Built from the encyclopedia itself
Tools for reading mythology
Three ways into the same material: a family tree you can drag, a way of asking which tradition has a god of a given thing, and a quiz that is generated from the pages rather than written separately.
Everything below is computed while the site is being built, from the same structured data the written pages are checked against. None of it calls anything while you are using it, none of it needs an account, and none of it can disagree with the article it sits next to — if a tool says Cronus is Zeus’s father, it is because the Zeus page says so, in the same field the sentence in the article was written from.
That constraint is the reason there are three tools rather than a dozen. A mythology site can generate infinite quizzes and personality tests out of nothing; the useful ones are the ones that can only exist because somebody has already done the reading for 340 figures and written down, per figure, what the ancient sources actually attribute to them.
The family trees
Eight pan-and-zoom genealogies, one per tradition, drawn from each figure’s recorded parents, children and consorts. Dashed lines are marriages; where the sources disagree about a descent, the disagreement is printed under the diagram instead of being resolved into a tidy line.
The pantheon matcher
29 divine offices — war, the sea, the dead, oaths, the harvest — laid side by side across the eight traditions, so the question “who is the Mesopotamian equivalent of Hermes?” gets an answer with its working shown, including the traditions where the honest answer is that there is no such god.
Who’s who
A ten-question round per tradition, built from verified facts on the entity pages: domains, attributes in art, parentage, and which surviving work a figure is actually named in. Every question links to the page that settles it.
What these tools deliberately do not do
They do not tell you which god you are. They do not average two traditions into a single family tree, because the resulting diagram would be a picture of nothing that was ever believed. And they do not treat an equation between two pantheons as a fact about antiquity unless an ancient writer made it: the matcher groups figures by what this encyclopedia records them as governing, which is a modern filing decision and is labelled as one on the page.
The comparisons that are ancient — Roman writers identifying their own gods with Greek ones, Greek writers doing the same to Egyptian ones — are handled in prose, one pair at a time, in the cross-pantheon comparisons, where there is room to say who made the equation and what they wanted from it.
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The family-tree pages carry the whole genealogy as a nested list below the diagram, and the written account of the tradition’s descent above it. Nothing on this site is only available inside a widget.