Bochica

It is not quite clear whether the names "Bochica", "Nemthequeba", and "Zuhé" apply to one or several personages.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Then Bochica was wroth, and he drove the wicked Huythaca from the earth, and made her the moon, for there had been no moon before; and he cleft the rocks and made the mighty cataract of Tequendama, to let the deluge flow away.

Moon Lore Timothy Harley

But Bochica had a wicked, beautiful wife, Huythaca, who loved to spite and spoil her husband's work; and she it was who made the river swell till the land was covered by a flood, and but a few of mankind escaped upon the mountain tops.

Moon Lore Timothy Harley

I might next discuss the culture myth of the Muyscas, whose hero Bochica or Nemqueteba bore the other name SUA, the White One, the Day, the

The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

Some have maintained a distinction between Bochica and Sua, which, however, has not been shown.

The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

"The matters that Bochica taught," says the chronicler

American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

Spanish chroniclers to the purity of the teaching attributed to Bochica.

American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

Bochica punished him for this act, and obliged him ever after, like Atlas, to bear the burden of the earth on his back.

Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866

When Bochica appeared in answer to prayer to quell the deluge he is seated on a rainbow.

Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866

The temple of the sun at Sogamozo being pretty near the northern coasts of Terra Firma, the notions of the gilded man were soon applied to a high-priest of the sect of Bochica, or Indacanzas, who every morning, before he performed his sacrifice, caused powder of gold to be stuck upon his hands and face, after they had been smeared with grease.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851