How the library is made
Editorial policy
History, tradition, interpretation, and original rite are different animals. They do not share a cage.
Every substantial page should let you tell those four apart without squinting. If a page fails, that is an error to correct, not a style.
History
Historical claims name a source a reader can find: a classical text, a museum, a modern scholarly summary such as Britannica, Theoi.com for Greek myth with its citations, or a stated modern historian of Wicca. Where scholars disagree — the manner of Antinous’s death, the meaning of Inanna’s cult personnel, whether Bede’s Eostre was a goddess with a festival — the page says they disagree. We do not pick the version that flatters us and hide the rest.
A tradition’s teaching
When we describe Wicca, folk custom, or a living community, we say whose teaching it is. The Minoan Brotherhood, the Temple of Antinous, and Zuni Mountain Sanctuary are real communities with their own doors. They are context, not content we own. Private rites are not described.
Modern interpretation
Queer readings of myth are marked as modern. They can be devoted and serious without being disguised as what a bronze-age priest believed. Ancient categories of sex and gender are not identical to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, or intersex. Saying so is respect for both the dead and the living.
Original rite
Workings written for this site are introduced as Wilde Altar exercises. You may use them in personal practice. Please credit the library if you teach them publicly, and please do not republish them as inherited family lore.
What we will not invent
- Testimonials, enrollment numbers, prices, or publication dates.
- Medical benefits of herbs or crystals.
- Astronomical precision we did not compute. The moon widget is a mean synodic approximation and says so.
- Natal charts, transits, or personalized forecasts.
- Contact addresses or social accounts we cannot verify.
Corrections
There is no public form, because a form that does not arrive anywhere would be a lie. When a corrections address exists, it will be printed here. Until then, treat any error you find as real: do not repeat it as doctrine.