Theogony GODS
CHIBCHA
This mural is an original work of Colombian artist Luis Alberto Acuña. and was executed in oil wooden saber.
appears as the central figure the god Chiminigagua, which according to Indian legend was the creator of the universe and supreme deity, who appears at the time of launch into space the black birds, light source, which is condensed in SUA (sun ) and refiects in CHIA (moon) and CUCHAVIVA (the rainbow) astral deities.
To the right of the viewer the first human couple is formed by Bachu, mother generating Chibcha race, and Iguaque, the boy who later became her husband.
In order: Chaque
, vigilant warrior god, responsible for order and peace, and guardian of boundaries and agricultural properties.
NENCATACOA, god of drink and pleasure, half man and half fox. NENQUETEBA Bochica to the long-bearded elder, foreign immigrants, wise legislator and master craftsman, revered as a hero civilizing chibcha Village and as the most popular gods.
CHIBCHACUN, god of rain, an ally of the Chibcha those who betrayed for 10 convicted Bochica which was to carry the earth on his shoulders. Finally
. at the right end of the mural are two gods and evil night.
FU, a kind of god of sleep, to whose protection the Indians hit by European conquerors.
GUITACA, seductive sorceress upstart woman, relegated and converted by Bochica owl.
Also included in this mural some fixtures, but of great importance theogonic. EI
SIE water, especially in the form of lake, the origin of life, Sua mirror and place of worship.
The big snakes, like a reincarnation of the mother and father Bachu Iguaque. Macaws birds
speakers to those taught sentences should convey divine wings after being slaughtered.
The bell-shaped white flower drunkenness and certain species of Araceae and hallucinogenic vines of strange power, and frogs, sacred animals par excellence, Sua food.
Theogony, the name given to all the gods who were the religious system of a political people.
After a search on the Internet and at several sites, requests to Colombian friends who did not know, I found this mural fractions, but complete, until I found a pamphlet that says: Gift from His Hotel Tequendama. I had already for many years, and again found in an old portfolio.
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