Nin appeared in the Kenneth Anger film Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome ( 1954 ) as Astarte ; in the Maya Deren film Ritual in Transfigured Time ( 1946 ); and in Bells of Atlantis ( 1952 ), a film directed by Guiler under the name " Ian Hugo " with a soundtrack of electronic music by Louis and Bebe Barron.

The next day he took part in Poetry And The Film, a recorded symposium at Cinema 16, with panellists Amos Vogel, Arthur Miller, Maya Deren, Parker Tyler, and Willard Maas.

* Deren, Maya.

** Maya Deren, Russian-born filmmaker ( b. 1917 )

Meshes of the Afternoon ( 1943 ) is a short experimental film directed by wife-and-husband team, Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid.

Directors Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid portrayed the role of the woman and the man.

" — Maya Deren on Meshes of the Afternoon, from DVD release Maya Deren: Experimental Films 1943 – 58.

: Maya Deren was a key figure in the development of the New American Cinema.

Maya Deren.

Maya Deren ( April 29, 1917, Kiev – October 13, 1961, New York City ), born Eleanora Derenkowskaia (), was one of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s.

It follows a woman, played by Maya Deren, who walks to her friends house in Los Angeles, falls asleep and has a dream.

" Maya Deren washes up on the shore of the beach, and climbs up a piece of driftwood that leads to a room lit by chandeliers, and one long table filled with business men smoking in suits.

When Maya Deren decided to make an ethnographic film in Haiti, she was criticized for abandoning avant-garde film where she had made her place, but she was ready to expand to a new level as an artist.

All of the original wire recordings, photographs and notes are held in the Maya Deren Collection at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.

In 1986, the American Film Institute created the Maya Deren Award to honor independent filmmakers.

The Legend of Maya Deren, Vol.

* In 1987, Jo Ann Kaplan directed a biographical documentary about Deren, titled Invocation: Maya Deren ( 65 min )

* In 2002, Martina Kudlacek directed a feature-length documentary about Deren, titled In the Mirror of Maya Deren ( Im Spiegel der Maya Deren ), which featured music by John Zorn.

Whorf argued that it was exactly the reluctance to apply linguistic analysis of Maya languages that had held the decipherment back.

Most notable among these were the Maya, who had built numerous cities throughout the region, and the Aztecs, who created a vast empire.

An early Classic ( 460 – 480 AD ) period Mayan tomb from the site of Rio Azul, Guatemala, had vessels with the Maya glyph for cacao on them with residue of a chocolate drink.

While the expedition was stopped in the Chontal Maya capital of Itzamkanac, known as Acalan in Nahuatl, Cortés had Cuauhtémoc executed for allegedly conspiring to kill him and the other Spaniards.

The Guatemalan region of Mesoamerica was dominated by the Maya civilization ( 2, 000 BC – AD 250 ), before the Spanish arrived in the 16th century ; although most of the great, Classic-era ( AD 250 – 900 ) Maya cities of the Petén Basin region, in the northern lowlands of Guatemala, had been abandoned by the year AD 1, 000 ; however, the states in the Guatemalan central highlands, flourished until the arrival of Pedro de Alvarado, the Spanish Conquistador who began subjugating the Indian states of Guatemala in 1525.

In order to conquer these last Maya sites, the Spaniards had to attack them on three fronts, one coming from Yucatán, another from Belize, and the third one from Alta Verapaz.

During the Vedic period, Indians ( Indo-Aryans ) had classified the material world into five elements: Earth ( Prithvi ), fire ( Agni ), air ( Maya ) and water ( Apa ), and ether ( Akasha ).

Cortés had located a Spanish priest, Gerónimo de Aguilar, who had spent several years in captivity among the Maya peoples in Yucatán following a shipwreck.

The Aztecs were fascinated by the sun and carefully observed it, and had a solar calendar similar to that of the Maya.

Given his age, the king probably had very powerful advisers, presumably including General Horemheb, the Vizier Ay, and Maya, the " Overseer of the Treasury ".

" Anthropologist Michael D. Coe of Yale University, an expert in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican studies, has written, " Of all the peoples of the pre-Columbian New World, only the ancient Maya had a complete script.

