Tag: mythology
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The Selk’nam (V): Gender roles, Kre and Kren
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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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 that was sadly uploaded by accident before ending up complete. Apologies for that blunder! This…
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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 every part of this section, we will cover an specific civilization’s Underworld(s), what they consisted…
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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 knowing of the others. Is there a common, human fear of blood-sucking monsters that compels…
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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 iconic as they come. Way before Nosferatu brought them to the movie theaters in 1922…
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