden by dense vegetation and the tree canopy — researchers have found what they say is evidence of a well-organized economic, political and social system operating some two millennia ago.

The discovery is sparking a rethinking of the accepted idea that the people of the mid- to late-Preclassic Maya civilization (1000 B.C. to A.D. 250) would have been only hunter-gatherers, “roving bands of nomads, planting corn,” says Richard Hansen, the lead author of a study about the finding that was published in January and an affiliate research professor of archaeology at the University of Idaho.

“We now know that the Preclassic period was one of extraordinary complexity and architectural sophistication, with some of the largest buildings in world history being constructed during this time,” says Hansen, president of the Foundation for Anthropological Research and Environmental Studies, a nonprofit scientific research institution that focuses on ancient Maya history.

These findings in the El Mirador jungle region are a “game changer” in thinking about the history of the Americas, Hansen said. The lidar findings have unveiled “a whole volume of human history that we’ve never known” because of the scarcity of artifacts from that period, which were probably buried by later construction by the Maya and then covered by jungle.

Lidar, which stands for light detection and ranging, works via an aerial transmitter that bounces millions of infrared laser pulses off the ground, essentially sketching 3D images of structures hidden by the jungle. It has become a vital tool for archaeologists who previously relied on hand-drawings of where they estimated areas of note might be and, by the late 1980s, the first 3D maps.

When scientists digitally removed ceiba and sapodilla trees that cloak the area, the lidar images revealed ancient dams, reservoirs, pyramids and ball courts. El Mirador has long been considered the “cradle of the Maya civilization,” but the proof of a complex society already being in place circa 1000 B.C. suggests “a whole volume of human history that we’ve never known before,” the study says."

-via The Washington Post, via MSN, because Washington Post links don't work on tumblr for some godawful reason. May 20, 2023.