maya

• ⇰ The name (in Vedantic philosphy) for the doctrine of the unreality of matter, called, in English, idealism>; hence, nothingness; vanity; illusion.
• ⇰ the Hindu goddess personifying the power that creates phenomena.
• ⇰ the power to produce illusions.

• ⇰ the Indian people occupying the area of Veracruz, Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, and Yucatan, together with a part of Guatemala and a part of Salvador. The Maya peoples are dark, short, and brachycephalic, and at the time of the discovery had attained a hig
• ⇰ the language of the Mayas.