In this article we want to study the ceremonies of acclamation of king John VI that took place in Tejuco in 1818. The decoding of the rich array of aesthetic images found in those celebrations may be a privileged strategy to the understand of the creation, at that moment, of the myths that would support and direct the affirmation of the political prestige of the king and the consolidation of his domain on the region and on the whole Brazilian territory. We will explore here especially the conflict of memories between the symbolic meanings of the celebrations that occurred in Minas and the revolt of the people against the Portuguese colonial exploitation that had occurred about three decades before in the region.
King John VI; ceremonies of acclamation; myths and memories; domination and territory; State-Nation in Brazil; myths and symbolic meanings