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{"id": "DISC-0017", "item_id": "ITEM-0008", "source_id": "SRC-0014", "year": "1838", "date_precision": "year", "disclosure_method": "academic_research", "extent": "summary", "coverage": "", "review_status": "unreviewed", "notes": "", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0008", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0006", "name": "Kitāb al-Ḥikma (Epistles of Wisdom)", "secrecy_type": "restricted_scripture", "restricted_to": "Initiated members (ʿuqqāl)", "restriction_mechanism": "vow;social_sanction", "stated_reason": "Sacred knowledge reserved for the initiated", "current_status": "practiced", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "The core scriptural corpus of the Druze faith.", "notes": ""}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0006", "name": "Druze", "tradition_type": "religion", "founded": "11th century", "region": "Levant", "status": "active", "wikidata": "Q163943", "notes": "Divided into initiated (ʿuqqāl) and uninitiated (juhhāl) members."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0014", "title": "Exposé de la religion des Druzes", "author": "Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy", "original_year": "1838", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "book", "url": "https://archive.org/details/exposdelareligi00sacygoog", "identifiers": "ia:exposdelareligi00sacygoog", "provenance": "archival_collection", "source_authenticity": "unassessed", "verification_notes": "", "rights": "public_domain", "content_hash": "", "notes": "Based on manuscripts held in European libraries. Two volumes; Internet Archive holds several Google Books scans.", "artifacts": []}, "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0014", "code": "source_authenticity_unassessed", "message": "Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0014", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "disclosures", "record_id": "DISC-0017", "code": "record_unreviewed", "message": "Record review status is unreviewed; review is not proof of truth."}, {"table": "disclosures", "record_id": "DISC-0017", "code": "disclosure_without_coverage", "message": "The parts, version or edition covered by this disclosure have not been specified."}, {"table": "restricted_items", "record_id": "ITEM-0008", "code": "status_without_dated_evidence", "message": "The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked."}]}
{"id": "DISC-0018", "item_id": "ITEM-0009", "source_id": "SRC-0015", "year": "1977", "date_precision": "year", "disclosure_method": "court_record", "extent": "partial", "coverage": "The puja ceremony; not the individual mantras.", "review_status": "unreviewed", "notes": "", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0009", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0007", "name": "Initiation puja and personal mantra", "secrecy_type": "transmitted_technique", "restricted_to": "Individual students", "restriction_mechanism": "fee;oral_only", "stated_reason": "Effectiveness depends on correct personal instruction", "current_status": "practiced", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "A Sanskrit ceremony performed at instruction and a mantra given privately to each student.", "notes": ""}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0007", "name": "Transcendental Meditation", "tradition_type": "meditation_movement", "founded": "1955", "region": "India / worldwide", "status": "active", "wikidata": "Q7833866", "notes": "Presents itself as a non-religious technique; its religious status is disputed. In Malnak v. Yogi (1977–1979) US federal courts held that its school course was religious in nature."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0015", "title": "Malnak v. Yogi (440 F. Supp. 1284 / 592 F.2d 197)", "author": "US District Court D.N.J. / US Court of Appeals 3rd Cir.", "original_year": "1977–1979", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "court_record", "url": "https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1817490/malnak-v-yogi/", "identifiers": "courtlistener:1817490", "provenance": "court_filing", "source_authenticity": "unassessed", "verification_notes": "", "rights": "court_record", "content_hash": "", "notes": "Court examined the puja chant and ruled the TM course religious in nature. Linked opinion is the district court ruling (440 F. Supp. 1284).", "artifacts": []}, "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0015", "code": "source_authenticity_unassessed", "message": "Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0015", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "disclosures", "record_id": "DISC-0018", "code": "record_unreviewed", "message": "Record review status is unreviewed; review is not proof of truth."}, {"table": "restricted_items", "record_id": "ITEM-0009", "code": "status_without_dated_evidence", "message": "The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked."}]}
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{"id": "DISC-0062", "item_id": "ITEM-0033", "source_id": "SRC-0069", "year": "1996", "date_precision": "year", "disclosure_method": "defector_testimony", "extent": "summary", "coverage": "The existence and secrecy of one lama's consort relationship; no ritual instructions", "review_status": "reviewed", "notes": "", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0033", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0009", "name": "Karmamudrā: sexual practice with a consort", "secrecy_type": "transmitted_technique", "restricted_to": "Advanced tantric practitioners and their consorts", "restriction_mechanism": "vow;oral_only", "stated_reason": "Highest yoga tantra practices are bound by samaya and disclosed only to qualified initiates", "current_status": "practiced", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "Use of an actual sexual partner (as distinct from a visualised one) in the completion stage of highest yoga tantra, including by lamas who were publicly monks.", "notes": ""}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0009", "name": "Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana)", "tradition_type": "religious_branch", "founded": "8th century (transmission to Tibet)", "region": "Tibet / Himalaya / worldwide", "status": "active", "wikidata": "Q483889", "notes": "Tantric practice is organised by lineages of the Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya and Gelug schools."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0069", "title": "The Emperor's Tantric Robes: An Interview with June Campbell", "author": "Helen Tworkov (interviewer); June Campbell", "original_year": "1996", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "testimony", "url": "https://tricycle.org/magazine/the-emperors-tantric-robes/", "identifiers": "", "provenance": "defector_account", "source_authenticity": "unassessed", "verification_notes": "", "rights": "copyrighted", "content_hash": "", "notes": "Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Winter 1996; interview held in New York in June 1996. Read on 2026-11-04.", "artifacts": []}, "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0069", "code": "source_authenticity_unassessed", "message": "Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0069", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "restricted_items", "record_id": "ITEM-0033", "code": "status_without_dated_evidence", "message": "The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked."}]}
{"id": "DISC-0063", "item_id": "ITEM-0034", "source_id": "SRC-0071", "year": "2020", "date_precision": "year", "disclosure_method": "academic_research", "extent": "summary", "coverage": "Outline of the ritual steps and its promised result", "review_status": "reviewed", "notes": "", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0034", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0010", "name": "Skull ritual (dokuro honzon) attributed to the Tachikawa lineage", "secrecy_type": "transmitted_technique", "restricted_to": "Initiates receiving the secret transmission", "restriction_mechanism": "oral_only", "stated_reason": "", "current_status": "discontinued", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "A medieval Japanese esoteric rite in which a human skull is consecrated, built up with layers of sexual fluids and lacquer, and kept for years until it is believed to speak.", "notes": "Known mainly from the polemic Juhō yōjin shū by the monk Shinjō (c. 1270). Whether it belonged to the Tachikawa lineage is disputed."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0010", "name": "Shingon Buddhism", "tradition_type": "religious_branch", "founded": "early 9th century (Kūkai)", "region": "Japan", "status": "active", "wikidata": "Q550182", "notes": "Main centres at Mount Kōya and Tō-ji."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0071", "title": "Review of Gaétan Rappo, Rhétoriques de l'hérésie dans le Japon médiéval et moderne", "author": "Steven Trenson", "original_year": "2020", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "academic", "url": "https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/journal/6/article/1524/pdf/download", "identifiers": "", "provenance": "scholarship", "source_authenticity": "verified", "verification_notes": "Read in the publisher's PDF on 2026-11-04.", "rights": "copyrighted", "content_hash": "", "notes": "Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 47/1 (2020), pp. 177–182.", "artifacts": []}, "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0071", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "restricted_items", "record_id": "ITEM-0034", "code": "status_without_dated_evidence", "message": "The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked."}]}
{"id": "DISC-0064", "item_id": "ITEM-0014", "source_id": "SRC-0068", "year": "2003", "date_precision": "year", "disclosure_method": "academic_research", "extent": "partial", "coverage": "Reconstruction of the early Kaula fluid-exchange rite from Sanskrit sources, with translations", "review_status": "unreviewed", "notes": "Coverage as described in SRC-0067.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0014", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0011", "name": "Kaula ritual of the five elements (pañcatattva)", "secrecy_type": "closed_liturgy", "restricted_to": "Initiates gathered in a ritual circle (cakra)", "restriction_mechanism": "grade_requirement;social_sanction", "stated_reason": "The rite is held to be dangerous for, or misunderstood by, the uninitiated", "current_status": "unknown", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "A rite using five substances or acts conventionally forbidden in orthodox practice, interpreted literally or symbolically depending on the lineage.", "notes": ""}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0011", "name": "Śākta Tantra (Kaula and Śrīvidyā)", "tradition_type": "religious_branch", "founded": "c. 9th–11th century", "region": "India / Nepal", "status": "active", "wikidata": "Q849345", "notes": "Goddess-centred tantric lineages; the Wikidata item is for Shaktism as a whole."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0068", "title": "Kiss of the Yoginī: \"Tantric Sex\" in Its South Asian Contexts", "author": "David Gordon White", "original_year": "2003", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "book", "url": "", "identifiers": "isbn:0226894835", "provenance": "scholarship", "source_authenticity": "unassessed", "verification_notes": "", "rights": "copyrighted", "content_hash": "", "notes": "University of Chicago Press. Not yet read directly for this dataset; its arguments are recorded here through SRC-0067.", "artifacts": []}, "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0068", "code": "source_authenticity_unassessed", "message": "Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0068", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "disclosures", "record_id": "DISC-0064", "code": "record_unreviewed", "message": "Record review status is unreviewed; review is not proof of truth."}]}
