Reconstrucción de la memoria cultural del pueblo muisca de Bogotá, resignificación del cerro de las tres viejas y la laguna de Guatavita en Sesquilé

Abstract

The following article is the result of ethnographic work carried out in the Cerro de las Tres Viejas, the Guatavita lagoon and in other representative places for the Muisca community of Sesquilé in Cundinamarca Colombia. First, we want to highlight the community work of some leaders who have dedicated their lives to reestablishing indigenous councils. Second, there will be an ethnographic description of the territory in Sesquilé with which the cultural recovery of some places considered by the community as sacred began. These processes were carried out with the aim of making visible a community recognized by the Ministry of the Interior and Justice of Colombia since 1999 as a Muisca indigenous, seeking to interpret and communally appropriate the oral tradition from where the Muiscas return to tour the places of the territory, they practice ancestral rituals and fight against the senses that the Western and State imposition gives to the territory. The research also seeks to propose other analytical approaches for the memory recovery processes of communities and their efforts to strengthen their culture.