Good Works Library
Texts
Aenglisc176 pagesTexts from the English literary and folk traditions, from Old English and Middle English through ballads, early modern prose, witchcraft pamphlets, and wonder literature.
Speculative humanities, anomalous evidence, contact hypotheses, phantom geographies, ethnonym trails, and disciplined theories about the human past.
Aquarian290 pagesPost-Blake New Age and modern reenchantment: Theosophy, New Thought, mysticism, folklore theory, neopagan revival, depth psychology, and mythopoesis.
Arabic20 pagesArabic-language literature: pre-Islamic poetry, adab, maqamat, and neighboring links to Arabic Sufi texts.
Assyrian and Neo-Assyrian textual tradition: Nineveh, Ashurbanipal's library, royal reports, court prophecy, ritual, medicine, fables, Ahikar, and scholarly tablets.
Archival Aboriginal Australian traditions, story collections, and early ethnographic records arranged by region and genre.
Babylonian and Akkadian sacred literature: Gilgamesh, Atrahasis, Enuma Elish, Marduk and Ishtar theology, Hammurabi, prayers, incantations, omens, scholarly texts, and wisdom.
Baltic folklore, mythic survivals, and sacred narratives from Lithuanian, Latvian, and neighboring traditions.
Basque legends, folklore, and mythic traditions from the western Pyrenees and the wider Basque world.
Bengali-language literature across Bangladesh, West Bengal, adjoining regions, and diaspora—opened with Tagore's historical English Gitanjali without reducing the field to one poet.
Bon and Old Tibetan frontier texts: Dunhuang ritual materials, divination manuals, funeral rites, myths, law, contracts, royal inscriptions, and imperial Buddhist documents.
Buddhist350 pagesBuddhist texts and study materials across Pali, Gandhari, Sanskrit, Mahayana, Zen, and Tibetan traditions.
The myths and rituals of ancient Canaan, preserved on clay tablets from the ruins of Ugarit — the storm god, the sea, and the descent into death.
Surviving texts from the Cathar tradition, the dualist Christian movement of medieval southern France.
Plural Caucasus myth, epic, folklore, and sacred storytelling, now entered through distinct Ossetian and Kartvelian source rooms without collapsing their languages or peoples.
Irish, Welsh, Manx, Breton, Scottish, and pan-Celtic myth, saga, folklore, fairy faith, and literary revival.
Chinese Buddhist and popular devotion, salvationist scripture, body-cultivation writing, and source-facing translations in the Good Works Library.
Christian scripture, history, theology, hagiography, liturgy, and devotional writing across ancient, medieval, and later traditions.
Radical commons, communalist, anti-enclosure, and common-treasury texts from early modern and modern social-religious movements.
Confucian classics, commentaries, moral philosophy, ritual theory, and East Asian traditions of cultivation and governance.
Daoist51 pagesTexts from the Daoist tradition, encompassing philosophy, alchemy, and the way of naturalness.
Egyptian32 pagesSacred texts from ancient Egypt, including funerary literature and hymns to the gods.
Texts and teachings from living religious communities, devotional movements, and contemporary lineages represented in the Good Works Library.
French-language literature across medieval language zones, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Québec, the Caribbean, Africa, the Maghreb, the Indian Ocean, Asia, the Pacific, and diaspora—alongside a separate Joan of Arc documentary source house.
German and Germanic literary, legendary, and religious-cultural inheritance, beginning here with heroic legend, Rhine story, and Nibelung reception.
Gnostic114 pagesTexts from the Gnostic traditions, including Nag Hammadi scriptures, Sethian and Valentinian writings, and apocrypha.
Greek, Roman, and late antique religion, philosophy, myth, literature, ritual, empire, and classical reception gathered as an antiquity field.
Texts from the Hermetic tradition, the Greco-Egyptian wisdom literature attributed to Hermes Trismegistus.
Hindu61 pagesSacred texts from the Hindu tradition, spanning devotional, tantric, and philosophical literature.
Indian religious, philosophical, epic, and literary sources across the subcontinent's many languages, traditions, and historical communities.
Internet723 pagesTexts born on the internet — digital-native sacred and philosophical writings.
Islamic scripture, law, theology, philosophy, poetry, history, and devotional literature across Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and global Muslim worlds.
