Corpus Wishlist & Roadmap

Sources we want in the interpretation engine but don't currently have a good way to include. Each entry has a status explaining the obstacle and a path forward when one exists.

Last reviewed: 2026-09-05 (Phase-B PD acquisition pass — 26 texts landed across 9 traditions; plus fresh translations of Augustine De Genesi ad Litteram Book XII, Cicero De Divinatione Book II OCR extract, Valerius Maximus De Somniis, and the 2026-09-02 through 2026-09-05 Scherner/Schubert/Albertus/Carus/Maury batch — five foundational 19th-century German-Romantic + Latin-scholastic + French-experimental dream-theory treatises translated for the first time into complete English; Maury Le sommeil et les rêves landed 2026-09-05 closing the founding-era-of-experimental-dream-science quartet in full).

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PHASE-B ACQUISITION 2026-08-29 — 26 PD TEXTS LANDED

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Focused pass to close every ◯ Wanted / ◇ Open Question entry whose PD status was clean and whose IA / Gutenberg source was retrievable. Source .source.txt files downloaded to corpus/<tradition>/sources/; curator .md files with structured YAML frontmatter + scholarly Scope-within-Liminaut notes are in corpus/<tradition>/primary/. Corpus count moves 85 → 111 primary-text files across the 13 traditions.

DB embedding runs on the next npm run ingest pass — the files are ready for Voyage AI embedding + Phase-4 lens extraction; nothing architectural blocks them.

KABBALISTIC — Jewish apocalyptic dream-vision base (closes user-flagged gap)

ALCHEMICAL — Hermetic corpus + Renaissance encyclopedic magic

SUFI

HINDU / VEDIC

EGYPTIAN

CELTIC

GREEK / HELLENISTIC — Late-antique + Roman-historical + Buddhist bridge + Christian mystical

ISLAMIC — Zoroastrian amplificatory (pre-Islamic Persian religious substrate)

SCIENTIFIC — Pre-Freudian subconscious + Freud non-dream primary

Second-pass Phase-B resolutions (previously deferred, now landed) — ✅

Four of the five originally-deferred items resolved on second pass 2026-08-29:

Corpus count moves 111 → 115 primary-text files.

Persistent deferrals after second pass — RESOLVED 2026-08-29

• Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram Book XII — ✅ RESOLVED via fresh translation. The complete 12-book De Genesi ad Litteram still has no PD English (only Taylor 1982 Newman Press, active copyright); but Liminaut only needed Book XII for its vision-typology (corporal / spiritual / intellectual vision — Augustine's foundational patristic-medieval taxonomy). Book XII has been translated fresh from the Migne Latin (PL 34 cols. 453–486; source at la.wikisource.org) by Claude Opus 4.7 for the Liminaut corpus, following the same pattern as the earlier Delage / Janet / Volkelt / Maury / Saint-Denys / Aurora Consurgens / Macrobius translations. All 37 chapters landed at corpus/greek/primary/augustine_de_genesi_ad_litteram_book12_full_translation.md. Scholar review pending before any Amazon POD publication, but the text is now available for engine retrieval + interpretive use. Books I–XI remain gapped in English (only Taylor 1982); a translation of Books I–XI would be a follow-up commission or a further AI-draft round if the Book XII draft receives good scholar review.

Persistent deferrals resolved 2026-09-02 through 2026-09-04 (German-Romantic + Latin-scholastic batch)

Four foundational dream-theory treatises that had persisted as commissioning candidates in the German-Romantic-dream-theory triad and the Medieval-scholastic Albertus extension — all now landed as fresh AI-drafted English translations after a decisive September 2026 batch focused on texts with zero prior complete English coverage:

All five use the same pattern as the Saint-Denys / Delage / Janet / Volkelt / Augustine XII translations: fresh AI drafts (Claude Opus 4.7 with 1M context) rendered verbatim from clean PD sources, with session-mark HTML comments preserved inline for edit-history auditability, and scholarly review flagged as pending. The German-Romantic dream-theory triad (Schubert + Scherner + Carus) is now complete in English for the first time, and Maury's Le sommeil et les rêves — 165 years of continuous citation with no complete English translation until now — now sits in full alongside the three Germans as the founding French half of the 19th-century experimental-dream-science quartet.

All commissioned translations (Ibn Sirin, Ramesside Dream Book, Zhougong Jiemeng — priorities #1–#3) and CALENDAR-tier items (Zohar Soncino 2027+, Evans-Wentz TYaSD 2031, Black Elk Speaks 2028+) remain on their tracks — see the sections further down this document.

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PROCESSING STATUS — PHASE 4 (13-LENS STRUCTURAL EXTRACTION)

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In addition to ingestion (parser → embedding → FTS), each English passage is now structurally tagged via Haiku 4.5 with 13 lenses: symbols, themes, figures, settings, affect, body, speech, movement, transformations, boundaries, spatial, outcomes, genre. Lens summaries are injected inline beneath each citation in the paid-tier framework synthesis prompt.

Shipped (~570 distinct passages across 19 editions):

• Synesius On Dreams (Myer 1888) — full
• Delage Le Rêve — full English translation
• Janet L'Automatisme Psychologique — full English translation
• Volkelt Die Traum-Phantasie — full English translation
• Artemidorus Oneirocritica Book 1 (1644 EEBO)
• Macrobius Commentary on the Dream of Scipio — 33 of 44 chapters in English (Book I 1-22 complete; Book II 1-4 + 11-17). The 11 omitted chapters (Book II 5-10, 18-22) are deferred as low dream-interpretation value.
• Saint-Denys Les rêves et les moyens de les diriger — full English translation, chapter-chunked via the liminaut-curated-chapter parser variant
• All 12 fair-use scholarly summaries (Jung CW 4/8/9i/9ii/12/14/16, Aurora Consurgens partial, Macrobius partial, Maury partial, Saint-Denys partial, Gestalt comprehensive)

Queued (the rest of the English corpus — runs the same pipeline, no architectural blockers, per-text cost-controlled):

• Greek tradition: Aquinas, Burton, Plutarch, Plato, Aristotle, Iamblichus, Philo, Cicero, ante-Nicene Fathers, etc.
• Scientific: Hartley, Sully, Myers, Ellis, James, Freud (Brill 1913), Hammond, Boismont, Dugald Stewart, Maury (full, landed 2026-09-05), Carus (landed 2026-09-04), Scherner (landed 2026-09-02), Schubert (landed 2026-09-02)
• Jungian: full Jung primaries beyond the CW summaries
• Kabbalistic, Tibetan, Celtic, Chinese, Egyptian, Hindu/Vedic, Islamic, Sufi: incremental

Dormant (ingested but invisible to English-user retrieval; reserved for future polyglot expansion when a language-preference flow exists): French Janet 1903, French Delage 1919, French Saint-Denys 1867, French Maury 1861, Latin Macrobius (Eyssenhardt 1893), German Volkelt 1875, German Schubert 1814, German Scherner 1861.

