Codex Satyroꝛum

Welcome to the Codex Satyrorum! This is a compendium of texts and extracts that i either find important, interesting, or useful to have on hand. I hope they might be of some use to you as well.

• On the Gods and the World

  Saloustios, c. 360
  Saloustios the Philosopher’s classic of Hellenic theology (theoilogy?), as translated by Arthur Nock in 1925. [Under construction!]
  11.15 S169
  • English
  • Ἀρχαία ἑλληνική
• “Your Invisible Toolbag” extracted from The Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs

  Tristan Gooley, 2014
  A very useful book to have on hand if you’re ever out on a walk through nature — this extract is from the back part with all the appendices, summarising the listed techniques. These may or may not work if you’re outside the UK.
  42.05 (41) G659
  • Buy the original!
  • English
• “In Event of Moon Disaster”

  Bill Safire, 1969
  This speech was written for president Richard Nixon, to be used in the event that the astronauts aboard Apollo 11 did not make it home.
  55.61 S128
  • English
  • Nederlands
  • العربية
  • Ελληνικά
  • Français
  • 中文(繁體)
  • 中文(简体)
• The Code of the Furries

  Ross Smith, 1998
  71.59 S658
  • Visit the original!
  • Nederlands
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  1948
  Mostly here as a stress test to see how the site handles multilingual text.
  86.81
  • English
  • Nederlands
  • العربية
  • Ελληνικά
  • Esperanto
  • Français
  • हिन्दी
  • Kiswahili
  • 日本語
  • 中文(繁體)
  • 中文(简体)
• The End Poem

  Julian Gough, 2011
  Written for the end credits of Minecraft in 2011, Julian Gough dedicated this cryptic and self-admittedly “ridiculous” work to the public domain after a retreat to a Dutch shroom temple.
  91.18 G692
  • English
  • Nederlands
  • 中文(繁體)
  • 中文(简体)
• A Christmas Carol

  Charles Dickens, 1843
  This “ghostly little book” is Dickens at his finest, i.e. Dickens not being paid by the word. Its message still resonates to this day, and it’s a lovely little read at any time and any age.
  93.15 D548
  • English