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| source_id ▼ | title | url | source_type | scope |
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| SRC_1_ENOCH | 1 Enoch | primary text | Watcher and apocalyptic traditions | |
| SRC_2TJ_COLLINS | John J. Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination | secondary scholarship | Second Temple apocalyptic cosmology | |
| SRC_2_ENOCH | 2 Enoch (the Slavonic Apocalypse of Enoch), c. 1st c. CE | primary text | The Slavonic apocalypse of Enoch's ascent through the heavens | |
| SRC_3_ENOCH | 3 Enoch / Sefer Hekhalot | primary text | Hekhalot angelology, Metatron, heavenly ascent, celestial bureaucracy | |
| SRC_3_ENOCH_ALEXANDER_OTP | P. Alexander, 3 Enoch, in Old Testament Pseudepigrapha vol. 1 | primary text | Metatron, Sar Torah, angelic hierarchies, heavenly ascent | |
| SRC_ABRAHAM_ALCH_IMAGERY | Lyndy Abraham, A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery (Cambridge University Press, 1998) | secondary scholarship | Standard reference glossing the tria prima, Green Lion, Azoth, King/Queen, Rebis and other personified alchemical images from the primary corpus. | |
| SRC_ABU_IZZEDDIN_DRUZES | Nejla M. Abu-Izzeddin, The Druzes: A New Study of Their History, Faith and Society (Brill, 1984) | secondary scholarship | Druze history, doctrine of tawhid, the hudud, al-Hakim, al-Darazi, Hamza, transmigration | |
| SRC_ACTA_ROCHI | Francesco Diedo, Vita Sancti Rochi (Acta of St Roch), 1478 CE | primary text | Hagiography of the plague-saint Roch of Montpellier | |
| SRC_ACTS_PAUL_THECLA | The Acts of Paul and Thecla, c. 2nd c. CE | primary text | The apocryphal acts of Thecla, disciple of Paul | |
| SRC_ADLER_SLEEP | Shelley R. Adler, Sleep Paralysis: Night-mares, Nocebos, and the Mind-Body Connection (2011) | secondary scholarship | Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion | |
| SRC_AESCHYLUS_ORESTEIA | Aeschylus, Oresteia trilogy (Agamemnon, Choephoroi, Eumenides), 458 BCE | primary text | The tragic trilogy; Alastor, Poine, Thrasos, Hermes Chthonios, the Eumenides, Themis at Delphi | |
| SRC_AESCHYLUS_SUPPLIANTS | Aeschylus, Suppliants (Hiketides), c. 463 BCE | primary text | The tragedy of the Danaids; Pothos in Aphrodite's retinue | |
| SRC_AGATHANGELOS_HISTORY | Agathangelos, History of the Armenians (Patmut'iwn Hayots'), 5th c. CE; trans. Robert W. Thomson (State University of New York Press, Albany NY, 1976) | primary text | Account of the conversion of Armenia to Christianity under King Tiridates III (r. 287-330 CE) and Bishop Gregory the Illuminator. Composed in the 5th century CE but preserving important descriptions of the pre-Christian Armenian cult as it existed immediately before conversion. §§14-22 name the five principal deities (Aramazd, Anahit, Vahagn, Nane, Tir) and their temples, describe their Greek equivalents (Aramazd = Zeus, Anahit = Artemis, Nane = Athena, Tir = Hermes), and record the destruction of the cult statues by Gregory. The most detailed ancient description of the Armenian pantheon from a near-contemporary perspective. Thomson's 1976 SUNY translation is the standard English edition. | |
| SRC_AGRICOLA_PRIMER | Mikael Agricola, Se Wsi Testamenti (The New Testament) and Psalttari (Finnish Psalter), 1548/1551; deity list in the Psalter introduction (Rucouskiria, 1544) | primary text | Mikael Agricola (c. 1510-1557), Bishop of Turku and father of written Finnish, included in the prologue to his 1551 Finnish Psalter translation a poetic catalogue of deities worshipped by the Häme (Tavastians) and Karelians — the earliest written attestation of Finnish deity names. The Häme list includes Ukko (thunder, crops), Tapio (forest game), Ahti (water, fish), Piru (evil spirits), Rauni (Ukko's wife), Egres (beans/turnips), Kekri (harvest), and others. The Karelian list adds further deities. This is the single most important pre-Kalevala primary source for Finnish deity names, predating Lönnrot's compilations by nearly three centuries and confirming that the Kalevala deities were historically worshipped. Cited here for Ukko, Tapio, and Ahti. | |
