MythoSemantic: An Interactive System for Discovering Semantic Parallels Across Mythological and Religious Traditions

Nikita Ganziuk, Innokentiy S. Humonen, Ilya Makarov, Pavel Lebedev · 2026 · arXiv (Cornell University)

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2610.28452 · cited by 0 works (OpenAlex) · open-access PDF

Abstract

We present a tool for the comparative study of mythological and religious texts. Traditional manual analysis is highly labor-intensive and difficult to scale. To address this, we use neural language models to embed texts into a shared semantic space, so that users can find semantic parallels across cultural traditions in an interactive interface. Embedded fragments form distinct semantic structures whose coarse geometry aligns with well-documented historical relations between traditions. We quantify how much of that geometry is already explained by lexical overlap and by proper names. The current system is available at https://mythoscope.io, and the installable package is available at https://github.com/haafus/MythoSemantic/blob/main/RUN.md.

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Topics: Parallels, Mythology, Linguistics, Computer science, Semantics (computer science), Perspective (graphical)

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