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SNAPSHOT

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Corpus count: 127 public-domain primary-text files across 13 traditions (up from 126 in the previous review after the +1 Maury full-translation landing 2026-09-05 — the earlier Maury partial file was renamed and preserved alongside the new full-translation file; and up from 125 after the +1 Carus landing 2026-09-04, and up from 122 in the review before, 85 after the fourth round, 59 the review before, and 46 at session start). Growth beyond 85 came from the Phase-B PD acquisition pass on 2026-08-29 (26 texts across 9 traditions), the four persistent-deferral resolutions later the same day (Attar, Ghazali, Vivekachudamani, Cassian), plus three fresh Latin→English translations (Augustine De Genesi ad Litteram Book XII on 2026-08-29 and Cicero De Divinatione Book II + Valerius Maximus De Somniis on the same date). And the further +5 growth from 122 → 127 on 2026-09-02 through 2026-09-05 came from the German-Romantic + Latin-scholastic + French-experimental dream-theory batch: Scherner Das Leben des Traumes 1861 (~236,000 English words), Schubert Die Symbolik des Traumes 1814 (~60,400 English words), Albertus Magnus De somno et vigilia c.1260 (~80,400 English words), Carus Psyche 1846 (~289,000 English words), and Maury Le sommeil et les rêves 1861 (~355,000 English words) — all rendered into complete English for the first time. The German-Romantic dream-theory triad (Schubert + Scherner + Carus) plus Maury's Le sommeil et les rêves now stand together in full — the founding-era quartet of nineteenth-century experimental dream science is complete in English for the first time in 165 years of continuous citation. Fourth-round 2026-04-22 additions previously landed 25 more PD English texts across medieval, Norse, Japanese, pre-Freudian, Hermetic, and Eastern layers:

• Medieval / scholastic (greek/ folder): Chaucer Vol 3 (House of Fame etc., Skeat 1894), Chaucer Canterbury Tales (Skeat 1894), Piers Plowman 2-vol (Skeat), Pearl (Jewett 1908), Roman de la Rose Vol 3 (Ellis), Boethius Consolation (H.R. James 1897), Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress (1678), Burton Anatomy of Melancholy Vol 1 (1621), Aquinas Summa Theologica (Dominican Fathers 1920, includes II-II q.95 on dream-divination).
• Norse / Germanic (celtic/ folder as Indo-European amplificatory): Völsunga Saga (Morris/Magnússon 1888), Heimskringla (Laing 1844), Prose Edda (Brodeur 1916), Njáls Saga (Dasent 1861).
• Japanese classical literary (chinese/ folder as East Asian amplificatory): Tale of Genji (Waley 1925 first vol), Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon (Waley 1928).
• Pre-Freudian experimental psychology (scientific/): Hartley Observations on Man (1749) [filling the associationist-foundation slot], Dugald Stewart Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Gurney-Myers-Podmore Phantasms of the Living Vol 1 (1886), Hammond Sleep and Its Derangements (1869), Brière de Boismont On Hallucinations (Hulme 1855).
• Hermetic/Theosophical reception-history (alchemical/): Blavatsky Isis Unveiled (1877), The Secret Doctrine (1888). Flagged in their frontmatter as reception-history primaries rather than tradition-authoritative.
• Eastern canonical (tibetan/, hindu_vedic/, kabbalistic/): Dhammapada (Müller SBE 10, 1881), Patañjali Yoga Sutras (PD English), Maimonides Guide for the Perplexed (Friedländer 1881, for the Jewish-philosophical dream-and-prophecy layer at Book II chs 36–48).

Follow-up items with PD English noted but not yet ingested (targeted for a future round): Roman de la Rose Vols 1–2 (Ellis), Phantasms of the Living Vol 2, the Mead Thrice-Greatest Hermes Hermetic Corpus 3-volume set (IA download issues this round), Vivekananda Raja Yoga (IA download issues), Charcot Tuesday Lessons, Binet On Double Consciousness, Schopenhauer Essay on Spirit Seeing, Waddell Desert Fathers (possibly PD), Climacus Ladder of Divine Ascent, Majjhima Nikaya (Chalmers 1926). These remain on the implicit follow-up list; the CORPUS_WISHLIST does not currently call them out explicitly but will on next revision.

The EEBO-TCP Phase 1 extractor at scripts/eebo_tcp_extractor.py remains available for the remaining MEDIUM-tier EEBO texts (Tryon 1689, Goodwin 1658, Defoe 1720).

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SCOPE — WHAT'S IN, WHAT'S OUT, AND WHY

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Liminaut's interpretation engine commits to 13 named tradition-frameworks: Jungian, Kabbalistic, Alchemical, Medicine Wheel, Celtic/Druidic, Islamic, Tibetan, Greek/Hellenistic, Hindu/Vedic, Gestalt, Scientific, Chinese, Egyptian (plus Sufi as an inflection of Islamic), with a Collective meta-framework that aggregates across them. Every source-acquisition decision is made in service of those frameworks.

In scope: any primary or secondary text that materially strengthens one of the 13 framework-interpretations. Dream-interpretation primaries, cosmologies and symbol-systems the framework depends on, phenomenological and clinical-observational literature, and the handful of commentary traditions (tafsīr on dream-hadith, Rabbinic dream-exegesis, alchemical apparatuses Jung worked from) that cannot be understood without their ambient literature.

