sources: SRC_PENTIKÄINEN_KALEVALA

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_PENTIKÄINEN_KALEVALA Juha Pentikäinen, Kalevala Mythology, trans. Ritva Poom (Indiana University Press, Bloomington IN, 1999)   secondary scholarship Standard English-language scholarly monograph on Kalevala mythology and Finnish folk religion. Covers the mythological background, the oral tradition underlying the text, the structure and meaning of the principal myths, and the religious practices reflected in the runo-songs. Chapters address cosmogony (the Ilmatar/world-egg creation), shamanism (Väinämöinen as paradigmatic shaman), the cult of the forest (Tapio, Mielikki), the sea deity Ahti, the thunder deity Ukko, and the antagonist figure Louhi as mistress of Pohjola. Also covers bear cult (central to Mielikki), death rituals, and the relationship between Finnish folk religion and broader Uralic/Siberian shamanic traditions. Primary secondary citation for all Finnish entities in this layer.

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