| SRC_AGRIPPA_OCCULTA | Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, De occulta philosophia libri tres (1533) — incl. the Scale of Seven (Bk II.10) | primary text | Solomonic Magic | |
| SRC_ALAWI_DIWAN | Ahmad al-Alawi, Diwan and treatises (early 20th c., as transmitted in M. Lings, A Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century) | primary text | Islamic/Sufi | |
| SRC_ALBANESE_REPUBLIC_MIND | Catherine L. Albanese, A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion (Yale Univ. Press, 2007) | secondary scholarship | American metaphysical religion, New Thought, and the esoteric/Martinist lineage | |
| SRC_ALCAEUS_FRAGMENTS | Alcaeus of Mytilene, Fragments (Lobel-Page), c. 600 BCE | primary text | The lyric fragments of Alcaeus; Amechania, sister of Penia (fr. 364) | |
| SRC_ALPHABET_BEN_SIRA | Alphabet of Ben Sira (Aleph-Bet de-Ben Sira, c. 9th–11th century CE) | primary text | Medieval Jewish midrashic anthology; contains the definitive narrative of Lilith as Adam's first wife who refused subjugation and fled Eden (23rd letter entry, Aleph section); primary source for the Lilith-as-first-wife tradition that became foundational to Kabbalistic demonology and later Western occultism | |
| SRC_ANDERSON_GILES_KEEPERS | Robert T. Anderson & Terry Giles, The Keepers: An Introduction to the History and Culture of the Samaritans (Hendrickson, 2002) | secondary scholarship | Survey of Samaritan history, religion, the Mt Gerizim cult, the priesthood, Marqah and Baba Rabba, and the Taheb expectation. | |
| SRC_APOCALYPSE_ABRAHAM | The Apocalypse of Abraham, c. 1st-2nd c. CE | primary text | The apocalypse of Abraham's heavenly ascent, guided by the angel Yahoel | |
| SRC_APOCRYPHA_NRSV | The Apocrypha (NRSV) — Tobit, Judith, 1-2 Maccabees, additions to Daniel (Susanna), and related deuterocanonical books | primary text | Deuterocanonical narrative figures and martyr traditions | |
| SRC_APOCRYPHON_JOHN | Apocryphon of John (The Secret Book of John), NHC II,1 / III,1 / IV,1 and BG 8502,2; c. 2nd c. CE, Egypt | primary text | Sethian cosmogony: the Invisible Spirit, Barbelo, the Four Luminaries, Sophia, Yaldabaoth and the archons | |
| SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY | Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library (Bibliotheca) (1st-2nd century CE); trans. Robin Hard (Oxford World's Classics, OUP 2008) | primary text | The most comprehensive surviving ancient handbook of Greek mythology; three books systematically covering the genealogies of the gods (Titans, Olympians, and their offspring), the mythological cycle from the Theogony forward, and the great hero cycles: Perseus, Heracles (twelve labors and full career), Theseus, Jason and the Argonauts, the Theban cycle (Cadmus through Oedipus), the Trojan War, and the Nostoi (returns of the heroes). The Library is the standard secondary compendium for ancient mythographic tradition; it does not itself record lost myths but assembles and harmonizes material from earlier sources (Hesiod, the cyclic epics, Pherecydes, Hellanicus, Acusilaus). Pseudo-Apollodorus is by convention attributed to the scholar Apollodorus of Athens (2nd c. BCE) but was likely composed later; the work is the foundational reference for genealogical claims about virtually every named entity in the Greek tradition. | |
| SRC_APOLLONIUS_ARGONAUTICA | Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 3rd c. BCE | primary text | The Hellenistic Argonaut epic; the Samothracian Great Gods, Ophion and Eurynome, Brimo | |
| SRC_APULEIUS_GOLDEN_ASS | Apuleius, Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass), c. 160 CE | primary text | The Latin novel containing the tale of Cupid and Psyche | |
| SRC_ARBATEL | Arbatel de magia veterum (Basel, 1575) — the seven Olympic Spirits | primary text | Renaissance Esoteric | |
