It was held that this would be more certain to occur in the very spot where he announced this doctrine.

Every sunset, when he had finished his discourse, he retired into a cave in the mountain, not to reappear again until the next morning.
For many years, some said for two thousand years, did he rule the people with equity, and then he departed, going back to the East whence he came, said some authorities, but others averred that he rose up to heaven.

At any rate, before he left, he appointed a successor in the sovereignty, and recommended him to pursue the paths of justice.[1] [Footnote 1: "Afirman que fue trasladado al cielo, y que al tiempo de su partida dexo al Cacique de aquella Provincia por heredero de su santidad i poderio." Lucas Fernaudez Piedrahita, _Historia General de las Conquistas del Nueoo Reyno de Granada_, Lib.

i, cap.

iii (Amberes, 1688).] What led the Spanish missionaries to suspect that this was one of the twelve apostles, was not only these doctrines, but the undoubted fact that they found the symbol of the cross already a religious emblem among this people.