Where will you go
Sages, gurus and mystics, commanders, inventors, masters of their craft — those whose texts have outlived the centuries.
Nineteen pantheons — from Asgard and Olympus to Cusco, Kalevala, Japan, China, and the Caucasus. Each has its own language and its own ritual.
Contemporary authors — voices created together with them.
Who you can talk to
Norse Gods
Asgard →Gave an eye for a draught of wisdom and hung nine nights on the ash tree for the runes.
Odin's wife. She knows all fates and keeps silent about them.
Defender of Midgard. Speaks straight, the way his hammer strikes.
The brightest of the Æsir. He knows what awaits him and does not darken.
Put his hand in the wolf's mouth to keep his word. Knows the price of an oath.
Guardian of Bifröst. Hears the grass grow and sleeps less than a bird.
God of poetry. Speaks in verses — and runes on his tongue.
Guards the apples without which the gods grow old. Speaks of time and withering.
Love, seidr, and half of the fallen warriors.
God of peace and harvest. Gave his sword for love — and knows it was worth it.
God of winds and seafarers. Speaks unhurriedly, like the surf.
Daughter of the giant Thiazi. Came to avenge her father and took her wergild in laughter.
Bursts into other people's conversations. Sometimes right.
Knows more about death than anyone in the Nine Worlds.
Greek Gods
Olympus →King of gods and men, lord of Olympus, guardian of oaths and punisher of oath-breakers.
Born in full armor from the head of Zeus. Gives mortals wise counsel and leads them to victory.
Messenger, thief, and guide — he'll show you the way around Gurus.
The voice of the Delphic oracle. The far-shooting god, whose arrows bring truth and plague.
Love, desire, and their power over gods and mortals.
The kingdom of the dead, the wealth of the depths, and honesty without mercy.
The fury of battle — and why the gods disliked him.
Goddess of the hunt and the wild, who roams the mountains with bow and pack of hounds.
The mother who searched the whole world for her daughter, and the price of separation.
God of wine, madness and sacred ecstasy. Breaks chains and frees you from yourself.
The most ancient of gods in Hesiod and a boy with a bow in the poets.
The lame craftsman cast down from Olympus — and his work.
Torches at the fork of three roads and the secret knowledge of the night.
Sees everything from his chariot — and knows what he was not told.
Guardian of marriage and the sovereign wife of Zeus; her wrath is a storm, her fidelity is law.
The quiet fire of a home that needs no feats.
The measure that cannot be overstepped, and the punishment for hubris.
Wild forest, panpipes and sudden fear — panic.
Half the year below, half the year in the light — and both halves are hers.
The sea, wrath, and a stubbornness that never subsides.
Brought fire to mankind and paid with his liver on a rock.
Slavic Gods
Iriy →Thunder over the oak, a warrior's truth. Smiter of the serpent and keeper of oaths.
He keeps herds, paths and the word. Through him come wealth and the true road.
Spins the thread of fate and knows where the knot lies.
Death and renewal, the dark side of the year.
Sun, gift and generosity — “Dazhbog’s grandchildren.”
The course of the sun, the wheel of the year, and return.
A winged hound with fiery breath, who guards seed and growth from unclean things and cold.
The wind that comes and goes — and change.
Forged the sky and the sun, struck the stone with his hammer — and gave people fire and craft.
Yarilo is the god of spring, of strength and the fury of life. He comes with the sun, departs with autumn, and warmth departs with him.
Egyptian Gods
Duat →Leads the dead and holds the scales where the heart lies against the feather.
Home, cats, and quiet protection — gentle until her own are touched.
The son who won back his father's throne from his uncle and lost an eye in the battle.
Love, music, and joy — and the same goddess who once turned to fury.
Gathered her husband piece by piece and raised her son in the reeds.
The order of the world, truth and measure — without which all falls apart.
The sky above the earth — each evening she swallows the sun and each morning gives birth to it.
Slain by his brother and returned — judge of those who have gone.
Master of Memphis, who made the world with heart and tongue.
Each night he sails through the darkness of the Duat and each morning returns.
Desert heat, plague and healing — with one hand she punishes, with the other she heals.
