sources: SRC_VENTRIS_CHADWICK

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_VENTRIS_CHADWICK Michael Ventris and John Chadwick, Documents in Mycenaean Greek, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1973)   primary text The foundational publication of the Linear B decipherment (Ventris deciphered Linear B in 1952); provides transliterations, translations, and commentary for the major Linear B tablets from Knossos, Pylos, Mycenae, and Tiryns; primary source for all Mycenaean deity attestations (di-we, po-se-da-o, po-ti-ni-ja, e-ma-a, di-wo-nu-so, e-ra, a-re, e-nu-wa-ri-jo, di-u-ja); essential for establishing which Greek deities pre-date the Dark Age and which do not (notably Apollo's absence); standard reference for all Linear B religious evidence

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