The Codex — Mythology Journal

Carved stone relief in gold on black basalt: Sekhmet, the lioness-headed goddess, beside the overturned jar of blood-red beer — Egyptian mythology, Neolithic Store

Egypt Mythos, Mythologies

SEKHMET — THE LIONESS WHO NEARLY ENDED MANKIND

Ra sent his Eye to end mankind, and the Eye became a lioness. The myth of Sekhmet, the blood-red beer, and the mercy that stopped her.

October 17, 2026
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He Never Put It Down., Greek mythology oversized black t-shirt by Neolithic Store — model wearing the back print

Greek Legends, Mythologies

ATLAS — THE TITAN WHO HOLDS UP THE SKY

Every war ends with a list of the defeated. Most of them are chained, buried or forgotten. One of them was handed a job instead — and the job was the sky. In Greek myth, Atlas is the Titan who…

October 16, 2026
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Carved stone relief in gold on black basalt: Ra's sun boat sailing the underworld river toward the serpent Apep — Egyptian mythology, Neolithic Store

Egypt Mythos, Mythologies

RA AND APEP — THE BATTLE FOR EVERY SUNRISE

Egypt did not believe the sun would rise. It believed the sun would be defended. Every evening Ra went down into the Duat with a night to cross and an enemy waiting in it.

October 7, 2026

Carved stone relief in gold on black basalt: Charon the ferryman poling a shrouded soul across the river Styx — Greek mythology, Neolithic Store

Greek Legends, Mythologies

STYX — THE RIVER THE GODS SWORE BY

Every river on earth runs to the sea. One runs to the oath. The Styx is the river that winds around the land of the dead, nine times over in Virgil’s telling. It is the dark border between the living…

October 1, 2026

Carved stone relief in gold on black basalt: Orpheus turning to look back at Eurydice as she fades on the stair out of the underworld — Greek mythology, Neolithic Store

Greek Legends, Mythologies

ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE — THE LOOK THAT ENDED THE SONG

Most Greek heroes go into the dark with a sword. Orpheus goes with a lyre, and it gets him further than any sword ever did. He is the greatest musician the Greeks ever imagined — a singer whose voice bent…

October 1, 2026
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Carved stone relief in gold on black basalt: Hector holding his infant son at the gates of Troy — Greek mythology, Neolithic Store

Greek Legends, Mythologies

HECTOR — THE MAN WHO STOOD BETWEEN TROY AND THE END

Every war has a man who fights for a cause he did not choose and cannot walk away from. In the Iliad, that man is Hector — crown prince of Troy, its greatest warrior, and the one Trojan who never…

September 23, 2026
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Carved stone relief in gold on black basalt: Achilles dragging Hector behind his chariot beneath the walls of Troy — Greek mythology, Neolithic Store

Greek Legends, Mythologies

ACHILLES — THE WRATH THAT SHAPED THE ILIAD

Before the Trojan War had a hero, it needed a name that could end it. The oracles were specific: Troy would not fall without Achilles. Not the largest army, not the cleverest strategist — one man, and the terrible speed…