sources: SRC_HOYLAND_ARABIA

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_HOYLAND_ARABIA Robert G. Hoyland, Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam (Routledge, 2001)   secondary scholarship Comprehensive scholarly survey of ancient Arabian civilization including South Arabian kingdoms (Saba, Qataban, Hadhramaut, Himyar) and their religion; covers the South Arabian inscriptional evidence for the major deities (Almaqah, Athtar, Shams, ʿAmm, Sin) and their relationship to pre-Islamic north Arabian religion; documents the lunar-deity-as-chief-deity pattern unique to South Arabia and the masculine Venus (Athtar) tradition

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