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Meaning of muiscas by Jimeno Álvarez





Jimeno Álvarez

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1.-The Muisca ( of the mueskkubun muyska / * m·eska / ' person, people ' 3-) or Chibcha are an indigenous people that inhabited the altiplano cundiboyacense and the South of the Department of Santander in Colombia, from the 6th century BC, and whose direct descendants currently live in localities of Bogotá as Suba and Bosa district, and in municipalities neighbouring as Cota, Chía and Sesquilé. 2. "Muisca " is a hispanicization of " muexca " or " moxca " that means " 34 man; in chibcha language. Fray Pedro Simón, account that Jiménez de Quesada encounter with the natives, when asked if they were many responded them " muexca well agen " ( " there are many men " ). The Spaniards understood " muexca " as " fly " and interpreted that what the natives wanted to say was that " they were abundant or were as numerous as flies ".

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