sources: SRC_VARRO_ANTIQ

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_VARRO_ANTIQ Varro, Antiquitates Rerum Divinarum (c. 47 BCE, surviving via Augustine City of God)   primary text Marcus Terentius Varro's systematic taxonomy of Roman religion in 16 books; largely lost but extensively quoted by Augustine (City of God Books VI–VII). Distinguishes mythical, physical, and civic theology; the most comprehensive ancient Roman account of deity functions. Reconstructed via Augustine and other secondary citations.

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