| SRC_ARCHIBALD_ODRYSIAN | Zosia H. Archibald, The Odrysian Kingdom of Thrace: Orpheus Unmasked (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998) | secondary scholarship | Standard scholarly monograph on the Odrysian kingdom and Thracian religion across the Iron Age and Hellenistic periods. Covers the principal Thracian deities — Sabazios, Bendis, Cotys, Zalmoxis, and the Thracian Horseman — their attestation in Greek literary sources and Thracian epigraphy, and the reception of Thracian cults in Athens and the broader Greek world. Chapter 8 ("Religion") is the key reference for the Bendideia in Athens (official state reception by 429 BCE decree), the Cotytian rites, and the Sabazios tradition. Archibald situates Thracian religion within its socio-political context as a peripheral culture in intense contact with the Greek world. pp. 299-306 address Zalmoxis and Gebeleizis in the Getae tradition. Primary citation for all Thracian entities in this layer. | |
| SRC_ARISTOPHANES_BIRDS | Aristophanes, Birds (Ornithes), 414 BCE | primary text | The comedy of Cloudcuckooland; Basileia (Sovereignty) | |
| SRC_ARISTOPHANES_FROGS | Aristophanes, Frogs (Batrachoi), 405 BCE | primary text | The comedy of Dionysus' descent; the phantom Empusa | |
| SRC_ARISTOPHANES_KNIGHTS | Aristophanes, Knights (Hippeis), 424 BCE | primary text | The political comedy; the libation to the Agathos Daimon | |
| SRC_ARISTOPHANES_THESMOPHORIAZUSAE | Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 411 BCE | primary text | The comedy of the women's festival; Kalligeneia | |
| SRC_ARS_NOTORIA | Ars Notoria, ed./trans. Veronese | primary text | Solomonic Magic | |
| SRC_ASCLEPIUS_HERMETICA | Asclepius | primary text | Hermetic ritual, ensouled statues, cosmos, gods, daimones | |
| SRC_ATHANASIUS_LIFE_ANTONY | Athanasius of Alexandria, Life of Antony (Vita Antonii), c. 360 CE | primary text | The founding hagiography of Christian monasticism; the desert ascetic Antony | |
| SRC_ATRAHASIS | The Atrahasis Epic (Akkadian flood and creation-of-humanity myth), c. 1700 BCE | primary text | The Old Babylonian epic of the creation of humankind and the great flood | |
| SRC_ATTAR_TADHKIRAT | Farid al-Din Attar, Tadhkirat al-Awliya (Memorial of the Saints, c. 1220) | primary text | Islamic/Sufi | |
| SRC_AUGUSTINE_CITY_OF_GOD | Augustine of Hippo, De Civitate Dei (413–426 CE) | primary text | The most systematic patristic demolition of Roman/Greek religion; Books II–VIII argue pagan gods are either morally evil demons or poetic fictions; Book VIII–X refutes Apuleius and argues daimones cannot mediate between humans and God; key source for theological demonization of the entire Greco-Roman pantheon | |
| SRC_AVESTA | Avesta | primary text | Zoroastrian divine beings, cosmology, ritual, and ethics | |
| SRC_BABYLONIAN_TALMUD | The Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli), c. 500-600 CE | primary text | The foundational rabbinic compendium; its angelology and demonology | |
| SRC_BAHAI_KITAB_AQDAS | Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Aqdas (The Most Holy Book), Bahá'í World Centre edition | primary text | Central book of Bahá'í laws and covenant, including provisions establishing the Universal House of Justice. | |
| SRC_BAHAI_KITAB_IQAN | Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán (The Book of Certitude), Bahá'í World Centre edition | primary text | Doctrinal exposition of progressive revelation and the station of the Manifestations of God in relation to prior prophets. | |
| SRC_BAILEY | Alice A. Bailey, A Treatise on the Seven Rays; Initiation, Human and Solar | primary text | Theosophical | |
| SRC_BAMBA_KHASAID | Ahmadou Bamba (Cheikh Amadou Bamba), Khassaïd (devotional poems of the Mouridiyya) | primary text | Islamic/Sufi | |
| SRC_BARANDIARAN | José Miguel de Barandiarán, Mitología Vasca | secondary scholarship | Basque | |
| SRC_BARRETT_RASTAFARIANS | Leonard E. Barrett, The Rastafarians (Beacon Press, rev. ed. 1997) | secondary scholarship | Rastafari history, theology, and social context | |
