Indian gold Ceremony

The original story is in the chronicle, El Carnero, of Juan Rodriguez Freyle. According Freyle, the chief priest of the Muisca was ritually covered in gold dust in Guatavita religious festival, near where today's Bogotá.
In 1636 Juan Rodriguez Freyle wrote a version, addressed to his friend Don Juan, the chief or ruler of Guatavita:
"... At that Guatavita became a great raft of reeds, and most showy aderezábanla that could ... At this time the entire lagoon was crowned Indians and turned the entire circumference, all Indians and Indian gold crowned , feathers and stripped the heir chagualas ... (...) and smeared with a sticky league, and sprayed everything with gold dust, so that was all covered with this metal. Metíanlo on the raft, which was stopped, and put his feet a great heap of gold and emeralds to offer to his god. They went with him in the boat four caciques, the most major ones adorned with feathers, crowns, bracelets, earrings and gold chagualas, and naked ... to the Indian gold casting his offer all the gold and emeralds carrying feet amid the lagoon, then the other chiefs seguíanse accompanying him. After the ceremony the flags flapped ... And from the raft to land the screams began ... With dances dances and dances his way. With the ceremony which was recognized by the newly elected lord and prince. "
There are other gaps in the department of Cundinamarca in which this ritual is practiced and where they found pieces of gold, exhibited today in the Gold Museum in Bogota. One of them, the Muisca Raft of Pasca, the rite of El Dorado in a beautiful golden statuette found in the countryside near the village of Pasca, Cundinamarca.
Muisca population and their treasures quickly fell into the hands of the conquerors. To take stock of the new land obtained, the Spanish soon realized that, despite the amount of gold in the hands of the Indians had no golden cities, nor even rich mines, since the Muisca gold obtained through trade with neighboring countries. But at the same time the Spanish began to hear stories of El Dorado from captured Indians, and the rites that took place in Guatavita.
The Guatavita today has a big ditch in its side, evidence of attempts that were made in 1580 to drain the pond.