Huitaca

Beautiful goddess of pleasure and excess who opposed Bochica's teachings; he turned her into an owl (in some accounts, the moon).

Domains

• pleasure

Powers

• Preach joy, dance, drunkenness and pleasure against Bochica

Epithets

• Huitaca latin · Huitaca · chronicleGoddess of pleasure, license, and the moon; Bochica’s adversary, turned into an owlFray Pedro Simón, Noticias historiales (primary)

Relations

• enemy: BochicaReciprocal of muisca_bochica.enemy — The goddess of pleasure preached against his law; Bochica turned Huitaca into an owl (in some accounts the moon).Pedro Simon, Noticias Historiales (1626) (primary)

Sources

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