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Kabah. Maya city; ruins at, [190]–191
Kab-ul (The Miraculous Hand). Name given to Itzamna, [187]
Kakchiquel dialect, [145]
Kakchiquels. A Maya people of Guatemala, [157]–159;
and the episode of the defeat of Cay Hun-Apu, [159]
“Kamucu” (We see). The song of the Kiche at the first appearance of the sun, and at death of the first men, [232]
Kan. A minor Maya deity, [170]
Kanikilak. Indian deity, [83], [84]
Ki Pixab (Corner of the Earth). Name given by the Kiche to their land of origin, [254]
Kiche. A Maya people of Guatemala, [157]–159;
their rulers supreme in Guatemala, [158];
their story of the creation as related in the Popol Vuh, [209];
origin of, as related in the Popol Vuh, [229]–230;
fond of ceremonial dances and chants, [238]
Kiche (or Quiche) dialect, [145], [209];
the Popol Vuh originally written in, [207], [209]
“Kingdom of the Great Snake.” Semi-historical Maya empire, [144]
Kinich-ahau (Lord of the Face of the Sun). Same as Arara and Kinich-Kakmo. Sun-god of the Maya of Yucatan, tutelar of the north, [170]
Kinich-Kakmo (Sun-bird).
I. Same as Kinich-ahau, which see.
II. The pyramid of, ruin at Itzamal, [187]
Klaproth, H. J. von. And the Fu Sang fallacy, [3]
Knuc (Palace of Owls). Ruin at Aké, [186]
Kuicatecs. Aboriginal Mexican race, [24];
a medium through which Maya civilisation filtered to the north, [147]
Kukulcan. Maya form of Quetzalcoatl, [83], [167];
regarded as King of Mayapan, [152]
Kumsnöotl. God of the Salish Indians, [83]