Huitaca (goddess)

[1] The Muisca and their confederation were a civilization who inhabited the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the Andes.

[4] Huitaca was the goddess of arts, dance and music,[5][6] witchcraft, sexual liberation and the Moon.

[7] According to the Muisca legends Huitaca was a goddess of extreme beauty who praised a life full of joy, games, pleasure and drunkenness who was rebelling against the patriarchal Bochica upon which he turned her into a white owl.

[7] Sculptor Julia Merizalde Price has made a sculpture honouring Huitaca, picturing her after the curse of Bochica.

[10]Photographer Carlos Saavedra has made an exposition showing different indigenous women of Colombia in his search for Huitaca.