@lmriviere: Sir Walter Raleigh and the Quest for El Dorado🏴☠️⚔️🌴☠️ In this slice of dark history, see how Spanish gossip born of Muisca folklore—drew one man over the sea multiple times in a vain quest for gold… and the price he would pay for hubris. #tiktokencyclopediacontest #darkhistory #folklore #eldorado #sirwalterraleigh
Disclaimers: not a historian or folklorist—just an author with a library card and a rabbit hole problem. Argumentative commenters— please move on🥰🥰🥰
2025-11-12 12:22:56
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navidduh :
I literally glitched when I heard Guyana lmao (that's where I'm from)
2026-06-13 16:21:00
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🕸🕷𝒯𝑅𝐼𝐿𝐿𝐿𝒜🕷🕸 :
and the lost city of el dorado is still lost
2025-12-10 17:03:02
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Carla HarlaQuinn :
right
2026-01-19 20:37:23
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lmriviere :
Sources: Sir Walter Raleigh, The Discovery of Guiana (1596) — primary narrative; claims of Manoa, Lake Parime, and Caroni/“Caroli” directions.
Encyclopaedia Britannica — “Walter Raleigh” (biography; imprisonment 1603–1616; terms of the 1617 license; execution 29 Oct 1618); entries on El Dorado and the Orinoco region.
Spanish side: Audiencia of Santa Fé report (1618) on the San Thomé raid under Lawrence Keymis (raid and losses; no mine seized).
Charles Nicholl, The Creature in the Map: A Journey to El Dorado (1995/1996) — modern analysis of Raleigh’s routes, sources, and claims.
Cartographic & geographical scholarship — Lake Parime treated as Rupununi floodplain misreading; 19th-century removal from maps.
Regional geology — the Guiana Shield and rise of 19th-century goldfields such as El Callao.
2025-11-12 12:24:46
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ejgambles ✍️📚 author :
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2025-11-12 14:08:30
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