sources: SRC_FAULKNER_PYRAMID_TEXTS

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_FAULKNER_PYRAMID_TEXTS R. O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts (Oxford University Press, 1969; repr. Aris & Phillips, 1998)   primary text The standard English translation of the Pyramid Texts (PT), the oldest religious corpus in the world (c. 2375-2181 BCE; first attested in the pyramid of Unas, 5th Dynasty); 759 "Utterances" covering the solar theology of Ra and Atum, the Osiris myth, the Ennead genealogy, the underworld geography, and virtually every major Old Kingdom deity; primary source for establishing Old Kingdom period attestations of Egyptian deities including Atum, Shu, Tefnut, Geb, Nut, Osiris, Isis, Seth, Nephthys, Hathor, Thoth, Ptah, Anubis, Khepri, Horus, Sekhmet, Sobek, Khnum, Seshat, Wepwawet, and dozens of others

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