{"id": "DISC-0065", "item_id": "ITEM-0035", "source_id": "SRC-0075", "year": "1891", "date_precision": "year", "disclosure_method": "academic_research", "extent": "full", "coverage": "Hoffman describes the ceremonies of all four degrees, with songs, mnemonic birch-bark charts and the preparatory instruction; not yet checked degree by degree", "review_status": "unreviewed", "notes": "Hoffman says the chief priests agreed to impart the rites to him (CLM-0081).", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0035", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0027", "name": "Degree initiations and the 'shooting' of the migis shell", "secrecy_type": "initiatory_rite", "restricted_to": "Initiated Mide' of the corresponding degree", "restriction_mechanism": "fee;grade_requirement;oral_only", "stated_reason": "Secrets and remedies that have been paid for lose their virtue if passed on for nothing (CLM-0080)", "current_status": "practiced", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "The ceremonies of the four degrees, in which officiating priests 'shoot' the sacred migis shell into the candidate with their medicine bags, and the songs, remedies and instruction given at each degree.", "notes": ""}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0027", "name": "Midewiwin (Grand Medicine Society)", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "unknown", "region": "Great Lakes and upper Mississippi (Ojibwe and neighbouring Anishinaabe peoples)", "status": "active", "wikidata": "Q538136", "notes": "A graded medicine society of Mide' priests, entered by initiation and payment; its songs and teachings are recorded on birch-bark scrolls."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0075", "title": "The Midē'wiwin or \"Grand Medicine Society\" of the Ojibwa", "author": "Walter James Hoffman", "original_year": "1891", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "academic", "url": "https://archive.org/details/b24883670", "identifiers": "ia:b24883670", "provenance": "academic_fieldwork", "source_authenticity": "unassessed", "verification_notes": "", "rights": "public_domain", "content_hash": "", "notes": "Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1885–'86 (Washington, 1891), pp. 143–300. Hoffman's fieldwork in Minnesota followed a Bureau survey with Garrick Mallery. Read in the Internet Archive text on 2026-11-04.", "artifacts": []}, "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0075", "code": "source_authenticity_unassessed", "message": "Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0075", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "disclosures", "record_id": "DISC-0065", "code": "record_unreviewed", "message": "Record review status is unreviewed; review is not proof of truth."}, {"table": "restricted_items", "record_id": "ITEM-0035", "code": "status_without_dated_evidence", "message": "The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked."}]}
{"id": "DISC-0066", "item_id": "ITEM-0036", "source_id": "SRC-0076", "year": "1897", "date_precision": "year", "disclosure_method": "academic_research", "extent": "partial", "coverage": "The hamatsa's seclusion, return, biting and corpse-eating, the preparation of the corpse and the hamatsa songs; Boas's text for pp. 436–443 checked", "review_status": "unreviewed", "notes": "", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0036", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0028", "name": "Hamatsa initiation and the eating of flesh", "secrecy_type": "initiatory_rite", "restricted_to": "Initiated members of the hamatsa society and the other winter-ceremonial societies", "restriction_mechanism": "grade_requirement;social_sanction", "stated_reason": "Not yet recorded from a Kwakwaka'wakw source", "current_status": "modified", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "The initiation of a new hamatsa, who is held to be taken away to the woods by the cannibal spirit BaxbakualanuXsiwae and returns possessed, biting people and eating human flesh before he is tamed.", "notes": "Boas (SRC-0076, pp. 440–441) already reports that by the 1890s the biting was done by a sleight of hand (CLM-0082)."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0028", "name": "Kwakwaka'wakw religion", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "ancient", "region": "Northern Vancouver Island and the adjacent mainland coast (British Columbia)", "status": "active", "wikidata": "", "notes": "Older literature calls the people Kwakiutl. The winter ceremonial is organised in dancing societies led by the hamatsa (Wikidata Q5644160 for the hamatsa). Wikidata has no item for the religion."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0076", "title": "The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians", "author": "Franz Boas", "original_year": "1897", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "academic", "url": "https://archive.org/details/socialorganizati00boas", "identifiers": "ia:socialorganizati00boas", "provenance": "academic_fieldwork", "source_authenticity": "unassessed", "verification_notes": "", "rights": "public_domain", "content_hash": "", "notes": "Report of the U.S. National Museum for 1895 (Washington, 1897), pp. 311–738. Read in the Internet Archive text on 2026-11-04.", "artifacts": []}, "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0076", "code": "source_authenticity_unassessed", "message": "Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0076", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "disclosures", "record_id": "DISC-0066", "code": "record_unreviewed", "message": "Record review status is unreviewed; review is not proof of truth."}, {"table": "restricted_items", "record_id": "ITEM-0036", "code": "status_without_dated_evidence", "message": "The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked."}]}
{"id": "DISC-0067", "item_id": "ITEM-0037", "source_id": "SRC-0080", "year": "1692", "date_precision": "day", "disclosure_method": "court_record", "extent": "partial", "coverage": "Paulsen's own explanation of the 25 figures on his drum and of its uses, given in court", "review_status": "unreviewed", "notes": "Recorded on 9–10 February 1692; coverage as described in SRC-0079. Selected passages of a 1903-based edited transcription inspected on 2026-11-04; full original leaves and all 25 figure readings not collated. Disclosure review status remains unreviewed.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0037", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0029", "name": "The noaidi drum (goavddis) and the meaning of its figures", "secrecy_type": "transmitted_technique", "restricted_to": "Noaidi and drum owners", "restriction_mechanism": "social_sanction;oral_only", "stated_reason": "Not yet recorded from a Sámi source", "current_status": "unknown", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "The drum painted with figures of gods, spirits, people and animals, struck to move a pointer across the figures for divination, healing and finding lost things, and the knowledge of what each figure means.", "notes": "Nearly all early knowledge of the figures comes from missionaries and court records (CLM-0086)."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0029", "name": "Sámi religion (noaidi practice)", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "ancient", "region": "Sápmi (northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula)", "status": "dormant", "wikidata": "Q735329", "notes": "Ritual specialists (noaidi) used the drum (goavddis, runebomme) for divination and healing. The practice was prosecuted as witchcraft by Danish-Norwegian and Swedish authorities in the 17th and 18th centuries (CLM-0087)."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0080", "title": "Court record of the trial of Anders Paulsen, Vadsø, 9–10 February 1692", "author": "Finnmark local court (Niels Knagenhielm, sorenskriver)", "original_year": "1692", "edition_year": "1903", "source_type": "court_record", "url": "https://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Forh%C3%B8rsprotokol_over_Anders_Poulsen", "identifiers": "", "provenance": "court_filing;archival_collection", "source_authenticity": "unassessed", "verification_notes": "Recovery review 2026-11-04: inspected online transcription, opening testimony, selected drum figures, source credit and editorial footnotes. The page identifies Qvigstad’s 1903 edition, combining the 1692 court protocol with variants from Knag’s relation dated 1693 about a 1691 interrogation. This is an edited transcription, not an archival facsimile; the 1693 heading does not replace the 1692 trial date. Conflicting testimony and hostile judicial terminology remain attributed.", "rights": "public_domain", "content_hash": "", "notes": "Original archival leaves have not been collated. The earlier evidence came through SRC-0078/SRC-0079 and SRC-0086, which derive from this record; the recovered transcription is not an independent witness. Edition year 1903 identifies the transcription’s credited print base, not the date of the webpage.", "artifacts": [{"id": "ARTF-0044", "source_id": "SRC-0080", "artifact_kind": "transcript", "media_type": "text/html", "url": "https://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Forh%C3%B8rsprotokol_over_Anders_Poulsen", "ipfs_cid": "", "btih": "", "member_path": "", "sha256": "8d5a09c187d69302ae100e7b36641ee68b97ffe86129218ed608146d9046e056", "size_bytes": "67342", "inspection_status": "partial", "inspected_parts": "Opening interrogation, selected drum-figure explanations, source credit and editorial footnotes 1–3", "accessed_on": "2026-11-04", "notes": "Edited web transcription attributed to Qvigstad 1903; not the original court manuscript. Full captured HTML includes navigation; only the stated passages were reviewed."}]}, "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0080", "code": "source_authenticity_unassessed", "message": "Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0080", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "disclosures", "record_id": "DISC-0067", "code": "record_unreviewed", "message": "Record review status is unreviewed; review is not proof of truth."}, {"table": "source_artifacts", "record_id": "ARTF-0044", "code": "artifact_partial", "message": "Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions."}]}
