[Solar-forossi] Les_, Dec. v, Lib. iii, cap. vi.] This leads me to the etymology of the name.

[Gue]

 held that this would be more certain to occur in the very spot where he
announced this doctrine. Every sunset, when he had finished his
discourse, he retired into a cave in the mountain, not to reappear again
until the next morning. For many years, some said for two thousand
years, did he rule the people with equity, and then he departed, going
back to the East whence he came, said some authorities, but others
averred that he rose up to heaven. At any rate, before he left, he
appointed a successor in the sovereignty, and recommended him to pursue
the paths of justice.[1] [Footnote 1: "Afirman que fue trasladado al
cielo, y que al tiempo de su partida dexo al Cacique de aquella
Provincia por heredero de su santidad i poderio." Lucas Fernaudez
Piedrahita, _Historia General de las Conquistas del Nueoo Reyno de
Granada_, Lib. i, cap. iii (Amberes, 1688).] What led the Spanish
missionaries to suspect that this was one of the twelve apostles, was
not only these doctrines, but the undoubted fact that they found the
symbol of the cross already a religious emblem among this people. It
appeared in their sacred paintings, and especially, they erected one
over the grave of a person who had died from the bite of a serpent. A
little careful investigation will permit us to accept these statements
as quite true, and yet give them a very different interpretation. That
this culture-hero arrives from the East and returns to the East are
points that at once excite the suspicion that he
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