The Library gathers the written works of Lucas Varro — journals of the temples, mythic retellings, contemplative essays, poems, and volumes shaped by shadow, silence, and wonder. Here, words stand beside images as offerings: field notes from Angkor, meditations on sacred stone, old stories rekindled, and reflections carried beyond the visible world.
Within these shelves you will find many rooms: Angkor journals, myth and legend, apsara meditations, contemplative essays, poems, children’s mythic wonder, literary retellings, and quieter devotions of the page. Wander chronologically, enter by theme, or pass through one of the dedicated publication houses now gathered within the wider Library.
For those who wish to follow these paths further, several of these writings continue on Substack and in dedicated archive blogs: The Lantern Chronicles , where myth, legend, contemplative essays, poetry, and other imaginative works are carried onward; The House of Cadmus , where Greek myth and tragedy are reopened through inheritance, violence, fate, and recurrence; The Mytharium , where myth, Tolkien, fairy stories, and old literature are read and retold with seriousness; The Alexander Series , where A. M. Sharp retells Greek myths for children who want to be trusted by stories; and The Hospitable Dark , where A. M. Sharp offers literary myth retellings shaped by darkness, shelter, endurance, and return.
The Gate the Ancestors Still Guard
Beneath soft cloud and after monsoon rain, we walked where no road leads—through moss-strewn silence, broken statues, and the stillness of unseen watchers.
Each sketch a gesture of prayer, each threshold a moment of return. The ancestors were listening. And the stone remembered.
The Serpent, the Thunderbolt, and the Sky
Beneath curling vines and soft monsoon light, gods sleep on stone, thunder waits above a crown, and wings darken the sky. This is a morning of sacred symbols and soft breath—where every carving remembers, and every silence leads inward.