{"collection":"Site Catalog","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_cat_tls_b_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_cat_tls_b_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_cat_tls_b_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cat/tls_b.htm","summary":"This is a bibliographic title list \u2014 specifically an alphabetical catalog of works beginning with \"B\" from what appears to be a digital sacred texts or world religions archive (likely sacred-texts.com or a similar repository). The collection spans an enormous range of religious, mythological, folkloric, and esoteric traditions, including ancient Mesopotamian texts (Babylonian creation myths, Gilgamesh), major world scriptures (Bible in multiple versions, Bhagavad Gita, Buddhist suttas), indigenous and oral traditions (Blackfoot Lodge Tales, Basque Legends, Trobriand Islands ethnography), and Western occult/esoteric works (Abramelin the Mage, Book of Ceremonial Magic, Austin Osman Spare). Publication dates range from antiquity through the early 20th century, with most editorial translations clustered in the Victorian and Edwardian eras (roughly 1860\u20131930). The list makes no argument of its own \u2014 it is purely a finding aid \u2014 but its distinctive character lies in its radical eclecticism: canonical texts like the King James Bible sit alongside Maori belief systems, Freemasonic texts, Charles Fort's anomalous phenomena, and Baha'i scripture without hierarchy or editorial commentary. Anyone seeking a survey of what texts were considered significant to comparative religion, mythology, and occultism in the early 20th century would find this list a useful map of that intellectual landscape.","tags":["Sacred-Texts Bibliography"],"text":null,"title":"Site Catalog: Title List: Title List: B","tradition":"Site Catalog","translated_text":null,"word_count":793}