Hylistics

The Study of Myths and Other Narrative Materials

Website for the expanding field of hylistics, especially of hylistic mythological research,

with deep new insights into sources

from 2600 BC (myths from ancient Sumer → Innana’s Descent to the Netherworld)

to 2020 AD (women’s voices from the Caucasus → Ganieva and Kordzaia-Samadashvili),

from cuneiform to Digital Humanities,

and into their literary, religious, political, and historical dimensions.

➢ One of the main concerns of hylistics is the study of narratives, especially myths.

➢ An expansion of hylistics is the study of sequences of events in general.

The name „hylistics“ is derived from its core units, the minimal state- or action-bearing units of narrative materials or events, called hylemes.