sources: SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS

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_HOMERIC_HYMNS Homeric Hymns (7th-5th century BCE); trans. M.L. West, Homeric Hymns (Loeb Classical Library 496, Harvard 2003)   primary text 33 hymns addressed to individual Greek deities; despite the name "Homeric" they are not by Homer but by various poets in the hexameter tradition, composed across the 7th-5th centuries BCE. The major hymns are primary sources for: Demeter (HH 2; Eleusinian Mysteries foundation myth), Apollo (HH 3; Delos and Delphi foundations), Hermes (HH 4; theft of Apollo's cattle, invention of the lyre), Aphrodite (HH 5; her affair with Anchises), and Dionysus (HH 7). The shorter hymns (HH 8-33) address Ares, Artemis, Athena, Hera, Demeter, Rhea/Mother of Gods, Heracles, Asclepius, Castor and Polydeuces (Dioscuri), Pan, Hephaestus, Poseidon, Zeus, Hestia, the Muses, Helios, Selene, and Gaia. Each hymn is the primary text for the deity's cult epithets, functions, and origin myths as understood in the archaic and early classical periods.

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