How We Verify

Every article on Learn Wordly is compiled from multiple authentic reference sources, and every match carries a mark that says how far those sources support it. This page explains how the marks are given and what is checked.

Where the information comes from

The articles draw on reference pages from Wikipedia and Encyclopaedia Britannica. For each article the relevant pages are read in full, one per god, hero or story, and a claim is written only if a page states it. Ancient authors such as Hesiod, Herodotus, Tacitus and Berossus are known here only through those pages, and each article says so. Source names appear in the text of each article, not as a separate list of links.

The three marks

Attested. A named ancient writer, an inscription, a dated object or a documented cult or legal act makes the match. An example is the identification of Typhon with the Egyptian Set from around 500 BC.
Scholarly. A reference page records the comparison but does not point to an early source for it. An example is the sphinx and its Egyptian counterpart, where the page lists differences as well as likeness.
Popular claim. None of the pages read for that article records the match. It may be widely repeated and still appears here with this mark.

The mark rates the match itself. It does not rate how important a god or story is. On most pages the Greek figure is the baseline, and the mark says how well the counterpart lines up with it.

How each page is checked

Each fact in the text is traced to a reference page read for that article. A fact with no page behind it is deleted.
Where two pages give different dates, names or accounts, the article shows both.
If a reference page could not be read, the figure that depended on it is left out.
Dates and counts in the text are compared with the table rows before the page is published.
Pages that discuss living religions describe stories and names as the sources give them and avoid ranking beliefs.

How the content is made

Research and first drafts are produced with an AI assistant. It reads the reference pages, proposes the table rows and marks, and drafts the text. Muneeb Khan sets the topics and the method, approves each page before it is published, and answers corrections. Every claim is then traced back to a reference page named in the article, and a claim that no page supports is deleted. Nothing on the site is presented as first-hand experience, and no source is invented.

What we do not do

We do not take paid placements or let advertisers influence a page.
We do not invent sources, quotes, dates or credentials.
We do not claim to have visited, tested or studied anything first-hand.
We do not rate one living faith above another.

What this method cannot do

Reference pages are secondary sources and they change. A page that says nothing about a match is not proof that no match exists, and the article treats it only as a gap. Dates on the pages come from the pages and may be revised by later scholarship. The marks are an editorial judgment and not a scholarly ranking.

Corrections

If you think a mark is too high or too low, write to contact@learnwordly.com with the page, the row and the source you would use. The claim is re-checked, the page is changed if the source supports it and the updated date shows the change. See also About and the Disclaimer.

Last updated: 22 October 2026