He punishes those who pursue iniquity, and he favors those who work for the good of the community.
In many instances he sets an example of chaste living, of strict temperance, of complete subjection of the lusts and appetites.

I have but to refer to what I have already said of the Maya Kukulcan and the Aztec Quetzalcoatl, to show this.

Both are particularly noted as characters free from the taint of indulgence.
Thus it occurred that the early monks often express surprise that these, whom they chose to call savages and heathens, had developed a moral law of undeniable purity.

"The matters that Bochica taught," says the chronicler Piedrahita, "were certainly excellent, inasmuch as these natives hold as right to do just the same that we do." "The priests of these Muyscas," he goes on to say, "lived most chastely and with great purity of life, insomuch that even in eating, their food was simple and of small quantity, and they refrained altogether from women and marriage.

Did one transgress in this respect, he was dismissed from the priesthood."[1] [Footnote 1: "Las cosas que el Bochica les ensenaba eran buenas, siendo assi, que tenian por malo lo mismo que nosotros tenemos por tal." Piedrahita, _Historia General de las Conquistas del Nuevo Reyno de Granada_, Lib.