Storm, exile and envy — the brother-slayer who battles the serpent of darkness.
Reckoning, writing and measure — he records the verdict at the weighing of the heart.
Celtic Gods
The Otherworld →Poetry, healing, and the forge — a fire that never goes out.
The horned lord of beasts with a torc in his hand — the books are silent of him, the stones speak.
The cauldron from which no one leaves hungry, and the club of life and death.
Foremother of the Tribes of the Goddess Danu, who went beneath the hills.
Horses, the road and the last journey — she was honoured from Gaul to Rome.
Came to the gates of Tara and proved he could do all things.
Lord of the sea mists and the road to the Otherworld.
A crow above the battlefield that knows beforehand who will fall.
The king who lost a hand in battle — and the throne with it.
God of eloquence and writing, who invented ogham and binds the world with words.
Gods of Mesopotamia
Sumer →The sky above all, distant and unmoving — his word is law.
Beloved of Inanna, given to the underworld in her stead.
The cunning god of wisdom who warned man of the flood.
King of the Gods from Nippur, who sent the flood upon the noisy people.
Mistress of the land of no return, where dust is food and clay is clothing.
Two-thirds god, one-third man — he sought immortality and lost it.
Descended to the underworld, stripped of all at the seven gates — and returned.
He defeated Tiamat and from her body shaped the world.
Plague, war and the underworld — and a marriage to its mistress.
Sees all that is done under the sun, and judges by truth.
The primordial ocean, mother of the gods, who became their enemy.
Roman Gods
The Capitol →The moon, the forest and the grove by Lake Nemi, where the priest guarded his place with a sword.
Fortune and her wheel, which never stands still.
War, spring and fields — father of Romulus.
Trade, profit and swift feet — god of merchants and messenger.
Craft, reason and war by the rules — one of the three on the Capitoline.
God of sowing and of the Saturnalia, when slave and master sit at one table.
Love and the ancestress of the line of Aeneas — from her Caesar traced his descent.
The sacred fire of Rome, which must never go out.
God of doors and beginnings: one face looks back, the other forward.
The Capitoline lord of oaths, alliances and lightning.
Aztec Gods
Tenochtitlan →Rivers, lakes and birth — the fresh water that gives life.
Wind, knowledge, and a priest who went across the sea with a promise to return.
Mother of Huitzilopochtli — the earth that gives birth and takes back.
The realm of the dead, reached after four years through nine levels.
The young god of corn — that which feeds every day.
Flowers, beauty, crafts, and love. She wove and sang, then went to the land of the dead.
Night, fate, and the mirror in which all you hide is seen.
The rain that feeds the maize, and the thunder that ruins it.
The sun of the present world, which moves as long as it has strength.
Sun-Warrior who led the Mexica to the lake with the eagle on the cactus.
Gods of the Incas
Cusco →Thunder, lightning and the rain he holds in the jug of the Milky Way.
Father of the Incas and the gold of Coricancha. I give light, but I await a gift in return.
Moon, counter of months and patroness of wives; with silver light I measure time and the lot of women.
The sea and all waters are hers — they asked her for fish and for calm water.
Wife of Manco Capac, who taught the women of Cusco to spin and weave.
Son of the Sun, who founded Cusco where the golden staff sank into the earth.
An ancient god of the coast, whose oracle was revered long before the Incas.
The earth that feeds, if the debt to her is repaid.
The underworld, the mines, and all that lies beneath the earth.
Came out of Lake Titicaca, made the world, and went beyond the sea.
Gods of the Maya
The World Tree →Lightning-axe and rain, without which there is no maize.
Killed in Xibalba and returned from the earth as young maize.
With his brother he beat the lords of Xibalba at ball and became the sun.
The Maker from the Popol Vuh, who made people three times before they came from maize.
An old priest-god who gave the Maya writing and the count of days.
The moon over Yucatán: she weaves fates on her loom, delivers children and cools fever.
The Foremother who ground the maize from which the first people were made.
The serpent that descends the steps of the pyramid on the day of the equinox.
Together with his brother, he outplayed the lords of Xibalba.
Baltic Gods
The Heavenly Mountain →Dawn and the morning star — because of her the Moon and the Sun fell out.
