Bachue

Monument of the bachué or Batchue myth by Luís Horacio Betancur, which is from Medellín (Colombia).

Bachué is the breeding goddess of the chibcha (Bachue the goddess of the human race 's, sculpture of Rómulo Rozo. 1925. Big size. Photograph of the World Gallery.

Mother Bachué, or Batchue [Bat (Worthy) - chue (Breast, food)], is the primordial mother of the people muisca. She was the transformation of Furachogua [Fura (Woman)-Cho (Good)-Gua (Daughter)] , from which she grows the breasts with which she fed the Muisca people, who they come from the union of her with Qhuzha.

The Muisca myth (Mhuysqa) says that from the Laguna de Iguaque (near Tunja, Boyacá, Colombia), two energies were born Amuya (femenina) is the positive, and Muyyan (male) is the negative, [Related with the Yin and the East Yang]. From Amuya was born Furachogua [Fura (Woman) Cho (Well) Gua (Hija)] which is a representation of the birth of all women; from Muyyan was born Qhuzha [Qhu (Semilla) Zha (Night)], which is called a small Man, is the representation of the birth of all men. It is said to be a small man because for the Muiscas, man is born immature compared to the woman, who is already born with a special wisdom of connection with Mother Earth. Furachogua evolves, grows her breasts and becomes Batchue. Batchue and Qhuzha unite, and from this union the Muiscas are born.

In Chronicles

According to the chronicler Fray Pedro Simón in his Historical News: 2.-In the district of the city of Tunja, four leagues to the north and one from a town of Indians call Iguaque, a coronation of steep sierras is made, a very cold land so covered with moors and ordinary mist that its peaks are not discovered almost throughout the year, except at noon in the month of January. Between these mountains and peaks there is a very deep one, from which the Indians say that shortly after dawn the light appeared and the other things were created, a woman called Bachué came out and by another name adapted to the good works that Furachogua did to them. which means good woman, because they call a woman fury and shock is a good thing, she took with her by the hand a child from the same waters up to three years old and both went down together from the mountains to the plains, where they are now. In the town of Iguaque, they built a house where they lived until the boy was old enough to marry her, because after he had her he married, and the marriage was so important and the woman so prolific and fertile that with each birth she gave birth to four or six children., with which the whole land was filled with people, because they both traveled to many places leaving children everywhere, until after many years the land was full of men and the two were already very old and returned to the same town and calling to many people who accompanied them, to the lagoon from which they came out, next to which Bachué gave them a talk exhorting everyone to peace and conservation among themselves, the protection of the precepts and laws that he had spoken to them since they were not few, especially in order to the worship of the gods, and concluded she said goodbye with unique cries and tears from both parties, and turning herself and her husband into two very large snakes, they entered the waters of the lagoon, and never appeared again at that time., Although the Bachué later appeared many times in other parts, because the Indians had determined from there to count it among their gods, in gratification of the benefits it had done to them.

Muisca myth

This is one of the myths typical of the Muisca culture, who are known like chibchas This is a town of Central American origin, which came to Colombia to inhabit the south of the department of Santander and the altiplano cundiboyacense. The Muiscas believed in Bachué, they considered her her mother. His story says that she was a very beautiful, dark, stylized woman. They say that, one morning, the they saw her come out of the Iguaque lagoon, covered by a long tunic of black, with a naked child in his arms Bachué earned the affection and trust of the Chibchas and settled among they. She taught them the rules they had to follow to preserve order in the community and to keep peace with their friends. neighbors. As time passed, the little boy grew, but she did not age. Bachué's mission was to populate the earth and, therefore, she began to be impregnated by him. Her births were always multiple. In the first she had twins, in the next triplets, in the third there were four of hers and her children and so she continued until it was considered that her task had been accomplished. shortly time, she left teachings and creatures everywhere. Suddenly, her face became wrinkled, her neck and her body were no longer lush, her legs became slack, her breasts sagged. they slipped away and in her look you could see a great tiredness. Satisfied with her labor and with the progress of her children, she and the being with whom she had come to earth, they returned to the lagoon without saying anything to anyone. Once there, they jumped into the water. The lake devoured them with a great yawn; Immediately, she turned into a snake and, for this reason, for the Chibchas This animal symbolizes intelligence. On moonlit nights, the natives would go to the lagoon to bring offerings and they could watch the snake show its shining eyes on the surface of the water, to see the beautiful golden goblets, the golden utensils and ornaments, which she received with a good heart. They did not know or mention the man again. But Bachué gave her the title of "mother of humanity." Like her she came from the water, the chibchas began to worship and protect the lagoons and any type of life that sprouted of them. For that reason, it is common to find forms of reptiles, lizards, tadpoles, lizards, and frogs among their ornaments. TO the latter deified them and, henceforth, considered them as a symbol of fertility. The Iguaque lagoon is still considered a sacred place.

Bachué is a woman adored in these times by the Muiscas as their children.