sources: SRC_PLUTARCH_ISIS_OSIRIS

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_PLUTARCH_ISIS_OSIRIS Plutarch, On Isis and Osiris (De Iside et Osiride, c. 100–120 CE)   primary text The fullest surviving Greco-Roman account of Egyptian religion; documents the Osiris myth, Seth as cosmic evil, the creation of Serapis under Ptolemy I, interpretatio graeca of Egyptian deities (Thoth=Hermes, Amun=Zeus, Hathor=Aphrodite), and the Isis mystery tradition; essential source for Egyptian→Greco-Egyptian transmission

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