Italian-language literature across city-states, regions, courts, republics, nation, diaspora, and migration—opened with Dante, Boccaccio, and Ariosto without mistaking three Tuscan-centered monuments for the whole field.
Jain scripture, doctrine, ethics, monastic discipline, stories, and philosophical traditions centered on nonviolence and liberation.
Japanese literature across classical and modern writing, fiction, travel, poetry, religious texts, exact source-language editions, and historically mediated translations.
Jewish textual, legendary, rabbinic, philosophical, and historical sources, presented with attention to transmission, language, and living communities.
Judean and Jewish texts, including Dead Sea Scrolls, Second Temple writings, biblical reception, midrashic legend, and later traditional collections.
Korean literature across classical fiction, religious writing, poetry, performance, colonial modernity, division, and diaspora.
Malay-language literature and Malay traditions across the peninsula and archipelago in documented editions, without treating colonial Malaya as a timeless cultural boundary.
Texts from the Mandaean tradition, the ancient Gnostic religion centred on John the Baptist and the World of Light.
Texts from the Manichaean tradition, Mani's universal religion of light and darkness.
Mesoamerican traditions presented through specifically named peoples, languages, genres, and source chains—including Nahua song and Kaqchikel family chronicle—without reducing distinct living communities to one timeless mythology.
Literatures and traditions of Myanmar across distinct peoples, languages, regions, religions, historical polities, and diasporas.
Native American oral traditions, origin stories, Plains story collections, Cherokee formula texts, ceremonial sources, Native-authored religious interpretation, sacred narratives from distinct Indigenous nations and communities, and a nation-specific Haida oral-literature room.
Sacred texts from the Norse tradition, including the Poetic Edda and selections from the Prose Edda.
Oceanic and Pacific sacred narratives, Polynesian concepts, oral traditions, and mythic literatures of mana, tapu, place, and ancestry.
Persian epic and narrative in historical English witnesses: Ferdowsi through Zimmern's Shahnameh retelling and the manuscript-based Bakhtyār Nāma frame romance through Ouseley and Clouston.
The multilingual literatures of the Philippine archipelago across oral tradition, Indigenous scripts, Tagalog and regional-language print, Spanish and English writing, revolution, dictatorship, and diaspora.
Portuguese-language literature across Portugal, Brazil, Africa, Asia, and their diasporas—opened with Camões, Vicente, and Machado without mistaking three works for a finished canon.
Scythian, Sarmatian, Taurian, Alan, Black Sea, and northern-steppe witnesses from classical literature, history, geography, and inscriptions.
Shinto myth, ritual, shrine tradition, kami practice, classical Japanese sources, and the religious worlds of Kojiki and Nihongi.
Sikh scripture, history, gurmat, devotional practice, community formation, and the Guru Granth Sahib tradition.
Slavic folklore, mythic survivals, Christianized legends, epic motifs, and sacred narratives across eastern, western, and southern Slavic worlds.
Spanish epic, romance, legend, devotional memory, and literary traditions from Iberian and related worlds.
Sri Lankan religious, literary, historical, and folkloric sources, organized by language, community, and documented provenance.
Sufi poetry, doctrine, devotional practice, saints, orders, ecstatic utterance, and Islamic mystical literature across languages.
Sumerian sacred and literary corpus: temple hymns, city laments, royal praise poems, Inanna myths, Enki and Ninurta narratives, disputations, wisdom, and scribal tradition.
Tamil devotional poetry, Saiva and Vaisnava bhakti, ethical classics, temple song, and South Indian sacred literary traditions.
Fragmentary Buddhist, secular, and linguistic witnesses from the vanished Tocharian languages of the Tarim Basin.
Distinct Uralic-language literary and sacred traditions, including authored writing, oral texts, historical collections, and translations from Finnish, Estonian, Sámi, Hungarian, Mansi, Udmurt, and other fields.
Vedic1041 pagesTexts from the Vedic tradition, the oldest layer of Indian scripture including hymns, rituals, and cosmic philosophy.
Yiguandao72 pagesTexts from the Yiguandao tradition, the Way of Pervading Unity — scriptures of the Eternal Mother and the returning Dao.
Sacred texts from the Zoroastrian tradition, including the Gathas of Zarathustra.