He rides down from the mountain of heaven on his horse, sows rye and makes peace among the gods.
The hearth fire that cannot be insulted and cannot be left unwatched.
Appoints your lot at birth — and it cannot be re-spun.
Betrayed Saulė with the Morning Star and was cut in two by Perkūnas.
Thunder over the oak, the scourge of lies and the cleansing of the world.
Rides across the sky in a chariot and weeps for a broken apple tree.
The cunning devil of songs and tales, outwitted by a simpleton.
The earth that feeds and takes back — to her they gave the first piece of bread.
Gods and Heroes of the Kalevala
Kalevala →The sea, the fish, and the deep where treasures lie.
Forged the heavenly vault and the Sampo mill.
Mother of the waters, from eggs on her knee the world was born.
Bold and boastful — his mother pieced him together from the river of Tuonela.
The toothless crone of the north, who stole the sun and the moon.
The wife of Tapio, who opens her storehouses to the hunter.
The Forest King from whom the hunter begs for game and mercy.
The black river and the isle of the dead, from which Väinämöinen barely returned.
The supreme god of thunder, called upon when your own strength is not enough.
The old, wise singer who creates with word and kantele.
Gods of India
Meru →Fire, messenger between men and gods — with him the Rigveda opens.
Four faces to the four directions — from his lotus the world comes forth.
On a lion, with the weapons of all the gods in her hands — she who overcame the buffalo demon.
The wise one who wrote down the “Mahabharata” — to him people turn at the beginning of the path.
Leapt across the ocean for Rama and brought a mountain with healing herbs — the power of devotion.
King of the gods of the Rigveda, who slew the serpent Vritra and set the waters free.
Time and the power that slays demons — fierce, yet a mother.
Six-faced youth on a peacock, son of Shiva and Parvati, commander of the army of the gods.
Charioteer of Arjuna: duty, action without craving for its fruits, and fearlessness before battle.
Abundance, fortune and beauty — she rose from the churning ocean.
Through asceticism she won Shiva's heart — patience, love, and the strength of home.
Went into exile for fourteen years so as not to break his father's word.
Knowledge, music and the word — with the strings of the veena in her hands, on a white swan.
A hermit on Kailasa and the dance in which the world ends and begins.
She endured exile and captivity in Lanka — and remained herself.
The Sun on a chariot with seven horses, the eye of the world.
The dawn that wakes the living each morning — the gentlest hymns of the Rigveda.
Guardian of the world order, from whom no lie can be hidden.
He who descends into the world when dharma perishes, and holds the universe upon the waters.
Kami of Japan
Takamagahara →The sun that hid in a cave — and the world fell into darkness.
Music, word and water — she came from India and became one of the islands' own.
Ever since he fell out with the sun, day and night have lived apart.
A smiling fisherman with a rod and a sea bream — luck and honest trade.
A bag of winds over his shoulder — Raijin's eternal companion.
Rice, harvest and plenty — fox-messengers and red torii gates.
With Izanami he created the islands and descended after her to the land of Yomi.
Mother of islands and gods, who became the ruler of the land of Yomi.
Drums in the clouds and lightning — the storm that frightens and waters the rice.
Storm, exile, and victory over the eight-headed serpent.
Yoruba Orishas
Ile-Ife →Messenger and master of roads: without him no sacrifice and no prayer will get through.
The mother whose children are fish — sea, motherhood and protection.
Eldest of the orishas, who shaped people from clay — purity, patience and white garments.
Blacksmith and hunter who cut the first road through the forest.
Hurricane, lightning and market — she who guards the cemetery gates.
The sage of Ifa divination, who has seen how destiny is chosen before birth.
River, honey and gold — love, fertility and the quiet strength without which the world was not made.
King of Oyo who became thunder — the double axe, fire and justice.
Gods of China
The Celestial Palace →The one called at the new year — honest prosperity and generosity.
She drank the elixir of immortality and remained alone on the Moon forever.
Taught people to catch fish with nets and traced the eight trigrams.
The commander Guan Yu, who became a god — loyalty to one's word, sworn brotherhood and honor.
