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Quiche

noun

A member of the Mayan people of south central Guatemala.

A tart filled with rich unsweetened custard; often contains other ingredients (as cheese or ham or seafood or vegetables).

The Mayan language spoken by the Quiche.

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"Quiche" Quotes from Famous Books

... waters of Pyramid Lake;"[50] on the wall of an ancient Aztec ruin at Palenque there is a tablet, on which there is a cross standing on the head of a serpent, and surmounted by a bird. "The cross is the symbol of the four winds; the bird and serpent the rebus of the rain-god, their ruler."[51] The Quiche god, Hurakan, was called the "Strong Serpent," and the sign of Tlaloc, the Aztec rain-god, was a golden snake.[R] All of these tribes are or were worshipers of the generative principles, though, in most of them, phallic worship has or had lost much of its original significance.[52] ...

— Religion and Lust - or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire • James Weir

... of Guatemala are the ruins of another city, the capital of the province of Quiche. It is surrounded by a deep ravine, which forms a natural foss, leaving only two very narrow roads as entrances, guarded by the castle of Resguado. The palace of the kings, which stood in the centre of the city, surpasses every other edifice, competing in magnificence ...

— The Western World - Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North - and South America • W.H.G. Kingston

Words linked to "Quiche" : Maya, Mayan language, tart, Mayan