Mesoamerican in a sentence

The Mesoamerican calendar, numeral system, writing, and much of the Mesoamerican pantheon seem to have begun with the Olmec.

The theory of the Flower World is relatively recent in studies of pre-Conquest Mesoamerican culture.

When Kirk meets the Mesoamerican deity Kukulkan, he merely explains to the all-powerful serpent that humanity how outgrown the need for gods.

If its decorations resemble bones, it’s because Mesoamerican worldviews regarded them as the origin of life.

Initially, Clay says seeing deer is a good omen according to Mesoamerican mythology, but it's clearly a sign of the bad things to come.

Clad in a jaguar-print catsuit and blue sneakers, Sepulveda reclaims the house as a Mesoamerican space in a modern city.

The more plausible judgment, however, is that we were an expensive irrelevance, not so different from the Mesoamerican priesthoods of earlier centuries.

While stones and crystals are another ubiquitous part of magical lore, obsidian was once an integral part of Mesoamerican cultures.

The 300-km long Belize Barrier Reef is a part of the 900-km Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, starting from Cancún on the north-eastern tip of the Yucatán Peninsula through the Riviera Maya and up to Honduras.

Boremanse 1986: 30-38 The creation of humankind is concluded by the Mesoamerican tale of the opening of the Maize (or Sustenance) Mountain by the Lightning deities.

Cristóbal de Olid leads Spanish soldiers with Tlaxcalan allies in the conquest of Jalisco, 1522 Despite the decline of the Aztec empire, most of the Mesoamerican cultures were intact after the fall of Tenochtitlan.

Currency system Cacao beans constituted both a ritual beverage and a major currency system in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations.

Dishes such as the very traditional tamale and many others made of corn are the most representative of its indigenous inhabitants, and similar to other neighboring Mesoamerican countries.

Form The chacmool is a distinctive form of Mesoamerican sculpture representing a reclining figure with its head facing 90 degrees from the front, leaning on its elbows and supporting a bowl or a disk upon its chest.

For the same reason the notion of "Aztec civilization" is best understood as a particular horizon of a general Mesoamerican civilization.

He was identified with the Milky Way, the stars and the heavens in several Mesoamerican cultures.

History seeAlso Mesoamerican usage A Maya lord forbids an individual from touching a container of chocolate.

It is supposed that Mesoamerican sites and ceremonial centers frequently had actual trees planted at each of the four cardinal directions, representing the quadripartite concept.

London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. p. 59 Laws forbidding divination practice continue to this day. citation Mesoamerica seeAlso Divination was a central component of ancient Mesoamerican religious life.

Mesoamerica main A number of Mesoamerican cultures also built pyramid-shaped structures.