sources: SRC_FOSTER_BEFORE_MUSES

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_FOSTER_BEFORE_MUSES Benjamin R. Foster, Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature, 3rd ed. (CDL Press, 2005)   primary text The standard comprehensive anthology of Akkadian literary texts; covers the major mythological compositions in Akkadian (Enuma Elish / Epic of Creation, Atrahasis Epic, Descent of Ishtar, Erra and Ishum, Nergal and Ereshkigal, Adapa, Etana) and poetic/hymnic texts across the Old Babylonian, Middle Babylonian, and Standard Babylonian periods; essential for Akkadian-period deity attestations (Marduk, Ishtar, Ea/Enki, Nergal, Ereshkigal, Nabu, Adad) where ETCSL covers the Sumerian side

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