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{"id": "DISC-0069", "item_id": "ITEM-0038", "source_id": "SRC-0081", "year": "1957", "date_precision": "day", "disclosure_method": "journalism", "extent": "summary", "coverage": "One vigil (Huautla, 29–30 June 1955) described step by step, with photographs and the purposes for which the mushrooms are consulted; no chant texts", "review_status": "reviewed", "notes": "Published 13 May 1957.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0038", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0030", "name": "The mushroom vigil (velada) and the 'saint children'", "secrecy_type": "closed_liturgy", "restricted_to": "Mazatec families and patients gathered by a healer; kept from outsiders until 1955", "restriction_mechanism": "social_sanction;oral_only", "stated_reason": "Outsiders who take the mushrooms without need spoil them: they lose their purity and force (CLM-0094)", "current_status": "modified", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "An all-night rite in which a healer and the participants eat psilocybin mushrooms in the dark, and the healer chants and consults the mushrooms about sickness, lost things and absent people.", "notes": "Made public by R. Gordon Wasson's account in Life (1957) of a vigil led by María Sabina, whom he called Eva Mendez."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0030", "name": "Mazatec mushroom religion", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "pre-Columbian (mushroom rites); blended with Catholicism after the conquest", "region": "Sierra Mazateca (Huautla de Jiménez and neighbouring towns), Oaxaca, Mexico", "status": "active", "wikidata": "", "notes": "Healers (curanderos, sabios) hold night vigils with psilocybin mushrooms, which they call the saint children. Wikidata has items for the Mazatec people (Q1262708) and for María Sabina (Q442467) but not for the religion."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0081", "title": "Seeking the Magic Mushroom", "author": "R. Gordon Wasson", "original_year": "1957", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "periodical", "url": "https://books.google.com/books?id=Jj8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA100", "identifiers": "", "provenance": "academic_fieldwork", "source_authenticity": "verified", "verification_notes": "Read in the full-view scan of the issue on Google Books on 2026-11-04 (OCR of the page images); the issue, date, title and pages match the standard citation.", "rights": "copyrighted", "content_hash": "", "notes": "Life 42, no. 19 (13 May 1957), pp. 100–102, 109–120, in the series Great Adventures. Wasson's account of the vigil he attended at Huautla de Jiménez on 29–30 June 1955. Calls the curandera 'Eva Mendez' and the language 'Mixeteco' (CLM-0093).", "artifacts": []}, "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0081", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "restricted_items", "record_id": "ITEM-0038", "code": "status_without_dated_evidence", "message": "The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked."}]}
{"id": "DISC-0070", "item_id": "ITEM-0038", "source_id": "SRC-0082", "year": "1977", "date_precision": "year", "disclosure_method": "voluntary_release", "extent": "partial", "coverage": "The healer's own account of her vigils and their rules, with transcribed chants; read only through search-inside passages so far", "review_status": "unreviewed", "notes": "", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0038", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0030", "name": "The mushroom vigil (velada) and the 'saint children'", "secrecy_type": "closed_liturgy", "restricted_to": "Mazatec families and patients gathered by a healer; kept from outsiders until 1955", "restriction_mechanism": "social_sanction;oral_only", "stated_reason": "Outsiders who take the mushrooms without need spoil them: they lose their purity and force (CLM-0094)", "current_status": "modified", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "An all-night rite in which a healer and the participants eat psilocybin mushrooms in the dark, and the healer chants and consults the mushrooms about sickness, lost things and absent people.", "notes": "Made public by R. Gordon Wasson's account in Life (1957) of a vigil led by María Sabina, whom he called Eva Mendez."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0030", "name": "Mazatec mushroom religion", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "pre-Columbian (mushroom rites); blended with Catholicism after the conquest", "region": "Sierra Mazateca (Huautla de Jiménez and neighbouring towns), Oaxaca, Mexico", "status": "active", "wikidata": "", "notes": "Healers (curanderos, sabios) hold night vigils with psilocybin mushrooms, which they call the saint children. Wikidata has items for the Mazatec people (Q1262708) and for María Sabina (Q442467) but not for the religion."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0082", "title": "María Sabina: Her Life and Chants", "author": "Alvaro Estrada; introduction by R. Gordon Wasson", "original_year": "1977", "edition_year": "1981", "source_type": "book", "url": "https://archive.org/details/marasabinaherl00estr", "identifiers": "ia:marasabinaherl00estr;isbn:091552032X", "provenance": "academic_fieldwork", "source_authenticity": "unassessed", "verification_notes": "", "rights": "copyrighted", "content_hash": "", "notes": "María Sabina's account of her life, told in Mazatec to Estrada, himself from Huautla, and first published in Spanish as Vida de María Sabina; linked copy is the English edition (Santa Barbara: Ross-Erikson, 1981). The Internet Archive copy is restricted to print-disabled patrons; the passages used here were read through its search-inside results in Chrome on 2026-11-04.", "artifacts": []}, "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0082", "code": "source_authenticity_unassessed", "message": "Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0082", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "disclosures", "record_id": "DISC-0070", "code": "record_unreviewed", "message": "Record review status is unreviewed; review is not proof of truth."}, {"table": "restricted_items", "record_id": "ITEM-0038", "code": "status_without_dated_evidence", "message": "The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked."}]}
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{"id": "DISC-0088", "item_id": "ITEM-0007", "source_id": "SRC-0098", "year": "2012", "date_precision": "year", "disclosure_method": "leak", "extent": "partial", "coverage": "Veil instructions: page, selected video frames and English automatic captions inspected; no full audio review.", "review_status": "reviewed", "notes": "Upload dated 20 August 2012; recording date is not established.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0007", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0005", "name": "Temple endowment ceremony", "secrecy_type": "closed_liturgy", "restricted_to": "Members holding a temple recommend", "restriction_mechanism": "vow", "stated_reason": "The ordinances are sacred and are not discussed outside a temple (CLM-0042)", "current_status": "modified", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "Temple ceremony including covenants / signs and tokens.", "notes": "Penalty gestures were removed from the ceremony in 1990."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0005", "name": "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints", "tradition_type": "religion", "founded": "1830", "region": "United States / worldwide", "status": "active", "wikidata": "Q42504", "notes": "Temple ceremonies are described by the church as sacred rather than secret."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0098", "title": "Episode 1: Mormon Temple: Veil Instructions", "author": "Mike Norton (NewNameNoah)", "original_year": "2012", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "video", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg2bxBHbsIU", "identifiers": "", "provenance": "covert_recording;defector_account", "source_authenticity": "unassessed", "verification_notes": "Opened the uploader’s video page on 2026-11-04, checked its 20 August 2012 publication date, inspected selected frames and read the entire exported English auto-generated transcript. The frame at 04:26 shows a robed figure and veil but does not independently verify the spoken ritual. No full audio review, original-file capture, editing assessment or independent setting confirmation was completed.", "rights": "unknown", "content_hash": "", "notes": "Length shown as 05:33. The uploader describes hidden-camera footage of endowment veil instructions. Content claims below are explicitly about the auto-generated captions, which contain recognition errors. A transcript-export hash identifies that derivative, not the video. Filming date and temple are not established here.", "artifacts": [{"id": "ARTF-0003", "source_id": "SRC-0098", "artifact_kind": "video", "media_type": "", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg2bxBHbsIU", "ipfs_cid": "", "btih": "", "member_path": "", "sha256": "", "size_bytes": "", "inspection_status": "partial", "inspected_parts": "Uploader page, upload date, selected frames including 01:40 and 04:26, and exported captions; not complete audiovisual playback", "accessed_on": "2026-11-04", "notes": "Streamed frames and metadata only; no original video file captured, so no video hash or byte count is asserted."}, {"id": "ARTF-0004", "source_id": "SRC-0098", "artifact_kind": "transcript", "media_type": "text/plain", "url": "", "ipfs_cid": "", "btih": "", "member_path": "", "sha256": "b9fb295c411f0dc8a14eeb4f6c1dc1dd3e317a4f9826cbc24739cd5c7617ba74", "size_bytes": "5023", "inspection_status": "complete", "inspected_parts": "Entire exported English auto-generated caption text, 00:12–05:28", "accessed_on": "2026-11-04", "notes": "Local browser transcript export captured on the inspection date; no public transcript-file URL recorded. Caption errors include substitutions for priesthood terms. This derivative does not verify the speaker or exact recording wording."}]}, "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0098", "code": "source_authenticity_unassessed", "message": "Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0098", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0098", "code": "source_rights_unknown", "message": "The source text's rights have not been established."}, {"table": "source_artifacts", "record_id": "ARTF-0003", "code": "artifact_partial", "message": "Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions."}, {"table": "restricted_items", "record_id": "ITEM-0007", "code": "status_without_dated_evidence", "message": "The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked."}]}
