Atlas

Keep is a room you can enter. Hold is a candidate, not a schedule. Researching is the wider census. Elsewhere already lives in another work. Not every row in the research ledger is shown.

34 in the cabinet. The walk is in the table. What follows is the field.

• Elsewhere

  Inana’s Descent

  Sumerian · Literary

  What happens to the one who goes down?

  The descent stays there. Enki at Eridu is who acts toward her return. This site keeps Enki’s house and the me, not the seven gates.

  ETCSL 1.4.1

  Open the source

• Hold

  Book of Thoth

  Egyptian (Demotic) · Ptolemaic and Roman

  What kind of knowledge is an initiation, not an origin of writing?

  Sourced as a later book, kept apart from the cord. Do not flatten to Egyptian Hermes. Measure now has its room.

  Jasnow and Zauzich 2005, 2021. A later initiation text. Not the origin of writing. Not Old Kingdom.

  Open the source

• Hold

  Popol Wuj, people of maize

  K’iche’ Maya · Colonial-era manuscript of older tradition, c. 1550s–1700s transmission

  What is a people made of, if earlier worlds failed?

  Door named. Among the strongest later candidates. Requires cultural care equal to the Mesopotamian trilogy. The manuscript is not a licence.

  Newberry Vault Ayer MS 1515, Ximénez transcription c. 1700–1715 of older K’iche’ tradition. Christenson translations at Mesoweb. Tedlock 1996.

  Open the source

• Hold

  Tablet of Destinies

  Akkadian / Sumerian · Anzû; Enūma eliš

  What happens when the thing that orders a world can be stolen?

  Door named. Too close to the me unless a distinct question is secured.

  Anzû, electronic Babylonian Library corpus L/1/10 (Foster translation). Also Enūma eliš (Lambert). The tablet that orders offices is stolen and recovered.

  Open the source

• Hold

  Hephaestus / craft

  Greek · Homer; later

  What kind of making does a world need that is not a gift-list?

  Sourced. The shield of Achilles is a different essay. Do not steal it as a card.

  Iliad 18.468–617, the making of the shield. Homeric Hymn 20 to Hephaestus. Public English of Iliad 18: Perseus.

  Open the source

• Hold

  Fuxi / Nüwa / trigrams

  Chinese (legendary) · Later systematization of older figures

  How is a broken sky made habitable?

  Door named for the repair. Trigrams need a separate chronology. Do not collapse Fuxi and Nüwa into one card.

  Huainanzi, Lan Ming Xun: Nüwa smelts five-coloured stones and sets the four poles. Fuxi’s trigrams are a later attribution, not this chapter.

  Open the source

• Hold

  Brigid / craft, poetry, smithing

  Irish · Medieval Irish literature; later saint

  What arts share one name without being one thing?

  Door named. Do not collapse goddess and saint.

  Cath Maige Tuired (Second Battle of Mag Tuired): Bríg keens for Rúadán. CELT T300010. Saint Brigid of Kildare is a later, separate dossier.

  Open the source

• Hold

  Anansi and the stories

  Akan; Caribbean continuations · Oral; collected 19th–20th c.

  What must be bargained for before a people can tell?

  Door named. Specify this telling or do not KEEP. Caribbean continuations are another dossier.

  Rattray 1930, Akan-Ashanti Folk-Tales: Twi facing English. Anansesem. This Gold Coast collection, not a pan-African spider.

  Open the source

• Hold

  Ifá

  Yoruba · Living; UNESCO proclaimed 2005, inscribed 2008

  What kind of world needs a corpus that is not a book for strangers?

  The question is real. The odù are not ours to scrape. UNESCO plus Abímbọ́lá name the door. A room would require a telling that does not extract.

  UNESCO listing of the Ifá divination system (ICH 00146). Wándé Abímbọ́lá, Ifá: An Exposition of Ifá Literary Corpus (1976), is the scholarly English door. The odù are not a public story to scrape.

  Open the source

• Elsewhere

  Gilgamesh

  Akkadian / Sumerian · Standard Babylonian epic

  What happens to the one who leaves?

  Road grammar. Miss preserved. Not this office.

  George, The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic

• Elsewhere

  Sunjata / jeli

  Mande · Living epic

  Who carries the word when it is not clay?

  Already a journey. The jeli as world-making capacity may later echo here without duplicating the epic.

  Niane; Johnson; Austen, specify version

• Hold

  Works and Days

  Greek · c. 700 BCE

  What calendar of work makes a world habitable?

