Classical Kʼicheʼ was an ancestral form of today's Kʼicheʼ language (Quiché in the older Spanish-based orthography), which was spoken in the highland regions...

low literacy rate, Kʼicheʼ is increasingly taught in schools and used on the radio. The most famous work in the Classical Kʼicheʼ language is the Popol...

Kʼicheʼ (pronounced [kʼiˈtʃeʔ]; previous Spanish spelling: Quiché) are Indigenous peoples of the Americas and are one of the Maya peoples. The eponymous...

postcolonial times both in Spanish and in indigenous languages such as Classical Kʼicheʼ and Kaqchikel. Important sources include the Popol Vuh which, apart...

Mexico) Classical Quechua (lingua franca of the 16th-century Inca Empire) Classical Kʼicheʼ (a Mayan language of 16th-century Guatemala) Classical Tupi (language...

Maya language spoken by the Kʼicheʼ people Classical Kʼicheʼ language, the 16th century form of the Kʼicheʼ language Kʼicheʼ Kingdom of Qʼumarkaj, a pre-Columbian...

document, Popol Vuh, is written in an antiquated Kʼicheʼ often called Classical Kʼicheʼ (or Quiché). The Kʼicheʼ culture was at its pinnacle at the time of...

language spoken by the Kʼicheʼ people Classical Kʼicheʼ, the 16th century form of the Kʼicheʼ language Kʼicheʼ kingdom of Qʼumarkaj, a pre-Columbian state...

Achiʼ Qʼeqchiʼ (Kekchi) Pokom: Poqomam, Poqomchiʼ Uspantek Sakapultek Sipakapense See Mayan languages#Eastern branch for details. Classical Kʼicheʼ v t e...

texts, including the Madrid Codex, the Kʼicheʼ epic Popol Vuh, the Kʼicheʼ Título de Totonicapán, the Kʼicheʼ language Rabinal Achi, the Annals of the...

written in Classical Kʼicheʼ Maya. The ethnographical work in the Florentine Codex and the songs of the Cantares Mexicanos both written in Classical Nahuatl...

Twins are the central figures of a narrative included within the colonial Kʼicheʼ document called Popol Vuh, and constituting the oldest Maya myth to have...

municipalities. The inhabitants include Spanish-speaking Ladinos and the Kʼicheʼ and Mam Maya groups, both with their own Maya language. The department...

by Arnold Schoenberg Popol Vuh Classical K'iche' Book of the People corpus of mytho-historical narratives of the K'iche' kingdom in Guatemala Porco Rosso...

franca among merchants and elites in Mesoamerica, such as with the Maya Kʼicheʼ people. As Tenochtitlan grew to become the largest urban center in Central...

(2001). Kikʼulmatajem le Kʼicheʼaabʼ: Evolución del Reino Kʼicheʼ [Evolution of the Kʼiche Kingdom] (in Spanish). Guatemala City, Guatemala: Cholsamaj...

such as Mayapán and Uxmal flourished, as did the Highland states of the Kʼicheʼ and Kaqchikel Maya. Independent Maya civilization continued until 1697...

sculptured monuments. Tak'alik Ab'aj' means "standing stone" in the local Kʼicheʼ Maya language, combining the adjective tak'alik meaning "standing", and...

time was Qʼumarkaj, also known as Utatlán, the capital of the aggressive Kʼicheʼ Maya kingdom. The government of Maya states, from the Yucatán to the Guatemalan...

in the tzolk'in use other terms in their languages. For instance, the Kʼicheʼ use the term Aj Ilabal Qʼij [aχ ilaɓal qʼiχ] or Raj Ilabal Qʼij [ɾaχ ilaɓal...

the plant in indigenous Mesoamerican languages such as kakaw in Tzeltal, Kʼicheʼ and Classic Maya; kagaw in Sayula Popoluca; and cacahuatl in Nahuatl meaning...

Kukulkan A Mayan mythological serpent. Q'uq'umatz A dragon from Mayan K'iche' mythology. Brazilian dragons Boitatá The name comes from the Old Tupi language...

weapons and implements were given to man by the Morning Star. Among the K'iche' people of Guatemala, there is a myth that a flint fell from the sky and...

time was Qʼumarkaj, also known as Utatlán, the capital of the aggressive Kʼicheʼ Maya kingdom. The cities of the Postclassic highland Maya kingdoms fell...

order to clearly distinguish it from all other Mayan languages (such as Kʼicheʼ and Itzaʼ). Thus, the use of the term Yucatec Maya to refer to the language...

the population and is distributed into 23 groups namely Q'eqchi' 8.3%, K'iche 7.8%, Mam 4.4%, Kaqchikel 3%, Q'anjob'al 1.2%, Poqomchi' 1%, and Other 4%...

Archaeological zone of Tlatelolco, the Church on the ruins exemplifies the process of change from the post-classical period to the colonial period....

Tezcatlipoca (Classical Nahuatl: Tēzcatlīpohca [teːs̻kat͡ɬiːˈpoʔkaˀ]) or Tezcatl Ipoca was a central deity in Aztec religion. He is associated with a...

of the Popol Vuh, a sacred book of the Quiché (Kʼicheʼ) Maya people. He included a grammar of the Kʼicheʼ language and an essay on Central American mythology...

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