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CIT_ARA_ALLAT_HDT Al-Lat ENT_ARA_ALLAT Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories Book 3.8 Now the Arabians have respect for pledges of friendship as much as those men in all the world who regard them most; and they give them in the following manner:-A man different from those who desire to give the pledges to one another, standing in the midst between the two, cuts with a sharp stone the inner parts of the hands, along by the thumbs, of those who are giving the pledges to one another, and then he takes a thread from the cloak of each one and G. C. Macaulay 1890 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 primary-verbatim Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source). 2026-06-17 deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456) 1 0    
CIT_ARA_AL_UZZA_HDT Al-Uzza ENT_ARA_AL_UZZA Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories Book 3.8 Now the Arabians have respect for pledges of friendship as much as those men in all the world who regard them most; and they give them in the following manner:-A man different from those who desire to give the pledges to one another, standing in the midst between the two, cuts with a sharp stone the inner parts of the hands, along by the thumbs, of those who are giving the pledges to one another, and then he takes a thread from the cloak of each one and G. C. Macaulay 1890 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 primary-verbatim Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source). 2026-06-17 deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456) 1 0    
CIT_BENDIS_HDT Bendis ENT_BENDIS Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories Book 5.7 These are their most remarkable customs; and of the gods they worship only Ares and Dionysos and Artemis. Their kings, however, apart from the rest of the people, worship Hermes more than all gods, and swear by him alone; and they say that they are descended from Hermes. G. C. Macaulay 1890 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 primary-verbatim Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source). 2026-06-17 deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456) 1 0    
CIT_DAC_DERZELAS_HDT Derzelas ENT_DAC_DERZELAS Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories Book 4.93 But before he came to the Ister he conquered first the Getai, who believe in immortality: for the Thracians who occupy Salmydessos and are settled above the cities of Apollonian and Mesambria, called the Kyrmianai 90 and the Nipsaioi, delivered themselves over to Dareios without fighting; but the Getai, who are the bravest and the most upright in their dealings of all the Thracians, having betaken themselves to obstinacy were forthwith subdued. G. C. Macaulay 1890 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 primary-verbatim Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source). 2026-06-17 deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456) 1 0    
CIT_EGY_AMUN_HDT Amun ENT_EGY_AMUN Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories Book 2.42 Now all who have a temple set up to the Theban Zeus or who are of the district of Thebes, these, I say, all sacrifice goats and abstain from sheep: for not all the Egyptians equally reverence the same gods, except only Isis and Osiris (who they say is Dionysos), these they all reverence alike: but they who have a temple of Mendes or belong to the Mendesian district, these abstain from goats and sacrifice sheep. G. C. Macaulay 1890 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 primary-verbatim Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source). 2026-06-17 deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456) 1 0    
CIT_EGY_HORUS_HDT Horus ENT_EGY_HORUS Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories Book 2.144 From their declaration then it followed, that they of whom the images were had been of form like this, and far removed from being gods: but in the time before these men they said that gods were the rulers in Egypt, not mingling 128 with men, and that of these always one had power at a time; and the last of them who was king over Egypt was Oros the son of Osiris, whom the Hellenes call Apollo: he was king over Egypt last, having deposed Typhon. G. C. Macaulay 1890 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 primary-verbatim Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source). 2026-06-17 deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456) 1 0    
CIT_EGY_ISIS_HDT Isis ENT_EGY_ISIS Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories Book 2.41 The clean males then of the ox kind, both full-grown animals and calves, are sacrificed by all the Egyptians; the females however they may not sacrifice, but these are sacred to Isis; for the figure of Isis is in the form of a woman with cow's horns, just as the Hellenes present Io in pictures, and all the Egyptians without distinction reverence cows far more than any other kind of cattle; for which reason neither man nor woman of Egyptian race would kiss G. C. Macaulay 1890 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 primary-verbatim Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source). 2026-06-17 deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456) 1 0    
CIT_EGY_THOTH_HDT Thoth ENT_EGY_THOTH Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories Book 2.52 Now the Pelasgians formerly were wont to make all their sacrifices calling upon the gods in prayer, as I know from that which I heard at Dodona, but they gave no title or name to any of them, for they had not yet heard any, but they called them gods ({theous}) from some such notion as this, that they had set ({thentes}) in order all things and so had the distribution of everything. G. C. Macaulay 1890 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 primary-verbatim Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source). 2026-06-17 deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456) 1 0    
