katish

Updated: May 2, 2025

This sacrifice or ceremony consists in presenting to BALAM, the Yumil-Kaax, the “Lord of the fields,” the primitiæ of all their fruits before beginning the harvest. Katish, or cah-tich would then be the city of the sacrifices the holy city.

Augustus Le Plongeon - Vestiges of the Mayas : or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate : Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between : the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa

The Khati had not only made considerable improvements in all military arts, but were also great and famed merchants; their emporium Carchemish had no less importance than Tyre or Carthage. There, met merchants from all parts of the world; who brought thither the products and manufactures of their respective countries, and were wont to worship at the Sacred City, Katish of the Khati.

Augustus Le Plongeon - Vestiges of the Mayas : or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate : Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between : the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa

Carchemish would then be cah-chemul, the city of navigators, of merchants. KATISH, their sacred city, would be the city where sacrifices are offered. CAH, city, and TICH, a ceremony practiced by the ancient Mayas, and still performed by their descendants all through Central America.

Augustus Le Plongeon - Vestiges of the Mayas : or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate : Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between : the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa