Society & Culture
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https://mysterious-pigeon-society.neocities.org/
The Mysterious Pigeon Society is a whimsical old-web personal page featuring a collection of stamps and an entrance portal that hints at a quirky, community-flavored aesthetic. With minimal visible text and a heavy reliance on images, the site leans into the classic Neocities personal homepage tradition of curated stamps and decorative flair.
https://fellowshipofisis.com/
The official homepage of the Fellowship of Isis, a worldwide spiritual organization founded in 1976 at Huntington Castle in Ireland, devoted to honoring the Divine Feminine and the goddess Isis across all cultures and faiths. The site offers liturgy, prayers, monthly oracles, goddess art, audio galleries, priesthood listings, and extensive historical resources about founders Olivia Robertson and Lawrence Durdin-Robertson.
https://bu.edu/wcp
The Paideia Project On-Line hosts the full proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, held in Boston in August 1998, with nearly 1,000 contributed papers spanning ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, logic, and more. Edited by Alan M. Olson and a team of scholars, this archive also links to 12 print volumes published by the Philosophy Documentation Center, making it a comprehensive academic reference for professional and student philosophers alike.
https://tilde.town/~rll
A sparse early member page on tilde.town, one of the original collaborative Unix communities that helped revive old-web culture. User rll muses briefly about creativity and pottery in a pair of timestamped journal-style entries from October 2014.
https://reducing-suffering.org/
Brian Tomasik's extensive essay collection dives deep into the ethics of reducing suffering across all sentient beings, including farm animals, wild animals, insects, and far-future beings. With dozens of carefully researched pieces covering consciousness, moral philosophy, charity cost-effectiveness, and welfare biology, this site is a substantial intellectual resource for anyone interested in effective altruism and animal ethics.
https://tentmaker.org/books/Prevailing.html
An electronic edition of J.W. Hanson's 1899 scholarly work arguing that Christian Universalism was the dominant doctrine of the early Church for its first five hundred years. The full text covers early creeds, the Church Fathers, Origen, Augustine, and the influence of Greek philosophy on Christian doctrine, making it a detailed reference for students of early Christian history.
http://mythencyclopedia.com/
The Encyclopedia of Myths is a comprehensive A-to-Z reference covering mythological figures, legends, and folklore from cultures around the world, including Greek, Norse, Egyptian, African, and Native American traditions. Published by The Gale Group, it offers hundreds of individual articles spanning characters like Achilles, Athena, and Anansi alongside broader topics like Animals in Mythology and Arthurian Legends.
https://tigerlilyblues.neocities.org/home
Tigerlily's cozy personal site centers on a love of hiking and exploring abandoned places, with sections for music, film, and a curated collection of odd and mysterious websites. Built partly as a coding learning project, it has a warm old-web charm with webrings, a web garden, and shrines to explore.
http://hoap.co.uk/index.htm
Heart of Albion Press is an independent UK publisher specializing in folklore, local history, archaeology, and mythology, with a catalogue stretching back to 1989. Visitors can browse and purchase physical books as well as download free PDFs on topics ranging from sepulchral effigies and Leicestershire lore to North European creation mythologies and feminist explorations of Bronze Age Crete.
https://wvgw.net/
WVGenWeb is West Virginia's branch of the USGenWeb Project, providing a centralized hub for genealogical research across all West Virginia counties. Visitors can explore county coordinator contacts, vital records, coal mine records, military histories, and links to neighboring state GenWeb projects.