{"id": "DISC-0089", "item_id": "ITEM-0007", "source_id": "SRC-0099", "year": "2012", "date_precision": "year", "disclosure_method": "leak", "extent": "reference", "coverage": "Archive metadata advertises a full ceremony; the recording and its actual coverage were not inspected.", "review_status": "unreviewed", "notes": "The leak classification follows the advertised restricted subject; recording origin and acquisition route remain unestablished.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0007", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0005", "name": "Temple endowment ceremony", "secrecy_type": "closed_liturgy", "restricted_to": "Members holding a temple recommend", "restriction_mechanism": "vow", "stated_reason": "The ordinances are sacred and are not discussed outside a temple (CLM-0042)", "current_status": "modified", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "Temple ceremony including covenants / signs and tokens.", "notes": "Penalty gestures were removed from the ceremony in 1990."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0005", "name": "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints", "tradition_type": "religion", "founded": "1830", "region": "United States / worldwide", "status": "active", "wikidata": "Q42504", "notes": "Temple ceremonies are described by the church as sacred rather than secret."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0099", "title": "Mormon Temple Ceremony (Internet Archive item)", "author": "Uploader and recording creator not established", "original_year": "2012", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "video", "url": "https://archive.org/details/MormonTempleCeremony", "identifiers": "ia:MormonTempleCeremony", "provenance": "anonymous_posting;archival_collection", "source_authenticity": "unassessed", "verification_notes": "Read the Archive item metadata and file listing on 2026-11-04. It identifies a movie item added on 2 September 2012 and lists 4727.6-second video files. No video payload was downloaded or viewed. The catalogue creator label Joseph Smith was not accepted as recording authorship, and the item was not assumed to be a NewNameNoah recording.", "rights": "unknown", "content_hash": "", "notes": "A discovery record only. The description calls it a full temple ceremony; that coverage and performance authenticity remain unchecked. Metadata and payload inspection are separate.", "artifacts": [{"id": "ARTF-0006", "source_id": "SRC-0099", "artifact_kind": "document", "media_type": "application/json", "url": "https://archive.org/metadata/MormonTempleCeremony", "ipfs_cid": "", "btih": "", "member_path": "", "sha256": "81d1657bfbebd008dbcb8f73d01695c47158945ae71ec4b867efd572687484bd", "size_bytes": "90327", "inspection_status": "complete", "inspected_parts": "Archive item metadata and video file listing only", "accessed_on": "2026-11-04", "notes": "Complete metadata response captured. No video payload inspected. Listed video lengths and uploader labels do not authenticate a ceremony."}]}, "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0099", "code": "source_authenticity_unassessed", "message": "Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0099", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0099", "code": "source_rights_unknown", "message": "The source text's rights have not been established."}, {"table": "disclosures", "record_id": "DISC-0089", "code": "record_unreviewed", "message": "Record review status is unreviewed; review is not proof of truth."}, {"table": "restricted_items", "record_id": "ITEM-0007", "code": "status_without_dated_evidence", "message": "The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked."}]}
{"id": "DISC-0090", "item_id": "ITEM-0048", "source_id": "SRC-0009", "year": "1973", "date_precision": "year", "disclosure_method": "exposure_publication", "extent": "partial", "coverage": "De Homunculo Epistola as transcribed in the exposed collection; wording not collated against print.", "review_status": "reviewed", "notes": "The 1973 date belongs to the attributed book edition, not the web upload.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0048", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0003", "name": "De Homunculo Epistola: Ninth Degree homunculus instruction", "secrecy_type": "restricted_scripture", "restricted_to": "Under the obligation of the IX°, addressed to higher-degree brethren", "restriction_mechanism": "oath;grade_requirement", "stated_reason": "Not established in the inspected copy", "current_status": "unknown", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "A 1914 instruction proposing spirit incarnation through reproduction, with prescribed control of the pregnant participant’s surroundings.", "notes": "Content is recorded from an exposed web transcription. No performance, biological efficacy or present-day institutional use is established."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0003", "name": "Ordo Templi Orientis", "tradition_type": "magical_order", "founded": "c. 1904–1912", "region": "Germany / worldwide", "status": "active", "wikidata": "Q33237", "notes": "Several competing organizations use the name."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0009", "title": "The Secret Rituals of the O.T.O.", "author": "Francis King (ed.)", "original_year": "1973", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "book", "url": "https://publicism.info/magic/full/thelema/oto/index.html", "identifiers": "ol:OL36054911W", "provenance": "published_exposure", "source_authenticity": "unassessed", "verification_notes": "Inspected the hosted transcription’s De Homunculo Epistola, De Nuptiis Secretis section II and Appendix A on 2026-11-04. This web copy has not been collated with the 1973 printed edition or original manuscripts. Appendix A reports private manuscripts and typescripts, with conjectural restorations in the sixth degree.", "rights": "copyrighted", "content_hash": "", "notes": "Publicism hosts a transcription attributed to the 1973 Samuel Weiser edition. Its upload date is unknown. The HTML capture is identified separately as ARTF-0007. Printed pagination and exact manuscript fidelity remain unassessed.", "artifacts": [{"id": "ARTF-0007", "source_id": "SRC-0009", "artifact_kind": "document", "media_type": "text/html", "url": "https://publicism.info/magic/full/thelema/oto/index.html", "ipfs_cid": "", "btih": "", "member_path": "", "sha256": "ae3ef1befe35637fb867569d35d4b13313e41f026c10392025b9b7e24985f95c", "size_bytes": "287761", "inspection_status": "partial", "inspected_parts": "De Homunculo Epistola, De Nuptiis Secretis section II and Appendix A, plus bibliographic heading", "accessed_on": "2026-11-04", "notes": "Complete HTML response captured, selected sections read. Not a hash of the printed book or original manuscripts."}, {"id": "ARTF-0008", "source_id": "SRC-0009", "artifact_kind": "document", "media_type": "", "url": "https://annasarchive.io/book/secret-rituals-of-the-o.t.o_francis-king_2213935", "ipfs_cid": "", "btih": "", "member_path": "nexusstc/books/2da091c242f711e03042fe87eb2945f6/Secret Rituals of the O.T.O..pdf", "sha256": "", "size_bytes": "", "inspection_status": "metadata_only", "inspected_parts": "Search result and item page: title, Francis King attribution, 1973 label, advertised 3.1 MB PDF and nexusstc/zlib collection label", "accessed_on": "2026-11-04", "notes": "The page identifies itself as Anna’s Archive. Its operator identity and file identity were not independently established. The filename contains a reported MD5-like identifier; it was not verified from payload bytes. The linked viewer returned a general home/search page, not readable book pages. No download, payload hash, exact byte count or IPFS CID is claimed. 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{"id": "DISC-0091", "item_id": "ITEM-0049", "source_id": "SRC-0101", "year": "1891", "date_precision": "year", "disclosure_method": "academic_research", "extent": "partial", "coverage": "Acquisition narrative and selected formulas, with printed page locators.", "review_status": "reviewed", "notes": "Publication year, not an established first-ever disclosure date.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0049", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0037", "name": "Practitioners’ sacred-formula notebooks and guarded recitations", "secrecy_type": "restricted_scripture", "restricted_to": "Practitioner-held manuscripts; formulas withheld from laity and rival practitioners in the inspected account", "restriction_mechanism": "fee;controlled_access;social_sanction", "stated_reason": "Valuable specialist knowledge; access and acquisition motives are attributed to individual speakers", "current_status": "unknown", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "Cherokee-syllabary formula manuscripts covering healing, hunting, love, protection and hostile magic.", "notes": "Scope basis: guarded manuscripts and deliberately inaudible recitations (CLM-0174), with withholding and pressure documented separately. The printed selection is not the entire collection. Mooney’s translations, interpretations and acquisition account remain attributed."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0037", "name": "Cherokee practitioners in Mooney’s North Carolina collection", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "", "region": "Cherokee reservation, North Carolina, United States", "status": "unknown", "wikidata": "", "notes": "Scope is the named practitioners and manuscripts collected in 1887–1888; not every Cherokee community or present-day practice."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0101", "title": "The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees", "author": "James Mooney; manuscripts and explanations from named Cherokee practitioners including A’yûninĭ (Swimmer)", "original_year": "1891", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "report", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/files/24788/24788-h/24788-h.htm", "identifiers": "", "provenance": "academic_fieldwork;archival_collection", "source_authenticity": "probable", "verification_notes": "Read the Gutenberg transcription’s introduction, acquisition narrative, color symbolism and selected hostile formula on 2026-11-04, using printed page markers. Publication identity and named manuscript origins are documented in the text; the syllabary transcription and translation were not collated against original notebooks.", "rights": "public_domain", "content_hash": "", "notes": "Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, report year 1885–1886, printed pp. 301–398. Publication year is 1891. Approximately 600 collected formulas are described; this publication selects specimens.", "artifacts": [{"id": "ARTF-0009", "source_id": "SRC-0101", "artifact_kind": "document", "media_type": "text/html", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/files/24788/24788-h/24788-h.htm", "ipfs_cid": "", "btih": "", "member_path": "", "sha256": "ed7a908771702f5102075f211cc40b603f7a8c1746907177265f8ecb44bd3650", "size_bytes": "342574", "inspection_status": "partial", "inspected_parts": "Introduction and acquisition pp. 307, 310–312; color system p. 342; hostile formula and explanation pp. 391–393", "accessed_on": "2026-11-04", "notes": "Complete HTML captured, selected sections read. Hash does not identify the original Cherokee notebooks."}]}, "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0101", "code": "source_authenticity_probable", "message": "Source authenticity is probable; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0101", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "source_artifacts", "record_id": "ARTF-0009", "code": "artifact_partial", "message": "Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions."}]}
