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Myth and folklore
Fairy tales, tale types and the world's mythologies, indexed motif by motif.
Wiki entries 4
- Comparative Mythology Comparative mythology is the academic discipline that studies myths across cultures and explains the motifs and structures that recur between…
- 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…
- Mytheme Mytheme is, in its strict technical sense, the principal analytical unit of Claude Lévi-Strauss's structural-anthropological method for the study of…
- Sampo The Sampo is the central magical artifact of the Finnish Kalevala — a mill or machine, capped by a 'many-colored lid,' forged by the smith Ilmarinen,…
Articles 4
- 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…
Datasets 5
- Aarne 1910 Tale-Type Index The founding catalogue of the Aarne–Thompson–Uther system, fully structured: all 1910 tale types with German text, English glosses, 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…
- Grimm KHM Tale-Type Crosswalk All 211 Grimm tales (1857 numbering) with German and English titles, ATU tale types, Aarne-1910 joins, first editions, and Wikisource links. CC0…
- Myth Index A machine-readable CC0 index of 75 myth-motif attestations across 9 families — flood, divine council, theomachy, creation, giants — with Thompson…
- Theomachy Cross-References A CC0 dataset of combat myths (chaoskampf) across cultures — champion, adversary, chaos form, weapon, outcome. Machine-readable CSV and JSON download.