sources: SRC_AGATHANGELOS_HISTORY

The sources grounding every entity classification and relationship in the database (live count on the home page and in v_release_metrics). Primary texts include the Pyramid Texts (c. 2375 BCE), Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, the Masoretic Text, Nag Hammadi corpus, Avesta, Ginza Rba, the Chaldean Oracles, the Corpus Hermeticum, Quran, and more. Secondary scholarship covers standard academic monographs for each tradition.

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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.

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