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The texts Samay draws from, organised alphabetically by tradition. Each link goes to the Wikipedia article on the text, where you will find historical context, summaries, and links to public-domain translations.

Aztec Sun Stone (Tonalpohualli)
Mexica calendar stone, c. 1479 CE
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Codex Borgia
Pre-Columbian ritual manuscript, c. 1300–1521 CE
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Codex Mendoza
Aztec pictorial document, c. 1541 CE
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Florentine Codex / Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España
Bernardino de Sahagún, c. 1577 CE
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Legend of the Five Suns / Leyenda de los Soles
Nahuatl creation narrative, c. 1558 CE
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Sacred Hymns of the Aztecs / Cantares Mexicanos
Nahuatl sacred songs, collected c. 1560–1580 CE
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Blue Cliff Record / Biyanlu
Zen koan collection, compiled c. 1125 CE
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Bodhicaryaāvatāra / Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life
Śāntideva, c. 700 CE
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Dhammapada
Pali Canon, c. 3rd century BCE — 423 verses on the nature of mind; the most widely read Buddhist text
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Gateless Gate / Wumenguan
Zen koan collection, c. 1228 CE
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Heart Sutra / Prajñāpāramitā H᭜daya
Mahāyāna sūtra on emptiness and form, c. 7th century CE
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Majjhima Nikāya / Middle Length Discourses
Core teaching discourses of the Buddha, Pali Canon
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Milindapañha / Questions of King Milinda
Dialogue on Buddhist philosophy, c. 100 BCE–200 CE
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Pali Canon / Tipiṭaka
Complete Theravāda Buddhist scriptures, c. 500–250 BCE
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Tibetan Book of the Dead / Bardo Thodol
Attributed to Padmasambhava, compiled c. 8th century CE
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Vimalakirti Sutra
Mahāyāna text on non-duality and lay practice, c. 100 CE
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Diamond Sutra / Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā
Mahayana sutra on emptiness and the nature of perception. Famous for the bodhisattva paradox — that clinging to the idea of being a bodhisattva makes one not a bodhisattva. World’s earliest dated printed book (868 CE).
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Lotus Sutra / Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra
One of the most influential Mahayana sutras. Contains the parable of the burning house — children playing inside while it burns, drawn out by the promise of carts of toys. Teaches skilful means: meeting people where they are.
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Platform Sutra of Huineng
Chan/Zen text recounting how an illiterate kitchen worker became the sixth patriarch by writing a single verse on a wall. The core teaching: enlightenment is sudden, available to anyone, not the property of learning.
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Arthurian Cycle
Medieval legends, various authors, 12th–15th century CE
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Cath Maige Tuired / Battle of Mag Tuired
Irish mythological battle narrative
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Irish Mythological Cycle
Written c. 1100–1200 CE from oral traditions
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Táin Bó Cúailnge / The Cattle Raid of Cooley
Central Ulster Cycle epic, featuring Cú Chulainn
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Welsh Mabinogion
Compiled c. 1350–1410 CE from earlier oral tradition
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Amduat / That Which is in the Underworld
Royal funerary text describing the sun's nightly journey, c. 1500 BCE
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Book of the Dead / Pert em hru
Ancient Egyptian funerary texts, c. 1550–50 BCE
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Coffin Texts
Funerary spells on Middle Kingdom coffins, c. 2134–2040 BCE
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Instructions of Amenemope
Egyptian wisdom text, c. 1300–1000 BCE
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Maxims of Ptahhotep
c. 2400 BCE — one of the oldest written philosophical works
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Pyramid Texts
Oldest known religious texts, c. 2400–2300 BCE
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Tale of Sinuhe
Egyptian narrative on exile, identity, and belonging, c. 1900 BCE
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Tale of the Eloquent Peasant
Egyptian literary text on justice and rhetoric, c. 2100 BCE
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Homeric Hymns
Collection of hymns to the Olympian gods, c. 7th–5th century BCE
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Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle on virtue, happiness, and the good life, c. 350 BCE
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Politics / Politika
Aristotle, c. 350 BCE
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Republic / Politeia
Plato, c. 375 BCE
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Symposium
Plato on love, beauty, and the nature of eros, c. 385–370 BCE
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The Iliad
Homer, c. 8th century BCE
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The Odyssey
Homer, c. 8th century BCE
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Theogony
Hesiod, c. 700 BCE
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Works and Days
Hesiod on justice, labour, and human seasons, c. 700 BCE
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Plutarch's Parallel Lives / Bioi Paralleloi
Biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen and military leaders presented in pairs — Alexander with Caesar, Demosthenes with Cicero — each compared to illuminate character through contrast. A foundational work of biographical writing.
