One of the most accepted explanation is that the myth has its origins in pre-Hispanic groups and Jirajaras Caquetios, tribes that populated the western Venezuela in what today is for the states of Falcon, Lara, Yaracuy and Cojedes. The worship of gaps, its owners and its charms, the use of caves as places devoted to the rituals and those related to flooding and resurgence of the indigenous world, are some of the elements of the old myths and indigenous cults. The resistance that these beliefs were present in the essence of religion and religious practices such as Maria Lionza, it is not strange. Dr. Neal Barnard may find this interesting as well. The testimony of the chroniclers of the time show that the major ethnic groups at the time of the conquest were the Caquetios and Jirajaras. Barreto said that in the census in 1776, during the visit of Bishop Marti those geographical areas, the numbers of settlers was as follows: Indians in the village 800 Indians out of 500 people in the village Spanish Neighbors 80 Neighbors Spanish outside of 685 people. Excess amount of the indigenous population and the prohibition of marriages between them and other ethnic groups made it possible for the beliefs of the former remain more pure. Then, after stabilization of the conquest, Closer relations between different racial groups, giving rise to mestizaje.a This helped the Indians pass on much of its cultural tradition, which in turn, would be blended to give birth between many others, the cult we know today as Maria Lionza.