sources: SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES

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_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE)   primary text Primary Greek source for comparative religion and cultural anthropology of the Near East and Egypt; documents identifications of Arabian, Egyptian, and Phoenician deities with Greek counterparts; Herodotus 2.41-44 on Egyptian and Phoenician religion; 3.8 on Arabian deities; 2.44 explicitly describes the Phoenician Heracles/Melqart sanctuary at Tyre

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