Muysca: Numbers, myths and rock art
LUZ MYRIAM GUTIÉRREZ GRACIA

Summary
The book is a way to get to know the numbers of the Muysca Lunar Calendar that friar José Domingo Duquesne recovered in 1790. It explains that the first five numbers indicate the mythical time of Creation and the five cardinal points. It also exposes the function and the value of numerical symbols, proposing a correspondence with the demonstration order of the gods and of the myths, the Muysca design and the rock art of the cundiboyacense territory, in Colombia. While preparing for this book, I discover that the cosmogonic numbers are born from the facial organs of the Moon-goddess, of the moon-house, Owner of Time. I indicate the epiphany of the Frog goddess, emblem of the Calendar, proposing that this cosmogony is aquatic and lunar.

Data sheet
Category: Iconology of numerical symbols essay
ISBN: 978-958-52277-0-5
Publication date: 19/7/2019
Extent: 495
Format: 21,5 x 25,5 cm

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Author´s biography

Luz Myriam Gutiérrez Gracia. “Primary and secondary at the San Jorge school in Bogotá, with university studies in Social Work until the third semester. Since 1990, I adopted an autonomous education with the Group Viento Teatro, around the ancient amerindian heritage: the myth, the rite, the shamanism, the ritual mask, the dance and the gestures, creating a plastic and scenic language based on mythical sources. Since 2001, I research pre-Columbian art from symbology, anthropology, ethnoastronomy, philosophy and the history of religions, writing about art, theater, playwright, essays, myths and stories. I am an illustrator and an author of essays and literature books published with Viento Ediciones: Muysca: Números, mitos y arte rupestre (2019) (Muysca: Numbers, Myths and Rock Art), Tras las huellas del Jaguar Azul (2016) and Vuelo Mágico de Orión y los animales mitológicos (2009) with illustrations of my daughter Viviana Gutiérrez Gracia.

Also, I am principal co-author of the books: De lo sagrado en el arte y el pensamiento mítico (2007), Wirá, Hijos del Colibrí (2010), Así soñaron los antiguos (2011), Arte en la piel (2012), Diseño Iconográfico (2013), Dragones, jaguares, diosecillos y otros fantasmas (2014) y Sinfonía de colores (2017), Muyscubin, El relato de los números muyscas (2020). In 2018 and 2020, I produce and direct the animated short films: Sinfonía de colores and Muyscubin, El relato de los números muyscas.”