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Excerpt: Take Your Next Vacation in the Riviera Maya It is about time make plans for your next vacation getaway. The Riviera Maya is the perfect place for just about anything you want in a vacation destination. Riviera Maya is the title that was given to the charming Caribbean shoreline in Mexico, which stretches south of Cancun close to the Sian Ka’an Biosphere reserve. Whether you’re planning to reside in a fashionable and stunning oceanfront community filled with visitors and residents from around the world, or just…
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Your Vacation in the Riviera Maya
September 9th, 2010Spiritual Ignorance (maya) As Mentioned in Vedanta Philosophy
April 29th, 2010Archived; click post to view.
Excerpt: One will gasp in disbelief when one is told that various colors seen in this world of objects are actually non-existent. Every object is basically colorless but when it is exposed to solar rays these objects absorb certain colors from the rays and reject others. It is only on this basis that we see ‘colored’ objects. That color not absorbed by an object is sent back i.e. reflected. This reflected light enters our eye and thus we think that object to be of the reflected…
Into the World of Maya
April 29th, 2010Archived; click post to view.
Excerpt: If we are to talk about computer animation and the software associated with it, there is one name we can’t afford to miss—that’s ‘Maya’! Maya is the leading name in 3D animation and rendering software for its high-end features and unique capabilities. Getting its name from the Sanskrit word for ‘illusion’, Maya indeed lives up to it by its powerfully impressive potential, which have enraptured all the animation-crazy creatures of the present world. To let you in this world of illusion and Maya, you must…
Mayan Culture
April 28th, 2010Archived; click post to view.
Excerpt: Mayan Culture. One of the most important civilizations of the pre-Columbian Mesoamerica was the Mayan culture that extended by different region from modern Mexico – Yucatan, Logwood, Quintana Roo, Chiapas and Tabasco. Mayan centers flourished in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador. The majority of the investigations agrees in indicating that the first Mayans arose from the coast of the gulf of Mexico and that soon began a migratory flow took that them to expand, between 800 BC 1500 AD, by zones of Chiapas, the coast of Guatemala, the Guatemalan Peten and the Yucatan Peninsula. Like practically all the civilizations…
Mayan Art
April 28th, 2010Archived; click post to view.
Excerpt: The Mayan art is a reflection of their style of life and culture. The Mayan art was pronounced, in drawings and paintings in fresh, low and high paper or to the relief in stone, wood, mud, jade, and bone, as well as mud figurines. Mayan art took shape in the course the Preclassic period (1500 B.C. to 250 A.D.), flowered during the Classic period (c. 200 to 900 AD), and went through a Postclassic phase until the upheavals of the sixteenth century destroyed courtly culture and put an end to a great artistic tradition. The Olmecs, Teotihuacan and the Toltecs…
