SAGRADO CORAZON DE JESUS
SALESIANAS - POPAYAN
ENGLISH WRITING DEVELOPMENT
Ana María González COURSE: 11° B CODE: 16 DATE: 27/05/12
Tayrona Culture
They worshiped the
stars, assigning to male or female identities and
assumingthem carnal; worshiped a child born of a virgin,
which remained under the earth, notgrow
or shrink. Among the myths included the flood.
Meeting in a sacred temple Tayrona where they lived for youth learning.
House had ceremonial and religious centers which came on a pilgrimage to apply for their gods. There officiating priests, sorcerers and soothsayers who divined for the flight of birds and had received instruction on learning from sixteen to twenty years, kept in special houses, not seeing daylight or women, undergoing fasts.
Gauteovan, Mother of the Universe
Among the gods of the Tayrona include: Gauteovan,
mother of all things, creator of the sun and cause the
spirits of all diseases. Peico, who came from the sea andtaught
them to work in gold and earth to weave blankets and
hammocks. They believed in the
afterlife and Naoma or communicated with the priest, who
alsopresided over religious ceremonies that were celebrated with
songs and dances accompanied by music.
They practiced ritual homosexuality in the churches
and phallic representationswere common in this culture,
which frightened the medieval mind of the conquerorand the
missionaries, to the point of considering the
nation's most dishonest of these lands.
Cemeteries have been found in the observed different types
of graves, tombscovered rectangular slab, covered with stone vaults hewn shaft
tombs and chamberand some simple pits, being also generally covered ceramic
urns. It is reportedthat they kept the bones and ashes of
their ancestors in large urns and vases of baked earth, and that
some people, the dying, desecaban fire.
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