| SRC_BARTLETT_EDOM | John R. Bartlett, Edom and the Edomites (JSOT Supplement Series 77; Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, 1989) | secondary scholarship | The standard scholarly monograph on Edomite history and religion. Chapter 6 covers the Edomite deity Qos (Qaus): the name does not appear in the canonical Hebrew Bible as a divine name, but is attested as a theophoric element in Edomite personal names recovered from inscriptions at Umm el-Biyara, Buseirah (biblical Bozrah), Horvat Qitmit, and En Hazeva (7th–5th c. BCE). Bartlett surveys the onomastic evidence and concludes Qos was the national deity of Edom, a thunderstorm deity comparable in function to Kemosh for Moab and Milkom for Ammon. Also covers Edomite culture, the Edom–Israel relationship in biblical texts, and the archaeology of the Edomite heartland. Standard citation for all Qos claims. | |
| SRC_BAR_ASHER_KOFSKY | Meir M. Bar-Asher and Aryeh Kofsky, The Nusayri-'Alawi Religion: An Enquiry into its Theology and Liturgy (Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture 1; Leiden: Brill, 2002) | secondary scholarship | Detailed analysis of Nusayri theology and liturgy, including the deification of Ali, the role of Muhammad and Salman, and the seven cycles of manifestation (adwar). | |
| SRC_BASCOM_IFA | William Bascom, Ifa Divination: Communication between Gods and Men in West Africa (Indiana Univ. Press, 1969) | secondary scholarship | Yoruba religion, Orunmila/Ifa, and the orisha pantheon (public ethnographic description) | |
| SRC_BAUM_WINKLER_COTE | Wilhelm Baum & Dietmar W. Winkler, The Church of the East: A Concise History (Routledge, 2003) | secondary scholarship | East Syriac / Church of the East history and principal figures | |
| SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS | Mary Beard, John North, Simon Price, Religions of Rome | secondary scholarship | Roman religion, cult, priesthoods, and public religious practice | |
| SRC_BECK_MITHRAS | Roger Beck, The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire: Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun (Oxford 2006) | secondary scholarship | Cognitive/astronomical interpretation of the tauroctony, the mithraeum as cosmos, the grades and the Sun-Mithras relationship. | |
| SRC_BEDE_DTR | Bede, De temporum ratione (The Reckoning of Time), c. 725 CE | primary text | Old English month-names; sole attestation of Eostre and Hreda | |
| SRC_BHITTAI_SHAH_JO_RISALO | Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Shah Jo Risalo (Sindhi Sufi poetry, 18th c.) | primary text | Islamic/Sufi | |
| SRC_BIBLIOTHECA_SANCTORUM | Bibliotheca Sanctorum (Istituto Giovanni XXIII, Rome, 1961-1970) | secondary scholarship | hagiography | |
| SRC_BIRGE_BEKTASHI | John Kingsley Birge, The Bektashi Order of Dervishes (Luzac/Hartford, 1937) | secondary scholarship | Foundational study of Bektashi doctrine, cosmology, the Allah-Muhammad-Ali triad, Kirklar/cem tradition, and Haji Bektash Veli | |
| SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO | Jeremy Black and Anthony Green, Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia | secondary scholarship | Mesopotamian gods, demons, symbols, and divine iconography | |
| SRC_BLAVATSKY_SECRET_DOCTRINE | Helena P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine (London: Theosophical Publishing Company, 1888) | primary text | Theosophical cosmology; Mahatmas (Masters of Wisdom); root races; cosmic evolution; synthesis of Eastern and Western esoteric traditions | |
| SRC_BLÁZQUEZ_RELIGIONES | José María Blázquez, Religiones primitivas de Hispania, Vol. I: Fuentes literarias y epigráficas (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, 1962; 2nd ed. 1983) | secondary scholarship | The foundational academic survey of pre-Roman Iberian religion, assembling the literary and epigraphic sources for the native deities of the Iberian peninsula. Blázquez catalogues the votive inscriptions for Endovelicus, Ataegina, Bandua, Nabia, and Trebaruna alongside the full corpus of Lusitanian and Hispanian indigenous theonyms attested in Roman-period Latin inscriptions. He analyses their distribution, the degree of Roman syncretism, and the evidence for their pre-Roman functions. Blázquez's epigraphic catalogue remains the starting point for all subsequent scholarship on Hispanian indigenous religion. Cited for the entire Iberian/Lusitanian layer. | |
