Some ethnologists believe that the Kuna are descendants of an ancient and powerful race of people who ruled the region for centuries before vanishing overnight.
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Secrets of the Kuna features 11 components, and focuses on the ancient structures and culture of the indigenous people of Panama and Colombia—the Kuna.
Completing the mystery will unlock a bronze trophy of the same name "Secrets of the Kuna".
| Item | Inventory description | Chapter |
|---|---|---|
| Rope Bridge | Ancient bridges like this mark the trail used hundreds of years ago by the Kuna's ancestors for trade with what is now Colombia and Mexico. | "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" |
| Kuna Death Mask | Masks like this were placed on the faces of the dead to prepare them for their joruney to the underworld. Offerings to Tayikwa included valuables such as Jade Carvings and Turquoise Glyphs. | |
| Imtaysoyunna | The sixteenth-century Kuna's mythology evolved from their ancestors' much earlier pantheon of gods. Imtaysoyunna, protector of trade routes, is closely related to the ancient god Natucohuatli, god of commerce. | |
| Olocupinele Pictoglyphs | A pictoglyph wall depictig Olocupinele creating the sacred mountain of Takarkuna. | |
| Yomosakotet | A nuchus, or figurine, of Yomosakotet. Similar to the ancient goddess Tecatohuatli, this Kuna god was the patron of artists and singers. | "No Prison Tats" |
| Takwichunna | A sixteenth-century version of Mahuaquiotex, the ancient god of war, Takwichunna was the Kuna's god of weapons and bloodshed. | |
| Tayikwa | Related to the ancient god Cuozicaltl, the sixteenth-century Kuna made offerings to Tayikwa when someone died. | |
| Ibeogun Pictoglyphs | A pictoglyph wall depicting Ibeogun bestowing on the Kuna the gifts of speech, picture-writing and the knowledge of wood-carving. | |
| Kuna Axe | 2000 year-old Jade axes like this one, found throughout the Caribbean, can be traced to the ancient Jade mines of Central America, offering the Kuna a vast network of travel and trade. | "My Grandfather's Sanctuary" |
| Animal Nuchus | A nuchus, or figurine, represents the Kuna idea of purba, a spiritual continuum that joins all living things whether plant, animal or human. | |
| Goblet of Teochicatol | Handed down through generations, serpent goblets like this were used by Kuna neles, of shamen, when attempting to converse with ancestor spirits. |
"I feel like Perez did most of the work on this. But I don't think there's any doubt... the Kuna of Marco's time were descendants of the Quivirans."
"The Ancients believed a great spiritual continuum joined all living things, a force, if you will, a glue beneath the fabric of life."
"Axes like this were used by the Ancients throughout their history, which was long and very bloody. The human propensity for self destruction has a long history indeed."
"One of the prizes of my collection... the great Goblet of Teochicatol... the shaman the Ancients used it to drink sacramental spirits to... well, summon spirits."
"The Ancients used masks like this on their dead, to protect them from the Tayikwa... the journey to the underworld was perilous indeed."
