in costa rica they call a USB flash drive a "llave maya" which means "Mayan key".....

[Gato Moteado]

...and for the life of me i can't figure out why. i think it's a cool name, but i don't know how it originated.

any ideas?

[panader0]

1. If you live down there please PM me.

[FreepFryer]

2. Is this why?

Book released last year.

http://keithajones.com/Mayan_Key.html

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Mayan-Key/Keith-Jones/e/9781930486713/?itm=1

[Gato Moteado]

3. i'm missing the connection.....

but there might be one there.

by the way, i like your DU name!

[FreepFryer]

5. :) Thanks Gato! :) I just thought it might've been a popularized term from the book. Still googling!

[Gato Moteado]

10. i've asked costa ricans in the high tech field and they don't even know where the name comes from

i googled around and came up short.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Is it llave meaning key or island

an island stands alone?

[Gato Moteado]

8. like a key to open a lock

nt

[lapfog_1]

6. A legend about a key of power that extends the calendar beyond 2012?

MAYAN KEY
By Keith Jones

THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED SEQUEL !

Russell Palmer's adventure in the Yucatan Peninsula continues as he strives to recover the valuable Mayan key to extend time beyond December 2012. But his efforts pit Palmer against local authorities, brutal opportunists, and superstitious Mayan legends. Palmer unwillingly pulls police officer Gabriela Reynoso into his quest as they race to Belize to uncover ancient clues. Will Palmer survive this triumvirate of doom?

http://keithajones.com/Mayan_Key.html

[SpiralHawk]

11. Life will go on after 2012

http://www.chiron-communications.com/communique%207-10.html

"Anthropologists visit the temple sites," Mr. Barrios says, "and read the stelas and inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. It’s just their imagination...Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed. The indigenous have the calendars, and know how to accurately interpret it, not others."

"...It will change," Mr. Barrios observes. "Everything will change." He said Mayan Daykeepers view the Dec. 21, 2012 date as a rebirth, the start of the World of the Fifth Sun. It will be the start of a new era resulting from — and signified by — the solar meridian crossing the galactic equator, and the earth aligning itself with the center of the galaxy...

"... The dark power of the declining Fourth World cannot be destroyed or overpowered. It’s too strong and clear for that, and that is the wrong strategy. The dark can only be transformed when confronted with simplicity and open-heartedness. This is what leads to fusion, a key concept for the World of the Fifth Sun."

[SpiralHawk]

7. In La'kech

Hunab Ku, Baby

[alfredo]

9. I prefer having a Church Key

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchkey

[Prefer]

12. maya

Main Entry:
ma·ya Listen to the pronunciation of maya
Pronunciation:
\ˈmä-yə, ˈmī-ə\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Sanskrit māyā
Date:
1788

: the sense-world of manifold phenomena held in Vedanta to conceal the unity of absolute being; broadly : illusion

a hiding key?

[Judi Lynn]

13. Now that you've raised the question, I hope someone knows EXACTLY what it means! n/t

[Gato Moteado]

15. me too!

nt

[Swamp Rat]

14. Porque Ticos son bien pura vida.

tuanis :D :hi:

[Gato Moteado]

16. que tal?

solo bueno aqui en costa rica!

[Swamp Rat]

17. Más o menos bien

aquí en New Orleans. :hi: