Tales and other Writings

Since the Great Accord, no story has been allowed to vanish into silence, nor twisted to serve conquest or erasure. The federations pledged that memory itself would be a commons — that myths, legends, and chronicles would be preserved in their original voices, carried forward without assimilation or distortion. In Koina, the Net of Voices does more than record facts; it safeguards imagination, ritual, and tale, ensuring that every culture’s stories remain true to their sources and alive in the present.   These myths and legends are not curiosities to be studied from afar, but living companions in civic life. They are sung at festivals, debated in guild halls, and woven into philosophical discussions alongside law and science. A tale of the Nile, a hymn of the Andes, a parable of the Sinosphere — each retains its local rhythm, yet all circulate freely across federations. In their movement, they remind citizens that plurality is not a burden but a treasure: every myth reveals another facet of what it means to be human.   The article you now read is a gathering place for such stories. Here will be listed not only the legendary cycles of gods, heroes, and ancestors, but also the parables, epics, and folk tales that have traveled across borders. Together, they form the mythic backbone of the shared world — not homogenized, not stripped of origin, but carried intact. In this, the Accord’s promise is kept: that knowledge is universal, but stories remain rooted, carrying their home soil with them even as they cross into common memory.
Myths and Legends
Achilles and Patroclus
Myth | Oct 13, 2025

Deep warrior-bond interpreted as romantic in later traditions.

Anansi and Aso
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

The clever spider and his wise wife Aso, whose partnership of wit and affection allows them to outsmart greater powers.

Apollo and Hyacinthus
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Tragic male–male love, ending in the flower’s creation.

Arion and the Dolphin
Myth | Oct 13, 2025

Story of the Musician and the Sea

Atrahasis Creation Cycle
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Humanity made from clay and divine blood to serve the gods with labor and sex, saved from destruction by Enki’s intervention.

Baiame and Birrangulu
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Sky father and earth mother whose union created the laws of kinship and ceremony.

Brynhild and Sigurd
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Passion, betrayal, and doom in the Volsunga Saga.

Coyote and the Stars
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Trickster Coyote scatters the stars across the night sky, bringing both beauty and chaos.

Fuxi and Nüwa
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Civilizing deities who bring knowledge and order.

Gilgamesh and Enkidu
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Companionship with strong homoerotic undertones in the *Epic of Gilgamesh*.

Hero Twins
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Cleverness, cooperation, and renewal through trials.

Houyi and the Ten Suns
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Balance restored by reducing excess power.

Inti and Pachamama
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Sun and earth deities tied to ecological stewardship.

Isis and Osiris
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Devotion of a wife who restores her husband from death.

Izumi Shikibu and her lovers
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Rich poetic accounts of desire, both heterosexual and bisexual.

Lord Long Yang and King Anxi of Wei
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Male–male love story remembered as emblematic of same-sex devotion.

Myths of Ashvins
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Healing and cooperation in human affairs.

Nzinga and the River Spirit
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

A mortal woman’s union with a water spirit brings prosperity, but tests loyalty and devotion.

Ollantay and Cusi Coyllur
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

General and princess in a forbidden romance, preserved in Quechua drama.

Orestes and the Furies
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Justice shifting from blood vengeance to civic trial.

Oshun and Shango
Myth | Oct 12, 2025

Passionate goddess of love and river meets the thunderous orisha of storms, their fiery union and quarrels shaping balance.

Popol Vuh creation myth
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Humans created from maize; balance with agriculture and nature.

Prometheus and the Fire
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Gift of knowledge to humanity, rebellion against tyrannical Zeus.

Shikhandi in the Mahābhārata
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Gender transformation and marriage themes, important in epic context.

Story of Yima - Jamshid
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

The builder of a perfect enclosure (vara) to preserve creation during a winter cataclysm.

The Argonauts
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Cooperative quest of many heroes bound by shared purpose.

The Book of the Heavenly Cow
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Warning against divine wrath and human arrogance.

The Contendings of Horus and Set
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Struggle of order vs. chaos, mediated through council and negotiation.

The Creation Myth of Ahura Mazda vs. Angra Mainyu
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Zoroastrian cosmogony, drawn from the *Avesta* and later Pahlavi texts.

The Great Yu Taming the Flood
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Cooperation, engineering, and ecological balance.

The Mahābhārata
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Duty, ethics, and the cost of war.

The Mandate of Heaven
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Philosophy of just rule vs. tyranny and downfall.

The Monkey King and the Kingdom of Women
Myth | Oct 12, 2025

Where compassion and desire meet, and even vows learn to bow before love.

The Nubian Lion-God Apedemak
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Warrior-deity embodying both strength and protective stewardship.

The Origin of Corn
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

A story of divine twins and the gift of corn, tying sustenance and care to familial love.

The Rainbow Serpent
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Great being of creation who carved rivers and mountains, also tied to fertility, law, and the balance of life.

The Rāmāyaṇa
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Themes of loyalty, justice, and the tension between duty and compassion.

The Second Birth of Gede Nibo
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Laughter learns to speak the language of grief.

The Serpent Who Thought It Was an Eagle
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

The Fall of an Empire

The Shahnameh Cycle of Jamshid
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Hubris of a king who once ruled wisely but grew arrogant and lost divine favor.

The story of the Buddha’s renunciation
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Ethical awakening and rejection of worldly conquest.

The Story of the First Strawberry
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Quarreling husband and wife reconciled through the gift of strawberries, symbol of love and forgiveness.

The Two Spirit Hero
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Tales of Two Spirit figures embodying both masculine and feminine, honored as healers, matchmakers, and keepers of love.

Theseus and the Minotaur
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

A tale of civic courage and liberation from oppressive tribute.

Tristan and Isolde
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Passion and betrayal, enduring tragedy.

Uumarnituq and Aakulujjuusi
Myth | Oct 13, 2025

Inuit Creation Story — Northern Expanse

Viracocha
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Creator god bringing order and teaching humanity.

Xochiquetzal and Tlaloc
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Goddess of love and fertility, taken and restored, themes of longing and desire.

Yingtai and Liang Shanbo
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Star-crossed lovers, often called “Chinese Romeo and Juliet.”

Zahhak the Serpent King
Myth | Oct 10, 2025

Tyranny born of greed, undone by rebellion.

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