The Oracle's Cut

The world's oldest stories, told the way they were first told: by the fire, from the oldest sources we can find.

The films

Gods, tricksters and monsters

How we make them

Old sources, new eyes

The oldest telling first

We start from the earliest written or recorded versions, such as Hesiod, Snorri and Rattray's Asante tellers, before any modern retelling.

Every source named

Each film lists its sources, and every real artefact photo is credited with its licence.

Honest pictures

Scenes are AI-assisted reconstructions and are labelled that way. Museum objects are real.

Hear the next story first

New myths from every corner of the world.

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