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{"id": "DISC-0094", "item_id": "ITEM-0052", "source_id": "SRC-0104", "year": "2002", "date_precision": "year", "disclosure_method": "academic_research", "extent": "partial", "coverage": "Hain account at selected pages, including secrecy enforcement and mothers’ songs.", "review_status": "reviewed", "notes": "Year belongs to the inspected second edition; first publication not established.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0052", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0040", "name": "Hain initiation and guarded spirit-impersonation knowledge", "secrecy_type": "initiatory_rite", "restricted_to": "Initiated men for the dramatic secret; novices warned against disclosure to women and children", "restriction_mechanism": "controlled_access;violence_or_threat", "stated_reason": "A participant-stated reason is not established here. Chapman’s explanation in terms of male authority is an attributed interpretation.", "current_status": "unknown", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "Initiation and disclosure of a masked spirit’s human identity, with distinct women’s ritual singing.", "notes": "Scope basis: initiatory revelation and explicit secrecy threats (CLM-0191–0192). Mothers’ exclusive performance of some chants does not establish that those songs were confidential. The two Chapman publications share an investigator and overlapping testimony; the recording is not an independent covert record of a complete Hain."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0040", "name": "Selk’nam Hain in the accounts collected by Anne Chapman", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "", "region": "Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, Argentina and Chile", "status": "unknown", "wikidata": "", "notes": "Historical rites, recollections and recorded songs. The dated sources do not establish the absence of living Selk’nam descendants or the status of present-day practice."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0104", "title": "Fin de un mundo: Los Selk’nam de Tierra del Fuego", "author": "Anne Chapman, drawing on named Selk’nam interlocutors and earlier records", "original_year": "", "edition_year": "2002", "source_type": "book", "url": "https://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/archivos2/pdfs/MC0043450.pdf", "identifiers": "isbn:9568136592", "provenance": "academic_fieldwork;scholarship;archival_collection", "source_authenticity": "probable", "verification_notes": "Read selected Hain passages at pp. 197–201 and 214–215. Visually checked p. 214 and the colophon at p. 306, which identifies the second edition, Santiago de Chile, 2002. The first-edition publication year was not established.", "rights": "copyrighted", "content_hash": "", "notes": "Only selected passages were inspected. Historical descriptions and recollections do not establish present-day practice or the absence of living descendants.", "artifacts": [{"id": "ARTF-0012", "source_id": "SRC-0104", "artifact_kind": "document", "media_type": "application/pdf", "url": "https://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/archivos2/pdfs/MC0043450.pdf", "ipfs_cid": "", "btih": "", "member_path": "", "sha256": "a996b02a1f2e1af7dcf3529046ea996a8f7bf9a04e1bd998dd4601394a844b40", "size_bytes": "11641042", "inspection_status": "partial", "inspected_parts": "Selected Hain passages pp. 197–201, 214–215; p. 214 and colophon p. 306 visually checked", "accessed_on": "2026-11-04", "notes": "Complete institutional PDF captured; selected pages inspected. No full third-party PDF is committed to the dataset."}]}, "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0104", "code": "source_authenticity_probable", "message": "Source authenticity is probable; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0104", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "source_artifacts", "record_id": "ARTF-0012", "code": "artifact_partial", "message": "Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions."}]}
{"id": "DISC-0095", "item_id": "ITEM-0052", "source_id": "SRC-0105", "year": "1977", "date_precision": "year", "disclosure_method": "academic_research", "extent": "partial", "coverage": "Liner notes and repertoire description only; not an audition of the recording.", "review_status": "reviewed", "notes": "The singer’s willingness is reported by Chapman; it is not evidence of every community member’s consent.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0052", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0040", "name": "Hain initiation and guarded spirit-impersonation knowledge", "secrecy_type": "initiatory_rite", "restricted_to": "Initiated men for the dramatic secret; novices warned against disclosure to women and children", "restriction_mechanism": "controlled_access;violence_or_threat", "stated_reason": "A participant-stated reason is not established here. Chapman’s explanation in terms of male authority is an attributed interpretation.", "current_status": "unknown", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "Initiation and disclosure of a masked spirit’s human identity, with distinct women’s ritual singing.", "notes": "Scope basis: initiatory revelation and explicit secrecy threats (CLM-0191–0192). Mothers’ exclusive performance of some chants does not establish that those songs were confidential. The two Chapman publications share an investigator and overlapping testimony; the recording is not an independent covert record of a complete Hain."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0040", "name": "Selk’nam Hain in the accounts collected by Anne Chapman", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "", "region": "Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, Argentina and Chile", "status": "unknown", "wikidata": "", "notes": "Historical rites, recollections and recorded songs. The dated sources do not establish the absence of living Selk’nam descendants or the status of present-day practice."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0105", "title": "Selk’nam (Ona) Chants of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, Vol. II", "author": "Lola Kiepja; recording, notes and text transcriptions by Anne Chapman", "original_year": "1977", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "audio", "url": "https://folkways-media.si.edu/docs/folkways/artwork/FW04179.pdf", "identifiers": "", "provenance": "academic_fieldwork;archival_collection", "source_authenticity": "unassessed", "verification_notes": "Inspected the official Folkways companion PDF, especially its opening notes and repertoire description; checked PDF p. 3 visually. The notes identify the singer, 1966 recording and 1977 FE 4179 release. Audio was not listened to; the record’s complete performance and editing remain unassessed.", "rights": "copyrighted", "content_hash": "", "notes": "URL identifies the liner notes, not an audio payload. Claims citing this source are about those notes. Same investigator as SRC-0104; no independent corroboration is claimed.", "artifacts": [{"id": "ARTF-0013", "source_id": "SRC-0105", "artifact_kind": "document", "media_type": "application/pdf", "url": "https://folkways-media.si.edu/docs/folkways/artwork/FW04179.pdf", "ipfs_cid": "", "btih": "", "member_path": "", "sha256": "f29425bc53ca47cf1c0ed1fce2df8b35db9e9ff716428acf5bc8d76423235404", "size_bytes": "9881082", "inspection_status": "partial", "inspected_parts": "Opening notes and repertoire description, especially PDF p. 3, visually checked", "accessed_on": "2026-11-04", "notes": "Companion liner-note PDF only. This is not a hash, audition or transcript verification of the album audio."}]}, "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0105", "code": "source_authenticity_unassessed", "message": "Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0105", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "source_artifacts", "record_id": "ARTF-0013", "code": "artifact_partial", "message": "Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions."}]}
{"id": "DISC-0096", "item_id": "ITEM-0053", "source_id": "SRC-0106", "year": "2001", "date_precision": "year", "disclosure_method": "academic_research", "extent": "partial", "coverage": "Barasana discussion at pp. 31–35 through a comparative chapter.", "review_status": "reviewed", "notes": "Dependent on cited earlier fieldwork; not two independent accounts.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0053", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0041", "name": "He House: first viewing of He instruments and subsequent seclusion", "secrecy_type": "initiatory_rite", "restricted_to": "Novices introduced to He instruments; the account describes a day when women may not enter the house and initiates must be shielded from their gaze", "restriction_mechanism": "controlled_access", "stated_reason": "A reason for restricting access is not established in the inspected passage; rebirth is a ritual interpretation.", "current_status": "unknown", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "Male initiation involving concealed instruments, bodily discipline and a period of seclusion.", "notes": "Scope basis: explicit initiation, first viewing, hidden instruments and seclusion (CLM-0198–0201). The inspected chapter’s specific day of exclusion does not establish a blanket rule for every phase. The chapter depends on Hugh-Jones and is not an independent new field record."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0041", "name": "Barasana He House initiation", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "", "region": "Pirá Paraná region, Vaupés, Colombia", "status": "unknown", "wikidata": "", "notes": "Specific account discussed by Bonnemère from Stephen Hugh-Jones’s fieldwork. Kawillary comparisons are not assigned to the Barasana."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0106", "title": "Two Forms of Masculine Ritualized Rebirth: The Melanesian Body and the Amazonian Cosmos", "author": "Pascale Bonnemère", "original_year": "2001", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "academic", "url": "https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/public/book/gender-in-amazonia-and-melanesia-an-exploration-of-the-comparative-method.html", "identifiers": "", "provenance": "scholarship", "source_authenticity": "probable", "verification_notes": "Read the Barasana discussion at printed pp. 31–35 in the publisher’s online book, with its citations to Stephen Hugh-Jones (1979). The original Hugh-Jones fieldwork book was not inspected in this batch. Kawillary details were kept separate.", "rights": "copyrighted", "content_hash": "", "notes": "Chapter 2, pp. 17–44, in Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia, edited by Thomas A. Gregor and Donald Tuzin, University of California Press. The captured HTML contains the whole book; inspection was limited to selected chapter passages.", "artifacts": [{"id": "ARTF-0014", "source_id": "SRC-0106", "artifact_kind": "document", "media_type": "text/html", "url": "https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/public/book/gender-in-amazonia-and-melanesia-an-exploration-of-the-comparative-method.html", "ipfs_cid": "", "btih": "", "member_path": "", "sha256": "3b088479bae9148ac2b40b72f26efd7e6ce6cc3590b43ae349506fa94bc100eb", "size_bytes": "2008781", "inspection_status": "partial", "inspected_parts": "Chapter 2, selected Barasana passages at printed pp. 31–35, plus chapter bibliography/title context", "accessed_on": "2026-11-04", "notes": "Hash covers complete book HTML, not a standalone chapter file. Other chapters are not represented as reviewed."}]}, "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0106", "code": "source_authenticity_probable", "message": "Source authenticity is probable; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0106", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "source_artifacts", "record_id": "ARTF-0014", "code": "artifact_partial", "message": "Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions."}]}
