El Dorado

Author: Alyssa Casler

El Dorado a European myth, known has the lost city of gold. Some say that El Dorado is a person who would cover himself from head to toe in his own gold.But then it’s a place, where the gold is hidden. Throughout centuries El Dorado has been mentioned, searched for, and also has been lost for many years without people finding. Why does anyone want to find this place and what is the big deal? People to this day will still look for this, but why. El Dorado reveals the true nature of the territory and people for has lived here.

In deep South America, the origins of El Dorado lie. Legends have lied for centuries and contains some scarps of the truth. In the Andes Mountain tribes have landed, and hid there for over thousands of years to hide the “Lost City of Gold."

El Doradohad a tribe coming to look for all the gold in the lost city, the musica “The Musica is a practiced ritual for every new appointed king that involved gold dust and other precious treasures.”When a leader is appointed then he can stat to take his duties as a king. The rulers of the Musica would wear a head piece to show that they are the leaders. The Musica was meant for the “Gilded One”but has become synonymic with the lost city of gold.

Suppurations have said that El Dorado is not just a lost place but a person. El Dorado would cover himself in gold from head to toe. El Dorado was known as the “Golden One.” He was the leader of the tribe and would be the person that would lead and show everyone where to go.

So my question to you, what do you believe a place or person?Maybe a person that made a change in the world that people named a place. Well hard to tell, but someone wanted to hide gold and treasures for who to find. El Dorado, what is it?

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El Dorado

Author: Theresa Cordell

A golden king with his followers on a raft.

El Dorado is said to be in South America, at the bottom of Lake Guatavita or in the jungle. El Dorado is where the riches are supposed to be. There are many meaning to El Dorado. Some of the meanings are the golden one, the golden lake, the golden king, and the golden city. All of this information has came from many different legends. 

The Lake Guatavita surrounded by the jungle.

            Several legends existed over the golden city when the Spanish came. The first legend is that a group of Inca people fled into where the Spanish invaded Peru. The Spaniards believed they kept the treasure and took it with them. The second legend, the Indians knew for many years. This legend is the most popular of El Dorado. It is said that the legendary king covered his body in gold and would go into the middle of Lake Guatavita to wash it off. He would also throw jewels in the lake, this was a religious ritual. In 1535 this came to the Spaniards. This is how the search for El Dorado came to be. 

As all the greedy men began searching for the treasure, it became a lust for them. It then was known as the gold fever. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Europeans and the Spanish would waste their lives searching. They would die, kill others, or go insane. The men didn’t care; they had a desire to obtain the riches. This search for El Dorado became a quest that many conquistadors would travel. Even after the conquistadors, explorers in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries traveled to find the treasure. 

The map for the search of El Dorado.

The legend of El Dorado is fact and fantasy, these quests and religious acts did occur. We do not know what El Dorado really is. Many people say that it is a human being but others say a place. Since there is no existence of El Dorado we will never figure out the answer.

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Links for further research:

Ancient mysteries

www.mysterypile.com

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http://landofwinds.blogspot.com/2011/07/el-dorado.html

A digital magazine about natural landscapes.

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http://www.wyrdology.com/other/el-dorado.html

It tells About not only El Dorado but also other locations, charms and creatures.