sources: SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH

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_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).

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