Bachué

According to colonial-era chroniclers (as summarized in modern sources), Bachué emerged from the waters of Iguaque Lake holding an infant. The infant grew to become her husband/companion; together they populated the Earth with humanity. After fulfilling this origin role, the pair became snakes and returned to the sacred lagoon. The core elements of this account—the lake emergence, the infant who becomes her husband, and the serpentine return—are recorded in the cited summaries and in Pedro Simón's reports as reproduced in later accounts.

The sources describe Bachué as emerging from Iguaque Lake with a baby in her arms; one modern gloss of her Chibcha name renders Bachué as "the one with the naked breast," emphasizing maternal imagery. Beyond the mother-with-infant tableau and the later transformation (she and her husband become snakes), the supplied sources do not provide detailed iconographic descriptions or statuary forms. The alternate name Furachogua ('the good woman') is noted in Pedro Simón's account.

The cited traditions attribute to Bachué the generative act of giving birth to humanity (emergence with an infant who becomes her companion and together populate the earth) and a post-origin metamorphosis into snakes to return to the lagoon. Pedro Simón, as reported in the summaries, also states that the Muisca believed Bachué sometimes returned from the underworld to guide her people. The supplied materials do not ascribe additional active supernatural powers beyond these origin, transformation, and occasional guiding roles.