{"id": "DISC-0097", "item_id": "ITEM-0054", "source_id": "SRC-0107", "year": "1929", "date_precision": "year", "disclosure_method": "academic_research", "extent": "partial", "coverage": "Training chapter’s instruction, sacred language and disagreement about formal tuition.", "review_status": "reviewed", "notes": "The Archive item date does not replace the inspected volume’s 1929 title page.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0054", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0042", "name": "Angakkuq initiation, instruction behind a curtain and sacred-language training", "secrecy_type": "transmitted_technique", "restricted_to": "Pupils learning from angakkuit; the account includes both men and women", "restriction_mechanism": "fee;controlled_access", "stated_reason": "The inspected training account does not establish a reason for secrecy; it describes preparation for specialist tasks.", "current_status": "unknown", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "Paid instruction, restricted training space, visionary exercises and magic-song learning.", "notes": "Scope basis: Rasmussen explicitly calls the pupil initiated by a tutor (p. 112; CLM-0204), alongside private instruction and ritual preparation. This does not establish a blanket confidentiality rule for all specialist knowledge or all Inuit communities. Formal tuition varies; reported powers are beliefs and experiences, not demonstrated physical effects."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0042", "name": "Iglulingmiut and Aivilingmiut angakkuq training in Rasmussen’s account", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "", "region": "Igloolik and Aivilik areas, eastern Canadian Arctic", "status": "unknown", "wikidata": "", "notes": "Scope follows the report’s named interlocutors and communities, not all Inuit traditions. Historical titles retain the publisher’s terminology; catalogue descriptions use specific community names."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0107", "title": "Intellectual Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos", "author": "Knud Rasmussen; English translation by W. Worster", "original_year": "1929", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "report", "url": "https://archive.org/details/intellectualcult00rasm", "identifiers": "ia:intellectualcult00rasm", "provenance": "academic_fieldwork;archival_collection", "source_authenticity": "probable", "verification_notes": "Read the actual title page (PDF p. 7), translation credit (p. 8) and printed pp. 109–115, 118–119. Visually checked printed p. 114 (PDF p. 130), correcting the OCR’s erroneous page number. The title page establishes 1929 despite the Archive metadata’s 1930 label for the bound item.", "rights": "public_domain", "content_hash": "", "notes": "Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition 1921–24, vol. VII, no. 1, Copenhagen, 1929. The chapter attributes information to Aua, Ivalo and other named interlocutors; it is translated and mediated testimony, not a present-day survey.", "artifacts": [{"id": "ARTF-0015", "source_id": "SRC-0107", "artifact_kind": "document", "media_type": "application/pdf", "url": "https://archive.org/download/intellectualcult00rasm/intellectualcult00rasm.pdf", "ipfs_cid": "", "btih": "", "member_path": "", "sha256": "08b217406e0865e5709109fea5e1cdcd84cb3fec81161cacfaeb78634dfa8cb2", "size_bytes": "18572384", "inspection_status": "partial", "inspected_parts": "PDF pp. 7–8; printed pp. 109–115, 118–119; printed p. 114 visually checked", "accessed_on": "2026-11-04", "notes": "Complete Archive PDF captured, selected pages read. Title-page date 1929 takes precedence over bound-item metadata 1930."}]}, "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0107", "code": "source_authenticity_probable", "message": "Source authenticity is probable; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0107", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "source_artifacts", "record_id": "ARTF-0015", "code": "artifact_partial", "message": "Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions."}]}
{"id": "DISC-0098", "item_id": "ITEM-0055", "source_id": "SRC-0108", "year": "1899", "date_precision": "year", "disclosure_method": "academic_research", "extent": "partial", "coverage": "Chapter V, selected passages on custodianship and secret-name transmission.", "review_status": "reviewed", "notes": "No blanket endorsement of the book’s explanations or pan-Arrernte/current applicability.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0055", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0025", "name": "Churinga custodianship and secret-name transmission in the 1899 account", "secrecy_type": "restricted_oral_knowledge", "restricted_to": "Fully initiated men of the local totem group for an individual’s secret name; separate limits on viewing sacred objects", "restriction_mechanism": "controlled_access;grade_requirement;violence_or_threat", "stated_reason": "Reported danger from outsiders knowing a secret name; other motives in the book are the authors’ interpretations", "current_status": "unknown", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "Restricted sacred objects, storehouse admission and transmission of an Aritna churinga name.", "notes": "Scope basis: explicit secrecy of names and restricted storehouse admission (CLM-0211–0212), with attributed punishment reports separately qualified. Historical source uses Arunta and Churinga. Its claims are not assigned to every Arrernte group or to present-day practice."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0025", "name": "Arrernte religion", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "ancient", "region": "Central Australia (Northern Territory)", "status": "active", "wikidata": "", "notes": "Also spelled Aranda. Ceremonies, songs and sacred objects (tjurunga) are held by men and women of the relevant estates and degree of initiation."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0108", "title": "The Native Tribes of Central Australia", "author": "Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen", "original_year": "1899", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "book", "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/book/the-native-tribes-of-central-australia/chapter-v-the-churinga-or-bull-roarers-of-the-arunta-and-other-tribes", "identifiers": "", "provenance": "academic_fieldwork;archival_collection", "source_authenticity": "probable", "verification_notes": "Read chapter V’s transcription at printed pp. 129–140, especially restrictions and the witnessed local name-transmission ceremony. Not collated with print. The authors’ racial, evolutionary and fraud interpretations were not adopted as community statements or established explanations.", "rights": "public_domain", "content_hash": "", "notes": "Macmillan, 1899. Host chapter retains historical names. Claims of punishments are attributed reports; no separate corroborating punishment record was inspected.", "artifacts": [{"id": "ARTF-0016", "source_id": "SRC-0108", "artifact_kind": "document", "media_type": "text/html", "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/book/the-native-tribes-of-central-australia/chapter-v-the-churinga-or-bull-roarers-of-the-arunta-and-other-tribes", "ipfs_cid": "", "btih": "", "member_path": "", "sha256": "", "size_bytes": "", "inspection_status": "partial", "inspected_parts": "Chapter V transcription, selected passages at pp. 129–140, accessed through web reader", "accessed_on": "2026-11-04", "notes": "Readable text inspected through web access. Direct file capture returned HTTP 403; no exact response hash or byte count is claimed."}]}, "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0108", "code": "source_authenticity_probable", "message": "Source authenticity is probable; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0108", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "source_artifacts", "record_id": "ARTF-0016", "code": "artifact_partial", "message": "Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions."}]}
{"id": "DISC-0100", "item_id": "ITEM-0057", "source_id": "SRC-0110", "year": "1933", "date_precision": "year", "disclosure_method": "academic_research", "extent": "partial", "coverage": "Introduction and Long Valley initiation/hesi passages at pp. 139, 223–225.", "review_status": "reviewed", "notes": "Retrospective local testimony collected in 1931; no pan-Patwin inference.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0057", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0044", "name": "Long Valley thunder/kuksu initiation and its later hesi incorporation", "secrecy_type": "initiatory_rite", "restricted_to": "Adult men and boy initiates in the earlier ceremonial house; the later hesi account bars women, while the earlier rite has some scenes witnessed by mothers", "restriction_mechanism": "controlled_access;violence_or_threat", "stated_reason": "The source does not establish a participant-stated reason for restricting access", "current_status": "unknown", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "Historical initiation combining concealed spirit representation, feigned death and bodily ordeals.", "notes": "Scope basis: explicit initiation and exclusions in SRC-0110, pp. 223–225. Distinguish performed death from reported physical injury, and the earlier thunder ceremony from the later hesi form. Retrospective testimony is not direct observation by Loeb."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0044", "name": "Long Valley Patwin initiation in Loeb’s historical account", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "", "region": "Long Valley, northern California, United States", "status": "unknown", "wikidata": "", "notes": "Local historical versions recounted to Loeb in 1931, not a claim about all Patwin communities or present-day practice. Loeb names Wilson Lewis and his wife as the Long Valley interlocutors."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0110", "title": "The Eastern Kuksu Cult", "author": "E. M. Loeb", "original_year": "1933", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "academic", "url": "https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/82905/files/ucp033-003.pdf", "identifiers": "", "provenance": "academic_fieldwork;archival_collection", "source_authenticity": "probable", "verification_notes": "Captured the complete institutional PDF. Read the introduction at printed p. 139 and the Long Valley account at pp. 223–225; visually checked p. 225 (PDF p. 94). The introduction dates interviews to summer 1931 and identifies the Long Valley interlocutors. Retrospective reports were not relabelled as Loeb’s witnessed performances.", "rights": "unknown", "content_hash": "", "notes": "University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 33(2), pp. 139–232; issued 3 February 1933. The comparative sections on other Patwin and Maidu groups were not treated as one uniform rite. Rights status was not established through a copyright or renewal assessment.", "artifacts": [{"id": "ARTF-0018", "source_id": "SRC-0110", "artifact_kind": "document", "media_type": "application/pdf", "url": "https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/82905/files/ucp033-003.pdf", "ipfs_cid": "", "btih": "", "member_path": "", "sha256": "1e0245e8092e1f573a615b453c474d121c48aa31438c581a1683a9b4af5cf0c5", "size_bytes": "11112104", "inspection_status": "partial", "inspected_parts": "Introduction p. 139; Long Valley pp. 223–225; p. 225 visually checked", "accessed_on": "2026-11-04", "notes": "Complete 103-page scan captured; selected pages inspected. Journal text and local historical versions are distinguished."}]}, "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0110", "code": "source_authenticity_probable", "message": "Source authenticity is probable; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0110", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0110", "code": "source_rights_unknown", "message": "The source text's rights have not been established."}, {"table": "source_artifacts", "record_id": "ARTF-0018", "code": "artifact_partial", "message": "Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions."}]}
