About
MythSource is a reference to the figures of world mythology, and to every place those figures turn up again in modern media, with the source for each claim printed beside it.
The idea
Anyone can name five references to a myth. The work is naming all of them, and showing where each one came from. So the site is built figure by figure: for each one, the myths it belongs to, sourced from the scholarship, and the films, games, books, and songs that carry it forward, sourced to the works themselves.
One rule holds the whole thing up: every claim is grounded in a source someone opened, never in memory and never in a plausible guess. When the sources run out, the page stops. That is why a figure appears here only once its myths are traced, and why the list is short and honest rather than long and thin. The method page sets out exactly how a page earns its place.
Where it stands
The site is new. It publishes 1663 sourced myths across 463 figures, beginning with Greek mythology, the deepest shelf in the library behind it. Other traditions follow. The reference grows one sourced figure at a time.
Elsewhere and in touch
There is a companion channel on YouTube. Found an error, or have a source we should read? Write to corrections@mythsource.com, and see how corrections work.