MUISCA RELIGION. Located high on the Colombian plateau, the territory of the Muisca people extended a scarce 300 kilometers long by 125 kilometers wide. To history, the Muisca have become known as the Chibcha, a name derived from Chibchacum, one of...

BOCHICA was a major deity of the Muisca (Chibcha) Indians of the highlands around Bogotá, Colombia, at the time of the Spanish conquest, in the sixteenth century. Early Spanish chroniclers report varying mythical dates for Bochica's...

Chibcha, also known as Muisca or Mosca, is officially an extinct Chibchan language of Colombia, formerly spoken by the Muisca people. Though officially extinct, it is still spoken in some areas outside of Bogota. In the town of Cota exists the only...

Abstract Genetic variation of the Y chromosome in five Chibchan tribes (Bribri, Cabecar, Guaymi, Huetar, and Teribe) of Costa Rica and Panama was analyzed using six microsatellite loci (DYS19, DYS389A, DYS389B, DYS390, DYS391, and DYS393), the Y-chromosome-specific alphoid system (ah), the Y-chromosome Alu...

Philologos Forward 08-26-1994 ON LANGUAGE: Israeli Dogs Say 'Woof, Woof'. BY PHILOLOGOS The Hebrew language in modern Palestine/Israel had to fight many battles with other languages before -- seemingly against all linguistic odds -- it was revived as the daily speech...