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A_4_13 — Ramayana — India's Epic of Dharma, Exile, and Return
The Ramayana (रामायण, "Rama's Journey") is one of the two great Sanskrit epics of India, attributed to the poet Valmiki and composed in its earliest form during the 5th–4th century BCE, with later expansions through the
A_4_06 — Quranic Cosmology, Jinn, and Islamic Angelology
The Quran — Islam's primary sacred text (610–632 CE) — presents a rich cosmological framework that includes seven heavens and seven earths, a Throne of God (al-Arsh) upon the cosmic waters, a fully populated invisible re
A_4_35 — Chinese Millenarian Sacred Texts
Chinese millenarian sacred texts constitute a vast, largely unstudied corpus of sectarian religious literature produced over more than a thousand years (Song dynasty through the 20th century) by heterodox religious movem
A_4_39 — Egyptian Book of the Dead: Funerary Texts, Afterlife Geography, and Judgment of the Soul
The "Book of the Dead" (Pert em Heru, "Coming/Going Forth by Day") is a corpus of ancient Egyptian funerary texts — spells, hymns, incantations, and illustrated vignettes — designed to guide the deceased through the Duat
A_4_25 — Jain Agamas: Canonical Scriptures of Non-Violence and Asceticism
The Jain Agamas (Āgama, "tradition/scripture") are the canonical scriptures of Jainism, one of the world's oldest continuously practiced religions. The teachings are attributed to Mahāvīra (Vardhamāna, c. 599–527 BCE or
A_4_21 — Atharvaveda: Healing Hymns, Charms, and Ritualistic Knowledge
The Atharvaveda (Atharvaveda-Saṃhitā, "Knowledge of the Atharvans") is the fourth Veda of Hinduism, composed approximately between 1200 and 1000 BCE — roughly contemporaneous with the late Rig Vedic and early post-Rig Ve
A_4_08 — Bhagavata Purana — Naga and Avatar Sections
The Bhagavata Purana (also called Srimad Bhagavatam) is one of the eighteen Mahapuranas ("Great Ancient Histories") of Hindu literature, composed in Sanskrit between approximately the 6th and 10th centuries CE. Its twelv
A_4_24 — Dhammapada: Verses of the Buddhist Path
The Dhammapada ("Verses of the Dharma/Teaching" or "Path of Dharma") is the most widely read and translated text of Theravada Buddhism — a collection of 423 verses in 26 chapters (vagga), presenting the core ethical and
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_23 — Bundahishn: Zoroastrian Creation and Cosmic Battle
The Bundahishn (Bundahišn, "Primal Creation") is the most important Zoroastrian cosmogonical text, composed in Middle Persian (Pahlavi) during the 9th century CE but preserving traditions that are centuries or millennia
A_4_11 — Upanishads — Core Vedantic Philosophy
The Upanishads (उपनिषद्, "sitting near" a teacher) are the concluding philosophical sections of the Vedas and the foundational texts of Vedantic philosophy. Composed between approximately 800–200 BCE, the principal (mukh
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_17 — Aboriginal Australian Dreaming Narratives
The Dreaming (known by various language-specific names — Jukurrpa in Warlpiri, Tjukurpa in Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara, Wongar in Yolngu) is the central cosmological, legal, and ontological framework of Aboriginal Aus
A_4_28 — Nihon Shoki: Japan's Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns
The Nihon Shoki (日本書紀, "Chronicles of Japan," also known as Nihongi) is the second-oldest extant Japanese historical text (after the Kojiki, 712 CE), completed in 720 CE under the supervision of Prince Toneri (舎人親王, 676–
A_4_10 — I Ching (Yijing) — The Classic of Changes
The I Ching (易經, Yìjīng, "Classic of Changes") is one of the oldest continuously used texts in human history, originating from Shang dynasty oracle bone divination (~1200 BCE) and formalized during the Western Zhou perio
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_32 — Siberian & Turkic Shamanic Texts
Siberian and Turkic shamanism represents the ur-tradition from which the very concept of "shamanism" derives — the word shaman (šaman) comes from the Tungusic (Evenki) language of eastern Siberia, entering European schol
A_4_07 — Tao Te Ching and Daoist Primary Texts
The Tao Te Ching (道德經, Daodejing) — attributed to Lao Tzu (Laozi, ~6th–4th century BCE) — is the foundational text of Daoist philosophy and one of the most translated works in human history. Its 81 brief chapters articul
A_4_37 — Rig Veda Astronomical Dating Analysis
The astronomical dating of the Rig Veda is one of the most contentious and consequential problems in Indology, Vedic studies, and the broader field of ancient chronology. The Rig Veda — the oldest of the four Vedas and a
A_4_33 — Inuit Cosmology & Sedna Mythology
Inuit cosmology is the spiritual and philosophical tradition of the Inuit peoples — the indigenous inhabitants of the Arctic and Subarctic regions of North America, from Alaska through Arctic Canada (Nunavut, Nunavik, Nu
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