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3,633 are the core, quality-scored corpus (34 lettered sections — see How We Work); the remaining 88 are cross-corpus synthesis documents (68 InterDocs, 12 Connections, 8 Theories) also indexed here.
383 results for "New World plants" — page 5 of 20
A_4_04 — The Kojiki: Japan's Record of Ancient Matters
The Kojiki ("Record of Ancient Matters"), completed in 712 CE, is the oldest surviving literary work in Japan and the primary source for Shinto mythology and the divine origin of the Japanese imperial line. Compiled by Ō
A_4_20 — Mandaean Ginza Rabba: Living Gnostic Scripture
The Ginza Rabba (Ginzā Rbā, "Great Treasure"), also known as the Book of Adam, is the principal holy scripture of the Mandaeans — the world's only surviving Gnostic religion, practiced today by approximately 60,000–100,0
A_4_03 — Popol Vuh: The Maya Book of Creation
The Popol Vuh ("Book of the Community" or "Book of Counsel") is the most important surviving mythological and historical text of the ancient Americas. A K'iche' Maya creation narrative, it was written down in the Latin a
A_4_36 — Hopi Prophecy Tablets & Oral Traditions
The Hopi (Hopituh Shi-nu-mu — "The Peaceful People") of northeastern Arizona possess one of the most elaborately structured prophetic cosmological systems among indigenous North American cultures — a system that encompas
A_4_38 — Navajo & Apache Creation Stories
The Navajo (Diné) and Apache (Ndé) peoples of the American Southwest share a common Athabaskan (Na-Dené) linguistic and cultural heritage that sets them apart from their Puebloan neighbors (Hopi, Zuñi, Pueblo) while also
A_3_08 — Celtic Mythology and Druidic Tradition
Celtic mythology encompasses the religious narratives, cosmological concepts, and heroic legends of the Celtic-speaking peoples who dominated much of western and central Europe from the Hallstatt period (c. 800 BCE) thro
A_3_03 — Egyptian Book of the Dead and Funerary Literature
The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Pert em Hru — "Coming Forth by Day") is a collection of ~200 magical spells, hymns, and instructions designed to guide the deceased through the Duat (underworld) and into eternal life in th
A_3_07 — Kalevala and Finnish-Baltic Mythology
The Kalevala is the Finnish national epic, compiled from oral folk poetry (runo songs) by physician-scholar Elias Lönnrot and first published in 1835 (32 poems) with an expanded edition of 50 poems in 1849. Lönnrot trave
A_3_06 — Orphic Hymns, Tablets, and the Orphic Tradition
The Orphic tradition represents one of the most influential yet enigmatic religious movements of the ancient Greek world, centered on the mythical poet-musician Orpheus, who was believed to have descended to the underwor
U_1_15 — Jazz: Improvisation, African Roots, and Cultural Revolution
Jazz — America's most original and influential art form — emerged in the early 20th century from the convergence of African rhythmic and improvisational traditions, African American blues and work songs, European harmony
U_1_06 — Folk Music and Ethnomusicology
Folk music broadly refers to traditional music transmitted orally within communities, typically without known individual composers, evolving through collective performance practice. Ethnomusicology is the academic study
U_5_01 — Myth in Modern Media: Star Wars, Tolkien & Marvel
Ancient mythological structures persist as the deep architecture of modern popular culture, demonstrating either the psychological universality of certain narrative patterns or the conscious adoption of mythological temp
U_5_22 — Cultural Heritage: Preservation, Repatriation, and Living Traditions
Cultural heritage encompasses the tangible and intangible expressions of human civilization — monuments, artifacts, languages, rituals, oral traditions, traditional knowledge systems — that communities identify as inheri
U_5_08 — Cultural Heritage Preservation
Cultural heritage preservation — the protection, conservation, documentation, and transmission of tangible and intangible cultural expressions across generations — is a global enterprise involving international law, muse
U_2_06 — Cinema and Film History
Cinema — the art and technology of moving images — emerged from late 19th-century developments in photography and persistence of vision. Pioneer technologies: Eadweard Muybridge's sequential photographs of a galloping ho
U_2_08 — Digital Art and Generative Art
Digital art — visual art created with or substantially mediated by digital technology — and generative art — art produced in whole or part by autonomous systems (algorithms, rules, or AI) — represent a fundamental expans
X_2_11 — Ethnobotanical Pharmacology: Plant-Based Medicines Across Cultures
Ethnobotanical pharmacology (or ethnopharmacology) investigates the medicinal use of plants across human cultures — encompassing the traditional knowledge systems that identified, prepared, and administered plant-based m
X_5_03 — Medical Genetics and Rare Diseases
Medical genetics is the branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis, management, and counseling of individuals and families affected by genetic disorders — conditions caused by mutations in DNA, ranging from single-g
X_1_05 — Herbalism and Ethnobotany: Cross-Cultural Plant Medicine
Plants have been humanity's primary pharmacy for the entirety of our species' history — from Neanderthal hearths containing medicinal chamomile and yarrow (El Sidrón, ~50,000 BP) to the modern pharmaceutical industry, wh
X_3_11 — Battlefield Medicine: Surgical Innovation Under Fire
Battlefield medicine — the practice of treating wounded soldiers under active combat conditions — has been one of the most powerful and paradoxical engines of medical innovation in human history. The pressure of mass cas
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