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- Title
El chamán y el agua: símbolos de resistencia cultural.
- Authors
Osorio, Betty
- Abstract
This article explores two legends that appear in the colonial chronicles of the New Kingdom of Granada, they tell how the native Muisca society collapsed under the Spanish invasion during the XVI Century. The first one is about the legendary myth of "El dorado" and the Guatavita lagoon that appears in Noticias historiales del Nuevo Reino de Granada (1627) by Fray Pedro Simon. The other one is a story about a Muisca shaman named Popon that was the guardian of the sacred gold. In Simon's version, Popón is fooled by a catholic priest who uses his knowledge to steal the sacred gold of the Muiscas. Rodríguez Freyle's version, found in El carnero (1636, 1859), emphasizes the cleverness of the catholic priest and undermines even more the authority of Popón. Both legends illustrate the confrontation between the symbolic value of the native gold, a fertility symbol, and the gold of the conquerors that was just for looting.
- Subjects
NEW Granada (Viceroyalty); LEGENDS in literature; GOLD in literature; EL Dorado; GEOGRAPHICAL myths; CHIBCHA (South American people); SIMON, Pedro
- Publication
Cuadernos de Literatura, 2007, Vol 12, Issue 22, p46
- ISSN
0122-8102
- Publication type
Article