Hunzahúa

According to the cited Muisca accounts, Hunzahúa was heir of Idacansás and a cacique chosen by regional chiefs to make peace between warring parties; he thus became the first zaque of the northern Muisca based in Hunza (Tunja), the town said to be named after him. Sources relate that he married his older sister Noncetá, a union condemned by his mother Faravita and the Muisca people. When Faravita attacked the couple she spilled a bowl of chicha, which the tradition says created the Hunzahúa Well. In response to the protest and his mother's action Hunzahúa cursed or damned Hunza and the surrounding valley. Noncetá gave birth in Susa, but the child was said to have turned into a rock. The couple then traveled to Tequendama Falls, where the narrative records they changed into two rocks on either side of the waterfall. The accounts also attribute to his rule a policy banning the use of weapons, framing his figure as both a political founder and a moral exemplum tied to landscape etiologies.

The cited sources do not provide a physical or supernatural description of Hunzahúa. He is attested in the sources by his social and political identity: a cacique/zaque ruling from Hunza, son of Faravita and brother-husband of Noncetá. Sources emphasize his role as an ancestral ruler and participant in the incest-and-transformation legend rather than details of dress, features, or other physical markers.

The sources do not describe ongoing personal supernatural powers wielded by Hunzahúa. Rather, the tradition recounts mythic events tied to his transgressive conduct: a curse or damnation pronounced on Hunza and the surrounding valley, metamorphoses in which a newborn turns to rock, and the final transformation of Hunzahúa and Noncetá into two rocks at Tequendama Falls. These are presented as narrative etiologies linking moral transgression to landscape change, not as catalogued operative abilities available for use.