Crossword-Solution: PALENQUE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Palenque | n. pl. | A collective name for the Indians of Nicaragua and Honduras. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “PALENQUE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| City of Mayan ruins | 1 answer |
| Mayan ruin site | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PALENQUE (5)
For two and a half months we struggled on across mountains and rivers and through swamps and forests, till at last we reached a mighty deserted city, that is called Palenque by the Indians of those parts, which has been uninhabited for many generations.
Some writers have held that we must give up the story of the past, “whether fact or chronology, doctrine or mythology—whether in Europe, Asia, Africa, or America—at Thebes, or Palenque—on Lycian shore, or Salisbury plain—lost is lost and gone is gone for evermore.” Such is the lament of a gifted writer,[2] amongst the first to ponder over the mysteries of the past.
The ruins of Palenque are the first which awakened attention to the existence of ancient ruins in America, and, therefore, it may not come amiss to state more particularly the circumstances of their first discovery.
His account, profusely illustrated, was the means of making known to a large class of readers the wonderful nature of the ruins, not only at Palenque, but in Yucatan as well.
This principle of construction is substantially the same for all the buildings in the interior of the court, and indeed for all the buildings at Palenque.
Quotes with PALENQUE (2)
Mexico, as it was in the 1970s — and isn’t now — was my Paris. With Mexicans, Europeans, and Americans I celebrated life and the journey, which took on qualities of a pilgrimage in which every moment was a movable feast and every place was a shrine. Among the intricately carved ruins in the jungle at Palenque, I partook of the Mayan sacrament, the sacred psilocybin mushroom, and there I learned to see.
Men cannot make good decisions about their lifelong mate when driven by the passions of youth. If Pakal is continuing to see this woman, I will immediately put this to an end." -- Sak K'uk, Queen Mother of Janaab Pakal, Ruler of Palenque.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1999–2007).