THE INEXISTENCE OF QUITO’S KINGDOM
Have you ever heard about Quito’s Kingdom? What do you think it’s true or false? The history keeps in many fragments of time and space, for this reason too much mysteries have been hidden perfectly by circunstances and why not by people. This question has inspired me to develop this essay which pretends only give you some reasons to demystify the legend of Quito’s Kingdom. In order to demonstrate my thesis I’ll analyze and describe three main points. Firstly, It`s a legend. During XVII century didn’t exist scientific investigations about history in our territory, therefore a little group of priests [1] , exactly the priest Juan de Velasco tried to give a particular vision about that, his interpretation was romantic and unreal. Velasco baptized the antique civilization with the name of Quito’s Kingdom. Second, Quito’s Kingdom was a discourse based on a murmur. Not only the priest Juan de Velasco started the legend, but also the indigenous people. Supposedly, that people referred to t...