Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas

    A map of the library drawn from the texts themselves: who cites whom and with what stance; where the figures, ideas, places, peoples, events, objects and animals of twenty-five centuries appear — every claim anchored to a verbatim paragraph you can read in place.

    As of July 30, 2026, the harvest has mapped 1,614 of 12,797 passages of text across 357 of the library's 2,018 works — yielding 36,472 entities, 13,444 stance-typed citations and 363,042 verbatim quotations. It grows on its own; this page is redrawn from the data at every build.

    the ledgers

    36,472 entities
    1. Figures persons, gods, sages, rulers — historical and mythological — Indra, Zeus, Agni … 9,768
    2. Ideas doctrines, virtues, laws, duties, abstractions — Justice, Dharma, Ṛta … 8,177
    3. Places cities, rivers, worlds, courts, prisons — Athens, England, Troy … 3,121
    4. Groups peoples, castes, schools, sects, institutions — Athenians, Spartans, Greeks … 5,434
    5. Events trials, sacrifices, journeys, battles, rituals — Trojan War, Śrāddha, Slaying of Vṛtra … 5,551
    6. Objects books, weapons, implements, money, vessels — Magna Carta, Thunderbolt, Constitution of the United States … 3,772
    7. Animals creatures as creatures, categories, examples — Cow, Horses, Serpent … 649

    The Divinity view — the deities and pantheons of every tradition, side by side

    the citation graph

    13,444 citations

    Each time a text names another work or author, the harvest records the stance — cited as authority, endorsed, refuted, extended, or merely reported.

    Most-cited works

    1. Psalms 77 authority 1 neutral 1 refuted 2 extended
    2. Genesis 48 authority 4 neutral 2 extended
    3. Gospel of Matthew 42 authority 6 neutral 1 extended
    4. Iliad 23 authority 8 neutral 3 refuted 6 extended 5 endorsed
    5. Commentaries on the Laws of England 26 authority 10 neutral 5 refuted 3 extended
    6. Epistle to the Romans 37 authority 3 extended 1 endorsed
    7. Gospel of John 36 authority 2 neutral 1 refuted 1 extended
    8. Twelve Tables 37 authority 3 neutral

    Most-cited authors

    1. Euclid 363 authority 1 neutral 42 extended
    2. Homer 141 authority 63 neutral 20 refuted 25 extended 13 endorsed
    3. Paul 179 authority 7 neutral 1 refuted 23 extended 7 endorsed
    4. Plato 86 authority 41 neutral 17 refuted 36 extended 10 endorsed
    5. Moses 147 authority 15 neutral 5 refuted 13 extended
    6. Cicero 96 authority 36 neutral 6 refuted 6 extended 8 endorsed
    7. Parliament of the United Kingdom 33 authority 83 neutral 10 refuted 6 extended 2 endorsed
    8. Athenian law 126 authority 1 neutral 1 refuted 1 endorsed

    The full citation ledger

    the shape of the harvest

    harvest of July 22

    Mapping began with the classical core — the Greek, Latin, Sanskrit and Kawi texts are furthest along; the modern corpus is still largely undrawn. The bars state plainly what is and is not yet mapped, in passages of text per era and language.

    By era

    19th Century 215 / 3,841 Imperial 109 / 2,243 20th Century 75 / 1,987 Classical 623 / 955 Enlightenment 10 / 849 Hellenistic 92 / 834 Renaissance 37 / 590 18th Century 1 / 541 Late Antiquity 163 / 524 Ancient 276 / 276 Medieval 13 / 152 16th Century 0 / 5

    By language

    English 403 / 7,866 Greek 730 / 2,656 Latin 214 / 1,793 Sanskrit 245 / 245 French 0 / 192 Kawi 22 / 22 Urdu 0 / 12 old english 0 / 8 German 0 / 3

    the themes

    15,547 topics

    grief and mourning · homecoming (nostos) · divine intervention in mortal battle · hospitality (xenia) · commensurability and incommensurability of magnitudes · ethnographic description of foreign customs · proof by contradiction (reductio ad absurdum) · proportionality and gradation of punishment · the immortality of the soul · cunning and deception · divine favor and intervention · divine favor and wrath · divine intervention in mortal affairs · hospitality and its abuse (xenia) · reversal of fortune · slander and false accusation · anger as a form of madness · astrological and calendrical constraints on ritual performance · the full index

    the method

    The atlas is extracted from the source texts by machine readers, under one discipline carried over from library practice: no claim without a verbatim quotation. The extractor may only point at paragraphs — the quotation is attached afterwards, deterministically, from the text itself, so a fabricated quote is structurally impossible. Every entry links to the exact paragraph that carries it.

    " And let each of these, after the manner of blessed David, sing with thanksgiving:
    one such anchor, read in place

    The machinery and its receipts live in the engine room; the historical argument, in Carried Across.