Where the Map Ends

Sep 27, 2026

The Tree at the Centre of Everything

A journal entry on Yggdrasil, the vast tree of Norse cosmology, and the wells, wells-keepers and gnawing creatures said to hold the nine realms in place.

Sep 24, 2026

The Horn That Waits

A look at Gjallarhorn, the horn of Heimdallr, and the old uncertainty over whether it was ever separate from Mímir's well of wisdom.

Sep 2, 2026

A journal entry on the bunyip, the water-dwelling being of Aboriginal folklore from the Murray-Darling basin, and how a warning about dangerous water became, in colonial hands, both a cryptid and an insult.

Aug 26, 2026

Lykos and the Hollow Wood

A journal entry on Lykos, the guardian wolf said to haunt the last old-growth remnants of the English wildwood, and the folk memory that keeps him there long after real wolves were gone.

Aug 24, 2026

The Grammar of Birds

On the old Roman and Etruscan art of augury, in which the flight of birds, the fall of lightning, and the appetite of sacred chickens were read as the language of fate.

Aug 11, 2026

The Horse That Crosses Worlds

A journal entry on Sleipnir, Odin's eight-legged horse, tracing his strange birth and his one recorded errand into the land of the dead.

Aug 10, 2026

The One Who Sees in Circles

A journey into the mountain country of Sicily and the Peloponnese in search of the Cyclopes — giant shepherds of Greek myth whose single eye may owe less to invention than to a bone in the ground.

Aug 9, 2026

The Rearing Cobra of the Delta

A journal entry on Wadjet, the cobra goddess of Lower Egypt, whose rearing form once guarded the brow of every pharaoh and still guards the doorways of the dead.

Aug 8, 2026

The Scribe Who Counted the Moon

A visit to the ibis catacombs of ancient Hermopolis, where the moon god Thoth was worshipped as scribe, mathematician, and keeper of the balance between truth and chaos.

Aug 2, 2026

The Stone That Turns Three Ways

A visit to Newgrange and its carved triple spiral, and an honest reckoning with how much of what we say about the symbol is memory and how much is invention.

Jul 31, 2026

The Stones That Remember

A journal account of Britain and Scandinavia's rune-carved standing stones, and the old belief that they mark ground where the living and the fairy world touch.