" Teotihuacan-inspired ideologies " and motifs persisted at Maya centers into the Late Classic, long after Teotihuacan itself had declined.

It is believed that Teotihuacan had a major influence on the Preclassic and Classic Maya, most likely by conquering several Maya centers and regions, including Tikal and the region of Peten, and influencing Maya culture.

In Histoire des nations civilisées du Mexique et de l ' Amérique Centrale ( 1857 ), Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg claimed Votan was an ancient Phoenician legislateur who had migrated from the Middle East to the Maya area, defeated a race called the Quiname, built the city of Palenque, and established an empire called Xibalba that was postulated by Brasseur de Bourbourg to have once covered all of Mexico and part of the United States.

Unlike the campaigns against the Aztec and Inca states, the Maya had no single political center whose overthrow would hasten the end of collective resistance by the indigenous peoples.

Over the succeeding years their numbers dwindled further as others were lost to disease or exhaustion, until only two were left – Gerónimo de Aguilar who had escaped his former captor and found refuge with another Maya ruler, and Gonzalo Guerrero who had won some prestige among the Maya for his bravery and had now the standing of a ranking warrior and noble.

Just like many other words often used in a different sense in spirituality the word " illusion " is used to denote different aspects in Hindu Philosophy ( Maya ).

The Mopán and Kekchí Maya maintained their languages and a strong sense of identity.

Excited by the way the dynamic of movement is greater than anything else within the film, Maya established a completely new sense of the word " geography " as the movement of the dancer transcends and manipulates the ideas of both time and space.

Waldemar Bonsels wrote only one children's book in the strict sense, Die Biene Maja ( Maya the Bee ).

In the course of Caged Bird, Maya, who has been described as " a symbolic character for every black girl growing up in America ", goes from being a victim of racism with an inferiority complex to a self-aware individual who responds to racism with dignity and a strong sense of her own identity.

Maya finds novels and their characters complete and meaningful, so she uses them to make sense of her bewildering world.

** Maya society, social constructs and practices of the Maya

After 100 AD, the area around Coba evidenced strong population growth, and with it an increase in its social and political status among Maya city states which would ultimately make Coba one of the biggest and most powerful city states in the northern Yucatán area.

Dance was a central component of social, religious, and political endeavours for the ancient Maya.

The serpent was a very important social and religious symbol, revered by the Maya.

Chocolate was available to Maya of all social classes, although the wealthy drank chocolate from elaborately decorated vessels.

When presenting the award to Lundbeck, Reprieve spokesperson Maya Foa said :“ Lundbeck ’ s action has changed the landscape of corporate social responsibility in the pharmaceutical industry.

Allen Wells calls his work an “ ethnographic masterpiece ”, while William J. Folan, Laraine A. Fletcher and Ellen R. Kintz have written that Landa ‘ s account of Maya social organization and towns before conquest is a “ gem .” Landa ’ s writings are our main contemporary source for Mayan history, without which our collective knowledge of Mayan ethnology would be devastatingly small.

Caste War of 1847 was an indigenous Maya rebellion against the social organization imposed by the Spanish.

The Maya Traditions Medicine Garden is a social project set up by the Maya Traditions Foundation which educates locals and visitors about the uses of local and other plants in herbal medecine.

Other notable pieces include a finely worked serpentine figure of Olmec mastery, elegant portrayals of Maya and Aztec noblewomen showcasing the integral roles women played in the social, political, economic, and spiritual realms of society, and miniature gold votives in the Muisca tradition.

Julian Lee ’ s observation that the Maya " drew no sharp distinction between the animate and the inanimate " and the remarks by Pendergast and others that sacrifices " ensouled " buildings and idols indicates a social meaning, as Reilly suggests, most akin to Transubstantiation – a literal rather than symbolic transformation on which the fate of the world and its inhabitants depended.

As with all known theocratic societies, it is likely the Maya political and religious elites played mutually reinforcing roles in supporting the position of the other and ensuring the social stability essential for both, with sacrifice rituals functioning as the performative centrepiece of communal integration.