Explicitly out of scope as standalone frameworks (but material from them may still be ingested as amplificatory background within an existing framework):

• Mesopotamian / Akkadian / Sumerian — the Zaqiqu (Assyrian Dream Book), Gilgamesh dream-sequences, Enuma Anu Enlil dream-omens. Listed below as amplificatory background under Scientific (for comparative dream-theory history) and Hermetic/Alchemical (for ancient Near-East symbol stock). No Mesopotamian framework is planned as its own tradition.
• Zoroastrian / Pahlavi — Ardā Wīrāz Nāmag, Bundahishn. Amplificatory under Islamic/Sufi (for dualist cosmology influence) and Greek (for late-antique dream-vision parallels).
• Japanese-Buddhist — Myōe's Yume no Ki, Shugendō dream-practices, Shosoin dreams. Amplificatory under Tibetan (Vajrayāna-parallel) and Jungian (Kawai Hayao's Yume no Ki reading).
• Meso-American — Popol Vuh, Florentine Codex dream-material, Aztec tonalpohualli. Amplificatory under Medicine Wheel if cultural-consultation gates are cleared; otherwise held.
• African — Yoruba Ifá dream-correspondences, Ba-Kongo ndoki. Held pending cultural-consultation framework analogous to Medicine Wheel.
• Southeast Asian — Javanese Serat, Thai dream-omen texts. Held.
• Early-modern English dream-literature — Thomas Tryon Treatise of Dreams and Visions (1689), Philip Goodwin The Mystery of Dreames (1658). Amplificatory under Scientific (for the history of natural-philosophy dream-theory).

Out of scope entirely (not currently plausible as amplificatory either): speculative/new-age dream-literature without scholarly grounding; proprietary dream-therapy manuals; self-published dream-dictionaries.

This scope is not locked. A well-argued proposal to promote an "out-of-scope" tradition to a full framework — with primary sources, interpretive canon, and framework-theory worked out — is welcome. The scope statement is here so that proposals can be made consciously, not so that gaps look like oversights.

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LEGEND — STATUS BADGES

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• copyrighted — work is still under copyright; authored summary under fair-use is possible via summaries/ but not verbatim inclusion.
• not_yet_pd — will enter public domain on a specific future date; calendar it and ingest then.
• pd_no_english — original is public domain but no acceptable English translation exists in the public domain.
• pd_poor_quality — public domain English translation exists but is archaic, partial, or scholarly-unreliable; modern editions are copyrighted.
• culturally_restricted — tradition requires authorized sourcing before inclusion; legal PD status is beside the point.
• license_available — copyrighted work for which a license could be purchased to include full text.

Per-item subsection convention used throughout the Traditions section below:

• ✅ Acquired — already landed in the corpus; file path noted where useful.
• ⏳ In Progress / Commissioned — actively being acquired or under commission.
• ◯ Wanted — wishlist items where the obstacle is copyrighted / pd_no_english / EEBO-gated etc.
• ◇ Open Questions — PD-and-downloadable but tangential to dream-interpretation; ingest-or-skip decisions held.
• ⚠ Amplificatory Only — not a framework-defining text but useful as background within this tradition.

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TIER ROLL-UP — CROSS-CUTTING ACQUISITION STATUS

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EASY tier (PD, just need to download) — Phase 3.5 outcome

Outcome: 32 PD primary texts now landed. Every thin tradition has been strengthened: Egyptian now has its first primary text (Budge), Islamic now has both PD Qur'ans (Rodwell + Palmer), Sufi now has three PD anchors (al-Ghazali + Nicholson theory + Rumi poetry). Celtic gained Lady Gregory as a bonus fourth anchor. No retry work remains on PD downloads; all remaining gaps are in the commission / MEDIUM / CALENDAR tiers.

MEDIUM tier (PD outside US, or PD-but-restricted-format)

CALENDAR tier (becomes PD on a known date)

Add reminders to your calendar; ingest on the date listed.

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COMMISSIONED TRANSLATIONS — SUMMARY

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Three texts are the largest remaining corpus gaps. All three have PD originals in their source languages but no acceptable PD English translation. All three require human scholarly translation — AI is not fit for purpose at the scholarly-publication standard these translations will be held to.

Combined budget: $5,850–$8,800 for all three, translation + scholarly review.

Each translation will be: (a) used in the Liminaut interpretation engine, (b) published as a standalone Amazon print-on-demand book under the Liminaut imprint, (c) held under Liminaut copyright (work-for-hire) with all rights reserved initially, (d) potentially re-licensed under open terms (CC BY / public domain) at a future date of Liminaut's choosing.

See the per-tradition sections below for full details: translator qualifications, source-edition options, why AI can't do the work, and specific copyright hazards to watch for.

Possible 4th commission candidate: Sanskrit dream manuals (Svapnadhyaya, Svapna-chintamani, Svapna-tantra) — see Hindu/Vedic § Wanted. Would complete the "one native dream-manual per framework" goal.

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TRADITIONS

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JUNGIAN

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◯ Wanted

Jung, Collected Works (Princeton UP, Bollingen Series, 1953–1979)

• Why we want it: The authoritative English Jung. Volumes directly relevant to dream interpretation: 4 (Freud & Psychoanalysis), 8 (Structure & Dynamics of the Psyche), 9i (Archetypes), 9ii (Aion), 12 (Psychology and Alchemy), 14 (Mysterium Coniunctionis), 16 (Practice of Psychotherapy).
• Status: copyrighted — Princeton UP / Routledge. Renewed and active.
• Path forward: Authored summaries in summaries/ covering key concepts with full CW citations (Vol/¶ numbers). Modern Jung stays behind citations, not verbatim inclusion.

Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963)

• Why we want it: Autobiography with extensive dream material, including Jung's own formative dreams.
• Status: copyrighted — Pantheon / Vintage.
• Path forward: Summary under fair-use; cite passages rather than include.

Jung, The Red Book (Liber Novus) (2009)

• Why we want it: Jung's most personal dream/vision material. Published posthumously.
• Status: copyrighted — W.W. Norton. Active.
• Path forward: Summary only; substantial visual material we couldn't include even under license.

Marie-Louise von Franz, The Way of the Dream (1988), Alchemy (1980), Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales (1974)

• Status: copyrighted — Shambhala / Inner City Books.
• Path forward: Summaries of methodology, with specific chapter citations.

Edward Edinger, Ego and Archetype (1972), Anatomy of the Psyche (1985)

• Status: copyrighted — Shambhala / Open Court.
• Path forward: Summaries — especially alchemical-operations-as-psychological-processes from Anatomy.

James Hillman, The Dream and the Underworld (1979), Re-Visioning Psychology (1975)

• Status: copyrighted — HarperCollins.
• Path forward: Summary — archetypal psychology approach complements classical Jung.

