sources: SRC_ARCHIBALD_ODRYSIAN

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_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.

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