Follow the sources
Compare texts, regional forms, archival notes and remembered practice — separating evidence, hypothesis and experience.
Enter the archive →We follow a story across sources, places, languages and living memory.
The Institute compares historical versions, traces their connections and creates simple ways to hear, compare and tell the story again.
No doctrine. No single authorised reading.
Compare texts, regional forms, archival notes and remembered practice — separating evidence, hypothesis and experience.
Enter the archive →A story lives differently when it is spoken. Begin with the English telling and follow recordings, languages and voices as they are added.
Enter the listening room →See how the story changes across places, sources and tellings — and what remains recognisably the same.
Explore the comparisons →We share the same story.
Mushkil Gusha InstituteTold across the world, yet known by surprisingly few.
Step inside the story yourself —
and see what the story chooses to reveal.
Choose your place. Enter country and city, then select one of the suggestions. Only the approximate place is shown on the map; no name is required.
Your light stays visible until the end of your local day.
Please use a comma between country and city — e.g. Spain, Madrid.
We share the same story.