⚠ Amplificatory cross-references

Material housed elsewhere in this document but historically central to Jungian thought:

• German-Romantic dream-theory (Schubert Symbolik des Traumes 1814; Carus Psyche 1846) — see Scientific § Wanted. Jung cites Carus as "the first to articulate the unconscious as a psychological concept."
• Christian mystical-dream corpus (Hildegard, Julian of Norwich, etc.) — see Amplificatory Background § Christian mystical. Jung cites Hildegard.
• Japanese-Buddhist (Myōe's Yume no Ki, Kawai Hayao's reading of it) — see Amplificatory Background § Japanese-Buddhist.

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KABBALISTIC

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⏳ In Progress / Calendared

Zohar — Sperling, Simon & Levertoff translation (Soncino Press, 1931–1934)

• Why we want it: The single most comprehensive English Zohar. Extensive dream theology (Zohar I:83a-b, I:183a-b, dream-as-letter passages).
• Status: not_yet_pd — UK-first-published, URAA-restored in US; enters US PD 2027 (vol. 1) through 2030 (vol. 5).
• Path forward: Calendar it. Vol. 1 → Jan 1, 2027. Vol. 2 → Jan 1, 2028. Vol. 3 → Jan 1, 2029. Vols. 4–5 → Jan 1, 2030. Ingest each volume as it clears. Until then, lean on the older Mathers selections (1887) plus authored summaries with Zohar folio citations.

◯ Wanted

Zohar — Daniel Matt translation (Pritzker Edition, Stanford UP, 2004–2017)

• Why we want it: Modern scholarly standard. Most accurate English.
• Status: copyrighted — Stanford UP, active.
• Path forward: License potentially available for academic use; cost unknown. Lower priority once Sperling/Simon enters PD.

Aryeh Kaplan, Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation in Theory and Practice (1990)

• Status: copyrighted — Weiser Books.
• Path forward: Summary — best English commentary on SY. Our Westcott 1887 is the text; Kaplan is the interpretation.

Catherine Shainberg, Kabbalah and the Power of Dreaming (2005)

• Status: copyrighted — Inner Traditions.
• Path forward: Directly relevant — high priority for summaries/. Practical Kabbalistic dream-work methodology not available anywhere in PD.

Talmud, Berakhot 55a–57b (Dreams sugya)

• Translator / edition: Soncino edition (Isidore Epstein, 1935–1948)
• Status: URAA-restored copyrighted — CALENDAR tier, volume-by-volume
• Why we want it: The single most important rabbinic dream-passage. "A dream uninterpreted is like a letter unread." The three things that require mercy, the 24 dream-interpreters of Jerusalem, dream-as-one-sixtieth-of-prophecy. Gapped in current Kabbalistic framework.

Sefer Chassidim (13th c.)

• Status: pd_no_english — no complete PD English
• Why we want it: Medieval Ashkenazi dream-ethics and dream-halakhah.

Jewish apocalyptic dream-vision literature — ✅ ACQUIRED 2026-08-29

Status: Jewish apocalyptic amplificatory base now complete. Together the six texts provide the pre-Kabbalistic Second Temple visionary substrate: 1 Enoch (Book of Watchers cosmology + Animal Apocalypse dream-allegory), 2 Enoch (seven-heavens ascent), 4 Ezra (serial dream-vision cycle), Apocalypse of Abraham (theophanic ascent + throne-vision), Ascension of Isaiah (seven-heavens dream-ascent), Testaments of Twelve Patriarchs (deathbed-vision genre with Testament of Levi's seven-heavens vision). Together these seed every subsequent Merkabah, Hekhalot, and Kabbalistic dream-vision text.

⚠ Amplificatory cross-references

• Rabbinic dream-exegesis beyond Berakhot — Midrash Rabbah dream-passages (Soncino Midrash Rabbah 1939, URAA-restored) — see Tier Roll-up § Calendar.

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ALCHEMICAL

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◯ Wanted

Rosarium Philosophorum — authoritative English translation

• Why we want it: The key alchemical text Jung analyzed in Psychology and Alchemy (CW 12) and used in Mysterium Coniunctionis (CW 14). Central to the engine's alchemical-Jungian bridge.
• Status: pd_no_english_complete — Latin original (1550) is PD. Adam McLean's 1980 English translation is copyrighted; only partial PD English renderings exist (some passages included in Waite's 1893 Hermetic Museum which we have).
• Path forward: Three options:
  1. AI draft + Latin scholar review — viable for Rosarium's specialized alchemical Latin. Higher error-rate than French but cheaper than full commission. ~$1,000-1,500 for review.
  2. Full commission — qualified Latinist with alchemical-vocabulary competence. ~$2,500-3,500.
  3. Authored summary with Jungian CW 12/14 citations — captures the conceptual contribution without the translation; matches the pattern used for other copyrighted alchemical works.

Aurora Consurgens (~1280, Latin, attributed to Thomas Aquinas)

• Why we want it: Medieval alchemical-religious meditation on the coniunctio (union of opposites). Marie-Louise von Franz's 1966 commentary is copyrighted, but the original Latin text is PD.
• Status: pd_no_english_complete — Latin original PD. Von Franz's English (1966, Bollingen Series / Princeton UP) is copyrighted.
• Path forward: Same options as Rosarium. AI + Latin scholar review viable. Aurora is shorter than Rosarium — smaller commission scope.

Marie-Louise von Franz, Aurora Consurgens (1966 commentary)

• Status: copyrighted — commentary only; the original 13th-c. Latin text is PD.
• Path forward: Ingest Aurora Consurgens Latin + an older partial English; summary of von Franz's reading.

◇ Open Questions — tradition-central PD (non-dream)

The following PD texts are central to the Hermetic/Alchemical tradition but not primarily about dream interpretation. Ingest as background, or skip?

Default recommendation: ingest Mead Thrice-Greatest Hermes (genuinely dream-adjacent). Medium: Agrippa (symbol vocabulary but huge).

⚠ Amplificatory cross-references

• Christian mystical-dream corpus (Hildegard, Julian, Teresa, Margery) — see Amplificatory Background § Christian mystical.
• Mesopotamian (Zaqiqu, Gilgamesh dreams, Enuma Anu Enlil) — see Amplificatory Background § Mesopotamian. Useful as ancient Near-East symbol stock.

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CELTIC / DRUIDIC

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◯ Wanted

John Matthews, The Celtic Shaman (1991), R.J. Stewart The Underworld Initiation (1988)

• Status: copyrighted.
• Path forward: Summary only. Primary Celtic material already well-covered in PD (Mabinogion, Voyage of Bran, Lady Gregory).

◇ Open Questions — tradition-central PD (non-dream)

Default recommendation: medium on Joyce Old Celtic Romances (voyage-as-dream-like), Lady Gregory Cuchulain (some visionary).

