sources: SRC_BURKERT_MYSTERY_CULTS

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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source_id title url source_type scope
SRC_BURKERT_MYSTERY_CULTS Walter Burkert, Ancient Mystery Cults (Harvard University Press, 1987)   secondary scholarship The Greco-Roman mystery cults (Eleusinian, Samothracian/Cabiric, Dionysiac, Metroac, Mithraic): organization, initiation, theology, and inner casts.

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