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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PYR-RAY |
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QUICHE or KIcIds, a tribe of Central American Indians of Mayan stock. They inhabited western Guatemala, where their descendants still survive. They were at the time of the conquest the most powerful of the three Mayan peoples in Guatemala, the other two being the Cakchiquel and the Zutugil. Their chronicles are said to date back to the 8th century. Their sacred book, the Popol Vuh, containing a mythological cosmogony, survives in a 17th-century manuscript
capital was Utatlan, near the site of the modern Santa Cruz Quiche, and was skilfully fortified. They had an elaborate system
See further CENTRAL AMERICA and MEXICO
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Mass ., 1901), and W. Bollaert in Proc. Roy. Soc. Lit. vii. 1862.End of Article: QUICHE If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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