Muiscas
UNIVERSIDAD DISTRITAL FRANCISCO JOSÉ DE CALDAS
FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS Y EDUCACIÓN
LEBEI
ESPACIO ACADEMICO: Language, Society and Culture
PROFESORA: Patricia Escalante
NOMBRES: Angie Camila Velandia Galindo
CODIGO: 20112165153
Muiscas Offerings
In the first place the Muiscas is a group of people that lived in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia, mainly in savanna cundiboyacense, including Bogotá, Nemocon Ubaté, Chiquinquirá, Pasca, Tunja and Sogamoso. The conditions of land suitable for agriculture and healthy climate made them sedentary.
The main products were some artifacts as little gold figures as “tunjos”. It is a small human figures on a piece made of thin, triangular plate-shaped, where the goldsmith master make this figures for impress his culture through “tumbanga” that is the mix among gold, silver, platinum and copper. Tunjos was used as offerings to the gods.
Another artifact is a dress was a tunic and a blanket tied at the ends in the shoulder, made of thick cotton cloth, decorated with colored stripes. Not used footwear. They painted their bodies with achiote, also used colorful head feathers of birds also wore bracelets, necklaces, nose rings and pectoral beautifully made of gold.
In the major characteristics of this group we can find the essential practices as the rituals as fertility, war birth, marriage, death, processions, human sacrifice and animals investiture of chiefs and priests. Most forms were some aspects of ritual in common: the embodiment of offerings and celebrations which included communal consumption chicha, singing and dancing.
Another practice was they put fences around the chiefs, in order to return to the world before they reach the conquerors, In addition to used sacred lagoons and forest sacrifices for the burial of offerings of emeralds and gold artifacts.
The offerings of the Muiscas community were used as a way to communicate with gods and ask for favors, this partly came about through coca as they could
FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS Y EDUCACIÓN
LEBEI
ESPACIO ACADEMICO: Language, Society and Culture
PROFESORA: Patricia Escalante
NOMBRES: Angie Camila Velandia Galindo
CODIGO: 20112165153
Muiscas Offerings
In the first place the Muiscas is a group of people that lived in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia, mainly in savanna cundiboyacense, including Bogotá, Nemocon Ubaté, Chiquinquirá, Pasca, Tunja and Sogamoso. The conditions of land suitable for agriculture and healthy climate made them sedentary.
The main products were some artifacts as little gold figures as “tunjos”. It is a small human figures on a piece made of thin, triangular plate-shaped, where the goldsmith master make this figures for impress his culture through “tumbanga” that is the mix among gold, silver, platinum and copper. Tunjos was used as offerings to the gods.
Another artifact is a dress was a tunic and a blanket tied at the ends in the shoulder, made of thick cotton cloth, decorated with colored stripes. Not used footwear. They painted their bodies with achiote, also used colorful head feathers of birds also wore bracelets, necklaces, nose rings and pectoral beautifully made of gold.
In the major characteristics of this group we can find the essential practices as the rituals as fertility, war birth, marriage, death, processions, human sacrifice and animals investiture of chiefs and priests. Most forms were some aspects of ritual in common: the embodiment of offerings and celebrations which included communal consumption chicha, singing and dancing.
Another practice was they put fences around the chiefs, in order to return to the world before they reach the conquerors, In addition to used sacred lagoons and forest sacrifices for the burial of offerings of emeralds and gold artifacts.
The offerings of the Muiscas community were used as a way to communicate with gods and ask for favors, this partly came about through coca as they could
References: Museo del Oro (Bogotá D.C, Colombia) Information retrieved from: http://www.banrepcultural.org/museo-del-oro/exposiciones-temporales/historias-de-ofrendas-muiscas