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ISLAMIC

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⏳ In Progress / Commissioned

Ibn Sirin, Ta'bir al-Ru'ya (Dream Interpretation) — PRIORITY #1 COMMISSION

• Why we want it: THE Islamic dream-interpretation text. Muhammad Ibn Sirin (d. 728/729 CE) of Basra is the classical authority for Islamic dream interpretation — his compiled dream-omen dictionary has been the operational reference in the Muslim world for 1,300 years. Without it, the Islamic framework has Qur'an + al-Ghazali (religion/metaphysics) but no actual dream-interpretation primary. This is the single largest operational gap in the Liminaut corpus.
• Status: pd_no_english — 8th-century Arabic original is PD. No pre-1929 English translation exists of scholarly quality. Modern translations (Muhammad al-Akili 1992, al-Khayrabadi 2009, Karim Hussein 2018) are copyrighted. Various online compilations are either copyright-muddled or paraphrases of al-Akili.
• What we need: fresh English translation of ~250 dream-relevant entries from a scholarly Arabic edition.
• Why AI can't do it: AI (including Claude) can produce plausible-looking classical Arabic translation but cannot produce scholarly-grade translation. Specific failure modes: hallucinated page/folio citations, missed classical grammar edge cases, misread diacritics, false confidence on ambiguous passages, projection of modern interpretation into classical text. For a translation that will be published under Liminaut's brand as an Amazon print-on-demand book AND stand as the primary citation for every Islamic-framework interpretation output, AI output would fail scholarly review. A human Arabist with PhD-level competence is the right call.
• Expected cost: $2,200–$3,000 (translation) + $400–$600 (scholarly review) = $2,600–$3,600 total.
• Timeline: ~12 weeks from contract signing to final delivery.
• Translator brief: docs/translator_briefs/01_ibn_sirin.md — priority #1.

Original-language source — Ibn Sirin Ta'bir al-Ru'ya (Classical Arabic)

Arabic originals are already downloaded to corpus/islamic/sources/ (see that folder's README). Two Internet Archive Arabic editions:

• Munshi Naval Kishore edition (Arabic, 76-page compact): https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.361002 — verified real Arabic Ibn Sirin; PDF + OCR'd .txt both in the repo
• Tafsir Ahlam Ibn Sirin (Arabic, longer compilation): https://archive.org/details/TafsirAhlamIbnSirin — verified real Arabic; PDF + OCR'd .txt both in the repo
• Al-Maktaba al-Shamila / Al-Waraq digital scholarly databases (registration required): further editions for cross-reference
• Dar al-Kotob al-Ilmiyah (Beirut) + Dar al-Maarifa (Cairo) scholarly print editions: standard academic references; translator should work from one of these if possible

Format caveat for the translator: work from the PDF page images, not the OCR .txt files. Arabic OCR is unreliable (letter-form confusion, missing diacritics, garbled lines in areas of ink-density variation). OCR .txt files are useful for keyword lookup but should not be the translation base.

Hazard: Internet Archive has an item labeled "Ibn Sirin Dictionary of Dreams" that is actually Muhammad M. Al-Akili's 1992 copyrighted English translation, not an Arabic original. Liminaut caught this during initial source-gathering and removed it. The translator must verify every source is actually Arabic before working from it. The contract non-plagiarism warranty covers this explicitly.

◯ Wanted

Ibn Arabi, Futuhat al-Makkiyya (The Meccan Revelations, ~1230 CE)

• Why we want it: Ibn Arabi's ontology of the imaginal world (alam al-mithal) is the central Sufi metaphysical grounding for dream theory. Without Ibn Arabi, the Sufi framework's dream theory is incomplete — al-Ghazali gives the ethical/psychological register but Ibn Arabi gives the ontological one.
• Status: pd_no_english — Arabic original PD (13th c.). Only partial English translations exist: Chodkiewicz et al. The Meccan Revelations 2002 (Pir Press, copyrighted), William Chittick The Sufi Path of Knowledge 1989 (SUNY, copyrighted). No PD English exists.
• Path forward: Commission a fresh English translation of selected Futuhat chapters on dreams/imagination (chapters 366–369 contain substantial dream material; shorter-scope commission than full Futuhat) OR authored summary with Chittick/Chodkiewicz citations under fair-use.

Ibn Arabi, Fusus al-Hikam (Bezels of Wisdom)

• Status: pd_no_english — Arabic original PD. Austin 1980 (Paulist Press) is the standard English, copyrighted.
• Path forward: Summary — chapter on Joseph (Yūsuf) is directly dream-relevant. Partial commission could focus on that chapter specifically.

Rumi Masnavi Volumes 2–6 (Nicholson translations, 1926–1940)

• Why we want it: We have Vol I in primary/. Volumes 2–6 complete the Masnavi (Rumi's magnum opus); contain many dream-relevant passages (Grammarian and the Boatman, Moses and the Shepherd, various vision-narratives).
• Status per volume — requires per-volume URAA copyright verification before ingesting:

URAA verification procedure for each volume: check whether the specific volume was still in UK copyright on 1996-01-01 (yes — Nicholson d. 1945, UK life+70 rule in 1995). If yes, URAA restored US copyright for 95 years from first publication. Vols 2-3 (1930) → US PD Jan 1, 2026 (so technically in US PD NOW if verification holds). Vols 4-8 (1933-1940) → US PD 2029-2036.

• Path forward: Verify Vols II–III specifically — they may already be US PD as of 2026. If confirmed, ingest. Vols IV+ wait on calendar.

Hadith collections — dream material

• Why we want it: Sahih al-Bukhari Book 91 (Book of Dreams), Sahih Muslim Book 42 (Book of Vision), Tirmidhi dream chapter. Contain extensive Prophetic dream-interpretation material including the ru'ya-sadiqa classification.
• Status: pd_no_english — Arabic originals PD. No competent PD English translations exist. Muhsin Khan's 1971 Bukhari is the standard English, copyrighted. Various partial online translations are of uncertain provenance.
• Path forward: The Hadith dream material could be part of an expanded Ibn Sirin commission (since Ibn Sirin heavily cites Hadith) OR a separate targeted commission focused on the dream chapters. Either way, human-scholar required — Hadith is religiously authoritative text requiring careful scholarly handling.

Yusuf Ali The Holy Qur'an (1934)

• Status: not_yet_pd — 1934 first publication; URAA restoration applies if still in copyright in Pakistan/India 1996. Complicated; Rodwell 1861 and Palmer 1880 already cover our need.
• Path forward: Not needed — we have two PD Qurans.

