Where each energy lives
Share of each archetype within a work, weighted by how often a line is actually said — a phrase recited sixty-one times counts sixty-one times. The figure at right is that occurrence total.
The lexicon
Every epithet family the tagger looks for, how often it fired across the corpus, and why it reads as the archetype it does. This is the interpretive core — the notes are authored per epithet, so a phrase reads the same way everywhere it appears.
Sources, method, and the archetype lens
Coverage
Where the text comes from
Every Hebrew phrase and English translation on this page is pulled from Sefaria's API — not transcribed from memory. The bulk is the Metsudah linear siddur and machzor (1981), with its aligned translation by Avrohom Davis, both released under CC-BY. Biblical verses come from Sefaria's pointed Tanakh text. Nothing here is hand-typed vocalised Hebrew, which is exactly the kind of thing that goes quietly wrong.
How the tagging works
A lexicon of Hebrew divine-epithet families — listed in full under Balance — is matched against each segment's consonantal text, with vowel points stripped so that spelling differences between editions never break a match. Each family carries a weight reflecting how unambiguously it names one energy: מְחַיֵּה מֵתִים is decisive, טוֹב is merely suggestive. A segment's archetype is whichever scores highest; when a runner-up lands within 60% of the leader, the phrase is shown as a blend, because a great many of them genuinely are.
Segments scoring below the threshold are combed but left untagged — they are counted in the coverage figures rather than quietly dropped. Rubrics and stage directions are filtered out, and lines about human kings (Pharaoh, the king of Babylon) are guarded against so they don't read as divine sovereignty.
What this is not
The framework is adapted from Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette's King, Warrior, Magician, Lover (1990), applied as a lens on how the liturgy personifies the divine — not as a claim about the texts' original theology or authorial intent. A lexicon is a blunt instrument: it finds the language of an archetype, which is not always the same as its meaning. Irony, negation, and quotation all read flat to it. Where a call looks strange, the epithet chips on each card show exactly which words triggered it, so you can overrule it.
Coverage follows Nusach Ashkenaz, since that is the nusach Sefaria's linear editions use. Sefard, Edot HaMizrach, and the liberal movements' prayerbooks differ in wording, order, and inclusion.