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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