The provenance file on Psychḗ
Provenance record 295 · Psychḗ · one temple, fully accounted for.
Provenance
1. The attestation. Ψυχή — "Soul, breath". On record: LSJ, Pape-Benseler, Beekes.
2. The narrative record. Primary Attestation — Psychḗ is attested in the canonical Greek sources as a figure associated with soul, breath, life. Name and Meaning — The name means "Soul, breath" and reflects the figure's role in the tradition.
3. The physical record. Psychḗ is attested in the textual and iconographic record of the Greek tradition.
4. The current holding. The temple at /sites/psyche/, classified Tier 1. The restoration preserves more than the ASCII form can express — stress, length, or a letter the Latin keyboard lost — which places it, mechanically, in Tier-1.
5. 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.
6. The primary sources. Theogony, Homeric Hymns, Works and Days — the library this file answers to, open at the Sacred Texts collection.
7. The continuing record. Psychḗ 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: Psychḗ
- ASCII form: psyche
- Meaning: "Soul, breath"
- Domain of influence: Soul, Breath, Life
- Pantheon: Greek
- Classification: Tier 1
- Original script: Ψυχή
- Series: The Restoration Files, No. 295 of 397
The Emblems
The name does not travel alone. Restored Name — The Unicode form Psychḗ carries the original marks of the Greek tradition.; Source Script — Attested in the original script as Ψυχή.; Domain — Soul, Breath, Life. Each emblem is filed in the temple's record with its own provenance, the same discipline the spelling gets.
For the Voice
'PSYCHE' — pronounce the restored form with attention to the preserved diacritics and length. The reconstructed line runs `/psyche/` — 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. The restoration preserves more than the ASCII form can express — stress, length, or a letter the Latin keyboard lost — which places it, mechanically, in Tier-1.
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.
Continue the series — previous file: Pryderi (read it here) · next file: Ptḥ (read it here).
The Restoration Files are written from the same canonical record as the temples themselves: the lexicon, the lore catalog, the pattern atlas, and the cited scholarly sources. If a file ever disagrees with its temple, the temple is right — tell us, and the file will be corrected.