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Bochica
Bochica was a culture hero and god of the Muisca of the Colombian highlands. In Muisca tradition he came from the east as a bearded old man, taught weaving, farming and moral laws, and opened the Tequendama Falls to drain a flood. He was associated with Sugamuxi, the seat of the high priest of the sun.
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