The library

What the gods read.

Every answer is taken from a library of real scripture that keeps growing. This is what is in it right now, counted by the publish step itself, and what is not in yet.

3,856passagesin the library today
107story cardseach names its book and chapter
3Puranas in full2,954 passages of scripture
12 October 2026last publishedthe counter moves when a new library goes live

In it now

Three Puranas, one builder, 107 cards.

Shiva proudly unrolls a scroll with a heart on it

The Puranas

Three of the great Puranas, in full: the Markandeya Purana, the Devi Bhagavata Purana and the Vishnu Purana, in the English translations of 1840 to 1922 that are free for anyone to read. 2,954 passages. When the gods tell a story from them, the book and the chapter are named.

Shiva and Parvati sit on the snowy summit of Kailash above the clouds

The builder's own notes

692 passages that the person building this dictated and wrote over the years, on the goddesses, on desire, and on what people do to each other and to themselves. The gods read it for its ideas. Anything that only works with a teacher in the room stays out of the answers.

107 story cards

Stories retold from the Puranas and the epics so the gods can reach them fast: the title, the book and chapter, the story in a few lines, and the problems it speaks to. Like this one.

Shiva Purana, Rudra Samhita · Devi Bhagavata, book 7 · Bhagavata Purana, book 4

Sati and her father's sacrifice

Sati chose Shiva: the outsider with ash on his skin. Her father would not have him at the table. A love the family refuses is not thereby wrong, and a grief you carry whole will kill the world around you.

family disapproves of my partnergrief

How it grows

Reviewed before it is read.

New passages are added in batches. Before any of them can be used, it is reviewed. A reviewed passage can be found by a search. An unreviewed one never reaches an answer, and neither does a passage that was reviewed and set aside.

Today 2,868 of the 3,856 passages are open to the gods. The rest are tables of contents, running heads, and teaching that is kept for context only.

The numbers on this page are not typed in. The step that publishes a new library writes them.

An AI brain in the night sky; diary lines, the gods' film strip and a sung song flow into it

Why the old translations are hard

The meaning is kept. The dust is not.

The free translations are a century old. They are faithful, and they are hard to read. Here is one sentence as the book has it, and as the gods would say it.

MARKANDEYA PURANA, CANTO 95 · PARGITER, 1904
The ancestors, to the hermit Ruchi

“Therefore, O son, do thou take a wife according to precept; let not thy birth be unprofitable by thy not observing the business of ordinary life fully.”

THE SAME SENTENCE, THE WAY THE GODS SAY IT

“So marry, son, and do it properly. You were given a life. Don't let it go to waste by stepping out of the ordinary business of living.”

Ruchi wanted to cleanse his soul by staying out of ordinary life. His ancestors told him that was the one thing that would not work. Every story the gods tell is checked against the translation we hold before it is spoken, so the plain words never drift from the old ones.

Not in yet

What is missing, said plainly.

Saying what is not in is what makes the rest believable.

We add to it every day. When a new library goes live, the counter at the top of this page moves.

And then

What happens with it.

A library is only the shelf. The minute between your question and the film is where it is put to work.