*Cultural Reference List 8-9*El Dorado is a legend about a South American tribal chief who covered himself with gold dust and dove into a lake of pure mountain water. As the story was told by multiple variations, El Dorado (Spanish for "the golden one") is particularly known as the city of wealth, inspiring many explorers from the 1500s and on.
The story of El Dorado was brought by rituals of the Muisca and was then arose up the legend of El Dorado. This magical place was later told as a kingdom, an empire, the city of a legendary golden king.
El Dorado is often portrayed as a metaphor in the mythology of the Muisca today. El Dorada represents the energy contained in the trinity of Chimingagua, which constitutes the create power of everything that exists. And in other terms, El Dorada can simply be used metaphorically as any place where wealth can easily be obtained. The modern location of this place is Columbia.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Dorado
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