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Books of Chilam Balam
Yucatec Maya manuscripts, 16th–18th century CE
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Dresden Codex
Maya hieroglyphic manuscript — astronomical and ritual almanacs, c. 1200–1250 CE
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Madrid Codex / Tro-Cortesianus
Maya hieroglyphic manuscript on divination and ritual, c. 900–1521 CE
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Paris Codex / Peresianus
Maya hieroglyphic manuscript on prophecy and ceremony
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Popol Vuh
K'iche' Maya creation epic — the Hero Twins, descent into Xibalba; written c. 1550 CE from oral tradition
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Rabinal Achí
K'iche' Maya dramatic text — the only intact pre-Columbian drama, c. 15th century CE
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Cloud of Unknowing
Anonymous English mystical text, c. 1375 CE
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Confessions / Confessiones
Augustine of Hippo, c. 397–400 CE
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Dark Night of the Soul / Noche Oscura del Alma
John of the Cross, c. 1577 CE
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Interior Castle / El Castillo Interior
Teresa of Ávila, 1577 CE
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Revelations of Divine Love
Julian of Norwich, c. 1373–1393 CE
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Sayings of the Desert Fathers / Apophthegmata Patrum
4th–5th century CE oral traditions
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Sermons
Meister Eckhart, c. 1260–1328 CE — on the ground of the soul and union with the divine
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The Life of Moses / Vita Moysis
Gregory of Nyssa, c. 390 CE
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Imitation of Christ / De Imitatione Christi — Thomas à Kempis
15th-century devotional text. 'What doth it profit thee to enter into deep discussion concerning the Holy Trinity, if thou lack humility?' Practical, anti-intellectual in the best sense: living the teaching matters more than mastering the doctrine.
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The Practice of the Presence of God — Brother Lawrence
17th-century Carmelite lay brother who worked in the monastery kitchen. His practice: to do whatever he was doing — washing dishes, repairing sandals — for the love of God. Letters and conversations collected after his death.
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Egil's Saga
Icelandic saga on the poet-warrior Egil Skallgrímsson, c. 13th century CE
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Njáls Saga
Greatest of the Icelandic sagas — on fate, honour, and the limits of revenge, c. 1280 CE
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Poetic Edda / Elder Edda
Old Norse poetry including Völuspá and Hávamal (Odin's wisdom sayings); compiled c. 1270 CE
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Prose Edda
Snorri Sturluson, c. 1220 CE — systematic account of Norse mythology
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Völsunga Saga
The story of Sigurd, the dragon, and the cursed gold, c. 13th century CE
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Hávamál / Sayings of the High One
Odin's own practical wisdom, preserved in the Poetic Edda. Counsel on travel, friendship, drink, women, runes, and death. Hard-edged, plainspoken: 'A man should be moderately wise, not over-wise. Over-wise men are seldom happy.'
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Sagas of Icelanders / Íslendingasögur
Prose narratives of 9th–11th-century Icelandic families — Njál's Saga, Egil's Saga, Laxdæla Saga. Moral complexity, feud, foresight, and the choice to stay even when leaving was possible. The literature of consequence.