| SRC_BONAVENTURE_LEGENDA | Bonaventure, Legenda Maior (Life of St Francis, c. 1263) | primary text | Christian | |
| SRC_BOOKS_OF_JEU | The (Two) Books of Jeu (Bruce Codex), c. 3rd-4th c. CE, Egypt | primary text | Jeuian ritual cosmology: Jeu the overseer of the Light, the emanations, seals and names, the Fire Baptism and the ascent of the soul | |
| SRC_BOYCE_ZOROASTRIANS | Mary Boyce, Zoroastrians | secondary scholarship | Zoroastrian theology, cosmology, divine beings, and ritual | |
| SRC_BRADING_MEXICAN_PHOENIX | D. A. Brading, Mexican Phoenix: Our Lady of Guadalupe — Image and Tradition across Five Centuries (Cambridge University Press, 2001) | secondary scholarship | The cult of Our Lady of Guadalupe at Tepeyac and the documented Tonantzin association (esp. Sahagun's report); used for the Guadalupe-Tonantzin syncretism seam. | |
| SRC_BRANDON_SANTERIA | George Brandon, Santeria from Africa to the New World: The Dead Sell Memories (Indiana Univ. Press, 1993) | secondary scholarship | Yoruba orisha tradition and its Cuban Lucumi/Santeria diaspora, including the orisha-saint syncretism | |
| SRC_BROCK_LUMINOUS_EYE | Sebastian Brock, The Luminous Eye: The Spiritual World Vision of Saint Ephrem the Syrian (Cistercian Publications, 1992) | secondary scholarship | West Syriac symbolic theology; Ephrem and the Syriac patristic tradition | |
| SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH | Aleksander Brückner, Mitologia Słowiańska i Polska (Krakowska Spółka Wydawnicza, Krakow, 1918; repr. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warsaw, 1980) | secondary scholarship | The classic scholarly reconstruction of Slavic mythology by the leading Polish Slavicist of the early 20th century. Brückner systematically evaluates the primary chronicle and ecclesiastical sources against later folk tradition, proposing a reconstructed pre-Christian Slavic pantheon. His skeptical methodology — he rejected many proposed deities as late folk invention or misidentified personifications — remains influential. Covers Perun, Veles, Mokosh, Svarog, Dažbog, Stribog, Simargl, Khors, Rod, and Rozhanitsy; critically evaluates Chernobog and Belobog (rejected as German invention). Standard citation for early scholarly treatment of Slavic paganism alongside Ivanov and Toporov (1974). | |
| SRC_BRYCE_LYCIANS | Bryce, Trevor R. The Lycians: A Study of Lycian History and Civilisation to the Conquest of Macedonia (Vol. 1, The Lycians in Literary and Epigraphic Sources) | secondary scholarship | Lycian history, language, and religion; the native Lycian pantheon and its Greek interpretatio | |
| SRC_BUCKLEY_MANDAEANS | Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley, The Mandaeans: Ancient Texts and Modern People (Oxford University Press, 2002) | secondary scholarship | Mandaean light-world/dark-world parallels for the cross-tradition cognate links | |
| SRC_BUDGE_KEBRA_NAGAST | E. A. Wallis Budge (trans.), The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son Menyelek (Kebra Nagast) (London, 1922) | primary text | Kebra Nagast cycle: Makeda, Menelik I, the Ark/Tabot, the Solomonic dynasty | |
| SRC_BUDGE_PAPYRUS_ANI | E. A. Wallis Budge, The Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani (London, 1895/1913) | https://archive.org/details/papyrusofanirepr01budg | primary text | Egyptian funerary literature |
| SRC_BULLEH_SHAH_KAFIS | Bulleh Shah, Kafis (Punjabi Sufi poetry, 18th c.) | primary text | Islamic/Sufi | |
| SRC_BULL_HERMES | Christian H. Bull, The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus (Brill, 2018) | secondary scholarship | The standard study of the Hermetic milieu and the way of Hermes | |
