The fascinating bewitchment of the gorgeous green stone also atracted the Muzos Indians, which came within their permanent movement to the pregnant mountain ranges of gems, where they radicated and remained permanently.

The splendor of the beautiful stone inspired in them the explanation of their genesis into a poetic story, combining reality and fantasy.

Magnificent mountains full of emeralds, an exhuberant nature filled with the most beautiful butterflies in the world, a great variety of poisoned serpents and other animal life, as well as a mountain broken by a river, was the paradise where their gods lived.

From those magical surroundings the couple that would live in the land had to take place.

The Legend says that the great creator of the territory and the Muzo's land was formed by a fabulous god called Are, in a great inclinated shadow appearing over the sides of the Big River (Magdalena). Walking in slow movements throughout the inmensity of the space and using his slow, subtle movements, the creation of mountains and valleys took place.

"He stopped in the borders of the sacred river and took a small amount of land where he formed the idols called Fura (woman) and Tena (man) and threw them into the waters where they were purified with foam kisses. They took breath and life and became the two first human beings". Their love had to be unique and exclusively devoted to one another. This rule had to be ordered; otherwise, the infidelity would cause both to be thrust into old age and death.

The legend says that over the centuries, the couple inhabited the land until once, over the same side of the river (west) were God appeared, a young man from a rare race named Zarbí showed up. He was looking for a privileged flower that had in its fragrance the ease for every pain and in its essences, the cure to all illnesses.

The young man travelled during various days over the mountains, crossed rivers and hiked through the trees in search of the precious flower. Fura, seeing that his movements were in vain, offered to travel along with him. As the days passed by, the feeling between both changed and suddenly they fell in love. Finding a place into the jungle, they started their unfaithfulness. The accusation of Fura's conscience became into a sadness feeling and her oldness started to show up each and every day. This was a proof of her lack.

Tena then understood that the sacred law of the unique and exclusive love was being violated by Fura and so she had to die. As a punishment, she had to stay for three days on her knees, next to the mortal body of her husband, in order to clean with tears the remaining love. She had to look and suffer the horrendous process of human decomposition.

Tena killed himself by his sharpened weapon putting it through his heart once he was laying beside Fura`s knees. Before the eternal absence, Tena searched for his revenge and transformed Zarbí into a naked rocky terrain over a long stretch of land, so that Tena could hit him with rays of sunlight from Muzo's sky, the solar mansion.

Zarbí could only defend himself by removing his innards. His blood was converted into a torrent of water that flooded Muzo's land. Once he observed Fura with Tena's body, the water became more torrential until both bodies were separated apart forever and were left one in front of the other, looking at each other from rocky terrains, divided an outrageous current of water.

The legend says that "Tena's death was so painful to Fura, that her screams of pain perforated the echoes of the silent jungle and broke into millions of multicolor butterflies. Her tears, her torrent of tears were transformed by the sun into a mountain rage of emeralds."

Fura and Tena were finally forgiven by the god Are, which put them a "permanent guard of storms, rays and serpents," allowing the waters of the Minero river (Zarbí's blood) to "discover, clarify, cleanse and shine on Muzo's emeralds, Fura's unfaithful and repentant tears."

NOTE:The images and pictures of this page has been taked from Verde Emerald from Mr. Pable Delgadillo, and some books from National Republic Bank.