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Code	Full Title	Scope	Year	Edition	Link
`Abhidharmakośa`	Abhidharmakośabhāṣya (Treasury of Abhidharma)	Sanskrit Buddhist scholastic text	400	Vasubandhu; GRETIL text based on the Pradhan edition	Link
`Abraham`	Abraham (biblical patriarch / Genesis narrative)	Hebrew Bible / Abrahamic tradition	-1000	Book of Genesis	—
`Acallam na Senórach`	Acallam na Senórach (The Colloquy of the Ancients)	Irish Fenian Cycle	1200	ed. Whitley Stokes, Irische Texte IV (1900); trans. Dooley & Roe, Oxford World's Classics (1999)	Link
`Adam of Bremen`	Adam of Bremen, Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum	Medieval Norse / Germanic history	1076	ed. Bernhard Schmeidler, Hahnsche Buchhandlung (1917)	Link
`Aeschylus`	Aeschylus, Tragedies	Greek tragedy	-456	Loeb Classical Library / Oxford Classical Texts	Link
`AHw`	Akkadisches Handwörterbuch	Akkadian lexicon	1965	3 vols., Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden (completed 1981)	—
`AIATSIS`	Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies	Australian Indigenous studies and authority files	1964	Canberra	Link
`AirWb`	Altiranisches Wörterbuch	Old Iranian / Avestan lexicon	1904	Strassburg: Trübner	—
`Allen`	James P. Allen, Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs	Middle Egyptian grammar and lexicon	2000	Cambridge University Press	Link
`Allen, Middle Egyptian`	James P. Allen, Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs	Middle Egyptian grammar and lexicon	2000	Cambridge University Press	Link
`Analects`	Analects (Lunyu)	Confucian dialogues	-500	Confucius; Chinese Text Project	Link
`Anaxagoras`	Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, fragments	Presocratic Greek philosophy	-428	Diels-Kranz 59	Link
`Anaximander`	Anaximander of Miletus, fragments	Presocratic Greek philosophy	-546	Diels-Kranz 12	Link
`Anaximenes`	Anaximenes of Miletus, fragments	Presocratic Greek philosophy	-528	Diels-Kranz 13	Link
`Apollonius`	Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica	Greek epic poetry	-200	Loeb Classical Library	Link
`Aristotle`	Aristotle, collected works	Greek philosophy	-322	Loeb Classical Library / Oxford Classical Texts	Link
`Arthurian legend`	Arthurian legend / Matter of Britain	Medieval romance and Celtic-British legend	1136	Geoffrey of Monmouth, Chrétien de Troyes, the Vulgate Cycle, Malory, etc.	Link
`Avatamsaka Sutra`	Avataṃsaka Sūtra (Flower Garland Sutra)	Mahāyāna Buddhist scripture	400	Translated by Thomas Cleary	Link
`Avesta`	Avesta (Zoroastrian sacred scriptures)	Avestan textual corpus	-1000	Old Avestan / Young Avestan recensions	Link
`Barrington`	Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World	Classical historical geography	2000	Princeton University Press	Link
`Bartholomae`	Christian Bartholomae, Altiranisches Wörterbuch	Old Iranian / Avestan lexicon	1904	Strassburg: Trübner	—
`Bascom`	William Bascom, Ifa Divination: Communication Between Gods and Men in West Africa	Yoruba religion and folklore	1969	Indiana University Press	—
`Bauer`	Walter Bauer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature	Biblical Greek lexicon	1957	BDAG, University of Chicago Press	Link
`Beckwith`	Christopher I. Beckwith, Greek Buddha: Pyrrho's Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia	Comparative history of early Buddhism	2015	Princeton University Press	Link
`Beekes`	Etymological Dictionary of Greek	Greek	2010	2 vols., Brill	Link
`Beowulf`	Beowulf	Old English heroic epic	1000	Klaeber's Beowulf, 4th ed., University of Toronto Press	Link
`Berndt`	Ronald M. and Catherine H. Berndt, The World of the First Australians	Australian Aboriginal anthropology	1964	Aboriginal Studies Press	—
`Best`	R. I. Best, Bibliography of Irish Philology and Manuscript Literature	Celtic / Irish philology	1913	Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies / Royal Irish Academy	Link
`Bhagavad Gita`	Bhagavad Gītā	Sanskrit epic theosophy	-400	Translated by Annie Besant and others	Link
