sources: SRC_CUNLIFFE_SCYTHIANS

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_CUNLIFFE_SCYTHIANS Cunliffe, Barry. The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe (Oxford University Press, 2019)   secondary scholarship Comprehensive recent survey of Scythian culture, archaeology, and religion by a leading authority on Iron Age steppe peoples. Chapter 9 covers Scythian religion and the Herodotean divine names in the context of comparative Iranian/Indo-European religious evidence. Standard English-language secondary source for Scythian divine typology.

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