A world understood as a web of relations — all beings (human, animal, plant, the elements, the spirit powers) bound in reciprocal relationship and mutual obligation. The earth itself rests on the back of a turtle (Turtle Island),…
The figures, the cosmologies, the sacred narratives. Named precisely, documented from primary sources.
02Dogon and Sirius. Aboriginal Australian astronomical records. Andean celestial cycles. No other publication runs this beat.
03Speculative fiction built on non-Western cosmological traditions — reviews, author features, what is being translated now.
04Fifty-four traditions. Each with its cosmology, its figures, its sacred elements and its sources.
05321 figures, tales and entries grouped by culture — a working reference for readers and writers.
06Fiction and nonfiction grounded in specific traditions, named by their peoples and cosmologies.
Fifty-four traditions, each with its cosmology, its figures, its sacred elements and its sources.
Translations, scholarship and speculative fiction — the books the essays rest on. Add to the Shelf to populate this section.