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A_4_05 — Rig Veda and Vedic Cosmology
The Rig Veda (Sanskrit: ṛgveda, "Praise-Knowledge") is the oldest surviving religious text of the Indo-European world — composed in archaic Sanskrit between approximately 1500–1200 BCE (with some hymns possibly older). I
A_4_02 — The Norse Eddas: Cosmology, Ragnarök, and the World Tree
The Norse Eddas — the Poetic Edda (anonymous, compiled ~1270 CE from older oral sources) and the Prose Edda (written ~1220 CE by Snorri Sturluson) — preserve the most complete surviving mythology of the pre-Christian Ger
A_4_19 — Maya Codices: Dresden, Madrid, and Paris Manuscripts
The Maya codices are the only surviving pre-Columbian books from the Maya civilization — folding-screen manuscripts made of bark paper (huun) covered in lime plaster and painted with hieroglyphic texts and illustrations
A_4_31 — Amazonian Indigenous Cosmologies: Tupi, Guarani & Their World
The Tupi-Guarani language family encompasses hundreds of indigenous peoples across a vast territory stretching from the Amazon Basin through eastern Brazil to the Río de la Plata region of Paraguay, Argentina, and Urugua
A_4_30 — Southeast Asian Cosmology: Thai, Khmer, Javanese, and Austronesian Creation Narratives
Southeast Asian cosmologies constitute a complex layering of indigenous Austronesian beliefs with Indic (Hindu-Buddhist), Chinese, and Islamic religious frameworks adopted and transformed over two millennia. Pre-Indianiz
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_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_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_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_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_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
A_4_22 — Puranas: Hindu Cosmological Encyclopedia
The Puranas (Purāṇa, "ancient, old") are a vast corpus of Hindu sacred literature comprising 18 Mahāpurāṇas ("Great Puranas") and 18 Upapurāṇas ("Secondary Puranas"), totaling hundreds of thousands of verses (the Skanda
A_4_09 — Avestan Texts — Gathas, Vendidad, and Yasna
The Avesta is the primary scripture of Zoroastrianism, the religion founded by the prophet Zarathushtra (Greek: Zoroaster) in ancient Iran. The surviving Avesta — a fraction of a much larger corpus reportedly destroyed d
A_4_14 — Shan Hai Jing (Classic of Mountains and Seas)
The Shan Hai Jing (山海經, "Classic of Mountains and Seas") is one of the most extraordinary texts of the ancient Chinese literary corpus — an encyclopedic compendium of mythological geography, zoology, mineralogy, and cosm
A_4_29 — Mongolian & Turkic Epic Traditions
The Mongolian and Turkic epic traditions constitute one of the world's great oral literary heritages, spanning from the Altai Mountains to Anatolia across more than two millennia. Central texts include the Secret History
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
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