Maya Prophecy Test 1

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According to Mould, the three types of prophecy based on time.

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Fulfilled, unfulfilled, ongoing

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According to Wilson, the three types of prophecy.

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Precognitive, disaster, religious

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What are elements of performance in Choctaw prophecy?

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Historical contextualization
The Core
Statements of surprise
Validation of elders
Contrasting context

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What might apocalyptic literature include?

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Other-worldy journey/visionary experience. Uses symbolism. Designed to help audience understand world around them & make a change of behavior toward the Divine

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According to Mould, the two types of prophecies based on content.

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Event prophecies & state-of-affairs prophecies

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Mother Shipton

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Predicted inventions such as submarines, the fate of some British leaders, and that the world would end in 1881.

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Nostradamus

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Wrote in quatrains, is more well-known now than in his own time.

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Isaiah

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Old Testament prophet who foretold the coming of the Messiah & predicted things about him including his birth & how others would perceive him.

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According to Inca tradition, the moment when "a new day for Earth will awaken."

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"When the condor of the South flies with the eagle of the North"

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The physical state Edgar Cayce was in when he received and delivered his prophecies.

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Sleeping. Self-induced hypnotism

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Bishop Diego de Landa

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Asked a Maya lord to write down sounds of Spanish alphabet using Maya glyphs. Also destroyed all Maya codices he could find (missed 4)

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Event in 1973 at which Mayanists from all over started to work together to work on the decipherment of Maya glyphs.

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Mesa Redonda at Pelenque

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Yuri Knorosov

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The first to propose that the Maya writing system was both logographic and phonetic. Was ignored/disputed because he lived in USSR.

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Tatiana Proskouriakoff

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A graduate of Penn State, she was the first to discover that the writing on monuments told the history of real people, not the stories of gods.

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David Stuart

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Yougest Maya scholar. Followed dad to different Maya sites as a child, helped Linda Schele with drawings of Pelenque, and gave first academic paper about the glyphs at age 12.

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Tzolk'in

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Calendar used for divination/prophetic purposes. Has 260 days (13 mos of 20 named days) & usually starts on 1 Imix.

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Long Count

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Established in pre-classic period. Counts linear time from the Maya date of the beginning of the current era (August 11, 3114 BCE in Gregorian calendar)

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The time it will take for any specific combo of a tzolk'in date and a haab' date to repeat

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52 years

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Haab'

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The Maya calendar that approximates the tropical seasonal year. Has 365 days (18 winals w/ 20 days & 1 winal w/ 5 days)

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The maximum number of coefficents that can precede each of the 20 tzolk'in days.

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13

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The Maya philosophy of time, which impacts the forms of their calendars and their perspective on prophecy.

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Cyclical

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Approximately how many different Maya dialects are there today?

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31

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Olmecs

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An early pre-classic civilization that was probably the mother civilization for all Mesoamerican civilizations.

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The contemporary countries containing territory that the ancient Maya occupied and which the current Maya also occupy

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Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador

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How long did the Classic period of Maya civilization last?

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250 CE -- 925 CE

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Tun

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360 days, counted by 13s & 20s

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Katun

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20 tuns

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Baktun

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20 katuns

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May

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13 katuns

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Long Count form

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B. K. T. W. Kin

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Calendar Round

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Haab' and tzolk'in together

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Base count of Maya numbers

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20

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Classic Maya recorded important dates on their momuments using:

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Long Count date, Tzolk'in date, AND haab' date all together

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Jose Calderon

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Found Pelenque, but didn't make accurate drawings of the glyphs

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Constantine Rafinesque

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Deciphered the Maya number system

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Ernst Forstemann

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Deciphered the Maya calendar system using the Dresden Codex; also discovered their astronomical prowess (Venus & lunar cycles)

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Cyrus Thomas

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Believed that some glyphs in de Landa's alphabet could be phonetic, but was shot down by Eduard Seler and didn't pursue it

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Alfred Maudsley

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Used photos and molds to create accurate representations of Maya glyphs

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Eduard Seler

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Beleived Maya glyphs were ONLY logographic and is the reason Cyrus Thomas didn't pursue his phonetic ideas

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Joseph Goodman

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Correlated Maya calendar with Gregorian calendar

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Eric Thompson

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Carnegie scholar who was foremost in Maya glyphs; thought Maya were peaceful people obsessed with time and astronomy; did his best to discredit Yuri Knorosov's ideas

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Merle Green Robertson

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Had the first major scholarly conference about Maya held at a Maya site

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Peter Matthews and Linda Schele

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Together cracked the dynastic history of Pelenque and the glyphs on Pakal's sarcophagus

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Elizabeth Benson

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Found a new glyph on Pakal's sarcophagus that opened up the translation of other glyphs, enabling her to translate 200 years of Pelenque monarchy