Space, Time and Nature: The process and the myth

[Original title: "Espaço, Tempo e Natureza: o processo e o mito"] This article engages the debate on space, time, and nature in dialogue with the lived world of subjects who construct themselves — or are constructed — as mythological heroes: sources of discourse and concrete spatial practices. This remains an underexplored field in Geography, one that has only recently approached questions of cultural dynamics, the symbolic field, and their spatialization processes. The central aim is to examine how spatial organization processes relate to prior historical moments of a society, within a space-time dialectics that articulates past and present in a complex and non-linear manner. Methodologically, the study combines literature review with field and documentary research across three empirical axes: migration to the vicinal roads of the Transamazon Highway (BR-230); the foundation of the Centro Espírita União do Vegetal — a religion that emerged in the Amazon and established its headquarters in Brasília; and the construction of Brasília as a modern metropolis constituted without a past. The analysis points to the existence of space-time nexuses linking the Myth of Nature to the Creation of Heroes — figures constantly reappropriated and resignified — which dialectically sustain discourses and new spatial practices throughout contemporary Brazilian space.