The provenance file on Oidípous
Catalogue entry — Oidípous. Every claim below carries its chain of custody.
Provenance
1. The attestation. Οἰδίπους — "Swollen-foot (from οἰδάω + πούς)". On record: LSJ, Pape-Benseler, Beekes.
2. The preserved evidence. i → í (Acute on iota) — absent from the ASCII form oidipous, present in the restoration, verifiable against the sources above.
3. The narrative record. Primary Attestation — Oidípous is attested in the canonical Greek sources as a figure associated with fate, riddles, thebes. Name and Meaning — The name means "Swollen-foot (from οἰδάω + πούς)" and reflects the figure's role in the tradition.
4. The physical record. Oidípous is attested in the textual and iconographic record of the Greek tradition.
5. The current holding. The temple at /sites/oidipous/, classified Tier 1. What survives here cannot be shown in ASCII: a feature of the original that the fallback alphabet flattens. That is the Tier-1 test, and this name passes it without argument.
6. The documented resonances. Mythic Name Restoration, Diacritic-First Domains, Global Pantheon Brands — seats argued and weighted in the pattern atlas, read through the myths in this temple's Resonance File.
7. The primary sources. Theogony, Homeric Hymns, Works and Days — the library this file answers to, open at the Sacred Texts collection.
8. The continuing record. Oidípous continues to appear in scholarship, art, and popular reception as a significant figure of the Greek tradition. Restoring the name in Unicode returns the original marks that ASCII removes.
At a Glance
- Restored name: Oidípous
- ASCII form: oidipous
- Meaning: "Swollen-foot (from οἰδάω + πούς)"
- Domain of influence: Fate, Riddles, Thebes
- Pantheon: Greek
- Classification: Tier 1
- Original script: Οἰδίπους
- Series: The Restoration Files, No. 263 of 397
The Emblems
The name does not travel alone. Restored Name — The Unicode form Oidípous carries the original marks of the Greek tradition.; Source Script — Attested in the original script as Οἰδίπους.; Domain — Fate, Riddles, Thebes. Each emblem is filed in the temple's record with its own provenance, the same discipline the spelling gets.
For the Voice
'OIDIPOUS' — pronounce the restored form with attention to the preserved diacritics and length. The reconstructed line runs `/oidipous/` — the temple's pronunciation atlas carries the phonemes one by one.
The Discipline It Answers To
This restoration belongs to Greek, a tradition that invented both the chorus and the critique. The rules that govern it are not house style; they are the tradition's own scholarship, applied with the same care here as in any edition — and published, with the sources, so the file can be checked the way an edition can be checked. What survives here cannot be shown in ASCII: a feature of the original that the fallback alphabet flattens. That is the Tier-1 test, and this name passes it without argument.
The File Continues
Read the founding dispatch for the name's full story, the Resonance File for the archetype at work — or the whole archive in one sitting.
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