Esteno

Esteno

She was a gorgon her sisters were Euriales and Medusa her parents were Forcis and Ceto they were marine gods.

Attributes:

Head rhodium of serpents, fangs, and hands of bronze.

Worship

In honor for Esteno people made sacrifices with blood in the walls of the temples for giving force to Esteno and Euriales.

History:

Esteno lived with her sisters in the occidental extreme of the kingdom of the dead. Her head was full of serpents, fangs of boar, hands of bronze, golden nails and wings that let her fly.

Of her penetrating eyes got out sparks and who looked at her   immediately turns into stone.

Esteno was a monster feared by mortals and immortals. Esteno and Euriales were immortals and Medusa was mortal.

Medusa was beheaded by Perseo.

   Esteno had an incredible physical force. She could hypnotize people only looking at them. She was the most wild of the gorgons.

Her work was to protect some oracles. The blood of Esteno gave life if you got it from the right side and if you got it from the left side her blood gave you the dead.

7 Cultural details

The Muiscas lived there.
People said in the lagoon is gold but any one have find it.
Also the Myth said that a Dragon lived there.
Chia= Moon
Xue=sun
Liders: zipa, zaque
They consider the nature their mother.

Guatavita

The story of Guatavita in fact at the bigining was a legend  but with the time had been modified to much and has changed into a myth.

Altitude: 2600 m.s.l. Temperature: 12 °C. Sesquilé in chibcha means hot water. You can still find sacred items used by the Muisca people there. Sesquilé have cultural and touristic attractions of the Colonial times, near is also the Tomine dam and the Guatavita lagoon with his famous legend Guatavita - Cundinamarca Altitude: 2688 m.s.l. Temperature: 14 °C. Guatavita in chibcha tongue means end of farming or mountain range point. Guatavita is an architectonic heritage with 17 small squares and the mythical lovers bridge, which was constructed in 1990 to replace the old one who lies at the bottom of the Tominé dam. Is located 75 km of Bogota in the way to Tunja. On the kilometer 35 you have to take the way to Sesquile and Guatavita. In Guatavita you can find wool products, baskets, cooper, gold and silver items,  “hamacas” and beautiful handicrafts. Tominé dam - Cundinamarca It was constructed over the religious city of the Muiscas, it generates the energy of the sector, there lies his importance. In Tominé is possible to practice sailing, water ski and takes walks around the dam

Guatavita lagoon - Cundinamarca Was the sacred lake and the central point for the Muiscas (Chibchas) ceremonies, the Muiscas adore at that place the CHIE goddess (water goddess) . Guatavita lagoon is located in the “peñas blancas” mountain near the guatavita town, was discover by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada in the year 1.537. The leyend tells that the Guatavita Queen get sick of the continues orgies of his husband and his addiction to the chicha (liquor made from fermented corn), she fall in love with a warrior. She was catch with his lover, for this reason she through herself into the water with his daughter and die. The sad cacique forgive his unfaithful wife and started a ceremony, during this ceremony he covers himself in gold and enter to the Guatavita lagoon in a raft and prayes, then he bad himself in the lagoon, he throws emeralds and gold with the purpose to ask the queen who lies at the bottom of the lagoon to pray to the goods for prosperity for his people. From there comes the famous Dorado legend.

Legend

A legend is totally different to a Myth first of all a legend really happen in the real life only that with te time it has been modificated sometimes legends are used to scare people .
Examples:
The legend of Merlin.

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Myth

A myth is a story with a purpose. It tries to explain the way the world is.  Myths also try to explain the relationship between gods and humans. Even though the events in a myth are usually impossible, they try to send a message that has an important social or religious meaning.
People have always tried to figure out common questions like who made the universe or questions like what causes a storm. Religion, gods, and myths were created when people tried to make sense out of these questions. For early people myths were like science because they explain how things work.  They also explained other questions that are now answered through modern science.