sources: SRC_RUSSELL_ZOR_ARMENIA

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_RUSSELL_ZOR_ARMENIA James R. Russell, Zoroastrianism in Armenia (Harvard Iranian Series 5; Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Cambridge MA, 1987)   secondary scholarship The standard scholarly monograph on the Iranian / Zoroastrian substratum of Armenian religion. Demonstrates that Aramazd derives from Ahura Mazda, Anahit from Anahita, Nane from Nana, and Vahagn from Verethragna via systematic linguistic and theological analysis. Covers the Artaxiad period (189 BCE – 1 CE) when Zoroastrian influence was strongest, the Arsacid dynasty's Iranian connections, and the survival of Iranian divine names in Armenian personal names and place names. Also covers Mihr (Mithra), Tir (Tishtrya?), Spandaramet (Spenta Armaiti), and the transformation of the Iranian yazata system into the Armenian divine court. Primary secondary citation for all Iranian-derived relationships in this layer.

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