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QUICHE or KIcIds, a tribe of Central See also: American See also: Indians of Mayan stock
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They inhabited western See also: Guatemala, where their descendants still survive
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They were at the See also: time of the See also: conquest the most powerful of the three Mayan peoples in Guatemala, the other two being the See also: Cakchiquel and the Zutugil
.
Their See also: chronicles are said to date back to the 8th century
.
Their sacred See also: book, the Popol Vuh, containing a mythological cosmogony, survives in a 17th-century See also: manuscript written by a Christianized Guatemalan
.
To this tradition may be due the remarkable similarity of the Quiche creation See also: story to that of the Old Testament
.
Their capital was Utatlan, near the site of the See also: modern See also: Santa Cruz Quiche, and was skilfully fortified
.
They had an elaborate See also: system of See also: government and See also: religion
.
Records were kept in picture-writing
.
The Quiche were the first Indians met by Pedro de See also: Alvarado in 1524 on his expedition into Guatemala
.
See further CENTRAL See also: AMERICA and MEXICO; for the Popol Vuh see See also: English edition by L
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See also: Spence (19o9); see also See also: Nuttall, See also: Ancient American Civilizations (Camb
.
Mass., 1901), and W . Bollaert in Proc . See also: Roy
.
See also: Soc
.
Lit. vii
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1862
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