periods: PER_THRA_IRON_AGE

56 historical periods covering all traditions, from the Predynastic Egyptian period (c. 3200 BCE) to the 20th-century occultist reception layer. Used to anchor entity classifications and relationships in time.

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period_id tradition period_name start_year end_year notes
PER_THRA_IRON_AGE Thracian Thracian Iron Age and Classical Period -700 150 Period of documented Thracian religious and cultural activity, from the emergence of the Odrysian kingdom and earliest Greek attestations of Thracian deities (c. 700 BCE) through the Roman absorption of Thrace (Claudius established the province in 46 CE) and into the early Imperial period when Thracian mystery cults — Sabazios, Bendis, Cotys — continued spreading through the Roman Empire. Primary Greek attestations cluster in the 5th–4th c. BCE: Herodotus on Zalmoxis and Gebeleizis (c. 430 BCE), Aristophanes and Demosthenes on Sabazios in Athens, Plato on Bendis (Republic 327a, c. 375 BCE). Archibald (1998) is the standard secondary reference for the Odrysian kingdom and Thracian religion.

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