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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 748 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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QUICHE or KIcIds, a tribe of Central See also:

American See also:Indians of Mayan stock. They inhabited western See also:Guatemala, where their descendants still survive. 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 See also:century. Their sacred See also:book, the Popol Vuh, containing a mythological See also: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 See also: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-See also: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 See also:MEXICO; for the Popol Vuh see See also:English edition by L. See also:Spence (19o9); see also See also:Nuttall, See also:Ancient American Civilizations (Camb.

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Mass., 1901), and W. Bollaert in Proc. See also:Roy. See also:Soc. Lit. vii. 1862.

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