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What the Reading Rests On

For every tradition: where it is documented, how the architecture was identified within it, what is contested in the scholarship, and what this reading does not claim.

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Three-Act Structure The European/American dramatic and narrative tradition — rooted… sources pending The Hero's Journey The European/American comparative-mythology and craft tradition — the… sources pending Seven-Point Structure The European/American storytelling-craft tradition — a modern structural… sources pending Four-Act Structure The European/American dramatic and narrative tradition — a… sources pending Akan — Anansi Web Akan peoples — Ashanti, Fante, Akyem, Akuapem, Kwahu… sources pending Congo Forest Peoples (Molimo) Mbuti, Baka, Aka, Efé and related forest peoples… sources pending Dogon Creation Cycle Dogon people — Bandiagara Escarpment, Mali, West Africa sources pending Mandé — Griot Performance Mandinka, Wolof, Fula, Bambara, Dyula, Soninke — Mali,… sources pending Kemet — Ma'at Balance Ancient Egyptian civilization — Nile Valley from the… sources pending San / Khoisan — Click Stories San (Bushmen) — !Kung, !Xóõ, Taa, /Xam, ǀXam,… sources pending Mandé — Sundiata Epic Mandinka, Bambara, Dyula peoples — Mali Empire and… sources pending Bantu — Ubuntu Story Circle Bantu-speaking peoples — Zulu (umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu), Xhosa,… sources pending Yoruba / Ifá — Orisha Realms Yoruba peoples — Oyo, Egba, Ijebu, Ile-Ife, Ekiti,… sources pending Forest Peoples — Mbuti / Baka Mbuti (Ituri Forest, Democratic Republic of Congo), Baka… sources pending BaKongo — Congo Cosmogram BaKongo peoples — Kongo, Vili, Yombe, Woyo, Solongo… sources pending Nilotic — Dinka / Nuer / Maasai Dinka and Nuer of South Sudan, Maasai of… sources pending Nguni — Zulu / Xhosa Zulu (amaZulu), Xhosa (amaXhosa), Swazi (emaSwati), and Ndebele… sources pending Finnish Kalevala — Väinämöinen Finnish and Karelian peoples — Finno-Ugric tradition sources pending Celtic — The Spiral Celtic peoples — the Irish (Gaelic) and Welsh… sources pending Norse Saga Structure Norse peoples — the medieval Icelanders and the… sources pending Slavic — The Turning Year Slavic peoples — the East Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians,… sources pending Babylonian — Enuma Elish Babylonian civilization — Akkadian-speaking, central Mesopotamia sources pending Thousand and One Nights The Arabic, Persian, Indian, and wider Middle Eastern… sources pending Sumerian — Gilgamesh / Inanna Sumerian civilization — the city-states of Uruk, Ur,… sources pending Sufi / Rumi — Masnavi Sufi Islamic mystical tradition — centered on Jalal… sources pending Japanese Ma (間) Japanese aesthetic and artistic tradition — developed across… sources pending Kishōtenketsu (起承転結) East Asian literary tradition — originating in classical… sources pending Tang Qǐchéngzhuǎnhé Chinese literary tradition — the classical poetics of… sources pending Wuxia (武侠) Chinese literary tradition — the wuxia genre of… sources pending Taoist Parables — Zhuangzi Chinese Taoist tradition — Zhuangzi (Zhuang Zhou, c.… sources pending Kojiki / Shinto — Amaterasu Yamato Japanese peoples — the Kojiki ("Record of… sources pending Korean Pansori — Joseon Performance Korean peoples — the pansori tradition flowered under… sources pending Indian Rasa (Natyashastra) The Indian (Sanskrit) dramatic and aesthetic tradition —… sources pending Hindu Epic — Mahabharata Sanskrit literary and religious tradition — attributed to… sources pending Tamil Sangam — Akam / Puram Tamil peoples — Tamilakam (the ancient Tamil country… sources pending Javanese — Wayang Kulit Javanese peoples — the island of Java, Indonesia,… sources pending Philippine — Bathala / Diwata Philippine peoples — Tagalog, Visayan (Bisaya), Ilocano, Bikolano,… sources pending Zapotec — Cloud People Zapotec peoples — Oaxaca Valley; Monte Albán civilization sources pending Aztec Codex (Amoxtli) The Mexica (Aztec) and wider Nahua peoples of… sources pending K'iche' Maya Creation Cycle The K'iche' Maya of highland Guatemala, whose sacred… sources pending Maya — Popol Vuh K'iche' Maya peoples of the Guatemalan highlands, heirs… sources pending Amazonian Vision Journey The many distinct Indigenous peoples of the Amazon… sources pending Andean / Inca Quipu The Quechua-speaking Inca and the wider Andean peoples,… sources pending Guaraní — The Land Without Evil Guaraní peoples — Mbyá, Ava (Ñandeva), Kaiowá, and… sources pending Animal-Guide Journey Native American / Indigenous peoples of North America… sources pending Lakota Sacred Hoop The Lakota (part of the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ /… sources pending Medicine Wheel Circular Narrative Native American / Indigenous nations of North America… sources pending Vision Quest (Structural) The Lakota (Očhéthi Šakówiŋ) and other Plains Indigenous… sources pending Haudenosaunee — Sky Woman / Great Law Haudenosaunee (the "People of the Longhouse," also known… sources pending Diné — Hózhó / Blessingway Diné (Navajo) people — Diné Bikéyah, the Navajo… sources pending Melanesia — Ancestor Presence Papua New Guinea peoples and Melanesian island peoples… sources pending Polynesian Wayfinding The Polynesian peoples — Hawaiian, Māori, Tahitian, Samoan,… sources pending Songline (Structural) Aboriginal Australian peoples — the many distinct First… sources pending Māori — Whakapapa Māori — the Indigenous Polynesian people of Aotearoa… sources pending