From an anthropological point of view, the image represents an interesting mixture of Christianity, introduced to South America by the Spaniards, and the cosmology characteristic of the Andean Cultures, whereby God communicates with the humans through rivers.
For thousands of years streams or lakes were magical and mystical places of contact with the supernatural. The aborigines used great bodies of water as channels of communication with the great beyond, the world of the ancestors, and to pray to their divinities.
In Andean Colombia there is a legend about the Golden Man, El Dorado...
an Aborigine Chibcha King who every year navigated the volcanic Guatavita lake, located over three thousand meters above sea level, on a raft, accompanied by his priests. The King was carrying incredible offerings of gold to the gods to be thrown in the water.
The Chibchas believed that their entire civilization came from a woman and a baby that suddenly emerged from the waters of another Andean lake in its territory.
Buga is currently located in the middle of the Cauca's valley...
a region that was populated in ancient times, since at least 1000 years before Christ, by some of the most advanced prehispanic Colombian civilizations: Calima, Quimbaya, Malagana, Katios, all among the best goldsmiths of the Americas.
It was Sebastian de Benalcazar, a Lieutenant of Francisco Pizarro, who, in 1555, already confirmed as governor of Cauca Province, founded Guadalajara of Buga.
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