• Planting rituals, soil fertilization, rain and harvest.
• Shamanism, medicinal practices and use of healing plants.
• Gastronomy: preparations of dishes such as guinea pig, maito, tonga, guagua mama, mushunguitas, yamor drink, chicha, guaguas de pan, among others.
• In the livestock field: grazing techniques, reproductive standards, signaling rites and animal cures.
• Cultivation and agricultural production based on the equinoxes.
• Andean cosmovision.
• Land conservation practices and the natural environment.
• Fiestas or Raymis, closely related to the Andean agricultural cycle.
• Cultural knowledge such as the creation of original clothing and fabrics.
• Crafts of coconut, tagua, seeds, fabrics and other materials.
• Elaboration of objects such as rafts, carved wooden toys in the shape of animals, mills, crushers, marimbas, drums and cununos, baskets and fans.
• History and traditions transmitted orally.

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There are currently 3 timelines. The first timeline contains us all, we all live in it right now: in the midst of a pandemic, in a war on the other side of the world that the most pessimistic would call World War III, with the Ecuadorian soccer team classified in the World Cup in Qatar. In the second timeline we are the master craftsman Juan Orrala and I, Nuno Acosta, the creator. In that timeline, the initial idea of ​​PICAIA was to pack crafts, but not having the assurance that the craft pieces would be paid correctly or not knowing the craftsman led to the idea evolving: I will take care of the design and a craftsman from the manufacturing. With 3 character designs that did not yet have a name or a story. We arrived at the Orrala workshop. Today we have developed what is defined as a new creative culture, born from the imagination and the purpose that fair trade brings Ecuadorian crafts to the level of quality that should be recognized.

But it is the third timeline that is the most important. It is the imaginary timeline. The one that begins 4,000 years ago on the coast of Ecuador at the foot of the Valdivia town, the cradle of civilization that defined its own style. Now imagine an archaeological discovery. Unearth a mystery in 2021. New figures never seen before. And that with this simple discovery a civilization parallel to the ones we know comes to light. The Thirdlings. A town that came from the sea, in which each inhabitant has a role that generates a positive impact on their community, like the Seer, who has 3 eyes to see the present, the past and the future at the same time. A society in which leadership rests with women and mothers. A commune in which a character is in charge of networking between creators and producers. The Thirdlings are an expanding timeline. With discoveries like the animals that had a special meaning for the people. With the 3 supernatural figures that coexisted with the Thirdlings. His legends, his songs, his sociographic studies. Their forms, their roles, their ideas. The Thirdlings are a people, like our people, with their traditions, with new designs, with new narratives, with new purposes.

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According to the writings of the explorer and the only known scholar of the Thirdling culture, Sir Ed M. Undo, the Thirdlings maintained a strong relationship with seven animals. Until now, we have only found evidence and remains of sculptures made by hand of the serpent, the octopus and the manatee.

According to legends and folklore, the Thirdlings maintained this relationship with 7 mystical animals.

What will be the other 4 Thirdling mystical animals to discover?

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