CIT_IACCHUS_HDT Iacchus ENT_IACCHUS Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories Book 8.65 Moreover Dicaios the son of Theokydes, an Athenian, who was an exile and had become of great repute among the Medes at this time, declared that when the Attic land was being ravaged by the land-army of Xerxes, having been deserted by the Athenians, he happened then to be in company with Demaratos the Lacedemonian in the Thriasian plain; and he saw a cloud of dust going up from Eleusis, as if made by a company of about thirty thousand men, and they G. C. Macaulay 1890 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 primary-verbatim Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source). 2026-06-17 deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456) 1 0    
CIT_PHO_MELQART_HDT Melqart ENT_PHO_MELQART Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories Book 2.44 I moreover, desiring to know something certain of these matters so far as might be, made a voyage also to Tyre of Phenicia, hearing that in that place there was a holy temple of Heracles; and I saw that it was richly furnished with many votive offerings besides, and especially there were in it two pillars, 47 the one of pure gold and the other of an emerald stone of such size as to shine by night: 48 and having come to speech with the priests of the god, G. C. Macaulay 1890 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 primary-verbatim Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source). 2026-06-17 deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456) 1 0    
CIT_SABAZIOS_HDT Sabazios ENT_SABAZIOS Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories Book 5.7 These are their most remarkable customs; and of the gods they worship only Ares and Dionysos and Artemis. Their kings, however, apart from the rest of the people, worship Hermes more than all gods, and swear by him alone; and they say that they are descended from Hermes. G. C. Macaulay 1890 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 primary-verbatim Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source). 2026-06-17 deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456) 1 0    
CIT_SCYTH_API_HDT Api ENT_SCYTH_API Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories Book 4.59 Thus abundant supply have they of that which is most important; and as for the rest their customs are as follows. The gods whom they propitiate by worship are these only:-Hestia most of all, then Zeus and the Earth, supposing that Earth is the wife of Zeus, and after these Apollo, and Aphrodite Urania, and Heracles, and Ares. Of these all the Scythians have the worship established, and the so-called Royal Scythians sacrifice also to Poseidon. G. C. Macaulay 1890 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 primary-verbatim Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source). 2026-06-17 deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456) 1 0    
CIT_SCYTH_ARTIMPASA_HDT Artimpasa ENT_SCYTH_ARTIMPASA Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories Book 4.59 Thus abundant supply have they of that which is most important; and as for the rest their customs are as follows. The gods whom they propitiate by worship are these only:-Hestia most of all, then Zeus and the Earth, supposing that Earth is the wife of Zeus, and after these Apollo, and Aphrodite Urania, and Heracles, and Ares. Of these all the Scythians have the worship established, and the so-called Royal Scythians sacrifice also to Poseidon. G. C. Macaulay 1890 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 primary-verbatim Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source). 2026-06-17 deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456) 1 0    
CIT_SCYTH_OETOSYRUS_HDT Oetosyrus / Goitosyrus ENT_SCYTH_OETOSYRUS Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories Book 4.59 Thus abundant supply have they of that which is most important; and as for the rest their customs are as follows. The gods whom they propitiate by worship are these only:-Hestia most of all, then Zeus and the Earth, supposing that Earth is the wife of Zeus, and after these Apollo, and Aphrodite Urania, and Heracles, and Ares. Of these all the Scythians have the worship established, and the so-called Royal Scythians sacrifice also to Poseidon. G. C. Macaulay 1890 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 primary-verbatim Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source). 2026-06-17 deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456) 1 0    
CIT_SCYTH_PAPAEUS_HDT Papaeus ENT_SCYTH_PAPAEUS Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories Book 4.59 Thus abundant supply have they of that which is most important; and as for the rest their customs are as follows. The gods whom they propitiate by worship are these only:-Hestia most of all, then Zeus and the Earth, supposing that Earth is the wife of Zeus, and after these Apollo, and Aphrodite Urania, and Heracles, and Ares. Of these all the Scythians have the worship established, and the so-called Royal Scythians sacrifice also to Poseidon. G. C. Macaulay 1890 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 primary-verbatim Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source). 2026-06-17 deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456) 1 0    
CIT_SCYTH_SWORD_ARES_HDT Sword Ares (Akinakes cult) ENT_SCYTH_SWORD_ARES Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories Book 4.59 Thus abundant supply have they of that which is most important; and as for the rest their customs are as follows. The gods whom they propitiate by worship are these only:-Hestia most of all, then Zeus and the Earth, supposing that Earth is the wife of Zeus, and after these Apollo, and Aphrodite Urania, and Heracles, and Ares. Of these all the Scythians have the worship established, and the so-called Royal Scythians sacrifice also to Poseidon. G. C. Macaulay 1890 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 primary-verbatim Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source). 2026-06-17 deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456) 1 0    
