Search historical texts and mythology references with citation URLs from The Old Ways library.
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List available book landing pages, traditions, content types, index-build timestamp and the source policy before exploring The Old Ways. Index-build time is not the publication date of a historical text.
This tool takes no arguments.
List available book landing pages, traditions, content types, index-build timestamp and the source policy before exploring The Old Ways. Index-build time is not the publication date of a historical text.
No arguments.
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}Read a bounded text excerpt from an indexed public theoldways.co page. Supply a canonical URL or path returned by search_library. Returns a citation URL, edition/source note, text and nextOffset for continuation. Never accesses arbitrary websites, private accounts or the live app. Imported historical editions can contain transcription errors; editorial summaries are not passage-level source verification.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| url* | string | |
| length | integer | |
| offset | integer |
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"url": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 500,
"minLength": 1
},
"length": {
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"default": 4000,
"maximum": 8000,
"minimum": 1
},
"offset": {
"type": "integer",
"default": 0,
"maximum": 2000000,
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}Search the Old Ways historical-text and mythology reference collection: Norse, Greek/Hellenic, Egyptian/Kemetic, Celtic and Zoroastrian writings, glossary, deity profiles and explanatory questions. Returns canonical citation URLs and short previews from a prebuilt lexical index. Not web search or verification of historical claims. Use read_page to examine the passage and recorded edition details. Known malformed and noindex pages are excluded.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| kind | string | |
| limit | integer | |
| query* | string | |
| tradition | string |
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"default": 5,
"maximum": 8,
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},
"tradition": {
"enum": [
"norse",
"hellenic",
"kemetic",
"celtic",
"zoroastrian"
],
"type": "string"
}
},
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}