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A new article from Crodur regarding the Selk’nam culture. This time we discuss the way their society organized, their gender roles, and the explanations they gave to their state of affairs.
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Writting articles: stagnation and scarcity
Discussing image rights and Crodur future way of engaging with that.
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The Selk’nam (IV): Humans and Xo’on
Note for subscribers.: Finally, a new entry regarding the Selk’nam! To those of you subscribed to our website, you may have received a message showing this article, as if already published. That seemed to be an error; an incomplete version…
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Temporal setback
Hello, to anyone invested in Crodur and reading the articles. I am afraid there will be a small delay until the next one is published. It pains me to communicate this, but many issues (most of them my fault, let’s…
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Hells and Heavens I: Qudlivun and Adlivun
A new series I decided to start while I gather content for the other ones, focused entirely in afterlives, hells, heavens and other planes of existence for the death that cultures from all the world ideated through the ages. In…
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The Hopi (I): Historical recap
The Hopi are a very interesting group of Native Americans that I have been hearing about lately, and after skimming through some information about their culture and way of living, they quickly have caught my interest, to the point that…
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Crodur is back on track!
Hello again, to any readers that may have missed our site activity. I’m happy to confirm that, after a (frankly sudden) break of two months, Crodur is up and going once more. Hooray! It’s been a while! Abandoning this site…
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Greek mythology: Original or copycat?
A recurring joke among those interested in classic History (such as myself) exists around the Roman and Greek mythos, specially how the later are depicted as an original creation, made by the Hellas natives, and/or immigrant waves that eventually settled…
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Civilizations that counted up to a million
A month ago or so, I read a post asking an interesting question: when has been the first time a civilization managed to count up to a million? Even though the answer was already typed, it got me wondering… how…
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The Selk’nam (III): Temáukel, Čénuke and the Ha’is clan
In the previous articles regarding Selk’nam peoples, we explored a -somewhat rushed- summary of their past and major contacts with the world, and then the basics of their mythology, and we even dropped the name of their most important god,…
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Easter Island (I): A culture behind the ruin
The Easter Island -aka Rapa Nui, as it’s homonymous natives call it- is famous for it’s colossal Moai Heads, of immense caliber, weight, and craftsmanship. That’s, however, only one of the many wonders these people produced. The Rapa Nui culture…
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Vampires of the world (II)
A follow-up of the previous vampire article, right in the middle of the month of terror! As we noticed before, a number of cultures have their own archetypes of ”vampire” or ”vampiric-like creature”, most of which created their own without…
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Age of metals
Following up with the post I made about mayas, metallurgy as a way to gauge civilization advancement becomes even more ridiculous the longer you stray away from the typical regions (again, Europe and occasionally part of Asia). We got the…
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The Selk’nam (II): Mythology overview
So, in my last post we quickly saw the story of the Selk’nam or Ona people, their (speculated) origins, interaction with the outside world, the genocide perpetrated against them and, in a more positive note, how they’re currently fighting to…
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Vampires of the world (I)
The month of terror arrives once more, and with it, the foul monster, aristocrat yet savage, opulent yet secretive: Vampire! Everyone has heard about them. Bloodsucking, unusually sharp fangs, affinity to the night, bat shapeshifting abilities… the vampires are as…
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Maya civilization!
Lately I’ve been obsessed with the Maya culture, so I may write a lot about them. Most of their existence they had what we would call stone age tools, obsidian here and there, and metals only started being a thing…
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The wounded lioness
Something we take for granted (a lot) is that most anatomical and medical knowledge has been known for relatively little time, but here and there we get small clues proving that wasn’t exactly what happened. Yes, there was rampant misinformation…
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The Selk’nam (I): Quick historical recap
One of who knows many articles I’ll write about the Selk’nam (AKA Ona) culture. In this post I will mostly talk about historical context. So whenever I get into mythology, religion, folklore, etc, you can come back here and read…
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Testing, testing…
Here we are, on WordPress! Hello everyone, and welcome to my site! I’m Crodur, a 26 year old lurker that loves writting about what I find out on diferent human groups and experiences of the world. Mainly ancient and/or distant…
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