Mapping narrative territories across cultures and time
Storiography is the art and science of mapping narrative structures. We chart the territories where stories live, breathe, and transform across millennia.
By visualizing the hidden geometry of storytelling, we reveal patterns that connect cultures, the universal grammar of human narrative.
Click to reveal the hidden structures beneath classic story forms
The monomyth: departure, initiation, return
Found in Greek mythology (Odyssey), West African griots (Sundiata), Japanese legends (Momotaro), Aboriginal Dreamtime stories.
Setup, confrontation, resolution
Rooted in Aristotle's Poetics. Refined by Syd Field. Adopted across theatre, prose, and interactive narrative.
Four-act structure without conflict
Central to Chinese poetry, manga storytelling, game design, and yonkoma comics.
Nine emotional essences of Indian aesthetics
From Bharata Muni's Natyashastra (200 BCE). Shapes Bollywood, Kathakali dance, and global storytelling theory.
Layered examinations of narrative structure in landmark works
Tracing Homer's narrative architecture through geographic and emotional space across 24 books.
Honoring the diversity of storytelling across cultures
Homeric tradition: oral performance, invocation, cyclical journey
Living archive: genealogy, music, history woven into narrative
Nested frame tales: Panchatantra, infinite embedding
Songlines: narrative as geography, story as map of Country
Yggdrasil narratives: branching worlds, fate, cyclical doom
Mono no aware: beauty in impermanence and gentle sorrow
Every narrative has a hidden map. Let us help you find it. Whether you are a writer, scholar, or storyteller, we map the territories of your imagination.