Cuchavira

Rainbow deity ('shining air'), protector of labouring women and the sick, associated with Bochica's appearances.

Domains

• rainbow
• healing

Powers

• Appear as the rainbow when rain meets the sun
• Protect women in labour and those stricken with illness

Epithets

• Cuchavira

Relations

• companion: Bochica

Sources

• Pedro Simón, Noticias historiales (c.1625); Piedrahita, Historia general (1688)