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2 unusual facts about K'iche' people


Dogs in Mesoamerica

In the Popol Vuh, the K'iche' Maya creation story, dogs played important roles in certain events.

Robert M. Carmack

In particular he has conducted extensive research on the K'iche' (Quiché) Mayas of the Guatemalan Highlands in the context of the infiltration and migration of Nahuatl speaking peoples into the Maya cultural areas.


Andrés Xiloj

Andrés Xiloj Peruch was a K'iche' daykeeper (K'iche': ajq'ij) from Momostenango in Guatemala.

Annals of the Cakchiquels

It also refers to the K'iche' rulers forcing the King Q'uicab the great to leave Chaiviar (Chichicastenango), and migrate to the Ratzamut mountains to found Iximché, which remained new Kaqchikel capital until the arrival of the conquistadores.

Assunção Cristas

Maria da Assunção de Oliveira Cristas Machado da Graça (born Luanda, Portuguese Angola, September 28, 1974) is a Portuguese lawyer, professor and conservative politician of the Democratic and Social Centre - People's Party.

Burning of the Spanish Embassy

In January 1980 a group of K'iche' and Ixil peasant farmers organized a march to Guatemala City to protest the kidnapping and murder of peasants in Uspantán in El Quiché department by elements of the Guatemalan Army.

Buttar Sivia

The village is predominated by the very helpful and great nice people of Buttar , who believe in one God who really believe in humanity, people are very much peaceful under God Shelter, Lohri is the most popular festival of the village people celebrate with a great joy and youngsters are really very excited for this festival they celebrate it in a full power way by banging the Dhol and with a loud muzic.

Ch'orti'

Ch'orti' people - one of the indigenous Maya peoples of southeastern Guatemala and western Honduras

Ch'orti' people

The Ch'orti' population in Honduras live in areas of difficult access in the Copan and Ocotepeque departments, like Chonco, Colon Jubuco, San Rafael, Tapescos, Carrizalon, La Laguna, Santa Rita, Antigua Ocotepeque, Nueva Ocotepeque, and Sensenti.

Currently, the majority of the Ch'orti are located in Guatemala (in Chiquimula, Jocotan, Esquipulas, Quezaltenango and La Union).

Classic Maya collapse

In the post-classic period following the collapse the state of Chichén Itzá built an empire that briefly united much of the Maya region, and centers such as Mayapán and Uxmal flourished, as did the Highland states of the K'iche' and Kaqchikel Maya.

Ilya Yashin

Ilya Yashin (born 29 June 1983 in Moscow) is a Russian activist and liberal politician, one of key leaders of political party «RPR-PARNAS», co-founder and one of leaders of political movement Solidarnost.

Jacawitz

Jacawitz was one of a triad of K'iche' deities, the other two being Tohil and the goddess Awilix, all three were sometimes collectively referred to as Tohil, the principal member of the triad.

K'iche'

K'iche' Kingdom of Q'umarkaj, a pre-Columbian state in the Guatemalan highlands

Maya Hero Twins

Many versions of the Twin Myth must have circulated among the Mayas, but the only one that survives in a written form is the Classical K'iche' version in the Popol Vuh.

The Maya Hero Twins are the central figures of a narrative included within the colonial K'iche' document called Popol Vuh, and constituting the oldest Maya myth to have been preserved in its entirety.

Mikhail Kasyanov

Since 2012 Mikhail Kasyanov is a co-chair of registered political party «Republican Party of Russia – People's Freedom Party» (RPR-PARNAS).

Currently, he is a co-chair of political party «RPR-PARNAS», the leader of movement People's Democratic Union and an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin.

Oxlahuh-Tz'i'

Oxlahuh-Tz'i' and Kablahuh-Tihax gained a victory over the K'iche' around 1491 when they captured the K'iche' kings Tepepul and Itzayul together with the idol of deity Tohil.

Party of Italian Communists

Soon after the election Marco Rizzo, a leading member of the party, was expelled from the party after disagreements with Diliberto and launched a new grouping called Communists – People's Left.

Połock Voivodeship

“Połock, in Latin Polocia, Polocium, lies on the right bank of the Dvina, and is regarded as one of the oldest gords of Rus’.

Prashant Bose

In September 2004, Maoist Communist Centre of India and Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War had joined to form CPI (Maoist).

Quiché Department

While most of its indigenous population speaks the K'iche' language, other Mayan languages spoken in the department are Ixil (Nebaj - Chajul - Cotzal area), Uspantek (Uspantán area), Sakapultek (Sacapulas area), as well as Poqomchi' and Q'ekchi in the North-Eastern part bordering with the Alta Verapaz department.

Rabinal

The town's annual fiesta patronal takes place in late January each year and is famous for its dances, including one that recreates a legendary battle between the Achi and the K'iche Maya, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural monument, known as The Rabinal Achí.

Santa Cruz del Quiché

Some think it likely that it was in Santa Cruz where a group of anonymous K'iche' nobles of the Nim Ch'okoj class transcribed the Popol Vuh, the sacred text of the Maya.

She Works Hard for the Money

Lyrically, the album dealt with subjects such as social injustice ("Stop, Look and Listen"), Jesus Christ ("He's a Rebel") and missing children ("People, People").

Stephen G. McFarland

Mr. McFarland speaks fluent Spanish and some Guarani, and he is currently studying K'iche', the second most widely spoken language in Guatemala after Spanish.

Vladimir Ryzhkov

Since 2006 Vladimir Ryzhkov is a co-chair of registered political party Republican Party of Russia – People's Freedom Party (RPR-PARNAS).

Wari’ people

By this time, the body typically had begun to decompose in the heat and humidity of the Amazon, sometimes reaching the stage where the body became bloated and discolored.


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