sources: SRC_AUGUSTINE_CITY_OF_GOD

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_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

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