Chiminigagua

In Muisca origin accounts cited in secondary sources, Chiminigagua existed as a sole source of light at a time of cosmic darkness and decided to shine light across the universe. The deity is said to have opened a 'gigantic belly' from which light shone, then created two large black birds and launched them into space; the birds spread light from their beaks and thus produced light in the cosmos, bringing the visible world into being. After creation the Sun, Moon and other proximate deities (such as Chía and Sué) became the objects of ordinary cultic devotion, while Chiminigagua remained the transcendent creative source.

Sources vary: Chiminigagua is sometimes described metaphorically in creation narratives as opening a gigantic belly that emitted light, while other descriptions present the supreme being as a 'static deity without body.' No consistent anthropomorphic iconography, attire or cult image is recorded in the cited materials; bodily imagery appears in mythic narrative rather than as a standardized temple image.

Described in sources as the supreme creator and the original source of light who brought the world into existence (creating light and launching the two birds that spread light). The deity is characterized as universally good in the available summaries. Chiminigagua functions as a transcendent origin rather than a regularly petitioned, intervening cultic patron; the visible celestial gods (Sun Sué, Moon Chía, rainbow Cuchavira) and messenger figures (Bochica) mediate human devotion and ritual.