{"id":19924,"date":"2022-04-11T10:53:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T14:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=19924"},"modified":"2022-04-10T12:02:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T16:02:07","slug":"fine-art-fables-the-golden-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2022\/04\/11\/fine-art-fables-the-golden-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine Art Fables: The Golden King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19925\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/FIne-Art-Fables-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/FIne-Art-Fables-1.png 750w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/FIne-Art-Fables-1-300x164.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The story we are familiar with through modern retellings of El Dorado originates from an old story originating from <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Muisca Mythology in Columbia, South America. It is also known as\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El Hombre Dorado<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (&#8220;The Golden Man&#8221;) or <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El Rey Dorado<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (&#8220;The Golden King&#8221;).\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the more modern stories tell the tale of a golden city or empire, the original myth covers the story of a Golden King. The Golden King describes a King of the Musica people. As an initiation rite or coronation for a new king, he had to cover himself with gold dust and then submerge himself in Lake Guatavita. While in the lake, people would throw gold, emeralds and other precious stones into the lake. It was a sort of offering to the god the Musican people worshipped. After the Spanish came to Columbia, that is when the story began to morph over time to become a golden city or empire. Of course, any researchers trying to find this city have never been successful.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Intrigued by the original myth of the story, I drew a rendition of a Musican king walking into the lake during the initiation process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19927\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/arts-ink-8-767x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/arts-ink-8-767x1024.png 767w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/arts-ink-8-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/arts-ink-8-768x1025.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story we are familiar with through modern retellings of El Dorado originates from an old story originating from Muisca Mythology in Columbia, South America. It is also known as\u00a0El Hombre Dorado (&#8220;The Golden Man&#8221;) or El Rey Dorado (&#8220;The Golden King&#8221;).\u00a0However, the more modern stories tell the tale of a golden city or empire, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19928,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19924\/revisions\/19928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}