`Bhagavata`	Bhāgavata Purāṇa (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam)	Hindu Vaishnava purāṇa	900	Translated by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda	Link
`Black-Green`	Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia	Mesopotamian	1992	British Museum Press	Link
`Bosworth-Toller`	Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary	Old English lexicon	1898	Oxford; online at Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary	Link
`Brāhmaṇas`	Brāhmaṇas (Śatapatha, Aitareya, etc.)	Vedic prose commentaries	-800	Sacred Books of the East	Link
`Buddhist texts`	Buddhist canonical and commentarial literature	Buddhist textual corpus	various	Pāli, Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan recensions	—
`Byliny`	Byliny (Russian oral heroic poems)	Slavic / Russian oral epic	1000	Collected in Svod russkogo folklora and regional corpora (19th-20th c.)	—
`CAD`	The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago	Akkadian lexicon	1956	21 vols., Oriental Institute, Chicago (completed 2010)	Link
`Cambridge`	Cambridge Ancient History	General ancient history	1970	Multiple volumes	Link
`Cerrón-Palomino`	Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino, Quechua language and Andean linguistics	Andean/Quechua linguistics	2003	Various works including Lingüística aimara	Link
`Chan texts`	Chan / Zen Buddhist texts	Chinese Chan literature	800	Platform Sūtra, recorded sayings (yulu), koan collections	—
`CHD`	The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago	Hittite lexicon	1980	Oriental Institute, Chicago (ongoing)	Link
`Chinese Buddhist texts`	Chinese Buddhist texts (Hanwen Canon)	Chinese Buddhist scripture corpus	400	CBETA / Taishō Tripiṭaka	Link
`Chinese classics`	Chinese classical texts	Pre-Qin and Han Chinese canonical corpus	-500	Chinese Text Project	Link
`Chinese folklore`	Chinese folklore	Chinese folk narrative tradition	various	Oral and compiled folk tales	—
`Chinese medicine`	Huangdi Neijing (Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon)	Chinese medical classic	-200	Chinese Text Project	Link
`Cicero`	Cicero, Marcus Tullius — collected works	Latin/Roman	-43	Loeb Classical Library	Link
`CIS`	Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum	Semitic inscriptions (Ugaritic, Phoenician, Aramaic, etc.)	1881	Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris	Link
`Cleasby-Vigfusson`	An Icelandic-English Dictionary	Norse	1874	2nd ed. with supplement	Link
`Coogan`	Michael D. Coogan, Stories from Ancient Canaan	Canaanite / Ugaritic myths and texts	1978	Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville (2nd ed. 2012)	Link
`Crawford`	Peter Crawford, The War of the Three Gods: Romans, Persians and the Rise of Islam	Late antique history	2013	Pen & Sword Military	—
`Cross`	Frank Moore Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel	Canaanite religion and its influence on Israel	1973	Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA	—
`D'Altroy`	Terence N. D'Altroy, The Incas	Inca civilization	2002	Wiley-Blackwell	Link
`Dao De Jing`	Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching)	Daoist philosophical text	-500	Laozi; Chinese Text Project	Link
`Daoist Canon`	Daozang (Daoist Canon)	Daoist scripture collection	1445	Ming Zhengtong Daozang	Link
`Day`	John V. Day, Indo-European Origins: The Anthropological Evidence	Indo-European studies	2001	Institute for the Study of Man	—
`De Moor`	Johannes C. de Moor, An Anthology of Religious Texts from Ugarit	Ugaritic religious texts	1987	Brill, Leiden	—
`DELG`	Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque	Greek	1968	Klincksieck	Link
`Devi Mahatmya`	Devī Māhātmya (Durgā Saptaśatī)	Hindu Śākta scripture	500	Translated by C. Mackenzie Brown	Link
`EDPG`	Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic	Proto-Germanic	2013	Brill	Link
