Solar Ancestor
Latest News items
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • SUN ARTICLES
    • Each Has a Star
    • Ocular Transmission
    • Heliotherapy
    • The Eye of The Sunrunner
    • Heliocentricity
    • Invisible Beings
    • Locating the Sun-Gates
    • Locating the Sun-Gates Part II
    • Chronology of Solar Religions
  • EARTH ARTICLES
    • The Sun and the Secret of the Golden Flower
    • The Golden Sphere
    • Life Patterns & Blood Lines
    • Black Mountain
    • Viracocha
    • Apollo's Legacy
    • The Tuatha Dé & Sidhe
    • Temporary Civilizations
    • Dimension Hacking
    • Interstellar Interference
  • Return of the Superhumans
    • When gods mingled with us
    • Influential Manuscripts
    • A Tale of Two Deities
    • The Other Spheres
    • The Return
    • Apollo in Our World
    • Changes Underway Now
    • The Next Two Decades
    • The Interpenetrating World
    • AI and the Coming Age
    • What's Next
  • Regular Blog Posts
  • Media
  • Suggested Links

Go to Blogsite

Click on the bar below to go to our official Blog-site www.SolarAncestors.com (with an 's' on Ancestors)

Click here for our BLOG site

The Sun & Gold in the Ancient Americas

5/26/2017

0 Comments

 
Picture
Picture
            In recent posts we have seen how the Sun is often connected with gold. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the history of the ancient peoples of South America.
            It is considered that there were four main advanced civilizations of the ancient Americas:  the Aztecs, Mayas, Incas and Muisca. The Muisca are the Chibcha-speaking people that dwelled in the central Andean highlands of present-day Colombia's Eastern Range. Their territory spanned an area of around 47,000 square kilometres - a region slightly larger than Switzerland - from the north of Boyacá to the Sumapaz Paramo, and from the summits of the Eastern Range to the Magdalena Valley. Scholars agree that the Muisca migrated to the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the Formative stage (between 5500 and 1000 BC). The most ancient settlement of the highlands dates to 1270 BC.
            The culture of the Muisca was centred around their two main deities:
Sué, (also Suá, Zuhé or Xué) - The Sun god. He is the father of the Muisca. His temple was in Suamox, the sacred city of the Sun. He was the most venerated god, especially by the Confederation of the Zaque, who was considered his descendant.
Chía - The Moon-goddess. Her temple was in what is today the municipality of Chía. She was widely worshipped by the Confederation of the Zipa (see below), who was considered to be her son.
They developed their own vigesimal (meaning ‘based on 20’) calendar, and knew exactly the timing of the summer solstice (June 21) - It was then the Day of Sué, the Sun god.
            The Muisca used gemstones and gold as currency. Tunjos were small figures made of gold (or sometimes tumbaga, a gold-silver-copper alloy) picturing people, deities or animals. They were used as ritual offering figures in the sacred lakes and rivers of the Muisca, and to adorn the entrances of temples, shrines and graves.
            The Zipa used to offer gold and other treasures to the Guatavita goddess. To do so, the Zipa covered himself with gold dust and washed it off in the lake while tossing gold trinkets into the waters. This tradition was well-known outside the Confederation, as far as the Caribbean Sea. The origin of the legend of El Dorado (‘The Golden One’) in the early 16th century may be located in the Muisca Confederation.
            Footnote: Today the Muisca population has almost died out, although their descendants are still present in certain municipalities and districts. A census by the Ministry of Interior Affairs in 2005 showed a total of 14,051 Muisca persons in Colombia.
 
Credit for Both Images Above: Wikipedia.org
LEFT: Museo_del_oro,_Bogotá,_Colombia_-_Muisca_Votive_Figure.jpg
RIGHT: 220px-Muisca_raft_Legend_of_El_Dorado_Offerings_of_gold.jpg

0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Paul V Young is a freelance writer based in Brisbane Australia. His articles appear in magazines such as New Dawn and Atlantis Rising.

    Archives

    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    April 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Home
About
Contact


LIST OF ARTICLES - PLEASE CLICK ON BUTTONS AT TOP MARKED "ARTICLES"
Apollo's Legacy   
http://www.solarancestor.com/apollos-legacy.html
Black Mountain    
http://www.solarancestor.com/black-mountain.html
Dimension Hacking http://www.solarancestor.com/dimension-hacking.html
Eye of the Sun-Runner   
http://www.solarancestor.com/the-eye-of-the-sunrunner.html
Each of Us Has a Star
   https://www.solarancestor.com/each-has-a-star.html 
Heliocentricity                   http://www.solarancestor.com/heliocentricity.html
Interstellar Interference
http://www.solarancestor.com/latest-nov-2015-interstellar-interference.html
Invisible Beings                http://www.solarancestor.com/invisible-beings.html
Life Patterns & Blood Lines   
http://www.solarancestor.com/life-patterns--blood-lines.html
Locating the Sun-Gates Part I    http://www.solarancestor.com/locating-the-sun-gates.html
Locating the Sun-Gates Part II   
http://www.solarancestor.com/locating-the-sun-gates-part-ii.html
Temporary Civilizations   
http://www.solarancestor.com/temporary-civilizations.html

The Sun and the Secret of the Golden Flower https://www.solarancestor.com/the-sun-and-the-secret-of-the-golden-flower.html
The Way of the Golden Sphere http://www.solarancestor.com/the-golden-sphere.html
​Tuatha Dé & Sidhe        http://www.solarancestor.com/the-tuatha-deacute--sidhe.html
Viracocha                http://www.solarancestor.com/viracocha.html