Maya vs. Blender — What's the Difference?

A member of a Mesoamerican Indian people inhabiting southeast Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize, whose civilization reached its height around AD 300-900. The Maya are noted for their architecture and city planning, their mathematics and calendar, and their hieroglyphic writing system.

A blender (sometimes called a mixer or liquidiser in British English) is a kitchen and laboratory appliance used to mix, crush, purée or emulsify food and other substances. A stationary blender consists of a blender container with a rotating metal blade at the bottom, powered by an electric motor that is in the base.

A modern-day descendant of this people.

A person or thing that mixes things together, in particular an electric mixing machine used in food preparation for liquidizing, chopping, or pureeing.

Any of the Mayan languages, especially Quiché and Yucatec.

One that blends, especially an electrical appliance with whirling blades for chopping, mixing, or liquefying foods.

In Hinduism, Buddhism, and certain other East Asian religions, the transitory, manifold appearance of the sensible world, which obscures the undifferentiated spiritual reality from which it originates; the illusory appearance of the sensible world.

A machine with sharp rotating blades in a bowl, for mashing, crushing, or liquefying food ingredients.

(Hinduism) The power of a god or demon to transform a concept into an element of the sensible world.

(theatre) A piece of fabric sewn into the front of a theatrical wig to make it blend in with the performer's natural hair.

Magic; supernatural power as held by the gods.

(quilting) A subtly patterned fabric printed in different shades of a single color, often used in place of a solid to create visual texture.

The power by which the universe is made to appear; the illusion of the phenomenal world, as opposed to its true or spiritual reality.

One who, or that which, blends; an instrument, as a brush, used in blending.

The name (in Vedantic philosphy) for the doctrine of the unreality of matter, called, in English, idealism; hence, nothingness; vanity; illusion.

An electrically powered mixer with whirling blades that mix or chop or liquefy foods

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 higher grade of culture than any other American people. They cultivated a variety of crops, were expert in the manufacture and dyeing of cotton fabrics, used cacao as a medium of exchange, and were workers of gold, silver, and copper. Their architecture comprised elaborately carved temples and palaces, and they possessed a superior calendar, and a developed system of hieroglyphic writing, with records said to go back to about 700 a. d.

The language of the Mayas.

A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy;

An ethnic minority speaking Mayan languages and living in Yucatan and adjacent areas

A family of American Indian languages spoken by Mayan peoples