sources: SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON

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_WEST_EAST_HELICON Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)   secondary scholarship Comprehensive argument that early Greek poetry (Homer, Hesiod) directly draws on West Asian literary and mythological traditions; documents Kumarbi=Kronos, Teshub=Zeus, Ullikummi=Typhon parallels exhaustively; essential for Hittite→Greek and Mesopotamian→Greek transmission chains

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