{"id": "DISC-0101", "item_id": "ITEM-0058", "source_id": "SRC-0111", "year": "1982", "date_precision": "year", "disclosure_method": "academic_research", "extent": "partial", "coverage": "Selected secrecy, initiation and observation passages read from scan/OCR; original journal page locators retained.", "review_status": "reviewed", "notes": "Original source includes graphic descriptions; dataset summaries of sexual rites remain non-graphic.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0058", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0045", "name": "Age-graded male initiation: concealed bloodletting and sexual rites", "secrecy_type": "initiatory_rite", "restricted_to": "Knowledge distributed by initiation grade; particular procedures withheld from women, children and junior initiates", "restriction_mechanism": "controlled_access;grade_requirement;violence_or_threat", "stated_reason": "Herdt reports beliefs about removing maternal contamination and enabling male development; these are reported rationales, not biological findings", "current_status": "unknown", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "Historically documented secret initiation, coercive bodily ordeals and sexual rites involving boys and older initiates.", "notes": "Scope basis: explicit concealment and successive revelation in SRC-0111, p. 200. 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{"id": "DISC-0102", "item_id": "ITEM-0059", "source_id": "SRC-0112", "year": "2008", "date_precision": "year", "disclosure_method": "defector_testimony", "extent": "partial", "coverage": "Invitation, secrecy instructions, ceremony description and memory caveat in archived transcription.", "review_status": "reviewed", "notes": "Not an independently authenticated original script or a 2002 recording.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0059", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0005", "name": "Second anointing: Phillips’s participant account and limits on discussion", "secrecy_type": "initiatory_rite", "restricted_to": "Invited couples in the participant account; recipients charged not to disclose receipt, and teachers directed not to discuss the ordinance", "restriction_mechanism": "controlled_access", "stated_reason": "Phillips attributes secrecy to limiting demand and comparisons among members; this is his report of an explanation given to him", "current_status": "unknown", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "A described temple ordinance involving washing, anointing and a private spousal blessing.", "notes": "Scope basis: participant-reported secrecy and actual ceremony content in SRC-0112, plus the independently issued discussion restriction in SRC-0113. The manual does not authenticate the details of Phillips’s ceremony. His account is retrospective and memory was refreshed from published descriptions."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0005", "name": "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints", "tradition_type": "religion", "founded": "1830", "region": "United States / worldwide", "status": "active", "wikidata": "Q42504", "notes": "Temple ceremonies are described by the church as sacred rather than secret."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0112", "title": "My Second Anointing Experience", "author": "Tom Phillips; transcription preserved by the B. H. Roberts Foundation", "original_year": "2008", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "testimony", "url": "https://bhroberts.org/records/fWrZbd-17raDb/tom_phillips_provides_a_contemporary_account_of_the_second_anointing", "identifiers": "", "provenance": "defector_account;archival_collection", "source_authenticity": "unassessed", "verification_notes": "Read the archived transcription’s invitation, preparation, ceremony and recollection caveat. The archive attributes the account to Phillips, dated 21 January 2008. His admission of consulting published accounts was retained; no independent witness to his claimed 2002 event or original contemporaneous recording was inspected.", "rights": "copyrighted", "content_hash": "", "notes": "The account identifies 19 May 2002 as the ceremony date. It is a first-person retrospective exposure, not an original officiator’s script. An attempted MormonThink PDF retrieval failed TLS hostname validation; no bypass or hash of that PDF is claimed.", "artifacts": [{"id": "ARTF-0021", "source_id": "SRC-0112", "artifact_kind": "document", "media_type": "text/html", "url": "https://bhroberts.org/records/fWrZbd-17raDb/tom_phillips_provides_a_contemporary_account_of_the_second_anointing", "ipfs_cid": "", "btih": "", "member_path": "", "sha256": "cc38897adf8fe0c5814202a35f2bab4ae5422e2194f2fa3bdc0621de65bf212c", "size_bytes": "66589", "inspection_status": "partial", "inspected_parts": "Archived transcription: invitation, preparation, ceremony description and memory caveat", "accessed_on": "2026-11-04", "notes": "Complete HTML response captured; selected account sections inspected. Not an original 2002 recording or a hash of the failed MormonThink PDF."}]}, "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0112", "code": "source_authenticity_unassessed", "message": "Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0112", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "source_artifacts", "record_id": "ARTF-0021", "code": "artifact_partial", "message": "Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions."}]}
{"id": "DISC-0103", "item_id": "ITEM-0059", "source_id": "SRC-0113", "year": "", "date_precision": "unknown", "disclosure_method": "voluntary_release", "extent": "reference", "coverage": "Official manual’s restriction on discussing the named ordinance only.", "review_status": "reviewed", "notes": "No ceremony content is disclosed by this notice; publication year unestablished.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0059", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0005", "name": "Second anointing: Phillips’s participant account and limits on discussion", "secrecy_type": "initiatory_rite", "restricted_to": "Invited couples in the participant account; recipients charged not to disclose receipt, and teachers directed not to discuss the ordinance", "restriction_mechanism": "controlled_access", "stated_reason": "Phillips attributes secrecy to limiting demand and comparisons among members; this is his report of an explanation given to him", "current_status": "unknown", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "A described temple ordinance involving washing, anointing and a private spousal blessing.", "notes": "Scope basis: participant-reported secrecy and actual ceremony content in SRC-0112, plus the independently issued discussion restriction in SRC-0113. The manual does not authenticate the details of Phillips’s ceremony. His account is retrospective and memory was refreshed from published descriptions."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0005", "name": "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints", "tradition_type": "religion", "founded": "1830", "region": "United States / worldwide", "status": "active", "wikidata": "Q42504", "notes": "Temple ceremonies are described by the church as sacred rather than secret."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0113", "title": "Doctrines of the Gospel Teacher Manual, chapter 19: Eternal Life", "author": "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints", "original_year": "", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "website", "url": "https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/doctrines-of-the-gospel/chapter-19?lang=eng", "identifiers": "", "provenance": "official_release", "source_authenticity": "verified", "verification_notes": "Read and captured the official church chapter on 2026-11-04. Its Introduction directs teachers not to discuss or answer questions about the second anointing. Official publication identity is established; the first-edition date was not established from the inspected chapter, whose citation has an empty year.", "rights": "copyrighted", "content_hash": "", "notes": "The page identifies print pp. 67–69. It establishes an instructional restriction, not Phillips’s event, a full liturgy or present-day frequency of performance.", "artifacts": [{"id": "ARTF-0022", "source_id": "SRC-0113", "artifact_kind": "document", "media_type": "text/html", "url": "https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/doctrines-of-the-gospel/chapter-19?lang=eng", "ipfs_cid": "", "btih": "", "member_path": "", "sha256": "67a71ef89eae597c46622ad8a55a7acbd529dac1915cf7057a7513308062cd74", "size_bytes": "163572", "inspection_status": "partial", "inspected_parts": "Chapter title, print-page reference and Introduction caution", "accessed_on": "2026-11-04", "notes": "Complete HTML captured; the discussion restriction was checked. Other chapter teachings were not reviewed as ritual disclosures."}]}, "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0113", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "source_artifacts", "record_id": "ARTF-0022", "code": "artifact_partial", "message": "Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions."}]}
{"id": "DISC-0104", "item_id": "ITEM-0060", "source_id": "SRC-0114", "year": "2012", "date_precision": "year", "disclosure_method": "exposure_publication", "extent": "partial", "coverage": "Edition notice; The Warning at printed p. 22; First-Degree Initiation at pp. 43–45.", "review_status": "reviewed", "notes": "2012 is the stated web-edition year, not the first exposure or a verified manuscript date.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0060", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0046", "name": "Exposed First-Degree Initiation and Book of Shadows preservation warning", "secrecy_type": "restricted_scripture", "restricted_to": "The exposed oath permits disclosure to a vouched-for, properly prepared person within the ritual circle", "restriction_mechanism": "oath;controlled_access", "stated_reason": "The warning portrays secrecy and destruction of writings as protection from persecution; its historical narrative is not independently established", "current_status": "unknown", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "An exposed ritual script with a confidentiality oath, binding, a blood-marked measure and scourging.", "notes": "Scope basis: explicit secrecy oath in SRC-0114, printed pp. 44–45, and restrictions on custody of writings at p. 22. Prescriptions are not proof of performance or consent in any actual coven. The copy’s editorial and manuscript fidelity remain uncertain."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0046", "name": "Gardnerian Wicca in the exposed Book of Shadows recension", "tradition_type": "religious_branch", "founded": "", "region": "British-origin ritual texts; later exposed web compilation", "status": "unknown", "wikidata": "", "notes": "Scope is the exposed recension attributed to Gardner, not every coven or all Wicca. Editorial date estimates and Internet-copy history do not authenticate an ancient origin or present-day uniformity."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0114", "title": "The Gardnerian Book of Shadows, Global Grey web edition", "author": "Attributed to Gerald E. Gardner; web edition by Global Grey", "original_year": "", "edition_year": "2012", "source_type": "book", "url": "https://priory-of-sion.com/biblios/images/Gardnerian-Book-Of-Shadows.pdf", "identifiers": "", "provenance": "published_exposure;archival_collection", "source_authenticity": "uncertain", "verification_notes": "Captured the 68-page PDF and read the edition notice, printed p. 22 and pp. 43–45. Visually checked printed p. 44 (PDF p. 50). The notice identifies Global Grey 2012. Original manuscripts, whole-recension fidelity and dates assigned to individual sections were not authenticated.", "rights": "unknown", "content_hash": "", "notes": "The imprint claims a Creative Commons-style licence; authority to license all underlying text was not established. Headings such as 1953 and 1957 concern attributed composition, not a proven first public release. The mirror’s name is not evidence of ritual authenticity.", "artifacts": [{"id": "ARTF-0023", "source_id": "SRC-0114", "artifact_kind": "document", "media_type": "application/pdf", "url": "https://priory-of-sion.com/biblios/images/Gardnerian-Book-Of-Shadows.pdf", "ipfs_cid": "", "btih": "", "member_path": "", "sha256": "a2aead6cf15a235e9c5427560a2e201b3e3a6b1bc5a499bd26cf860912cdb262", "size_bytes": "1048578", "inspection_status": "partial", "inspected_parts": "PDF p. 3 edition notice; printed p. 22 and pp. 43–45; printed p. 44 visually checked", "accessed_on": "2026-11-04", "notes": "Complete 68-page PDF captured, selected sections inspected. A mirror file, not an authenticated Gardner manuscript; the stated licence’s scope is unverified."}]}, "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0114", "code": "source_authenticity_uncertain", "message": "Source authenticity is uncertain; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0114", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0114", "code": "source_rights_unknown", "message": "The source text's rights have not been established."}, {"table": "source_artifacts", "record_id": "ARTF-0023", "code": "artifact_partial", "message": "Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions."}]}