  Sourced. Labour as capacity. Distinct from Prometheus. Good later story, not a Greek pile-on.

  Hesiod, Works and Days. West 1978 is the edition. Public English: Evelyn-White via Scaife.

  Open the source

• Researching

  Enki and the World Order

  Sumerian · Literary; Old Babylonian copies · Literary narrative

  Does a charter of offices duplicate the Boat, or is assignment a different world-need?

  Test for duplicate. Preliminary: different plot, same house. Dossier may end in REJECT. That is valid.

  ETCSL 1.1.3. Enki decrees offices for the land. Inana complains she was left out.

  Open the source

• Researching

  Yima / the Vara

  Avestan · Videvdad 2; later Iranian memory of Yima / Jamšid · Literary narrative

  What if a world is something you have to roof against a season that will not spare you?

  Strong candidate for repair. Not a room. The dossier must keep Avestan particular.

  Videvdad 2. Encyclopaedia Iranica, Jamšid. A winter is coming. An enclosure is made.

  Open the source

• Researching

  Atra-hasis

  Akkadian · Old Babylonian and later · Literary narrative

  What if humans are made because a previous order of work has already failed?

  Strong candidate. Risk of collapsing into flood-as-genre. Must stay Akkadian and particular.

  Lambert and Millard 1969. Humans made because the gods refuse labour. A flood because of noise.

• Researching

  Shabaka Stone / Memphite Theology

  Egyptian · 25th-dynasty granite; the text claims an older worn original · Material evidence · Literary narrative

  What if a world is spoken into order, and the copy of that speaking is itself a repair?

  Transmission and speech. Distinct from Seshat’s cord. Do not collapse into one Egyptian room.

  British Museum EA 498. Ptah creates through heart and tongue. Names make things.

  Open the source

• Researching

  Yu the Great

  Chinese (legendary sage-king) · Later historiography of an older flood-control figure · Legendary figure

  What if a world is not stolen from gods but dug, channelled, and kept from drowning?

  Repair by labour. Distinct from Prometheus and from Atra-hasis. Not a room yet.

  Shangshu, Yu Gong, among later layers. Flood control, dividing the land, labour not theft.

• Researching

  Food Mountain

  Mesoamerican (specify the telling before any room) · Colonial-era alphabetic witnesses of older maize narratives · Literary narrative

  What if the food that makes a people is stored, guarded, and costly to open?

  Census liked the material. That is not a room. Specify the witness or stop.

  Leyenda de los Soles / Codex Chimalpopoca among others. Maize kept in a mountain. Which people, which text, must be named.

• Researching

  Huarochirí manuscript

  Andean; colonial Quechua manuscript of local huaca tradition · c. 1608, parish of San Damián, under a Christian priest’s project · Literary narrative · Material evidence

  What kind of world-making is recorded at the moment a previous world is being overwritten?

  Among the strongest later candidates. Requires care equal to Popol Wuj. Not a room.

  Manuscript at the National Library of Spain. Salomon and Urioste, The Huarochirí Manuscript (1991), is the scholarly English door.

• Researching

  Odùduwà

  Yoruba; Ile-Ife · Living; written collections are not the tradition · Living / recorded tradition

  What kind of origin can be named without being taken?

  The question is real. The plot is not ours to scrape. Ifá remains HOLD for the same reason.

  Living tradition. A website does not scrape origin recitations. UNESCO and Yoruba scholarship can name a door. They cannot substitute for permission.

• Researching

  Tāne and the baskets of knowledge

  Māori · Oral; 19th-c. written collections; living · Living / recorded tradition

  What if knowledge arrives as mixed cargo, and the cost is already inside the gift?

  Door named. Same brake as Māui. Founding pass will not KEEP from Grey.

  Related tellings of knowledge brought from the heavens. Grey and later Pākehā collections are filters, as with Māui.

• Researching

  Sky Woman

  Haudenosaunee and neighbouring tellings are not identical · Living; published versions exist and are not a licence · Living / recorded tradition

  What if a world is made by falling, fetching, and the hospitality of another being?

  Named as a field, not as a story we will scrape. Dossier may remain unwritten. That is valid.

  Living tradition. Published English tellings vary and are often flattened. This row names a limit, not a plot.

• Researching

  Kintu

  Baganda · Oral; written from the early 20th c.; living · Legendary figure · Living / recorded tradition

  What if the first world already contains the thing that will break it?

  Repair, mixed cargo, cost. Needs Ganda-specific care. Not a room.

  Apolo Kagwa and later collections. Colonial and court mediation. Not ‘the’ Ganda telling by default.