sources: SRC_AGRICOLA_PRIMER

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_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.

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