Zipa

The Zipa was chosen, anointed with gold mud and set adrift by raft. Midlake, he offered goods for the gods, casting golden animals, silver vessels, and emeralds overboard, while bonfires raged all along the shoreline.

And so the lie of El Dorado was born. European imaginations went wild and crusades of plunder followed. There were few returns on their atrocities, however, since the Muisca were traders, not miners.