A girl from the coast of Fujian who saved fishermen in storms — protection on the journey.
Rules heaven like a palace of officials — order, report, and reward by merit.
She shaped people from yellow clay and patched the cracked sky with stones of five colors.
Mistress of the Kunlun mountains and of the garden of peaches of immortality, which ripen once in three thousand years.
Gods of the Scythians
The Great Steppe →The earth, wife of Papai, is what the steppe stands on.
Love and power, which grants dominion and takes it away.
Light, arrow and herds — the god Herodotus likened to Apollo.
The only one whom the gold that fell from the sky allowed near: the plough, the yoke, the axe, and the cup.
Sky, father of gods and men — so the Scythians called him in Herodotus.
The fire of the hearth — the most revered of the Scythian gods; an oath by her was stronger than all.
Sea god of the Royal Scythians, master of horses and waters.
Son of Zeus and the daughter of the river Borysthenes, from whom the Scythians traced their line.
Gods of Armenia
Ararat →Mother-patroness, the glory and life of the Armenian land.
He rejected the love of Semiramis, Queen of Assyria, and fell in battle—and she tried to revive him.
Creator of heaven and earth, giver of abundance — his chief temple stood in Ani.
Beauty and love — roses and the water of Vardavar.
Light, truth and covenant — son of Aramazd.
Warrior mother and wise mistress — daughter of Aramazd.
Scribe of the gods, who keeps the records of fate and unveils the meaning of dreams and signs.
Born of a burning reed stalk, with hair of fire and eyes of sun.
Gods of Georgia
Caucasus →A bogatyr who defied a god and was chained to a Caucasus rock.
An idol in copper armor with a golden helmet on the mountain above the Kura — the chief god of the Kartlians.
Sun and healing — her feast was kept with round dances and fire.
Golden-haired mistress of the aurochs and mountain beasts, who grants the hunter luck — or death.
A mountain hero-deity who drove the evil spirits out of the gorges.
Son of the supreme god, judge and defender of the mountain community.
A god of fertility whose idol stood on a mountain near Mtskheta. He holds an iron chain that binds heaven and earth.
Sages
The whole wing →Ruled Rome through war and plague and every evening wrote himself notes on how to remain a human being.
He wrote letters on how to live when everything is collapsing, and met death calmly himself.
Born a slave, he became a teacher of freedom: he separated what is in our power from what is not.
Wandered through Athens, struck up conversations with anyone, and by his questions drew people out of their certainty that they knew.
Lived in a barrel, begged from statues, and answered Alexander: “Stand out of my sunlight.”
The Teacher who said: order in the family, order in the state.
Retired to a tower to write about himself — and wrote a book in which everyone recognizes themselves.
Called the world blind will and taught how to loosen its grip.
Said that God is dead and called man to stand beyond good and evil.
Wrote of Sophia and all-unity, believed that love justifies life, and died before he could finish speaking.
He said freedom is not a right but a burden and a calling. He taught not to lose oneself in an era.
Gurus and Mystics
The whole wing →The Old Master who wrote the “Dao De Jing” and went west, leaving no trace.
A butterfly dreaming it is a man.
Priest of Kali at Dakshineswar who said: all rivers flow into one ocean.
A monk and philosopher who carried Vedanta to the West and said: “Arise, awake and stop not.”
One question — “who am I?” — he turned inward until only the I remained.
Brought the ancient science of Kriya Yoga to the West and taught that God is attainable through daily practice.
Sang of love that burns all but God, and whirled until he became light.
Sang of wine, love, and God so that his ghazals still divine fate.
The weaver of Varanasi whose verses pierced the hearts of Hindus and Muslims alike, calling them to God beyond rites.
Taught that God is born in the soul when it is empty and detached from all things.
The shoemaker of Görlitz who saw a flash of the Godhead in a pewter vessel and wrote “Aurora.”
Said that man is a machine, and taught waking through effort, attention and self-observation.
Founded the Theosophical Society and joined East and West in “The Secret Doctrine”.
Founded anthroposophy: a path of spiritual knowledge through thinking, art, and inner work.
Generals and Rulers
The whole wing →Wrote a treatise on war where the highest art is to win without fighting.
