Chibcha
Amerindian People of current the Colombia, alive around current the Bogota, discovered in 1536 by the conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, with the research of the Eldorado.
Chibchas make party of a linguistic family extending from Central America (Costa Rica) to the course Guayaquil (at the border between the Ecuador and the current Peru).
Activities
Less advanced socially than the Aztec and the Incas, Chibchas live Maïs and Potato, manufacture fabrics of Coton, ceramics and especially of remarkable objects out of gold. They worked also mines of salt and emeralds (which they used as currency of exchange).
Religion and organization
Chibchas adore Bochica, a demigod going down from the sun. Their religion is rather similar to that of the other people précolombiens and the human sacrifices were current. They offered emeralds to their gods.
They are organized in a kind of confederation of tribes (among these tribes, one finds: Muiscas, Guanes, Release, Pijaos and Chitareros) each one directed by a zipa or zaque, hereditary load of uncle with nephew. The sovereign of Zipaquira, the capital, located in current the Colombia control surface with difficulty on the various provinces, largely autonomous. It however perceives a tax calculated according to the resources of each one. The absence of common defense explains the brittleness of the empire which falls without blow to férir under the seizure of the Spaniards.
To Chibchas the subsets of Muiscas, Guanes belonged, Laches, Chitareros and Taironas. The Muisca S, benches a little in the north of Zipaquira were characterized by their control from goldsmithery at the point to have constituted one of the centers suppliers of the empire INCA.
It is of a tradition of the Chibcha people that was born the myth from El Dorado (gilded). Indeed, those had as a habit to cover with gold dust their new king at the time of the ceremony of establishment. The new sovereign was to shine with the sun like the son of the sun which it was. This king was to then bathe in a crowned lake while crowd in jubilation threw valuable articles in the floods. This ceremony would not be a myth, many objects presented to the Museum of the gold of Bogota testify some.
The houses of Chibchas (Maloca S), and were made circular, often Community of wood and thatch.
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