Arabic dream-literature beyond Ibn Sirin

◇ Open Questions — tradition-central PD (non-dream)

Default recommendation: skip Sale's Quran (redundant).

⚠ Amplificatory cross-references

• Classical tafsīr on dream-hadith (al-Bukhārī Kitāb al-Taʿbīr, Muslim Kitāb al-Ruʾyā) — see Amplificatory Background § Commentary traditions. Most PD Arabic originals; PD English uneven. Ibn Sirin commission addresses practical interpretation; the hadith base remains untranslated.
• Zoroastrian / Pahlavi (Ardā Wīrāz Nāmag, Bundahishn) — see Amplificatory Background § Zoroastrian.

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TIBETAN

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⏳ In Progress / Calendared

Evans-Wentz, Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines (1935) — THE Dream Yoga text

• Why we want it: Contains the Six Yogas of Naropa, including Milam (Dream Yoga) as a standalone systematic treatise. This is the single most operationally-important text for the Tibetan framework's dream theory — more directly dream-focused than the Bardo Thodol (which treats dreaming as a sleep-bardo parallel rather than as explicit practice).
• Status: pd_edge — 1935 publication, Oxford University Press. URAA restoration applies: still in UK copyright on 1996-01-01 (Evans-Wentz d. 1965, UK life+50 until 2015; extended to life+70 putting UK copyright through 2035). US copyright restored; enters US PD approximately Jan 1, 2031 (95 years from 1935 publication).
• Path forward: Calendar it for Jan 1, 2031. Until then: (1) lean on the Bardo Thodol + Milarepa (both in our PD primary) for Tibetan dream framework, (2) author fair-use summary of the Dream Yoga six-phase practice in corpus/tibetan/summaries/ citing Evans-Wentz 1935 specifically. The Milam practice sequence (recognition → examination → transformation → multiplication → liberation → maintaining clear light) can be described methodologically without verbatim reproduction.
• No PD substitute: Glenn Mullin's Six Yogas of Naropa 1997 is the modern scholarly standard but is copyrighted. Lama Chögyal Namkhai Norbu's Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light (Snow Lion 1992) is also copyrighted.

◯ Wanted

Dream Yoga — Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche (1998), Namkhai Norbu (1992)

• Why we want it: Living-tradition Dream Yoga practice manuals, substantially beyond what the Bardo Thodol covers.
• Status: copyrighted — Snow Lion / Shambhala.
• Path forward: Summaries — practice sequences (clear light recognition, dream-examining, dream-transformation) referenced without verbatim inclusion.

Six Yogas of Naropa — Glenn Mullin translation (1997)

• Status: copyrighted.
• Path forward: Summary — earlier Evans-Wentz TYaSD 1935 remains the PD path (see above), enters US PD 2031.

⚠ Amplificatory cross-references

• Buddhist svapnopama (dream-as-metaphor) sūtra-commentaries — see Amplificatory Background § Commentary traditions. Referenced in Tibetan dream-yoga; commentarial base for māyā / dream-illusion doctrine.
• Japanese-Buddhist (Myōe's Yume no Ki) — see Amplificatory Background § Japanese-Buddhist. Vajrayāna parallel.
• Chinese / Buddhist additional — see Chinese § Wanted (Questions of King Milinda, Lankavatara, Shurangama).

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GREEK / HELLENISTIC

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✅ Acquired

Synesius of Cyrene, On Dreams (c. 405 CE) — ✅ LANDED 2026-04-21

• Why we wanted it: 4th-century Neoplatonic dream treatise — the most systematic Late Antique philosophical dream text. Influential on medieval Christian dream theory; direct ancestor of Macrobius's five-dream classification.
• Status: pd_confirmed — now in corpus/greek/primary/synesius_on_dreams_myer_1888.md.
• PD reasoning:
  • Isaac Myer's 1888 English translation (privately printed, 100 copies) — unambiguously PD by every measure (pre-1929 US publication, author died 1902).
  • Augustine FitzGerald's 1930 Oxford UP translation is ALSO PD: FitzGerald died 1930 (same year as publication); UK copyright was life+50 at URAA's 1996-01-01 snapshot = expired in UK 1980 = not in copyright in source country on 1996-01-01 = no URAA restoration applies. Therefore US PD via failure of any registration/renewal condition.
  • Liminaut uses the Myer 1888 edition as unambiguously clear. FitzGerald 1930 is available as an optional companion if a second translation is desired.

Artemidorus, Oneirocritica — 1644 anonymous English translation (EEBO) — ✅ LANDED 2026-04-22

See Tier Roll-up § MEDIUM. Now in corpus/greek/primary/artemidorus_oneirocritica_1644_eebo.md.

◯ Wanted

Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio (5th c. CE) — ✅ LANDED 2026-05-10

• Why we wanted it: THE canonical medieval dream-theory text. Macrobius's classification of five dream-types (somnium, visio, oraculum, insomnium, visum) is cited across all subsequent Western dream theory — Chaucer, Dante, medieval scholastics, Renaissance humanists, and by modern dream scholars back-referencing through the tradition.
• What landed: 33 of 44 chapters — all of Book I (Chapters 1-22) plus Book II Chapters 1-4 (music of the spheres) and 11-17 (soul's purification and ascent). Translated from the Eyssenhardt 1893 Latin source we already held. Now in corpus/greek/primary/macrobius_commentary_dream_scipio_full_translation.md.
• Deferred: Book II Chs 5-10 (geographical detail) and 18-22 (arithmetic). Low dream-interpretation value — tracked in DEFERRED.md as maybe-laters.

Artemidorus — Harris-McCoy translation (2012, Oxford UP)

• Status: copyrighted — Oxford UP, active.
• Path forward: See the 1644 EEBO entry under ✅ Acquired above.

Cicero, De Divinatione Book II — ✅ LANDED 2026-08-29

• Cicero's own philosophical rebuttal (Academic-skeptic position) of the Stoic case for divination that his brother Quintus makes in Book I. Chs 58–72 are the direct dream-divination rebuttal.
• Extracted from Yonge's 1853 English (PD Bohn Classical Library) via OCR-cleanup of the existing compendium file (cicero_treatises_full_yonge_1853.source.txt lines 11140–14515). Regex pass removed running page headers, scanner watermarks, and common misreads. Chapter markers preserved as bold for clean parser detection.
• Now in corpus/greek/primary/cicero_divination_book2_yonge_1853_full.md (~25K words English). Some residual OCR debris remains (occasional stray punctuation, footnote-marker stubs) — non-blocking; could be cleaned further with a focused proof-read pass.
• The corpus now has BOTH sides of Cicero's dream-divination debate philosophically balanced (Book I Stoic case for + Book II Academic case against).

