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The reading room

The shelf behind the library: every distinct work the 34 verified connections cite, 62 in all, shelved by tradition. Each entry carries its citations and the connections that rest on it. 13 works carry passages digitized from public-domain editions; the rest await digitization.

Arabic Hermetic 1

one citing connection

Kitab Sirr al-Khaliqa finding-legend of the Emerald Tablet

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Assyrian 1

one citing connection public domain

Ashurbanipal colophon, Nineveh library

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Australian Aboriginal 2

one citing connection public domain

K. Langloh Parker, More Australian Legendary Tales (1898), 'A Legend of the Flowers'

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one citing connection public domain

Wawalag sisters / Yurlunggur (Warner, A Black Civilization, 1937)

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Aztec 1

one citing connection

Quetzalcoatl departure legend (Brinton, American Hero-Myths, pp. 115-116, after Sahagun / Anales de Cuauhtitlan)

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Buddhist 1

one citing connection

Vinaya, Mahavagga I.3.1-4 (SBE 13, tr. Rhys Davids & Oldenberg)

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Celtic 1

one citing connection public domain

Evans-Wentz, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries, Ch. II

modern-1

Cherokee 1

3 citing connections passages digitized: 2 public domain

Mooney, Myths of the Cherokee (1900), 'The First Fire'

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Chinese 2

one citing connection public domain

Dao De Jing 25 (with ch. 1), Legge trans.

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one citing connection public domain

Liji, Qu Li I (Legge trans.)

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Christian 1

one citing connection public domain

Revelation 19:12-13 (KJV)

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Dogon 1

one citing connection public domain

Griaule, Conversations with Ogotemmêli (1948/1965); van Beek, 'Dogon Restudied' (1991) summary

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Egyptian 8

one citing connection public domain

Book of Am-Tuat (Budge, Egyptian Heaven and Hell I)

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one citing connection public domain

Book of the Dead ch. CVIII (tr. Renouf)

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one citing connection public domain

Book of the Dead, ch. XXV (Papyrus of Ani)

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one citing connection public domain

Book of the Dead, chapter 175 (Papyrus of Ani)

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one citing connection public domain

Book of the Dead, rubrics to chapters 64 and 30B (Budge trans.)

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one citing connection public domain

Book of the Heavenly Cow ('The Destruction of Mankind'), tomb of Seti I (Budge trans.)

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one citing connection

Setne I (Setne Khamwas and Naneferkaptah)

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one citing connection public domain

The Legend of Ra and Isis (Budge, Legends of the Gods, 1912)

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Germanic 1

one citing connection public domain

Grimm, 'Rumpelstiltskin' (KHM 55, Hunt trans. 1884)

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Greek 7

2 citing connections passages digitized: 2 public domain

Hesiod, Works and Days ll. 50-52 / Theogony ll. 561-584 (Evelyn-White)

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one citing connection passages digitized: 1 public domain

Apollodorus, Library 1.7.2 (Frazer)

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one citing connection public domain

Hesiod, Theogony ll. 521-525 (Evelyn-White)

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one citing connection public domain

Hesiod, Works and Days 106–201 (Evelyn-White trans.)

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one citing connection public domain

Hesiod, Works and Days 42, 109–126 (Evelyn-White trans.)

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one citing connection public domain

Iliad XXI (tr. Butler)

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one citing connection passages digitized: 1 public domain

Plato, Timaeus 22-23

esoteric-5

Hebrew 5

one citing connection public domain

Exodus 3:13-14 (KJV)

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one citing connection passages digitized: 1 public domain

Genesis 8:20–21; 9:13–16 (KJV)

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one citing connection passages digitized: 1 public domain

Genesis 8:6–12 (KJV)

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one citing connection passages digitized: 1 public domain

Job 41 (KJV)

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one citing connection public domain

Judges 13:17-18 (KJV)

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Hindu 2

one citing connection public domain

Vishnu Purana IV.24 (Wilson trans.)

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one citing connection public domain

Vishnu Purana VI.4 (Wilson trans.)

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Jewish 4

one citing connection

2 Enoch 33

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one citing connection public domain

Antiquities 1.2.3

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one citing connection

Jubilees 8:1-4

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one citing connection in copyright

Mishnah Sanhedrin 10:1

naming-2

Māori 1

2 citing connections passages digitized: 1 public domain

Grey, Polynesian Mythology (1855), pp. 48-49

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Mesopotamian 5

2 citing connections passages digitized: 2 public domain

Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XI

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one citing connection passages digitized: 1

Atrahasis, Tablet III (and Gilgamesh XI 21–24)

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one citing connection public domain

Atrahasis, Tablets I–III (Lambert & Millard; Dalley)

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one citing connection

Babyloniaca fr. 1, apud Alexander Polyhistor (Cory, Ancient Fragments, pp. 22-23)

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one citing connection public domain

Babyloniaca, flood fragment

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Modern 1

one citing connection public domain

Bullard, JAF 102 (1989)

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Norse 6

one citing connection public domain

Gylfaginning 34 (Younger Edda, tr. Anderson)

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one citing connection public domain

Gylfaginning 48 (Younger Edda, tr. Anderson)

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one citing connection public domain

Poetic Edda, Grimnismol 46-48 (Bellows trans.)

naming-3
one citing connection public domain

Poetic Edda, Grimnismol 51-54 + prose ending (Bellows trans.)

naming-6
one citing connection public domain

Poetic Edda, Vafthruthnismol 44–45 (Bellows trans.)

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one citing connection public domain

Poetic Edda, Voluspo st. 8 and 61 (Bellows trans.)

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Roman 2

one citing connection in copyright

Pliny the Elder, Natural History 3.65

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one citing connection public domain

Res Gestae 22.15.30

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Theosophical 1

one citing connection public domain

The Secret Doctrine vol. 1, Proem

esoteric-2

Tlingit 1

2 citing connections passages digitized: 1 public domain

Swanton, Tlingit Myths and Texts (1909), Raven cycle, p. 11

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Vedic 5

one citing connection passages digitized: 1 public domain

Rigveda 1.32 (tr. Griffith)

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one citing connection public domain

Rigveda 1.93.6, 1.141.3, 1.148.1 (Griffith)

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one citing connection public domain

Rigveda 3.32 (tr. Griffith)

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one citing connection passages digitized: 1

Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa 1.8.1.1–4 (Eggeling)

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one citing connection

Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa 1.8.1.7–10 (Eggeling)

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Zoroastrian 1

one citing connection public domain

Vendidad, Fargard 2 (Darmesteter trans.)

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