metadata
license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
- text-generation
- feature-extraction
language:
- en
- la
- fr
- de
tags:
- occult
- esoteric
- hermetic
- alchemy
- kabbalah
- grimoire
- sacred-texts
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
A corpus of occult, esoteric, and hermetic texts compiled from public domain sources.
Contents
Total documents: 6,268
Total characters: 305,251,131
Parquet size: 117.6 MB (zstd compressed)
| Source | Documents | Characters |
|---|---|---|
| sacred-texts | 5,873 | 85.7M |
| internet-archive | 328 | 163.9M |
| gutenberg | 67 | 55.6M |
Covers alchemy, Kabbalah, Thelema, grimoires, Hermetica, Gnosticism, sacred texts, and related traditions. Primarily English with 120 Latin texts and smaller French/German collections.
Usage
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("ebrinz/text-cult")
Schema
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
id |
string | Unique document identifier |
text |
string | Full document text |
title |
string | Document title |
author |
string | Author(s) |
tradition |
string | Occult tradition/category |
source |
string | Source collection |
source_url |
string | Original URL |
language |
string | ISO 639-1 language code |
file_type |
string | Original file format |
ocr_used |
bool | Whether OCR was used for extraction |
char_count |
int64 | Character count |
See MANIFEST.txt for full breakdown.
License
Source texts are public domain. Dataset compilation is CC-BY-4.0.