SPANISH

Abstract

The human being lives and understands through narratives, the myth is one of them since it plays a fundamental role in the structure of our knowledge. Myths prevail to this day and acquire new meanings according to the sociohistorical era. To this phenomenon, the French anthropologist Gilbert Durand calls it a mythical wadi.

One of these wadies is Dionysus, who symbolizes wine, abundance, wild paroxysm. Since the 60s with the counterculture and the breaking of paradigms, society has turned to a vortex of openness to taboos, disenchantment with progress and critical questioning of the hegemonic.

One of the artistic expressions derived from this current have been music festivals, which have allowed to unite different generations in a common space. Among these events, those of the electronic genre stand out, such as Tomorrowland, Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) and Burning Man, which -without being its main objective- have perpetuated the mythical Dionysian channel by fostering a festive, ecstatic and collectivist spirit, with the hypothesis to be revealed through the hermeneutical postulates of G. Durand, M. Beuchot and Rollo May