Hunzahua Lagoon (Donato's Well) a cultural park

¡Hello, friends of Hive!

I hope you are having a great weekend. Here I leave a publication of a park that I could photograph and I was also surprised to know that it is one of the sacred sites of an ancient tribe. It's long, so I hope you can enjoy reading.

It states:

Legend has it that the zaque of Hunzahúa founder of the Hunza people, (Tunja) fell in love with his sister Nonceta, a beautiful maiden much loved by his people. The incestuous brothers in search of cotton for fabrics and clay for ceramics, traveled to Chipatae where in a fit of immense love became spouses.

Faravita, the mother cacica, on having knowledge of the great sin of her children, wanted to punish Nonceta with the stick to stir the chicha, this one broke the vessel and the chicha was watering abundantly until forming the great well or lake called today "well of Hunzahúa or well of Donato".

It is a beautiful lake, a perfect place to visit. Throughout the tour of the park we were locating the writings that speak of this ancestral culture.

It states:

The Hunzas used to have religious processions that lasted three days making the journey from the Quiminizaque enclosure (present day Pinzón Park), to the temple of the sun (present day U.P.T.C.) and to the cushions today called Alto de San Lázaro. In almost the festivities there were libations of chicha, drink elaborated and macerated of the grain of corn.

The gold for the Muisca was of a magical religious character because of its brightness and brilliance, they associated it with the king star xúe (sun), the quantity and design that they carried was determined by the degree of importance, its schematic design represented mostly votive signs; among other diadems, nose rings, pectorals, masks and the famous tunjos.

Both men and women spun and wove. The women wore the chircate or square blanket tied at the ends, with a sash called chumbe or manue and over the shoulders the liquira or small blanket. The man wore a closed shirt in the form of a tight tunic and over his shoulders a kind of ruana or square blanket. In the dress they used geometric designs.

The agricultural production was collective and the distribution was made by families, another part as tribute and tax to the cacíques, which were given in fruits or traditional forms of barter or work. The abundance of products led to the need to establish fairs or markets, to facilitate the exchange, this was done every four days, which allowed the storage of products for the time of scarcity.

The Muiscas were governed by a complex system of very strict sentences or laws, which supported the moral, political and social order called the code of Nemequene, which ordered not to kill, not to lie, not to steal and not to take another's wife. Incest and desertion were severely punished; these laws were given by the sheikhs or priests.

The basis of the Muisca economy was agriculture, their main product was corn, unknown in the old world: they also cultivated potatoes, cassava, arracacha, pumpkin, ahuyama, turnips, ibias, cacao, cotton, tobacco, coca and borrachero. In their diet they used the benefits of hunting and fishing, as well as wild fruits, such as caruba, pineapple, papaya and soursop.

They were polytheists; its main god chiminigagua, the sun "Xue" and the moon "Chía", bachue mother of the human race; "Xue" was celebrated festivals and pilgrimages on some occasions before dawn, they went in procession to the cushions of the zaque, center of worship, with reverent displays of piety and sacrifice of innocent Moxas, (children of 12 years), to whom they offered as tribute.

The houses or huts were made of bahareque, the roofs were made of straw and ended in point; Most of the huts were circular in shape; The house was surrounded by a fence with stakes and reeds linked with reed ropes. The hut of the zaque and the cacique was higher, decorated in gold, they had double fence; guarded by sentries.

The Muica Indians were described as people of medium size, a slightly round face, somewhat convex and beardless; forehead flattened and narrow, skull not very prominent; Protruding cheekbones, short and dilated nose, large mouth, white teeth, small black and vivid eyes, coppery skin and long black hair.

Hunza, center of the chiefdom of the zaque, is the first social formation of Tunja, inhabited by the MUISCA people, belonging to the great CHIBCHA linguistic family that populated the lands of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense as: Bogotá, Nemocón, Ubaté, Chinquinquirá, Tunja, Ramiriquí, Duitama, Sogomoso and other smaller indigenous peoples. Hunza or Tchunza, in Chibcha language means, powerful man or prudent man.

So far my tour, thanks for reading.
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I hope you have an excellent weekend ❤♡

All photos were taken with: Xiaomi MI A3
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