The First Lie

Episode 1: The First Lie Jack traces the origin of El Dorado to a single misunderstood moment: a Muisca ceremony where a leader covered in gold dust dove into Lake Guatavita. He dissects how Spanish conquistadors transformed this spiritual ritual into rumors of infinite wealth, how observation became invention, and how a ceremony meant to explain a culture was twisted into justification for conquest. This episode examines the mechanics of how myths are born from fragments of truth, how ambition weaponizes misunderstanding, and how the Muisca people became the first casualties of someone else's fantasy. The first lie wasn't that El Dorado existed—it was that the fantasy mattered more than the truth.

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