Chibchacum
Muisca · deity · mythic · deity
Patron of the earth and builders who flooded the savanna; Bochica condemned him to hold up the world, his shifting felt as earthquakes.
Domains
Powers
- Flood the Bogotá savanna by overflowing the rivers
- Carry the world on his shoulders, causing quakes when he shifts
Epithets
- the earth-bearer
- Chibchacum
Relations
Sources
- Pedro Simón, Noticias historiales (c.1625); Rodríguez Freyle, El Carnero
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