The Hierophant · the Temple's library of sacred texts
A map of the world's scriptures, myths and mysteries — from the Pyramid Texts to the Popol Vuh. We do not host the texts; we point you to where they live free (Sacred-Texts, Gutenberg, Archive.org) and tell you who is in each one and what to read alongside it. Then you can ask the Hierophant — our own oracle over the Temple's corpus.
📜 The Texts
38 primary texts across 16 traditions — each with links out and a reading path.
🜔 The Gods & Things
73 gods, heroes, prophets and concepts — names, relationships, and the texts they appear in.
🔮 Ask the Hierophant
An oracle that answers from the Temple's own corpus — grounded, sourced, never invented.
Traditions
Egyptian
Pyramid Texts, the Book of the Dead, temple liturgy and the magical papyri of the Nile.
Mesopotamian
Sumer, Akkad, Babylon and Assyria — creation, flood, descent and the epic of Gilgamesh.
Greek
Homer, Hesiod, the Hymns and the Orphic theogonies — the gods of Olympos and before them.
Hebrew
Torah, Tanakh and the Dead Sea Scrolls — the scriptures of Israel and Second-Temple Judaism.
Christian
Septuagint, the Gospels, the Apocrypha and the Fathers — the canon and its borders.
Gnostic & Hermetic
The Corpus Hermeticum and the Nag Hammadi library — gnosis, the Demiurge, Thrice-Great Hermes.
Hindu
Veda, Upanishad, epic and Gita — śruti and smṛti, the long Sanskrit revelation.
Buddhist
The Dhammapada and the wider canon — the Dharma in verse and discourse.
Taoist & Chinese
Tao Te Ching, the I Ching and the classics — the Way, the changes, the sages.
Zoroastrian
The Avesta and the Gathas — Ahura Mazda, Asha, and the oldest dualist theology.
Norse & Germanic
The Poetic and Prose Eddas — Odin, Ragnarök, and the mythology of the North.
Finnic
The Kalevala — Väinämöinen and the runic epic of Finland.
Mesoamerican
The Popol Vuh — the Maya creation and the hero twins of the Kʼicheʼ.
Islamic
The Qurʾān — the recitation, in canonical translation.
Kabbalah
The Zohar and the Sefer Yetzirah — the Tree of Life and Jewish mystical cosmology.
Classical wisdom
Stoic, Platonic and martial classics — Marcus Aurelius, Sun Tzu, the philosophers.
Featured reading paths
Start with Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns for the gods, then the Orphic theogony.
Trace it back to the Pyramid Texts, then forward into Hermetic Egypt.
Read the Enuma Elish for the cosmos, and Genesis for the flood parallel.
Set it in the Mahabharata and ground it in the Upanishads.