BOCHICA The cultural founder hero of the Chibcha Indians, Bochica wandered through Colombia teaching his people how to make things. He gave the Chibcha strict moral laws, and when he departed into the west he left his foot prints in certain rocks. After his departure, a woman named Chie, spurning Bochica's severe laws, urged the men to make merry and rejoice. The founder turned her into an owl, but she still helped the work god Chibchacum to flood the country, and in great distress the people turned to Bochica for help. He appeared in a rainbow, sent the rays of the sun to dry up the waters, and caused an outlet to carry away the flood of the sea.