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Written by Raphael Machado.
Channel https://t.me/camaradamachado
*Article republished. Copyright preserved.
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Today we celebrate the fundamental act through which the seeds of what we are were planted: the DISCOVERY of Brazil.
It was a discovery not because there were no inhabitants, which there were, or because there was no civilization, which there was, but because it revealed to the rest of the world what until then had been hidden, Brazil.
This is why Alberto Buela distinguishes "finding" from "discovering", giving Columbus's act in the Americas the second connotation. Whoever "finds" it may find it by chance, but the act of discovering is an intentional unveiling, a bringing to light something that was already known to be there - and it was already known that there was a land where Brazil is today, based on mythical cartographies and narratives traditional.
The act of unveiling undertaken by Cabral and the Portuguese, by bringing us into the light, revealing what was hidden and illuminating what was mysterious, laid the foundations for the construction of the Brazilian as a people and prepared the possibility of concrete realization, through politics, of that "mystical homeland" glimpsed in the dreams of the Celts and ancient Mediterranean peoples under a multitude of names, such as Hy-Brazil.
This act of discovery, therefore, was animated by ancient mystical expectations that found expression in pre-Sebastianist eschatological messianism, linked to the Reconquista and several diverse Iberian influences, as well as the Franciscan mysticism of Joachim of Fiore.
The expedition to discover and conquer Brazil was seen by Dom Manuel as a continuation of the Crusades and as an attack that would have, as its final objective (and in synchrony with the discovery of the Kingdom of Prester John), the restoration of Jerusalem and the institution of a Universal Empire.
In a more mundane sense, the narratives of victimhood that the progressive leftist mentality tries to imprint on the ethos of ethnicities and tribes with Tupi roots and others with which the Portuguese soon encountered are childish. In fact, they were warrior tribes who arrived on the coast on a multi-century pilgrimage that, according to Tradition, was also undertaken for prophetic and messianic reasons, after the collapse of the Tupi Empire and which are linked to the myth of Pay Sumé.
In this meeting on the beaches of Bahia, different mystical expectations of different races meet and merge.
Furthermore, the narrative that reads in this gesture some form of "erasure", or that reads the birth of Brazil as a story of kidnapping or rape is nothing more than a late and pietist-progressive version of the "Black Legend".
The Indians that Cabral and the conquistadors met were not sheep, but fierce warriors, some of whom sided with the Portuguese by offering them their daughters, others opposing them.
The conquest and construction of Brazil, subsequent to the discovery, took place, therefore, within the framework of normal relations between people, in traditional terms, without any shadow of "racism" (a modern phenomenon that, anachronistically, attempts to attribute to the era of discoveries).
It is interesting, moreover, as mentioned yesterday, how the discovery of Brazil almost coincides with the founding of Rome. But it's not quite "almost": if we consider that "to discover" is to unveil, highlighting what was hidden, it is on April 21st, the date of the founding of Rome, that Pero Vaz de Caminha states that the first signs were seen. of land.
In time:
Long live Cabral and Long live Brazil!
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