This notebook stands on the work of storytellers, scribes, translators and scholars, and on these tools.

• The primary sourcesThe Eddas, the Vedas and Purāṇas, Gilgamesh and Atrahasis, Hesiod and Ovid, the Popol Vuh, the Kojiki, the Mabinogion and many more, cited on every page.
• Stith ThompsonMotif-Index of Folk-Literature · references to recurring narrative details.
• Yuri Berezkin and Evgeny DuvakinAnalytical Catalogue · comparative motifs and their distribution. Links on each idea are pointers, not claims of a common origin.
• StPageFlipThe page-turning animations.
• Fuse.jsSearch across concepts, names and stories.
• Libraries and editionsOxford ETCSL, CELT, Project Gutenberg, Sacred Texts, SuttaCentral, the Getty and other collections linked beside the tellings. Older translations reflect their time; modern editions may read differently.