`Egyptology`	Egyptology (modern Egyptological scholarship)	Modern Egyptian place-name and onomastic scholarship	ongoing	UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology / field standard	Link
`Empedocles`	Empedocles of Acragas, fragments	Presocratic Greek philosophy	-430	Diels-Kranz 31	Link
`Enuma Elish`	Enuma Elish: The Babylonian Epic of Creation	Babylonian creation epic	-1200	Standard Babylonian version	Link
`Epic of Gilgamesh`	Epic of Gilgamesh	Mesopotamian epic	-1300	Standard Babylonian version	Link
`ETCSL`	Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature	Mesopotamian	1998	Oxford Oriental Institute	Link
`Euripides`	Euripides, Tragedies	Greek tragedy	-406	Loeb Classical Library / Oxford Classical Texts	Link
`Faulkner`	A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian	Egyptian	1962	Griffith Institute	Link
`Fedorova`	Tatiana Fedorova, Slavic mythological studies	Slavic mythology	2000	Various articles and monographs	—
`Florentine Codex`	Florentine Codex (General History of the Things of New Spain)	Nahuatl / Aztec ethnography	1577	Bernardino de Sahagún; School of American Research	Link
`Folklore`	Folklore (traditional oral narrative)	General folklore	various	Oral traditions	—
`Gardiner`	Alan H. Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs	Middle Egyptian grammar and sign list	1927	Griffith Institute / Oxford University Press (3rd ed. 1957)	Link
`Gathas`	Gāthās (Avestan hymns of Zarathustra)	Old Avestan hymns	-1000	Yasna 28–53	Link
`Grey`	George Grey, Polynesian Mythology and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race	Māori mythology	1855	Brett, Auckland	Link
`Handy`	E. S. Craighill Handy, Polynesian Religion	Polynesian religion	1927	Bishop Museum Bulletin 34	—
`Henry`	Teuira Henry, Ancient Tahiti	Tahitian culture and mythology	1928	Bishop Museum Bulletin 48	—
`Hepburn`	James C. Hepburn, A Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary	Japanese reference dictionary / Hepburn romanization	1867	Shanghai / Tokyo: Maruya, Kelly & Walsh	—
`Heraclitus`	Heraclitus of Ephesus, fragments	Presocratic Greek philosophy	-480	Diels-Kranz 22	Link
`Herodotus`	Histories	Greek history	-440	Loeb Classical Library	Link
`Hesiod`	Hesiod, Theogony / Works and Days / Shield	Greek epic poetry	-700	Loeb Classical Library No. 57	Link
`Hesiod, Theogony`	Hesiod, Theogony	Greek theogonic epic	-700	Loeb Classical Library No. 57	Link
`History of the North`	History of the North (Northern European historiography)	Norse / North-Germanic history and legend	1200	Ambiguous reference; possibly Heimskringla, Gesta Danorum, or related compendia	—
`Hittite texts`	Corpus of Hittite Texts (CTH)	Hittite cuneiform text corpus	1971	Catalogue des Textes Hittites / Hethitologie Portal Mainz	Link
`Homer`	Homer, Iliad / Odyssey	Greek epic poetry	-750	Loeb Classical Library / Oxford Classical Texts	Link
`Homeric Hymn to Pan`	Homeric Hymn to Pan (Homeric Hymn 19)	Greek hymnic poetry	-600	Homeric Hymns, Loeb Classical Library No. 496	Link
`Hooulumahiehie`	Ho'oulumahiehie and Kapi'ioho'okalani Kapa'kekula, Epic Tale of Hi'iakaikapoliopele	Hawaiian epic literature	2006	University of Hawai'i Press	—
`Huainanzi`	Huainanzi	Chinese Daoist-Confucian syncretic text	-139	Liu An; Chinese Text Project	Link
`I Ching`	I Ching (Yijing / Book of Changes)	Chinese divination classic	-1000	Chinese Text Project	Link
`Idowu`	E. Bolaji Idowu, Olódùmarè: God in Yoruba Belief	Yoruba religion	1962	Longmans, Green & Co.	—
`Irish folklore`	Irish folklore	Irish folk narrative tradition	various	Oral traditions	—
`Ivanov-Toporov`	Vyacheslav Ivanov & Vladimir Toporov, Studies in Slavic Antiquities	Slavic mythology / structural reconstruction	1974	Issledovanija v oblasti slavjanskih drevnostej	—
`Jacobsen`	Thorkild Jacobsen, The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion	Mesopotamian religion	1976	Yale University Press	—
`Japanese Buddhism`	Japanese Buddhism	Buddhist tradition in Japan	600	Tendai, Shingon, Pure Land, Zen, and other schools	—
