Bachué
Muisca · demigod · mythic · Recorded classification
Ancestral mother of the Muisca who rose from Lake Iguaque and, her work done, returned to its waters as a serpent.
Domains
- fertility
- ancestry
Powers
- Emerge from Lake Iguaque carrying a three-year-old boy
- Bear many children and populate the Muisca lands
- Transform into a serpent and return into the lake
Epithets
- Furachogua The Good Woman; mother of humankind who rose from Lake Iguaque and returned as a serpentFray Pedro Simón, Noticias historiales (primary)
Sources
- existence: Pedro Simón, Noticias historiales (c.1625); Piedrahita, Historia general (1688) (primary)