Autochthon, autochthons or autochthonous may refer to:

Fiction

Autochthon (Atlantis) In Greek mythology, Autochthon (Ancient Greek: Αὐτόχθονα) was one of the ten sons of Poseidon and Cleito in Plato's myth of Atlantis. He was the younger brother of Mneseus and his other siblings were Atlas An atlas is a collectio ...

, a character in Plato's myth of Atlantis * Autochthons, characters in the novel ''

The Divine Invasion ''The Divine Invasion'' is a 1981 science fantasy novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It is the second book in the gnostic VALIS trilogy, and takes place in the indeterminate future, perhaps a century or more after VALIS. The ...

'' by Philip K. Dick * Autochthon, a Primordial in the ''

Exalted ''Exalted'' is a high fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally published by White Wolf Publishing in July 2001. The game is currently in its third edition. It was originally created by Robert Hatch, Justin Achilli and Stephan Wieck, and wa ...

'' role-playing game * Autochthons, powerful angelic beings in

Fall; or, Dodge in Hell ''Fall; or, Dodge in Hell'' is a 2019 speculative fiction novel by American author Neal Stephenson. The book explores mind-uploading to the Cloud, from the perspective of Richard "Dodge" Forthrast, a character introduced in Stephenson's 2011 ...

Nature

* Autochthon (geology), a sediment or rock that can be found at its site of formation or deposition *

Autochthon (nature) In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often popularised as "with no human intervention") during history. The term is equ ...

, or landrace, an indigenous animal or plant *

Autochthonous landrace A landrace is a domesticated, locally adapted, often traditional variety of a species of animal or plant that has developed over time, through adaptation to its natural and cultural environment of agriculture and pastoralism, and due to isolatio ...

, a plant or animal that is native to a particular agricultural system * Autochthonous transmission, the spread of disease between two individuals in the same place * ''Autochton'' (butterfly), a genus of butterflies

Society

Autochthon (ancient Greece) In ancient Greece, the concept of autochthones (from Ancient Greek ''autos'' "self," and '' chthon'' "soil"; i.e. "people sprung from earth itself") means the indigenous inhabitants of a country, including mythological figures, as opposed to s ...

, a concept or mythology of a people born from the land *

Autochthonous language An indigenous language, or autochthonous language, is a language that is native to a region and spoken by indigenous peoples. This language is from a linguistically distinct community that originated in the area. Indigenous languages are not neces ...

, the language of an indigenous people * Autochthonism or Indigenism, ethnic nationalism promoting the identity of an indigenous people * Autochthones or

Indigenous peoples Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original people ...

, peoples with a set of specific rights based on their historical ties to a particular territory

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