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How the World Began
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The book's whole apparatus, published in full: the thirteen corrections made while it was written, every source behind the thirty stories, and all 726 claims with the kind of claim each one is.
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The whole apparatus as one browsable page: the thirteen corrections, the source ledger, all 726 typed claims, and the bibliography.
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Every place the plan turned out to be wrong and what was done about it — five of them because a downloaded file was not the edition its filename claimed. The same list is printed in the back of the book.
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Every source record behind the thirty stories: work, author, edition, the file it was read from, and that file's hash.
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All 726 claims, each tagged as a primary or historical source, as scholarship, or as this book's own editorial interpretation, with the story it appears in.
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The same 726 claims as a CSV, for anyone who would rather sort and filter them somewhere else.
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Everything on this page is Vâliçe Press's own editorial work — ledgers, citations and corrections generated from the book's own records. The underlying texts it cites are public-domain collections and scholarship published between the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; those are named and dated here rather than reproduced. The retellings themselves stay in the book. These are historical and academic sources, not the direct practice of any living tradition, and no community or outside reviewer has read this material.