South American Folk Religions

Among the Muisca of the Colombian highlands, South American religious traditions included worship at sacred lakes and temples. Their priests honoured the Sun god Sué at Suamox and the Moon goddess Chía at the temple in Chía; rituals also used coca, tobacco and yopo obtained through trade with peoples to the east.

Spanish forces conquered the Muisca between 1537 and 1540. A public Muisca religious ceremony was held at Ubaque in 1563, decades after the conquest.