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Book of Five Rings / Go Rin No Sho
Miyamoto Musashi, 1645 CE — on strategy as self-discipline
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Hagakure / In the Shadow of Leaves
Yamamoto Tsunetomo, c. 1709–1716 CE — on duty, death, and the warrior's path
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Kojiki / Record of Ancient Matters
Oldest chronicle of Japan, 712 CE — creation myths, Amaterasu, Izanagi and Izanami
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Nihon Shoki / Chronicles of Japan
Second-oldest chronicle of Japan, 720 CE
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Pillow Book / Makura no Sōshi
Sei Shōnagon, c. 1002 CE — observations on beauty, nature, and mono no aware
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The Tale of Genji / Genji Monogatari
Murasaki Shikibu, c. 1008 CE — the world's first novel; a meditation on impermanence and longing
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Afanasyev's Russian Fairy Tales
Alexander Afanasyev, collected 1855–1867 CE — Baba Yaga, the Firebird, Koschei the Deathless
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Byliny / Russian Epic Songs
Oral heroic poetry of Kievan Rus, collected 17th–19th century CE
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Dove Book / Golubinaya Kniga
Slavic cosmological poem on the origins of the world, recorded 16th–17th century CE
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Primary Chronicle / Povest' vremennykh let
Attributed to Nestor of the Kiev Caves, c. 1113 CE
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Aeneid
Virgil, c. 29–19 BCE
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De Officiis / On Duties
Cicero, 44 BCE
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Discourses / Diatribai
Epictetus, c. 108 CE — on freedom, choice, and what is in our control
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Enchiridion / Handbook
Epictetus, c. 125 CE — the Stoic manual; the dichotomy of control
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Letters to Lucilius / Epistulae Morales
Seneca, c. 65 CE — 124 letters on how to live
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Meditations / Ta Eis Heauton
Marcus Aurelius, c. 161–180 CE — private journal never intended for publication
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Metamorphoses
Ovid, c. 8 CE — transformation as the central fact of existence
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On the Shortness of Life / De Brevitate Vitae
Seneca, c. 49 CE
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Lectures and Sayings of Musonius Rufus
1st-century Roman Stoic who taught that women should study philosophy as men do, that farming is dignified work for a philosopher, and that marriage is a partnership of equals. Epictetus' teacher.
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Conference of the Birds / Mantiq ut-Tayr
Attar of Nishapur, c. 1177 CE
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Divan-i Shams-i Tabrizi
Rumi, 13th century CE — lyric poems written after meeting Shams of Tabriz
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Fusus al-Hikam / Bezels of Wisdom
Ibn Arabi, 1229 CE — on the divine names and the unity of being
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Gulistan / Rose Garden
Sa'di of Shiraz, 1258 CE
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Kimiya-yi Sa'adat / Alchemy of Happiness
Al-Ghazali, c. 1106 CE
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Masnavi / Mathnawi
Rumi, c. 1258–1273 CE — six books; opens with the reed flute's cry of separation
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Rubaiyat
Omar Khayyam, c. 1048–1131 CE
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Treatise on Being / Risale-i Hasti
Yunus Emre, 13th–14th century CE — Turkish Sufi poet on love and unity
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Divan of Hafiz
Collected ghazals of the 14th-century Persian master Hafiz. Imagery of the moth and the flame, wine and the cup, the beloved and the seeker — surface readings of love and intoxication that point underneath to union with the divine.
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Analects / Lunyu
Confucius, c. 500–400 BCE
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Art of War / Sunzi Bingfa
Sun Tzu, c. 500 BCE
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Book of Lord Shang / Shangjun Shu
Legalist text on governance, c. 4th century BCE
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I Ching / Book of Changes
c. 1000–750 BCE
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Liezi
Taoist text on spontaneity and fate, c. 300–400 CE
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Tao Te Ching
Laozi, c. 400 BCE — 81 chapters; the foundational Taoist text
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Zhuangzi
Zhuang Zhou, c. 369–286 BCE
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Arthashastra
Kautilya / Chanakya, c. 300 BCE — statecraft, economics, and political philosophy
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Bhagavad Gita
Part of Mahabharata, c. 400–200 BCE — duty, action, and the self
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Mahabharata
c. 400 BCE–400 CE — the world's longest epic
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Panchatantra
Vishnu Sharma, c. 300 BCE — fables on wisdom and statecraft
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Ramayana
Valmiki, c. 500 BCE–100 CE — duty, exile, devotion, and right action
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Upanishads
Philosophical texts on reality and the self, c. 800–500 BCE
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Vedas (Rigveda, Samaveda, Yajurveda, Atharvaveda)
c. 1500–500 BCE — hymns, cosmology, and the oldest layer of Indian thought
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Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
c. 400 CE — 196 aphorisms on the nature of mind and the path to stillness
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Anansi Stories
Akan oral tradition, West Africa — the spider-trickster who keeps all stories
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Ifá Divination Corpus / Odù Ifá
256 Odù chapters; UNESCO Intangible Heritage
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Oriki / Praise Poetry
Yoruba oral tradition — praise poems encoding history and identity
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Ubuntu Philosophy
Pan-African philosophical tradition — umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu
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