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The Mythical Museum Ramón Elías ((スペイン語:Museo Mitológico Ramón Elías)), called honoring its founder, is located in Capiatá, Paraguay, going Route II “José Félix Estigarribia”19 km. far from Asunción, which is the capital city. This museum evokes memories from Paraguay ancestors and at the same time is a calling out to maintain in the Paraguayan culture the magic presence of myths. ==The founder== Ramón Elías was born November 10, 1929. His father was Don José Elías (Arab) and his mother was Doña Francisca Fernández (Paraguayan). His Elementary School was in Concepción, city in the North of Paraguay and Secondary in the capital city Asunción. During childhood, he was interested in sports, especially basketball, he promoted basket in Capiatá and was also one of most popular player in Capiatà League. On September 25, 1954, he married Elsa Agueda, Salvador Céspedes Valdez and Petrona Gamarra Gaona's daughter. They had six children: Felipe, Melva, Oscar Ramón, Elva Mercedes, Felipe Segundo and Elsa Concepción. He was very good at painting so was given a scholarship at Escuela de Bellas Artes from Asunción. He also restored antiquities, through researches and recompilations, one of his favorite activities. He was very skillful and showed very special love to his work. From 1967 to 1972 he was a teacher (drawing and geometry) at Colegio Nacional de Capiatá, he also made the seal office of the Municipalidad. Ramón Elías made native masks combining different kinds of ingredients, which are very beautiful, charming and admired by tourists. His masks were put on view at the Dirección de Turismo in Paraguay on May 1966 and La Casa Paraguaya in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since he was a very curious person and had a researcher spirit, he traveled all the small towns called the interior of the country looking for antiquities which were bought and restored to be sold. During that time he met many elderly people, who knew a lot of historic memories about tales of magic characters. That was the time when he got into the world of mystery about myths and dedicated himself to interpret and make people know through fantastic sculptures. Don Ramón Elías is considered the father of the images of Paraguayan myths the same that long ago were found only in Paraguayan literature. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mythical Museum Ramón Elías」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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