Asclepeion inscriptions (dream-incubation epigraphy)

• Status: pd_poor_quality — ancient epigraphy; PD in original Greek but good English translations live in modern scholarly editions (Edelstein & Edelstein 1945 — copyright renewed, active).
• Path forward: Summary; inscription numbers cited via standard corpus (IG IV² 1, 121–124).

Valerius Maximus, De Somniis (Book I Chapter 7) — ✅ LANDED 2026-08-29 (fresh translation)

• 18 dream-entries (8 Roman + 10 foreign) fresh-translated from the Latin (thelatinlibrary.com / Kempf Teubner tradition) by Claude Opus 4.7. All the canonical narrative dreams: Calpurnia before Caesar's assassination, Aemilius Paullus before Pydna, Hannibal's guide to Italy, Alexander's satyr at Tyre, Cyrus's winged Darius, Croesus's Atys, Alcibiades's cloak, and the two-Arcadians-at-Megara paradigm-case that Cicero uses in De Divinatione I.
• Now in corpus/greek/primary/valerius_maximus_de_somniis_full_translation.md.
• Latin source at corpus/greek/sources/valerius_maximus_de_somniis_latin.source.txt.
• Scholar review pending; two textual questions flagged inline (1.7.5 possible conflation of Persa/Pydna anecdotes; 1.7.ext.4 identity of the Hamilcar).
• Reading this alongside Cicero De Divinatione I (steelman for divination) and Cicero De Divinatione II (skeptical rebuttal, also now in corpus) gives Liminaut a philosophically-balanced classical dream-divination canon.

Nicephoros Oneirocriticon (11th c. Byzantine Greek)

• Why we want it: Byzantine dream book attributed to Nicephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople. One of seven extant Byzantine oneirocritica. Short compendium of dream-symbol interpretations in the tradition of Artemidorus.
• Status: pd_no_english — original Byzantine Greek is PD. The scholarly standard English is Steven Oberhelman's 2008 Dreambooks in Byzantium (Routledge, copyrighted, active). No PD English exists.
• Path forward: Commission fresh English translation from Byzantine Greek (~$1,000–1,500, short text) OR authored summary with fair-use reference to Oberhelman's chapter.

Achmet (pseudonym), Oneirocriticon (9th–10th c. Byzantine Greek)

• Why we want it: The most important Byzantine dream book. Adapts Islamic-Arabic dream-interpretation material (including Ibn Sirin lineage) for Christian Greek readers. Cross-tradition bridge text.
• Status: pd_no_english — original Byzantine Greek is PD. Maria V. Mavroudi's A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation (Brill 2002, copyrighted, active) is the scholarly standard. No PD English exists.
• Path forward: Commission fresh English translation (~$2,000–3,000; longer than Nicephoros) OR authored summary citing Mavroudi under fair-use. Achmet's Arabic-Islamic substrate means this partly-overlaps with the eventual commissioned Ibn Sirin translation's territory.

Patristic & early-Christian dream-theory (framework-extending — late-antique extension)

Liminaut's Greek/Hellenistic framework currently terminates roughly at Synesius (c. 405). The Christian patristic dream-literature from the 2nd–7th centuries is continuous with late-antique Greek/Roman dream-theory and directly formed the medieval inheritance Aquinas and Macrobius-commentators were working from. All of the following are public-domain in English.

Late-antique Neoplatonic dream-literature (framework-extending)

Roman-historical embedded-dream literature (amplificatory)

Medieval-scholastic extension — Albertus Magnus — ✅ LANDED (full English translation, 2026-09-03)

• Text: De somno et vigilia (~1260) — Albertus's dream-theoretical treatise is directly upstream of Aquinas's Summa II-II q.95 dream-classification; bridges Gregory the Great to Aquinas.
• Status: ✅ LANDED 2026-09-03 as fresh full English translation (~80,400 words across 11 sessions, 1.92× Latin→English ratio, from the Borgnet 1890 vol.9-10 IA scan). File at corpus/greek/primary/albertus_magnus_de_somno_et_vigilia_full_translation.md. All three books complete: Book I (physiology of sleep and waking), Book II (nature of the dream), Book III Tract I (dream-divination with the thirteen grades systematic classification), Book III Tract II (De causis somniorum in nobis, the internal-cause treatise + art of dream-interpretation). First complete English rendering of the treatise; scholarly review pending.

◇ Long-form acquisition notes — Artemidorus 1644 EEBO retrieval (historical)

These instructions are preserved for the analogous Valerius Maximus retrieval (still pending) and any future EEBO-gated text.

The 1644 anonymous English Artemidorus is pd_but_gated — text exists in EEBO-TCP as item A25906.0001.001 (CC0 public-domain dedication via the Text Creation Partnership). Direct Michigan EEBO URL (open in a browser): https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A25906.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext

Paths forward (easiest → hardest) as documented before the 2026-04-22 successful extraction:

Path 1: Google Books scan — probably easiest. Search https://books.google.com for the 1644 title. Pros: no Cloudflare, no TEI extraction. Cons: PDF scan needs OCR + archaic orthography normalization (long-s "ſ" → "s", "u" for "v", etc.).

Path 2: Internet Archive direct search. https://archive.org/search.php?query=Artemidorus+1644+interpretation+of+dreams

Path 3: Michigan EEBO in a browser (bypasses Cloudflare for humans). Direct URL to try: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A25906.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext . Fallback: older URL https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A25906.0001.001 . Search URL if neither works: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2-idx?page=browse&type=simple&rgn=Full%20text&q1=Artemidorus . On the item page, look for: a "View" dropdown → "TEI XML" or "Simple TEI"; a "Technical Info" or "Cite" link; or try appending &view=xml or &fmt=tei to the URL.

Path 4: Text Creation Partnership GitHub repos. Browse all of https://github.com/Text-Creation-Partnership for A25906.xml. Check the main candidate repo: https://github.com/Text-Creation-Partnership/TCP-EEBO2

Path 5: Oxford Research Archive bulk download — most reliable but heaviest. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ad7da8fc-cd8e-4637-8b7c-99498436dbaa — full EEBO-TCP Phase 1 + 2 TEI archive. ~25 GB zip for the entire EEBO corpus. After extracting, search for A25906.xml. Also gets Valerius Maximus A64910 (still wishlist) in the same zip.

