ANET — J.B. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Text Relating to the Old Testament (Princeton, 1950; 2-е éd., 1955)
Ar Or — Archiv Orientálni (Prague)
ARW — Archiv für Religionswissenschaft (Freiburg-Leipzig)
BEFEO — Bulletin de V Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient (Hanoi)
BJRL — Bulletin of the John Rylands Library (Manchester)
BSOAS — Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (London)
CA — Current Anthropology (Chicago)
ERE — Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, éd. James Hasting
HJAS — Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
HR — History of Religions (Chicago)
IIJ — Indo-Iranian Journal (La Haye)
JA — Journal Asiatique (Paris)
JAOS — Journal of the American Oriental Society (Baltimore)
JAS — Journal of the Asiatic Society, Bombay Branch
JIES — Journal of Indo-European Studies (Montana)
JNES — Journal of Near Eastern Studies (Chicago)
JRAS — Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (London)
JSS — Journal of Semitic Studies (Manchester)
OLZ — Orientalische Literaturzeitung (Berlin-Leipzig)
RB — Revue Biblique (Paris)
REG — Revue des Etudes Grecques (Paris)
RHPR — Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie religieuses (Strasbourg)
RHR — Revue de l'Histoire des Religions (Paris)
SMSR — Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni (Rome)
VT — Vetus Testamentum (Leiden)
VdM — Wörterbuch der Mythologie (Stuttgart)
ZDMG — Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft (Leipzig)
AB — Атхарваведа
PB — Ригведа
ШБ — Шaтапатха-Брахмана