sources: SRC_BURKERT_GREEK_RELIGION

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_BURKERT_GREEK_RELIGION Walter Burkert, Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical, trans. John Raffan (Harvard University Press, 1985; original German: Griechische Religion der archaischen und klassischen Epoche, 1977)   secondary scholarship The standard comprehensive scholarly account of ancient Greek religion; covers Mycenaean religious continuity and discontinuity (chapter 2), the major deity cults, mystery religions, and the structure of the Greek pantheon; documents the implications of Linear B for understanding which deities are Mycenaean survivals vs. post-Dark-Age additions; essential for contextualizing the Linear B attestations and their relationship to the Classical Olympian pantheon

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