`Japanese folklore`	Japanese folklore	Japanese folk narrative and myth	various	Kojiki, Nihon Shoki, and folk tale collections	—
`Journey to the West`	Journey to the West (Xīyóu Jì)	Chinese Ming-dynasty novel	1592	Ming dynasty printed edition	Link
`KAI`	Kanaanäische und Aramäische Inschriften	Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions	1962	3 vols., Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden (completed 1971)	Link
`Karttunen`	Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl	Nahuatl lexicon	1983	University of Texas Press	Link
`KEWA`	Kurzgefasstes etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen	Sanskrit	1956	4 vols., Carl Winter	Link
`Kojiki`	Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters)	Japanese chronicle and myth	712	Translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain	Link
`Korean folklore`	Korean folklore	Korean folk narrative tradition	various	Oral and compiled folk tales	—
`Kramer`	Samuel Noah Kramer, The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character	Sumerian civilization and literary texts	1963	University of Chicago Press	Link
`KTU`	Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit	Ugaritic alphabetic cuneiform texts	1976	KTU / KTU², Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (2nd ed. 1995)	—
`Laozi`	Laozi (Daodejing)	Daoist philosophical text	-500	Laozi; Chinese Text Project	Link
`Lebor Gabála`	Lebor Gabála Érenn (The Book of Invasions)	Irish pseudo-history / Mythological Cycle	1100	ed. & trans. R. A. S. Macalister, Irish Texts Society (1938-1956)	Link
`Lewis-Short`	A Latin Dictionary	Latin/Roman	1879	Oxford	Link
`Lotus Sutra`	Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra (Lotus Sutra)	Mahāyāna Buddhist sutra	100	Translated by H. Kern (SBE 21)	Link
`LSJ`	Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek-English Lexicon	Greek	1843	9th ed. with 1996 supplement	Link
`Mabinogion`	The Mabinogion	Welsh prose tales / Celtic mythology	1200	trans. Lady Charlotte Guest (1877) / Gwyn Jones & Thomas Jones (1948)	Link
`Macdonell`	Arthur A. Macdonell, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary	Sanskrit reference dictionary	1893	Oxford; Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries	Link
`MacKillop`	James MacKillop, A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology	Celtic mythology reference	1998	Oxford University Press	Link
`Mahabharata`	Mahābhārata	Sanskrit epic	-400	Vyāsa; translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli	Link
`Mahayana texts`	Mahāyāna Buddhist texts	Buddhist scripture corpus	100	Translated by E. B. Cowell, F. Max Müller, and J. Takakusu (SBE 49)	Link
`Malo`	David Malo, Hawaiian Antiquities (Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi)	Hawaiian history and culture	1838	Bishop Museum Press	—
`Manusmriti`	Manusmṛti (Laws of Manu)	Hindu legal and dharma text	-200	Translated by Georg Bühler (SBE 25)	Link
`Mapuche oral tradition`	Mapuche oral tradition	Mapuche / Araucanian oral narrative	various	Oral tradition	—
`Massola`	Aldo Massola, Bunjil's Cave: Myths, Legends and Superstitions of the Aborigines of South-East Australia	Australian Aboriginal mythology	1968	Lansdowne Press	—
`Mencius`	Mencius (Mengzi)	Confucian dialogues	-300	Mencius; Chinese Text Project	Link
`Métraux`	Alfred Métraux, Myths and Tales of South America	South American mythology	1967	University of Chicago Press	—
`Miklosich`	Franz Miklosich, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der slavischen Sprachen	Slavic historical linguistics	1886	W. Braumüller, Vienna; repr. Cambridge University Press	Link
`Monier-Williams`	Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary	Sanskrit reference dictionary	1899	Oxford; Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries	Link
`Moyle`	Richard Moyle, Tongan Music	Tongan culture and oral tradition	1987	Auckland University Press	—
`Mozi`	Mozi	Mohist philosophical text	-400	Mozi; Chinese Text Project	Link