{"id": "DISC-0105", "item_id": "ITEM-0060", "source_id": "SRC-0115", "year": "", "date_precision": "unknown", "disclosure_method": "exposure_publication", "extent": "reference", "coverage": "Editorial account of compilation, Internet-file origin and estimated dates.", "review_status": "reviewed", "notes": "Dating, original posting and manuscript fidelity remain uncertain.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0060", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0046", "name": "Exposed First-Degree Initiation and Book of Shadows preservation warning", "secrecy_type": "restricted_scripture", "restricted_to": "The exposed oath permits disclosure to a vouched-for, properly prepared person within the ritual circle", "restriction_mechanism": "oath;controlled_access", "stated_reason": "The warning portrays secrecy and destruction of writings as protection from persecution; its historical narrative is not independently established", "current_status": "unknown", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "An exposed ritual script with a confidentiality oath, binding, a blood-marked measure and scourging.", "notes": "Scope basis: explicit secrecy oath in SRC-0114, printed pp. 44–45, and restrictions on custody of writings at p. 22. Prescriptions are not proof of performance or consent in any actual coven. The copy’s editorial and manuscript fidelity remain uncertain."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0046", "name": "Gardnerian Wicca in the exposed Book of Shadows recension", "tradition_type": "religious_branch", "founded": "", "region": "British-origin ritual texts; later exposed web compilation", "status": "unknown", "wikidata": "", "notes": "Scope is the exposed recension attributed to Gardner, not every coven or all Wicca. Editorial date estimates and Internet-copy history do not authenticate an ancient origin or present-day uniformity."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0115", "title": "Gardnerian Book of Shadows: editorial index", "author": "Editor not identified; page attributes compilation to Aidan A. Kelly", "original_year": "", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "website", "url": "https://sacred.plzhalp.us/pag/gbos/index.htm", "identifiers": "", "provenance": "published_exposure;archival_collection", "source_authenticity": "unassessed", "verification_notes": "Read and captured the editorial introduction. It describes a 1990s Internet-file origin, says section dates are estimates and attributes compilation to Aidan A. Kelly. The introduction itself uses both early and mid-1990s descriptions, so no exact initial posting date was accepted.", "rights": "unknown", "content_hash": "", "notes": "Editorial statements about the exposed recension are not a manuscript collation or independent proof of practices in any coven. Selected PDF passages agree in subject and commentary, but whole-copy identity was not established.", "artifacts": [{"id": "ARTF-0024", "source_id": "SRC-0115", "artifact_kind": "document", "media_type": "text/html", "url": "https://sacred.plzhalp.us/pag/gbos/index.htm", "ipfs_cid": "", "btih": "", "member_path": "", "sha256": "b5bf2dbd86c745d01d5c7bfaad243d6cf49022ed23da7ac4d0ef5dc8004bc803", "size_bytes": "4548", "inspection_status": "partial", "inspected_parts": "Editorial introduction, compilation attribution and dating caveats", "accessed_on": "2026-11-04", "notes": "Complete HTML captured. The introduction was checked; linked ritual pages were not all inspected. This is not a second independent ritual witness."}]}, "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0115", "code": "source_authenticity_unassessed", "message": "Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0115", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0115", "code": "source_rights_unknown", "message": "The source text's rights have not been established."}, {"table": "source_artifacts", "record_id": "ARTF-0024", "code": "artifact_partial", "message": "Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions."}]}
{"id": "DISC-0106", "item_id": "ITEM-0058", "source_id": "SRC-0116", "year": "2011", "date_precision": "year", "disclosure_method": "academic_research", "extent": "partial", "coverage": "Secrecy/discourse discussion and final historical-scope footnote.", "review_status": "reviewed", "notes": "Same-author retrospective, not independent corroboration of the 1982 report.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0058", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0045", "name": "Age-graded male initiation: concealed bloodletting and sexual rites", "secrecy_type": "initiatory_rite", "restricted_to": "Knowledge distributed by initiation grade; particular procedures withheld from women, children and junior initiates", "restriction_mechanism": "controlled_access;grade_requirement;violence_or_threat", "stated_reason": "Herdt reports beliefs about removing maternal contamination and enabling male development; these are reported rationales, not biological findings", "current_status": "unknown", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "Historically documented secret initiation, coercive bodily ordeals and sexual rites involving boys and older initiates.", "notes": "Scope basis: explicit concealment and successive revelation in SRC-0111, p. 200. Sexual rites are summarized non-graphically. Same-author publications are not independent corroboration; recent practice is unestablished."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0045", "name": "Sambia male initiation in Gilbert Herdt’s field accounts", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "", "region": "Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea", "status": "unknown", "wikidata": "", "notes": "Name and scope follow Herdt’s accounts. Neighbouring Anga peoples and later generations are not assigned the same practices. The later chapter explicitly limits its ethnography to 1993 and notes subsequent radical change."}, "source": {"id": "SRC-0116", "title": "Talking About Sex: On the relationship between discourse, secrecy and sexual subjectivity in Melanesia", "author": "Gilbert Herdt", "original_year": "2011", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "academic", "url": "https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p146101/html/Text/ch12.html?page=17&referer=189", "identifiers": "", "provenance": "academic_fieldwork;scholarship", "source_authenticity": "verified", "verification_notes": "Read the publisher HTML’s distinctions between public, secret and private discourse, its six-grade discussion, its critique of earlier ethnography and its final scope footnote. Checked the official ANU Press book record for the October 2011 publication. The final footnote limits this account to research through 1993 and refers to subsequent radical change.", "rights": "copyrighted", "content_hash": "", "notes": "Chapter 12 of Echoes of the Tambaran, edited by David Lipset and Paul Roscoe. Same investigator and fieldwork lineage as SRC-0111; not an independent witness. No contemporary unchanged-practice claim follows.", "artifacts": [{"id": "ARTF-0025", "source_id": "SRC-0116", "artifact_kind": "document", "media_type": "text/html", "url": "https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p146101/html/Text/ch12.html?page=17&referer=189", "ipfs_cid": "", "btih": "", "member_path": "", "sha256": "d6a41e1479f2a44a7dfdfb0aa45d326eb4dae5cd4af7d3b2a1eae8b1a2beaa45", "size_bytes": "62992", "inspection_status": "partial", "inspected_parts": "Discussion of discourse categories and initiation grades; final temporal-scope footnote", "accessed_on": "2026-11-04", "notes": "Complete chapter HTML captured, selected paragraphs inspected. This retrospective shares the fieldworker and upstream material of SRC-0111."}]}, "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0116", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "source_artifacts", "record_id": "ARTF-0025", "code": "artifact_partial", "message": "Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions."}]}
{"id": "DISC-0107", "item_id": "ITEM-0061", "source_id": "SRC-0117", "year": "1904", "date_precision": "year", "disclosure_method": "academic_research", "extent": "partial", "coverage": "Selected Ko’tikili initiation passages at pp. 102–104, including the mask revelation and secrecy threat.", "review_status": "reviewed", "notes": "Year identifies the cited publication, not an established earliest-ever disclosure or present-day practice.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0061", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0047", "name": "Ko’tikili initiation and guarded mask knowledge", "secrecy_type": "initiatory_rite", "restricted_to": "Novices admitted with godfathers; access to the mask revelation guarded against intruders", "restriction_mechanism": "controlled_access;violence_or_threat", "stated_reason": "A reason for restricting access is not established by the inspected passages", "current_status": "unknown", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "A historical initiation account with whipping, unveiling of human performers and warnings against disclosure.", "notes": "Scope basis: Stevenson explicitly reports guarded mask removal and a secrecy threat at pp. 103–104. Her voluntary/involuntary labels are retained as source terminology, not independent consent assessments. A threatened punishment is not an established execution."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0047", "name": "Zuni initiatory fraternities in Stevenson’s account", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "", "region": "Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, United States", "status": "unknown", "wikidata": "", "notes": "Scope is selected historical initiations, with Ko’tikili and Wood-fraternity rites recorded separately. Neither all Zuni ritual nor present-day practice is represented. 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