The mythification of Latin America

a reading of the narrative of Sergio Ramirez

Abstract

The myth in the Greek civilization made reference to a story without truth, but that it satisfied man to the extent that facilitated the understanding of an indecipherable fact. In this sense, the word was used with the purpose of discrediting an explanation unverifiable. (Said, 1998, p. 9) Thus, religious ceremonies and established ideological principles were taken as irrational actions due to support on an unlikely basis. In this way, the myth consisted of a story full of events and that, in ancient Greece revolved around to the narration of a heroic deed that rushed a divinized character, who told with the approval of the powerful gods, creators of the worlds and underworlds in the which was due to them the functioning of life.