Peoples
- The Maya — a Native American peoples of southern Mexico and northern Central America
- --- Maya Peoples — the contemporary indigenous peoples
- --- Maya Civilization — the historical pre-Columbian civilization
- --- Mayan Languages — the family of languages spoken by the Maya
- Maya Language - an unclassified language of Brazil that may be related to the Panoan family
Art and Entertainment
Music
Television
- Maya – an hour-long television adventure series
- Maya The Bee – a character in a popular German children's book and television series
- , an alien character on the television series ''Space: 1999''
- Maya Chinn , a character from the American daytime soap opera ''Passions'', as portrayed by Kyrie Maezumi .
Religion
- Maya (Hinduism) — a concept in Hindu/Vedic philosophy
- --- a state of misperception of reality
- --- the inherent force of the Divine Mother (Devi)
- Maya (illusion) — a concept in Dharmic philosophy
- --- the illusion of physical reality or superimposition of finite perception on the infinite reality
- --- the idea of seeing the whole world as an illusion
- Mayasura , a demon (and a great architect) often known by the name Maya.
- Queen Maya , the mother of the historical Buddha
Other
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