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4,974 myths across 394 themes from 260 source works spanning 3,000 years

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Lilith

Lilith Speaks the Ineffable Name and Flees the Garden

Adam wanted her beneath him. She speaks the Ineffable Name and flees. Three angels found her far out at sea, still waiting.
Mysticism

Four Rabbis Walked Into Paradise and Only One Walked Out

The marble looked like standing water. Akiva told them not to shout. Heaven does not forgive a lie about what sits in front of the eyes.
Golem

The Golem of Prague Opened Its Clay Eyes

Hair pushed through the river clay before dawn. The thing opened its eyes, looked at the three men, and had no word in its mouth.
Isaac

The Binding of Isaac the Torah Refused to Tell You

Isaac tied the knots on the wood himself. The angels wept onto his face. Sarah was never told he had gone up that mountain.
Leviathan

God Killed One Leviathan and Salted It for the Last Feast

There were two of them on the fifth day, male and female, circling slow as drifting continents. God looked ahead at their young and saw mountains with teeth.
Moses

Moses Climbed Into Heaven and Took the Torah

An angel named Hadarniel blocked the road, and Moses wept in the cloud like a lost child. Then he gripped the Throne of Glory with both shaking hands.
Choni

Choni Drew a Circle Until Heaven Sent Rain

The first rain was a light drizzle, barely enough to notice. The second came down hard enough to flood Jerusalem, and people ran uphill to escape the water.
Creation

God Stopped Babel Because the Builders Valued Bricks Over People

When a brick shattered, the work stopped and the men wept. When a man fell the same distance, they stepped over him and called for the next course.

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Angels

1,888 passages

Seraphim, cherubim, and heavenly messengers

Demons

559 passages

Shedim, Lilith, Asmodeus, and dark spirits

Creation

4,269 passages

How God made the world and everything in it

Heaven & Afterlife

2,523 passages

The seven heavens, Gan Eden, and the world to come

Moses

5,345 passages

The greatest prophet and lawgiver of Israel

King Solomon

1,702 passages

Wisdom, demons, and the builder of the Temple

Messiah

1,229 passages

The future redeemer and the end of days

Mysticism

2,246 passages

Merkavah visions, divine names, and hidden wisdom

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Database last updated September 2026