The Mythical Dimensión ofFrancoist National Discourse: the Narration of Victory in the Spanish Civil War

Abstract

Given the understanding of the beginning of Spanish Francoism as a mo-dern form of political religión set in the European twentieth-century con-text -the century within an important part of the continent assisted in the emergence of secular religions and processes of the secularization of politics—, the aim of this article is to put forward some important considera-tions within the complex process of legitimation of the Francoist political regime, focusing on its symbolic dimensión. For this goal, the analysis of the narration that the regime built of its own fundational act -the Victory in the Spanish Civil War— claim to prove how that mythical manufacture of the Victory was one of the most important aspects inside the legitima-tion process of the rising dictatorship, understanding that this mythifica-tion process made possible the transformador! of this initial fracture from which the regime carne into power in the inevitable and necessary Re-demption of the Spanish Nation -a Nation that had been deified within the francoist political religión and a Redemption that concluded the mythical sequence of the Paradise-Fall-Redemption around which the francoist na-tionalist narration was articulated as a specific form of modern political religión.