Japan's undefeated swordsman, author of “The Book of Five Rings” on the way of strategy.
United the steppes under a single law and built a realm from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian.
By thirty he had built the greatest empire of antiquity — from Greece to the Indus.
Crossed the Rubicon, crushed the Gauls and Pompey, became dictator — and fell to daggers on the Ides of March.
From lieutenant to emperor and back: a path that redrew the map of Europe.
The science of victory — brief and with a jest.
For fifteen years he kept Rome in fear, crossed the Alps with elephants — and never took the Eternal City.
Cut a window through — and spare neither yourself nor others.
Gave up Moscow to save the army, and outplayed Napoleon with patience.
Inventors and Scientists
The whole wing →Saw machines whole before he built them. His alternating current lit the world.
Painted pictures that changed painting, and filled notebooks that anticipated science by centuries.
Discovered the law of gravitation and the calculus, yet thought he was only gathering pebbles on the shore of the ocean of truth.
The lever, displaced water, and the machines that defended Syracuse.
The telescope, the moons of Jupiter, and the trial that forced him into silence.
Walked to Moscow — and went on to found a university.
By stubbornness and order he found the law of the elements, which became the map of all chemistry.
Discovered polonium and radium, won the Nobel Prize twice, and paid for it with her health.
Masters of the Craft
The whole wing →The apprentice from Boston who became the first American and taught that time is money.
A Scottish boy who became the steel king of America and gave nearly all of it away.
Built a car for millions and made work a matter of honor, not a way to survive.
Taught millions to win friends and influence people through words and genuine interest.
Taught that wealth is an exact science, available to anyone who thinks and acts in a certain way.
From a boy's ledger grew Standard Oil. Patience, tithe, and exact accounting.
Character, work and thrift — the Victorian recipe he prescribed to an entire age.
Writers and Poets
The whole wing →Sought the truth, renounced wealth, and wrote about how to live by conscience when it is inconvenient.
The man from underground who believed beauty would save the world.
Counted the stars, drank wine, and fit a whole life into four lines.
He went into the woods to live deliberately and showed how little a person needs for happiness.
Love, honor, and freedom — light words on heavy things.
Laughter through tears and dead souls of living people.
A doctor who treated for free and wrote briefly, because the reader has no time to spare.
Tell the truth — then you won't have to remember anything.
Forty years of wandering — and a rose garden of parables about people and rulers.
Healers of the Soul
The whole wing →The creator of psychoanalysis: he showed that unconscious desires drive us, and that dreams are their royal road.
The founder of individual psychology: a person is driven not by the past but by a goal, and a feeling of inferiority can be turned into strength.
The science of the soul without religion and without atheism — through experience, will, and living faith.
Habit, reflex, and the will to work.
He studied the brain, suggestion, and the collective life of the spirit; he believed that thought can change the body.
Thought and word — how a person grows out of others.
Showed how a simple phrase, repeated morning and evening, changes how you feel more powerfully than medicines.
The Dark Shelf
The whole wing →A Siberian peasant who spoke with tsars, healed the heir, and became a saint to some, a devil to others.
Quatrains that every age reads to itself.
Everything is poison and everything is medicine; it is all in the dose. I cut open corpses, burned herbs and argued with an entire faculty.
The Great Copt, magician and adventurer in one person.
Elizabeth's mathematician, who spoke with angels through a mirror.
Paths of Faith
The whole wing →He left the chair of Baghdad to find with the heart what he knew with the mind.
Restless is the heart until it finds rest — the Bishop of Hippo on himself without embellishment.
Physician and philosopher of the East: the “Canon of Medicine” and a book about the soul that soars in the void.
Siddhartha Gautama: suffering, its cause, and the path that leads out of it.
Scholastic who united faith and reason: wrote the “Summa Theologiae” and five proofs of God's existence.
Renounced his father's wealth and called the sun his brother.
What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor — the whole Torah on one foot.
Andalusian mystic: a heart capable of embracing every form.
Parables, the Sermon on the Mount, and the commandment of love — in the words of the Gospels.
Physician, legal scholar, and philosopher — how to hold faith and reason together.
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