sources: SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN

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_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN Algirdas Julien Greimas, Of Gods and Men: Studies in Lithuanian Mythology (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1992; trans. Milda Newman and Joseph Fitzgerald)   secondary scholarship Structuralist analysis of Lithuanian mythology by a leading semiotician and linguist. Covers the Dievas–Velnias–Perkūnas triad, the celestial family myth cycle (Saulė, Meness, Ašvieniai), Laima as the fate-spinner, and the deep structure of Baltic cosmic myth. Greimas distinguishes the Lithuanian mythological tradition from Slavic parallels and traces Indo-European cognates. The most analytically rigorous secondary source for Lithuanian mythology; supplements Gimbutas on theological structure. Reference for the celestial myth cycle and the Perkūnas vs. Velnias cosmic battle.

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