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Method

Every claim on this site is grounded in a source someone actually opened. That rule is the whole product, so here is how it works.

Four tiers of evidence

  1. The corpus. A library of mythology scholarship held locally and searched directly. A passage we can quote and locate is assertable.
  2. A primary source we opened. An edition, a publisher record, a rights-holder’s own listing. Assertable, with the URL and the date we read it.
  3. A real source we have not read. We may plan around it. We do not publish it.
  4. An untraceable claim. Dropped. No exceptions for how plausible it sounds.

Why so little is published

463 figures are published, with 1663 myths sourced to a primary text and a corpus book. Of the modern works candidate-matched against those figures,only 320 have a human-reviewed, confirmed join to a specific myth. Those are the cards under each myth. The rest, 3,872 in total, are catalogued for completeness but not editorially curated: a candidate match, not a confirmed rework.

General-purpose reference sites found those candidates. They are the shovel, not the exhibit. This site never cites one of them as a source for what a work does or how it relates to a myth. That job belongs to the work itself, or to nothing.

What a citation shows

A myth fact cites the primary text by stanza or chapter, plus the corpus book that carries it. A scholarly dispute names the scholar and the view. What a modern work does is cited to the work itself, its own title as its source. None of it is collapsed or hidden behind a toggle. If you cannot check a claim here, that is a fault, and it is one you should be able to see.