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Seated beside the Maya books as the Nahuatl witness of the same continent.", "spine": "Florentine Codex", "ruling": "Lee Sharks, 2026-10-23: \"detour for an ea-corpora searing. lets see. whats available of mayan texts? and then i dont think we have much or any deteurocanonical second temple lit - all those apocalypses. and what about the ethiopian canon? and euclid. all in original language or as close to it as possible. what else?\" — \"and the Egyptian book of the dead\" — \"and what about the fragments of the book of baalim? i might be miswriting this. recent discovery. if theyre available anywhere.\" — \"yes yes yes to all - what a meal.\"" }