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Huitaca (goddess)
Goddess in Muisca religion of South America From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Huitaca or Xubchasgagua was a rebelling goddess in the religion of the Muisca.[1] The Muisca and their confederation were a civilization who inhabited the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the Andes. Huitaca has been described by the chroniclers Juan de Castellanos in his Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias,[2] Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita[3] and Pedro Simón.[4]
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Description
Huitaca was the goddess of arts, dance and music,[5][6] witchcraft, sexual liberation and the Moon.[7] According to the Muisca legends Huitaca was a goddess of extreme beauty who praised a life full of joy, games, pleasure and drunkenness who was rebelling against the patriarchal Bochica upon which he turned her into a white owl.[1]
Some chroniclers state Huitaca was another name for Moon goddess Chía[8][9] or Bachué, mother goddess of the Muisca.[7]
Huitaca in modern art
Sculptor Julia Merizalde Price has made a sculpture honouring Huitaca, picturing her after the curse of Bochica.[10]
Photographer Carlos Saavedra has made an exposition showing different indigenous women of Colombia in his search for Huitaca.[11]
Named after Huitaca
- Huitaca, a genus of Opiliones[12]
- Huitaca boyacaensis, a species in this genus, species name derived from Boyacá, former Muisca territory
- Huitaca ventralis, the type species of the genus Huitaca
- Huitaca bitaco
- Huitaca caldas
- Huitaca depressa
- Huitaca sharkeyi
- Huitaca tama
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