`Mūlamadhyamakakārikā`	Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way)	Mādhyamaka Buddhist philosophy	150	Nāgārjuna; translated by Jay L. Garfield	Link
`MW`	Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary	Sanskrit	1899	Oxford	Link
`Nahuatl dictionary`	Nahuatl dictionary (collective modern and colonial sources)	Nahuatl lexicon	various	Karttunen, Molina, and modern reference works	—
`Nihon Shoki`	Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan)	Japanese chronicle and myth	720	Translated by W. G. Aston (excerpts)	Link
`Orphic`	Orphic texts and fragments	Orphic Greek religion and poetry	-500	Orphicorum Fragmenta (Kern); Orphic Hymns	Link
`Ovid`	Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses / Fasti / Heroides	Latin poetry / Roman myth	17	Loeb Classical Library	Link
`Oxford`	Oxford Classical Dictionary	Classical antiquity	2012	4th ed., Oxford University Press	Link
`Pali Canon`	Pāli Canon (Tipiṭaka)	Theravāda Buddhist scripture	-300	Pali Text Society / Access to Insight	Link
`Pape-Benseler`	Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen	Greek	1863	3rd ed.	Link
`Parker`	Henry Parker, Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon	Sri Lankan folklore	1910	Luzac & Co.	—
`Pausanias`	Pausanias, Description of Greece	Greek travel and antiquarian literature	180	Loeb Classical Library	Link
`Pindar`	Pindar, Victory Odes (Olympian, Pythian, Nemean, Isthmian)	Greek lyric poetry	-438	Loeb Classical Library	Link
`Plato`	Plato, Dialogues	Greek philosophy	-348	Loeb Classical Library / Oxford Classical Texts	Link
`Plotinus`	Plotinus, Enneads	Neoplatonic philosophy	270	Loeb Classical Library / Oxford Classical Texts	Link
`Plutarch`	Plutarch, Parallel Lives / Moralia	Greek biography and essay	120	Loeb Classical Library	Link
`Poetic Edda`	Poetic Edda (Eddukvæði)	Norse mythological and heroic poetry	1270	ed. Neckel-Kuhn; trans. Carolyn Larrington, Oxford World's Classics (2014)	Link
`Pokorny`	Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch	PIE	1959	2 vols., Francke	Link
`Popol Vuh`	Popol Vuh	K'iche' Maya creation narrative	1550	Translated by Dennis Tedlock	Link
`Primary Chronicle`	Primary Chronicle (Povest' vremennykh let / Tale of Bygone Years)	East Slavic chronicle / Rus' history	1113	trans. Samuel Hazzard Cross & Olgerd P. Sherbowitz-Wetzor, Harvard University Press (1953)	Link
`Prose Edda`	Snorri Sturluson, Prose Edda	Norse mythology / skaldic poetics	1220	trans. Anthony Faulkes, Everyman / Viking Society for Northern Research	Link
`Puranas`	Purāṇas	Hindu mythological corpus	300	Various; Internet Sacred Text Archive selections	Link
`Pythagoras`	Pythagoras of Samos and the Pythagorean tradition	Greek philosophy / religion	-500	Diels-Kranz 14; later Neopythagorean texts	Link
`Ramayana`	Rāmāyaṇa	Sanskrit epic	-500	Vālmīki; translated by Hari Prasad Shastri	Link
`Ṛgveda`	Ṛgveda Saṃhitā	Vedic Sanskrit hymns	-1500	Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith	Link
`Ṝgveda`	Ṛgveda Saṃhitā	Vedic Sanskrit hymns	-1500	Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith	Link
`Rix`	Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben	PIE	2001	2nd ed., Reichert	Link
`RV`	Ṛgveda Saṃhitā	Vedic Sanskrit hymns	-1500	Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith	Link
`Sahagún`	Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex	Nahuatl / Aztec ethnography	1577	General History of the Things of New Spain	Link
`Samguk Yusa`	Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms)	Korean chronicle and Buddhist tales	1281	Iryeon; translated by Ha Tae-Hung and Grafton Mintz	—
`Shakta texts`	Śākta texts	Hindu goddess-oriented scripture	500	Devī Māhātmya, Tantras, and related literature	—
`Shamanic texts`	Shamanic texts	Cross-cultural shamanic literature	various	Ethnographic recordings and compilations	—
`Shan Hai Jing`	Shan Hai Jing (Classic of Mountains and Seas)	Chinese mythogeography	-400	Chinese Text Project	Link
`Shiji`	Shiji (Records of the Grand Historian)	Chinese history	-91	Sima Qian; Chinese Text Project	Link
