About the gallery

How to read a work

Every god in the collection is two things held apart. The plate and the story give the god as tradition tells it. The curator’s note, below the story, says what the ancient sources actually record, and where later writers, from Roman poets to Victorian scholars, added their own.

Under each name is how to say it, with the stressed syllable lit in gold. Kin are quoted from the entries that state them. Dates mark when the evidence was written down, not when the belief began.

How the rooms are ordered

The rooms follow one another in the order their peoples first appear in the written record: Mesopotamia and the Levant, Egypt, Greece, Iran, the Aramaeans and the caravan cities, the frontier peoples, the Etruscans, Rome, and the North. The timeline shows the span of each.

The books

The collection is the screen edition of the hardcovers of A Compendium of the Ancient Gods by Kyle Charles Kilmetis, from the Codex Kythagoras imprint.

• The Olympian OrderMythologies of Ancient Greece
• The Mythos of MesopotamiaMythologies of Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, and Assyria
• The Cradle of CitiesMythologies of the Hittites, Canaanites, and Phoenicians
• The Celtic PantheonMythologies of Ireland, Wales, and Gaul
• The Roman InheritanceMythologies of Ancient Rome

In preparation: The Gift of the Nile, The Persian World, The Levantine Borderlands, The Edges of Empire, The Etruscan World, The Northern Inheritance, Part II.

How it was made

The plates and the text were made with AI tools and edited by the author, working from the primary sources named in each entry and on the sources pages. 23 gods still wait for their plates; their frames hang empty rather than borrow another god’s picture.

Set in Cinzel and EB Garamond.