Also known as Sué
Sué, Xué, Sua, Zuhe or Suhé (from the Chibcha * "sun") was the god of the Sun in the religion of the Muisca. He was married to Moon goddess Chía. The Muisca and their confederation were one of the four advanced civilizations of the Americas;they developed their own religion on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the Andes. Both the Sun and rain, impersonated by Chibchacum, were very important for their agriculture.
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- Instance of
- solar deity
- Part of
- Muisca mythology
- Gender
- male
- Spouse
- Chía
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- worshipped by
- Muisca people
- place of devotion
- Sun Temple
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Sué, Xué, Sua, Zuhe or Suhé (from the Chibcha * "sun") was the god of the Sun in the religion of the Muisca. He was married to Moon goddess Chía. The Muisca and their confederation were one of the four advanced civilizations of the Americas;they developed their own religion on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the Andes. Both the Sun and rain, impersonated by Chibchacum, were very important for their agriculture.
== Description == thumb|260px|left|Reconstruction of the Sun Temple (Sogamoso)|Sun Temple, place of worship to SuéArcheology Museum [[Sogamoso]] After the creation of light and the world by Chiminigagua he created Chía and Sué to represent the Moon and the Sun respectively. Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada wrote about the Muisca: "they have the Sun and the Moon as breeders of all the things and believe they are together as husband and wife having created the councils".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sua” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.