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The History of God
SOURCES

Editorial bibliography

Sources

Internal editorial reports

  • The History and Archetypes of Gods and Goddesses

    Top-100 named deities organized into 10 archetypes. Editorial spine for canonical entries.

  • Reports III–VI: Extended Pantheons

    600+ additional named deities across Hindu, Vedic, Yoruba, Akan, Fon, Slavic, Celtic, and Bantu traditions.

  • 200 Names and Titles of the One God

    Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, and Arabic names from early Israelite, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.

  • 200 Native American Deities, Spirits, and Sacred Figures

    Organized by cultural region: Plains, Southwest, Northeast, Southeast, Pacific Northwest, Arctic, Mesoamerica.

  • Ancient Near Eastern Religions and Early Israelite Religion

    Canaanite pantheon and the henotheistic substrate of early Yahwism.

  • 50 Biblical Theophanies in Canonical Order

    From Genesis 3:8 (God in the Garden) to Acts 9:3 (Paul on the road) and Qur'an 7:143 (Moses and the Mountain).

External references

  • Mythopedia — A Global Encyclopedia of Deities and Mythology.
  • Encyclopedia Britannica — Comparative Religion: The Development of Divine Hierarchies.
  • The British Museum — Ancient Civilizations: Gods and Goddesses of the Near East and Mediterranean.
  • Oxford Reference — A Dictionary of World Mythology.
  • The Poetic Edda — Norse Mythology and the Aesir-Vanir Tradition.
  • World History Encyclopedia — Aztec, Mayan, and Inca Pantheons.
  • Yoruba Cultural Heritage Center — The Orishas: Forces of Nature and Human Consciousness.
  • Hindu Scripture Archive — The Vedas and Puranas: Deities of the Trimurti and Beyond.
  • Shinto Portal — The Kami of Japan: Sun, Storm, and Ancestry.
  • History Cooperative — The Evolution of Ancient Religions: From Animism to Polytheism.

Generation tooling

  • Higgsfield Seedream v4.5 — Image generation against authored prompts.
  • Kling — 5-second video loop generation against the same prompts.
  • Microsoft Neural Voices via edge-tts — Audio narration synthesis.
  • sharp, ffmpeg, Astro, Firebase Hosting, GitHub — Build, deploy, version control.

Per-entry source attribution will be added inline on each deity page in a subsequent build. The current archive is interpretive and editorial — please consult primary sources for any specific tradition's iconography, theology, or living practice.