He came from the East, from the llanos of Venezuela or beyond them, and it was said that the path he made was broad and long, a hundred leagues in length, and led directly to the holy temple at his shrine at Sogamoso.

In the province of Ubaque his footprints on the solid rock were reverently pointed out long after the Conquest.

His hair was abundant, his beard fell to his waist, and he dressed in long and flowing robes.

He went among the nations of the plateaux, addressing each in its own dialect, taught them to live in villages and to observe just laws.

Near the village of Coto was a high hill held in special veneration, for from its prominent summit he was wont to address the people who gathered round its base.
Therefore it was esteemed a sanctuary, holy to the living and the dead.
Princely families from a distance carried their dead there to be interred, because this teacher had said that man does not perish when he dies, but shall rise again.