`Shinto`	Shinto	Japanese indigenous religious tradition	various	Kojiki, Nihon Shoki, shrine rituals, and folk practice	—
`Shiva Purana`	Śiva Purāṇa	Hindu Śaiva purāṇa	500	English translation by J. L. Shastri	Link
`Smith`	William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology	Classical biography and mythology	1849	3 vols., London	Link
`Smyth`	Greek Grammar	Greek	1920	Harvard University Press	Link
`Sophocles`	Sophocles, Tragedies	Greek tragedy	-406	Loeb Classical Library / Oxford Classical Texts	Link
`Stoics`	Stoic philosophers (Zeno, Chrysippus, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, etc.)	Hellenistic philosophy	-300	Fragments and extant works	Link
`Strehlow`	T. G. H. Strehlow, Aranda Traditions	Australian Aboriginal (Arrernte) mythology	1947	Melbourne University Press	—
`Sukhavati-vyuha`	Sukhāvatī-vyūha Sūtras	Pure Land Buddhist scripture	100	Translated by F. Max Müller (SBE 49)	Link
`Táin Bó Cúailnge`	Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley)	Irish Ulster Cycle epic	800	ed. & trans. Cecile O'Rahilly, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies	Link
`Tantric texts`	Tantric texts	Hindu and Buddhist esoteric corpus	600	Various traditions and recensions	—
`Tregear`	The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary	Polynesian	1891	Lyon and Blair	Link
`Ugaritic texts`	Ugaritic Textual Corpus	Ugaritic alphabetic and syllabic texts	-1200	Ras Shamra–Ugarit corpus (KTU / CUSAS)	Link
`Upaniṣads`	Upaniṣads	Vedantic philosophical texts	-800	Translated by F. Max Müller (SBE 1, 15)	Link
`Upanishads`	Upaniṣads	Vedantic philosophical texts	-800	Translated by F. Max Müller (SBE 1, 15)	Link
`Vajrayana texts`	Vajrayāna / Tibetan Buddhist texts	Esoteric Buddhist corpus	700	Translated by C. A. Musés and others	Link
`Vendryes`	Lexique étymologique de l'irlandais ancien	Celtic	1959	Dublin Institute	Link
`Virgil`	Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Aeneid / Eclogues / Georgics	Latin poetry / Roman myth	-19	Loeb Classical Library / Oxford Classical Texts	Link
`Wb`	Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache (Erman-Grapow)	Egyptian	1926	5 vols.	Link
`Wb, jmn`	Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, lemma jmn	Egyptian lexicon entry for jmn (Amun)	1926	Erman-Grapow, De Gruyter / Hinrichs	Link
`Welsh Triads`	Trioedd Ynys Prydein (The Welsh Triads)	Welsh bardic lore / Arthurian tradition	1250	ed. Rachel Bromwich, University of Wales Press (1961; 4th ed. 2014)	Link
`West`	M. L. West, The Orphic Poems	Orphic Greek poetry and theogony	1983	Clarendon Press, Oxford	—
`Wiggermann`	Frans A. M. Wiggermann, Mesopotamian Protective Spirits: The Ritual Texts	Mesopotamian demonology and iconography	1992	Styx Publications, Groningen	—
`Wu Cheng'en`	Wu Cheng'en, Journey to the West	Chinese novelist	1500	Author of Xiyouji	Link
`Yang`	Yang Jwing-Ming, Qigong and Chinese martial-arts literature	Chinese health and spiritual traditions	1988	YMAA Publication Center	—
`Yasht`	Yašts (Young Avestan hymns to divine entities)	Young Avestan hymn collection	-800	Yasht collection	Link
`Yoga Sutras`	Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali	Sanskrit yoga philosophy	200	Translated by Charles Johnston	Link
`Yogacara texts`	Yogācāra Buddhist texts	Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy	400	Asaṅga, Vasubandhu, and commentarial literature	—
`Zhou Dunyi`	Zhou Dunyi (Lianxi)	Chinese Neo-Confucian philosopher	1017	Northern Song; author of Taijitu shuo	Link
`Zhuangzi`	Zhuangzi	Daoist philosophical text	-300	Zhuangzi; Chinese Text Project	Link
`Zoëga`	A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic	Norse	1910	Oxford	Link

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Building the Temple: A Technical Retrospective

Hand-crafting archetype temples taught us about canvas performance and the weight of a single diacritic.

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