| SRC_BUNDAHISHN | Bundahishn | primary text | Zoroastrian cosmology, creation, and spiritual beings | |
| SRC_BURKERT_GREEK_RELIGION | Walter Burkert, Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical, trans. John Raffan (Harvard University Press, 1985; original German: Griechische Religion der archaischen und klassischen Epoche, 1977) | secondary scholarship | The standard comprehensive scholarly account of ancient Greek religion; covers Mycenaean religious continuity and discontinuity (chapter 2), the major deity cults, mystery religions, and the structure of the Greek pantheon; documents the implications of Linear B for understanding which deities are Mycenaean survivals vs. post-Dark-Age additions; essential for contextualizing the Linear B attestations and their relationship to the Classical Olympian pantheon | |
| SRC_BURKERT_MYSTERY_CULTS | Walter Burkert, Ancient Mystery Cults (Harvard University Press, 1987) | secondary scholarship | The Greco-Roman mystery cults (Eleusinian, Samothracian/Cabiric, Dionysiac, Metroac, Mithraic): organization, initiation, theology, and inner casts. | |
| SRC_BURKERT_ORIENT_REV | Walter Burkert, The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age (Harvard University Press, 1992) | secondary scholarship | Documents the 8th-7th c. BCE transmission of Near Eastern — primarily Mesopotamian and Levantine — mythology, literature, and iconography into Greek culture; argues for craftsmen, mercenaries, and merchants as the transmission vectors; documents specific parallels between Mesopotamian and Greek deities, myths, and ritual practices | |
| SRC_BURKERT_PYTHAGOREANISM | Walter Burkert, Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism, trans. Edwin L. Minar (Harvard University Press, 1972; original German: Weisheit und Wissenschaft, 1962) | secondary scholarship | Greek | |
| SRC_BURNS_ALIEN_GOD | Dylan M. Burns, Apocalypse of an Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) | secondary scholarship | The Platonizing Sethian treatises (Zostrianos, Allogenes, Marsanes, Three Steles of Seth) and their Neoplatonic context | |
| SRC_BURSEVI_RUH_AL_BAYAN | Ismail Haqqi Bursevi, Ruh al-Bayan (Sufi Qur'an commentary, early 18th c.) | primary text | Islamic/Sufi | |
| SRC_BURTON_STRANGE_RITES | Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World (2020) | secondary scholarship | Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion | |
| SRC_BUTLER_SAINTS | Butler’s Lives of the Saints | secondary scholarship | Christian saints, cults, patronage, relic traditions | |
| SRC_BYOCK_VOLSUNGS | Byock, Jesse L. (trans.), The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer (Penguin Classics) | primary text | Germanic Legend — the Volsung/Nibelung heroic cycle: Sigurd, the Volsungs, Fafnir, Brynhild, the Gjukungs, Andvari's cursed gold | |
| SRC_BYRNE_SECRET | Rhonda Byrne, The Secret (2006) | primary text | Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion | |
| SRC_CALLIMACHUS_HYMNS | Callimachus, Hymns, c. 270 BCE | primary text | The six Hellenistic hymns; Amaltheia (Hymn to Zeus), the Nesoi (Hymn to Delos) | |
| SRC_CAMPBELL_DIGITAL_RELIGION | Heidi Campbell (ed.), Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds (2013) | secondary scholarship | Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion | |
| SRC_CARTER_STOLPER_ELAM | Elizabeth Carter and Matthew W. Stolper, Elam: Surveys of Political History and Archaeology (University of California Publications, Near Eastern Studies 25; University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles / London, 1984) | secondary scholarship | The classic survey of Elamite political history (Carter) and archaeology (Stolper) covering Old Elamite (c. 2200–1600 BCE), Middle Elamite (c. 1600–1100 BCE), and Neo-Elamite (c. 1100–539 BCE) periods. Carter's chapters on the Old and Middle Elamite periods document the royal inscriptions in which the Elamite kings invoke Inshushinak, Napirisha, Kiririsha, and