%0 Journal Article %T Ritual de salvaci¨®n centrado en la Cr¨®nica de la Jornada de Omagua y Dorado %A Leal Ladr¨®n de Guevara %A Alejandra %J Atenea (Concepci¨®n) %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0718-04622010000100003 %X this comparative study describes the sacred character of the salvation ritual that ap-pears in a corpus conformed by the discourses of the chronicle of the journey of omagua and dorado by francisco v¨¢squez and pedrar¨ªas de almesto (1561), with three novels from the xxth century and four readings of pre-columbian texts. in this context, we will apply the genetic model of the myth represented in the bundles of relations in the syntagmatic units of the ritual components (l¨¦vi-strauss, 1976) of natural language and its underlying meaning, only comprehensible in the context of an exemplary model present in one of the most important human activities: the ceremony of expiation of guilt mediated through the salvation ritual. %K myth %K ritual %K plot. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-04622010000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en