entity_sources: ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA, SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES, direct attestation

2,936 links between entities and the sources that attest them, with evidence type and passage-level notes. The primary evidence layer: every entity classification traces to at least one record here.

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entity_id	source_id	evidence_type	source_note
ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA	SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES	direct attestation	Histories 1.131: "The Persians have no images of the gods, no temples nor altars, and consider their use a sign of folly... Their wont is to ascend the summits of the loftiest mountains, and there to offer sacrifice to Jove [= Ahura Mazda], which is the name they give to the whole circuit of the firmament"; the earliest surviving Greek account of the Persian deity identified as the sky