Mythnyx · The catalogue of the four houses
The Record
Ptolemy’s Almagest catalogued just over a thousand stars and stayed the standard for well over a thousand years. The Record is a smaller catalogue with the same purpose. It keeps the pieces each house stands behind, the ones to read first.
The canon
Read these first
Three pieces from each house, chosen by the Governor as the best way in. Scroll sideways, drag, or use the arrows to move through the catalogue.
The Nekuia | How the Greeks Called the Dead Without Going to Find Them
Odysseus never entered the underworld. This is the most important and the least repeated fact about the most famous consultation of the…
Read on Olympus Estate
Daedalus and Icarus | The Crime Behind the Flight from Crete
Everyone knows how the story ends. A boy flies too close to the sun, the wax holding his wings together melts, and…
Read on Olympus Estate
Sisyphus | The Man Who Outsmarted Death Twice
Everyone knows about the boulder. The image is one of the most recognizable in the entire Western tradition: a man pushing an…
Read on Olympus Estate
The Question Beneath All Questions | Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing, and Why Is There Anyone Here to Ask?
There is a question beneath almost every question worth asking. It appears whenever physics reaches the edge of explanation and has to…
Read on Monkey & Elf
The Return | Why Spiritual ‘Awakening’ Often Becomes Just Another Identity to Defend
If consciousness awakens to its conditioning, what should it do with that freedom? There is a version of awakening that ends the…
Read on Monkey & Elf
Eusapia Palladino Was Caught Cheating Again and Again. So Why Did Expert Investigators Still Believe Her?
Eusapia Palladino was caught cheating. More than once, more than one investigator, in more than one country, across more than two decades.…
Read on Monkey & Elf
Eywa | Anatomy of a Planetary Organism
The people of Pandora say she is a goddess. The scientists who came to study them said she was a network. A…
Read on Aeon Dogma
The Religion Planted on Arrakis
A woman and her son flee into the deep desert of Arrakis after the destruction of their house. They are captured by…
Read on Aeon Dogma
The Last Days of Anthem
On 12 January 2026, the planet Bastion ceased to exist. Its jungles and waterfalls, its walled frontier town, its ancient ruins and…
Read on Aeon Dogma
The ‘Just Following Orders’ Brain | Why Good People Deliver the Shock (The Milgram Experiments)
The Milgram Experiments showed that most ordinary, well-adjusted people will keep escalating harm toward a stranger if a calm authority figure simply…
Read on Psyness
Algorithmic Fate | Are Your Choices Yours, or Are You Just Running a Predictive Script?
Psyness Protocol // Cognitive Non-Compliance Archive // Dispatch 003 If you are entirely predictable, you have no free will. You are not…
Read on Psyness
Neuro-Capitalism | The Final Extraction
The final frontier is not the stars. It is not the deep ocean. It is not the metaverse. The last territory for…
Read on PsynessThe ledger
Every piece, counted
The full archive of each house lives on its own site. These numbers are read live from all four, and every one of them opens onto the shelves.
The chronicle
The newest entries
Every piece published across the four houses is added to the Record as it appears. These are the latest ten, newest first.
Live
The People Who Outlived the Bomb
Read on Aeon DogmaThe Genealogy of the Dragon
Read on Aeon DogmaAnnie Besant Built a Messiah Around a Teenage Boy. In 1929, He Dissolved the Order
Read on Monkey & ElfThe Nekuia | How the Greeks Called the Dead Without Going to Find Them
Read on Olympus EstateThe Last Days of Anthem
Read on Aeon DogmaThe Civilization Beneath Every Civilization
Read on Aeon DogmaThe Living Gods of Morrowind
Read on Aeon DogmaThe Builders of Fallout London
Read on Aeon DogmaThe Corporations That Became States
Read on Aeon DogmaRain World and the Ecology of Being Prey
Read on Aeon DogmaThe Frontier
A piece that belongs here?
If something from the four houses deserves a place in the Record, or something here no longer does, tell the Governor.