Humban — providing the primary epigraphic evidence for their functions and relationships. Particularly important for the Middle Elamite religious synthesis under Untash-Napirisha (c. 1340–1300 BCE), who built Dur-Untash/Chogha Zanbil as a sacred city combining the Susian Inshushinak cult with the Anshan Napirisha cult, creating a unified Elamite national religion. Stolper's survey of Neo-Elamite material covers the period in which Humban re-emerges as the dominant theophoric element in Elamite royal names (Humban-Haltash, Humban-Numena, Humban-Undasha) before the Achaemenid conquest. Cited for historical context and epigraphic evidence for all four entities. | |
| SRC_CASSIUS_DIO | Cassius Dio, Roman History, c. 3rd c. CE | primary text | Roman/Romano-British history | |
| SRC_CATECHISM_CC | Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992, rev. 1997) | reference work | Authoritative compendium of Catholic doctrine; articles on the Last Things (eschatology) defining Heaven and the Beatific Vision, Purgatory and final purification, Hell, and traditional teaching on the Limbo of the Fathers (Limbus Patrum) and the limbo of unbaptized infants. | |
| SRC_CATHOLIC_ENCYCLOPEDIA_SAINTS | Catholic Encyclopedia saints entries | reference work | Christian saints, angelic beings, hagiography, patronage | |
| SRC_CATH_MAIGE_TUIRED | Cath Maige Tuired (The Second Battle of Mag Tuired), ed. E. A. Gray (ITS, 1982) | primary text | Irish mythological cycle | |
| SRC_CATULLUS | Catullus, Carmina, c. 54 BCE | primary text | The Neoteric poems; Carmen 63 on Attis and the Magna Mater | |
| SRC_CHALDEAN_ORACLES | The Chaldean Oracles (ed. R. Majercik / E. des Places), c. 2nd c. CE | primary text | The verse revelation underlying late-antique theurgy; the Father, Hecate, the connective orders | |
| SRC_CHESNUT_DEVOTED_DEATH | R. Andrew Chesnut, Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint (Oxford University Press, 2012; rev. 2017) | secondary scholarship | Santa Muerte and the comparative cult of personified Death; Latin American folk sanctity | |
| SRC_CHRETIEN_TROYES | Chretien de Troyes, Arthurian romances (Erec, Lancelot/Le Chevalier de la Charrette, Yvain, Perceval/Le Conte du Graal), c. 1170-1190 CE | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chr%C3%A9tien_de_Troyes | primary text | Founding verse romances; introduced Lancelot, the Grail (graal), Perceval, and the Camelot court |
| SRC_CHRISTIAN_DEMONOLOGY_GENERAL | Christian demonology reference layer | reference work | Christian demons, adversarial beings, and inherited Jewish/Second Temple demonology | |
| SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA | Cicero, De Natura Deorum (45 BCE) | primary text | Philosophical dialogue by Marcus Tullius Cicero presenting Stoic, Epicurean, and Academic views on the nature of the Roman gods. Books I–III. Most systematic ancient Roman treatment of the divine council and theology. Standard edition: A.S. Pease (Cambridge, 1955); trans. P.G. Walsh (Oxford World's Classics). | |
| SRC_CIL | Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (Latin votive and dedicatory inscriptions) | primary inscription/artifact | The epigraphic record of Roman cult: dedications to Silvanus, Sol Invictus, the Magna Mater, Dea Roma | |
| SRC_CLAUSS_MITHRAS | Manfred Clauss, The Roman Cult of Mithras: The God and His Mysteries (tr. R. Gordon, Routledge 2000) | secondary scholarship | Standard monograph on the iconography, grades, ritual and diffusion of the Roman Mithraic mysteries. | |
| SRC_CLEMENT_STROM | Clement of Alexandria, Stromata and Excerpta ex Theodoto, c. 195-205 CE | heresiological source | Basilidean and Valentinian fragments, sometimes verbatim; the Carpocratian Epiphanes | |
| SRC_CMC | The Cologne Mani Codex (CMC), Greek, on the life and revelations of Mani, c. 5th c. CE | primary text | The miniature Greek codex recounting Mani's youth and the revelations of his heavenly Twin |
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