This article describes familiar elements of european explorers, who established the first coordinates with Paradise and Cocanha from analogies, in order to assimilate and to interpret pictorially the New World, -a reality unknown previously-, and to integrate them into Western culture. So, the Christianity is important because it offers the benchmark, to establish the indian´s image into the religious episodes of western European culture. An image, positive sometimes, when it´s linked to paradise, and negative sometimes, when it´s bound for hell.
Paradise; Eden´s Garden; Cocagne´s Land; Hell; Epifania; Adoration of the Magic; Salvation History; Images; New World
