This time we present Fernando Urbina, a lecturer at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, who holds a degree in Philosophy and studies Archaic Thought, especially in the Amazon (mythology and rock art).
Fernando Urbina visits the Museo de América to speak about a territory declared a Natural and Cultural World Heritage Site by UNESCO, the Chiribiquete mountain range.
The lecture will focus especially on two major sets of rock works: the petroglyphs found in the stony riverbeds of the Caquetá River and the pictographs of the Sierra de La Lindosa.
The study of the engravings makes it possible to show, among other things, the representation of the pan-Amazonian (and even universal) mytheme of the Origin of Humanity from the Ancestral Serpent; while the study of the pictographs suggests the presence of European motifs, executed by Indigenous artists; this is the case of depictions of horses, cattle, war dogs, dog-attack scenes and... a sword.