TAIRONA CULTURE

The taironas was adorned with pieces and jewels of gold. The men were placed earmuffs and caricuries in the noses and big chagualas in the chest. The women started similar elements to those of the men.

They had jewels of gold, feather feathers and blankets with interwoven many paintings, and in them many stones cornalinas. emeralds, casidonias, jaspers and others."

During the period Tairona the destinations of the community were governed by a powerful chamanes elite that you/they said to have control on the essential forces of the nature, the classification of the cosmos and the human actions. They were those in charge of looking after the material and spiritual well-being of the community. In multiple objects you leave them represented in the trance of the transformation, like in the emblemática it figures of the man-bat, Mister of the night and the underworld.


Sierra's late groups Nevada, of language chibcha, they had concepts and beliefs common with other societies of the linguistic same family. With the inhabitants of the Oriental Mountain range they shared the symbol and ideology of the bird with deployed wings and the sense of the offerings.