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Comparative method
Setting traditions side by side without flattening them — comparative mythology and comparative religion.
Wiki entries 10
- Anunnaki The Anunnaki are the collective of great gods in the Sumerian and Akkadian record, whose councils order the creation of humanity to bear the gods'…
- Biglino Method The Biglino Method is the interpretive methodology developed by Italian translator and scholar Mauro Biglino (1950–) for reading the Hebrew Bible,…
- Comparative Mythology Comparative mythology is the academic discipline that studies myths across cultures and explains the motifs and structures that recur between…
- Doubled Signature The Doubled Signature is the hermeneutic-interpretive principle, drawn from Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend's Hamlet's Mill (1969) and…
- Hamlet's Mill Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time (originally subtitled An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and Its…
- List of mythemes and mythological motifs A reference catalogue of the principal cross-cultural mythological motifs the Wheel of Heaven framework reads as preserving, in mythologised form,…
- Mytheme Mytheme is, in its strict technical sense, the principal analytical unit of Claude Lévi-Strauss's structural-anthropological method for the study of…
- Paul Wallis Paul Anthony Wallis is an Australian author, former archdeacon of the Anglican Church in Australia, and the principal Anglophone voice of the…
- The Tradition The Tradition (French la Tradition; Hebrew shalshelet ha-Kabbalah, 'chain of Tradition') is, in the Wheel of Heaven framework, the cross-cultural…
- Wheel of Heaven Wheel of Heaven is a curated comparative knowledge project — both the name of an interpretive framework and the corpus that articulates it — centered…
Articles 20
- The Forty Chairs The Raëlian canon asserts a bounded prophetology — forty-or-so guests at Yahweh's table, 'all beings representative of the religions created…
- The Dragon Curve Genesis 1:21 creates the great tanninim — the Hebrew Bible's dragon-class word, softened to 'whales' and 'sea creatures' by two millennia of…
- Sendy and the Raëlian Messages Jean Sendy and the first Raëlian Message share a substantial cluster of particular readings of Genesis, including forbidden knowledge as scientific…
- Six Mornings, Six Years The Raëlian canon was received in six mornings and one October night, and released over six years — 1973, 1975, 1979 — by a speaker who kept…
- The Rain Over Helicon The third article in the Odyssey sequence turns from excavation and transmission to method. M. L. West's The East Face of Helicon does not rest on…
- The East Face of Homer The companion to The World Behind the Odyssey follows the trench eastward. Mainstream philology has documented, in detail, how much of archaic Greek…
- The World Behind the Odyssey Christopher Nolan's 2026 film has put the Odyssey before more people in one summer than the poem may have reached in the previous decade. This…
- The Mill That Grinds the Ages In 1969 two historians of science — Giorgio de Santillana of MIT and Hertha von Dechend of Frankfurt — published an 'essay' arguing that the world's…
- Are the Watchers and the Nephilim the Same? The Watchers and the Nephilim belong to the same antediluvian episode, but they are not the same beings. 'Watcher' is an Aramaic term for a wakeful…
- Unsealed in Year One The companion to 'The Scrolls That Woke in Year One': that Explainer tells what happened to the jars — the discovery, the forty-year publication…
- The Man Who Bet the Bible on the Moon Jean Sendy (1910–1978) — Russian-born Parisian, wartime correspondent, translator of Raymond Chandler, amateur joiner, monocled dandy of the 1930s…
- The Religion of Religions Raëlism has been filed, by four governments, under four incompatible headings — a danger to the public, a non-religion, a tax-exempt religion, and a…
- The Scrolls That Woke in Year One In the winter of 1946/47 — the first year of the calendar the Raëlian canon counts from the flash over Hiroshima — a Bedouin shepherd broke open a…
- Are the Anunnaki the Elohim? Two names, two languages, one creator-civilization: the Anunnaki of the Sumerian tradition are the same beings the Hebrew Bible remembers as the…
- Are Lucifer and Satan the Same? Almost everyone treats Lucifer and Satan as two names for one being: the Devil, the fallen angel, the adversary of God. The Hebrew Bible does not.…
- The Translator's Wager For roughly two decades an unassuming scholar from the Susa Valley translated the Hebrew Bible, word under word, for Edizioni San Paolo — the…
- The Archdeacon and the Dragon In 2020 a serving archdeacon of the Anglican Church in Australia published a book arguing that the Elohim of Genesis are 'the Powerful Ones' — a…
- The Book Closest to the Truth In The Book Which Tells the Truth, Yahweh names the Kabbalah 'the book closest to the truth' and cites two figures from it: the height of the…
- The First Mosques Faced Petra, Not Mecca For roughly the first Islamic century, the mosques do not face Mecca. On Dan Gibson's survey of the oldest datable sanctuaries, their qibla walls…
- The Flood Was a Reset, Not a Punishment Read closely, the oldest flood stories do not describe a god losing his temper. They describe a decision taken in assembly, sworn under oath, and…
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Datasets 6
- Divine-Council Index A comparative table of divine councils across the ancient religions — presiding figure, council term, members, function. Machine-readable CC0 CSV and…
- Flood-Myth Concordance A machine-readable, comparative CC0 dataset of eleven ancient flood myths — survivor, warner, cause, vessel, landing, aftermath. Download as CSV or…
- Myth Index A machine-readable CC0 index of 75 myth-motif attestations across 9 families — flood, divine council, theomachy, creation, giants — with Thompson…
- Prophets & Religions Catalogue A catalogue of 48 religious traditions and their founders — period, framework-relevant content, and the Wheel of Heaven authenticity assessment of…
- Theomachy Cross-References A CC0 dataset of combat myths (chaoskampf) across cultures — champion, adversary, chaos form, weapon, outcome. Machine-readable CSV and JSON download.
- Wheel of Heaven Content Graph A downloadable CC0 knowledge graph of the Wheel of Heaven corpus — every page is a node, every curated or in-text link a typed edge. JSON and GraphML.
Most-cited sources 27
- Hamlet’s Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and Its Transmission Through Myth
- Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook
- Myths of Enki, the Crafty God
- Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices
- Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary
- The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth
- Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life
- Mahābhārata