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    The Imaginary of Exaggeration
    The Imaginary of Exaggeration
    The Imaginary of Exaggeration
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    The Imaginary of Exaggeration

    By Luis Carlos Molina Acevedo

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    The Imaginary of Exaggeration is a cultural essay on the culture of Antioquia, Colombia. Mental mechanisms by which the man of Antioquia creates new cultural products are studied. In particular, they are analyzed the imaginary processes and processes of exaggeration.
    The oral tradition becomes the source to rebuild this cultural wealth. Parade here imaginary beings created to educate ethically and morally to members of human groups in this geography. The stories arouse emotions, transmit knowledge and educate for life
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateOct 1, 2015
    ISBN9783959268929
    The Imaginary of Exaggeration
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    Luis Carlos Molina Acevedo

    Luis Carlos Molina Acevedo was born in Fredonia, Colombia. He is Social Communicator of the University of Antioquia, and Masters in Linguistics from the same university. The author has published more than twenty books online bookstores:I Want to Fly, From Don Juan to Sexual Vampirism, The Imaginary of Exaggeration, and The Clavicle of Dreams.Quiero Volar, El Alfarero de Cuentos, Virtuales Sensaciones, El Abogado del Presidente, Guayacán Rojo Sangre, Territorios de Muerte, Años de Langosta, El Confesor, El Orbe Llamador, Oscares al Desnudo, Diez Cortos Animados, La Fortaleza, Tribunal Inapelable, Operación Ameba, Territorios de la Muerte, La Edad de la Langosta, Del Donjuanismo al Vampirismo Sexual, Imaginaria de la Exageración, La Clavícula de los Sueños, Quince Escritores Colombianos, De Escritores para Escritores, El Moderno Concepto de Comunicación, Sociosemántica de la Amistad, Magia: Símbolos y Textos de la Magia.

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      The Imaginary of Exaggeration - Luis Carlos Molina Acevedo

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      Introduction

      THE IMAGINARY OF EXAGGERATION is a cultural essay on the culture of Antioquia, Colombia. Mental mechanisms are used by the man of Antioquia to create new cultural products. In particular, they are analyzed the imaginary processes and processes of exaggeration.

      The oral tradition becomes the source to rebuild this cultural wealth. It parades here imaginary beings created to educate ethically and morally to members of human groups in this geography. The stories arouse emotions, transmit knowledge and educate for life.

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      Some recent day I remarked: Today I are going the wrong thing. It is a bad day. My interlocutor answered: Maybe, you woke up on the wrong foot. I knew it was not for that, but I said: Perhaps, it is for that. And I knew it was not for that, because every day I wake up on the wrong foot. My bed is arranged so that when I wake up, I must always put first, my left foot on the floor and then the right foot. Review in my memory and I find that has almost always been the same situation. But I said, perhaps it is for that. I think about what I said and I find a surprising realization of omen. There is a strong belief in my unconsciousness. The surprise was biggest when I decided to explore the hidden origins of this omen. In a dark maze of my mind, it is found the ambivalent myth of the dextrous and sinister. This situation reveals the concepts of good and evil, determining our worldview.

      But, it was mentioned myth? That means that in a mental place, there is a symbolic scene where God and the Devil fight his fiercest struggle. Of course, all these symbols as signs refer to specific references embodied in many iconic representations according to each human group existing in the world. After all, each image is the externalization of the myths that every people need to exist, to shape your reality. To that, we call culture. They are amazing the many cultural connections included within an omen. These connections give start to this research on the culture of southwestern Antioquia, Colombia. We are interested in the symbolic forms of this culture. Along these lines we will discover how the imaginary of a culture is built. In this process, the world is built by exaggeration. It occurs at night illuminated and heated by a few fathoms that burn in the wood stove.

      A simple act of everyday speech hides a whole symbolic world, culturally acquired. Each particular symbolic world is built again and again through the oral tradition to take a complex shape. In the oral tradition we see the expression of a symbolic world, but in a more complex process, where symbolism is articulated within the imaginary and the real. The oral tradition even goes further. Make mutual relations in various aspects, such as the fields of production, social relations and the ideological and cultural practices of everyday life within a particular community.

      I was born in a hillside of Cerro Bravo in Fredonia (Antioquia), Colombia, and facing Cerro Tusa in Venice (Antioquia). I could not say which of the two hills is much more magical. On the one hand, Cerro Tusa with his figure of a pyramid, and the other, Cerro Bravo with its permanent cloud on top as a holy aura. It seems that they were there to guard a

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