1514: El Dorado Feb 3, 2019

The famed city of El Dorado has inspired many myths, theories, and movies, but a bit of knowledge about the name would have cleared that up. The translation of 'el dorado' from Spanish is 'the golden', which doesn't make much sense by itself, but actually this is because the first account of the tale was from the phrase 'el hombre dorado', or 'the golden man'. This is because the legend comes from a right of passage ceremony for the local chief of dumping gold in a lake to appease their Sun deity.
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