CIT_SCYTH_TABITI_HDT Tabiti ENT_SCYTH_TABITI Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories Book 4.59 Thus abundant supply have they of that which is most important; and as for the rest their customs are as follows. The gods whom they propitiate by worship are these only:-Hestia most of all, then Zeus and the Earth, supposing that Earth is the wife of Zeus, and after these Apollo, and Aphrodite Urania, and Heracles, and Ares. Of these all the Scythians have the worship established, and the so-called Royal Scythians sacrifice also to Poseidon. G. C. Macaulay 1890 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 primary-verbatim Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source). 2026-06-17 deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456) 1 0    
CIT_SCYTH_THAGIMASADAS_HDT Thagimasadas ENT_SCYTH_THAGIMASADAS Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories Book 4.59 Thus abundant supply have they of that which is most important; and as for the rest their customs are as follows. The gods whom they propitiate by worship are these only:-Hestia most of all, then Zeus and the Earth, supposing that Earth is the wife of Zeus, and after these Apollo, and Aphrodite Urania, and Heracles, and Ares. Of these all the Scythians have the worship established, and the so-called Royal Scythians sacrifice also to Poseidon. G. C. Macaulay 1890 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 primary-verbatim Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source). 2026-06-17 deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456) 1 0    
CIT_SYN_ZEUS_AMMON_HDT Zeus Ammon ENT_SYN_ZEUS_AMMON Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories Book 2.42 Now all who have a temple set up to the Theban Zeus or who are of the district of Thebes, these, I say, all sacrifice goats and abstain from sheep: for not all the Egyptians equally reverence the same gods, except only Isis and Osiris (who they say is Dionysos), these they all reverence alike: but they who have a temple of Mendes or belong to the Mendesian district, these abstain from goats and sacrifice sheep. G. C. Macaulay 1890 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 primary-verbatim Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source). 2026-06-17 deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456) 1 0    
CIT_THRA_GEBELEIZIS_HDT Gebeleizis ENT_THRA_GEBELEIZIS Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories Book 4.94 And their belief in immortality is of this kind, that is to say, they hold that they do not die, but that he who is killed goes to Salmoxis, 91 a divinity, 92 whom some of them call Gebeleizis; and at intervals of four years 93 they send one of themselves, whomsoever the lot may select, as a messenger to Salmoxis, charging him with such requests as they have to make on each occasion; and they send him thus:-certain of them who are appointed for this have G. C. Macaulay 1890 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 primary-verbatim Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source). 2026-06-17 deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456) 1 0    
CIT_THRA_ZALMOXIS_HDT Zalmoxis ENT_THRA_ZALMOXIS Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories Book 4.94 And their belief in immortality is of this kind, that is to say, they hold that they do not die, but that he who is killed goes to Salmoxis, 91 a divinity, 92 whom some of them call Gebeleizis; and at intervals of four years 93 they send one of themselves, whomsoever the lot may select, as a messenger to Salmoxis, charging him with such requests as they have to make on each occasion; and they send him thus:-certain of them who are appointed for this have G. C. Macaulay 1890 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 primary-verbatim Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source). 2026-06-17 deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456) 1 0    
CIT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA_HDT Ahura Mazda ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories Book 1.131 These are the customs, so far as I know, which the Persians practise:-Images and temples and altars they do not account it lawful to erect, nay they even charge with folly those who do these things; and this, as it seems to me, because they do not account the gods to be in the likeness of men, as do the Hellenes. G. C. Macaulay 1890 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 primary-verbatim Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source). 2026-06-17 deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456) 1 0    
CIT_ZOR_ANAHITA_HDT Anahita ENT_ZOR_ANAHITA Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories Book 1.131 These are the customs, so far as I know, which the Persians practise:-Images and temples and altars they do not account it lawful to erect, nay they even charge with folly those who do these things; and this, as it seems to me, because they do not account the gods to be in the likeness of men, as do the Hellenes. G. C. Macaulay 1890 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707 primary-verbatim Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source). 2026-06-17 deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456) 1 0    

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CREATE TABLE "entity_citations" (
   [citation_id] TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
   [entity_id] TEXT REFERENCES [entities]([entity_id]),
   [source_id] TEXT REFERENCES [sources]([source_id]),
   [work_title] TEXT,
   [locus] TEXT,
   [quote] TEXT,
   [translator] TEXT,
   [translation_year] INTEGER,
   [source_url] TEXT,
   [evidence_grade] TEXT,
   [evidence_note] TEXT,
   [verified_on] TEXT,
   [verify_method] TEXT,
   [display_order] INTEGER,
   [needs_review] INTEGER,
   [review_reason] TEXT,
   [original_text_url] TEXT
);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_citations_source_id]
    ON [entity_citations] ([source_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_citations_entity_id]
    ON [entity_citations] ([entity_id]);