Entity Sources

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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evidence_type
{'description': 'e.g. Direct attestation, Secondary analysis, Epigraphic, Numismatic'}
source_note
{'description': 'Specific passage citations and notes on how this source attests the entity'}

5 rows where entity_id = "ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA"

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ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA,SRC_AVESTA,direct attestation Ahura Mazda ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA Avesta SRC_AVESTA direct attestation Named in the Avesta.
ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA,SRC_BOYCE_ZOROASTRIANS,scholarly attestation Ahura Mazda ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA Mary Boyce, Zoroastrians SRC_BOYCE_ZOROASTRIANS scholarly attestation Attested in Mary Boyce, Zoroastrians.
ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA,SRC_BUNDAHISHN,direct attestation Ahura Mazda ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA Bundahishn SRC_BUNDAHISHN direct attestation Bundahishn 1-3: Ahura Mazda's original creation of the world as pure light and spiritual being (Menok); his fashioning of the six Amesha Spentas; his foreknowledge of Angra Mainyu's attack; the Bundahishn is the primary narrative account of Ahura Mazda's creative activity
ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA,SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES,direct attestation Ahura Mazda ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) 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
ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA,SRC_MENOG_I_KHRAD,primary text attestation Ahura Mazda ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA Menog-i Khrad (The Spirit of Wisdom), Pahlavi text, 6th c. CE SRC_MENOG_I_KHRAD primary text attestation discussed in the Pahlavi wisdom text Menog-i Khrad

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CREATE TABLE "entity_sources" (
   [entity_id] TEXT REFERENCES [entities]([entity_id]),
   [source_id] TEXT REFERENCES [sources]([source_id]),
   [evidence_type] TEXT,
   [source_note] TEXT,
   PRIMARY KEY ([entity_id], [source_id], [evidence_type])
);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_sources_source_id]
    ON [entity_sources] ([source_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_sources_entity_id]
    ON [entity_sources] ([entity_id]);