Processing after download: If PDF scan, run OCR if text layer is weak; regex-normalize archaic orthography. If TEI XML (EEBO-TCP), strip <*> tags preserving text content, re-paragraph, normalize character entities — scripts/eebo_tcp_extractor.py does this.

⚠ Amplificatory cross-references

• Zoroastrian / Pahlavi — see Amplificatory Background § Zoroastrian. Late-antique dream-vision parallels.
• Mesopotamian (Zaqiqu, etc.) — see Amplificatory Background § Mesopotamian. Direct ancestor of the Artemidorus tradition.

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HINDU / VEDIC

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◯ Wanted

Aurobindo, The Life Divine (1940)

• Status: not_yet_pd (India) / likely pd_uk_us — published in India, copyright situation complex. Sri Aurobindo Ashram's position varies.
• Path forward: Investigate. If PD, ingest. If not, summary.

Swami Vivekananda's works (1893–1902)

• Status: pd_confirmed for pre-1929 output — actually should add to main manifest, not wishlist.
• Path forward: Move to manifest on next revision.

Hindu-Vedic sub-gaps

Hindu philosophical dream-literature — additional

Sanskrit dream manuals (Svapnadhyaya, Svapna-chintamani, Svapna-tantra)

• Why we want it: Classical Sanskrit dream-interpretation manuals in the same operational genre as Ibn Sirin, Zhougong Jiemeng, and the Ramesside Dream Book. Each gives symbol-by-symbol dream interpretations. Would complete the comparative picture across major world traditions.
• Status: pd_no_english — Sanskrit originals PD. No competent PD English exists. Modern scholarly translations (Esnoul, White, etc.) are copyrighted or fragmentary.
• Path forward: Potential 4th commission candidate, parallel to Ibn Sirin/Zhougong/Ramesside. Sanskrit translator cost ~$1,500-2,500. Same structural format expected (300-400 symbol entries). Would complete the "one native dream-manual per framework" goal for Hindu/Vedic.

◇ Open Questions — tradition-central PD (non-dream)

Default recommendation: ingest Vivekananda Raja Yoga (samadhi theory). Skip Rig Veda, complete Mahabharata, complete Ramayana (genuinely not dream-relevant).

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GESTALT

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Entire tradition is post-1929. The wishlist is the corpus for this tradition.

◯ Wanted

Fritz Perls, Gestalt Therapy Verbatim (1969)

• Status: copyrighted — Bantam / The Gestalt Journal Press.
• Path forward: Authored summary — dream-work methodology (speaking-as-dream-element, empty-chair technique).

Fritz Perls, The Gestalt Approach & Eye Witness to Therapy (1973)

• Status: copyrighted.
• Path forward: Summary.

Joseph Zinker, Creative Process in Gestalt Therapy (1977)

• Status: copyrighted.
• Path forward: Summary — extends Perls into contemporary practice.

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SCIENTIFIC

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◯ Wanted

Hall & Van de Castle, The Content Analysis of Dreams (1966)

• Why we want it: The foundational empirical dream-content methodology — scale norms the engine compares against.
• Status: copyrighted — Appleton-Century-Crofts, renewed.
• Path forward: Already in demo-summaries as structured summary; should move to summaries/ with better citation rigor before launch. Hall/Van de Castle coding system itself is methodology, not text — can describe the system without reproducing the scale text.

Domhoff, The Scientific Study of Dreams (2003), Finding Meaning in Dreams (1996)

• Status: copyrighted — APA / Plenum.
• Path forward: Summaries — Domhoff's continuity hypothesis + norm updates.

Revonsuo, Hartmann, Barrett, Stickgold — peer-reviewed papers 1998–2025

• Why we want it: Modern neuroscience of dreaming — threat simulation (Revonsuo), emotional assimilation (Hartmann), problem-solving (Barrett), memory consolidation (Stickgold).
• Status: copyrighted — academic journals (Behavioral & Brain Sciences, Dreaming, etc.). Fair-use summary OK; some papers have open-access preprints.
• Path forward: Authored summaries with DOI citations in summaries/. Open-access versions where available.

Hobson & McCarley, The Brain as a Dream State Generator (1977)

• Status: copyrighted — American Journal of Psychiatry.
• Path forward: Summary — activation-synthesis hypothesis.

Freud Totem and Taboo (Brill 1918 English)

• Why we mention it: PD Freud work that has some dream-relevant material (esp. chapter 2 on taboo and the ambivalence of emotions; chapter 4 on the infantile return in dreams). Not dream-focused — anthropology/psychoanalysis of primitive religion — but contains scattered passages useful for the Scientific framework.
• Status: pd_confirmed (Brill 1918 English translation). Available on IA / Gutenberg.
• Path forward: Tangential to dream-interpretation proper. Ingest only if we want Freud's non-dream-focused PD work in the corpus for completeness. Open question for the project: ingest or skip?

Freud Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Brill 1910 English)

• Why we mention it: Foundational Freudian sexuality-theory text. Contains minor dream-relevant passages on symbolism of genitals, the infantile sexual organization surfacing in dreams, etc. Not dream-focused.
• Status: pd_confirmed (Brill 1910 English on IA / Gutenberg).
• Path forward: Same as Totem and Taboo — tangential; ingest only if desired for corpus completeness. Open question.

Joseph Jastrow, The Subconscious (1906)

• Why we mention it: Early 20th-c. psychological study of subconscious processes. Contains scattered dream material but is primarily about subconscious perception / abnormal psychology.
• Status: pd_confirmed (1906 publication, Houghton Mifflin; on IA).
• Path forward: Tangential — minor dream content. Open question: ingest or skip?

Alfred Maury, Le sommeil et les rêves (1861) — French original PD; no English PD exists — ✅ LANDED 2026-09-05 as fresh full translation — first complete English rendering

• Why we wanted it: Foundational 19th-c. empirical dream research. Coined the modern usage of "hypnagogic." Case-study that Freud cites verbatim in Die Traumdeutung §I.C.β (guillotine dream, nine stimulus experiments). Founding work of experimental dream science; every French dream-psychologist since (Delboeuf, Vaschide, Delage, Foucault) takes their method from Maury.
• Status: pd_no_english — French original PD (Maury d. 1892). 165 years of continuous citation with no complete English translation until now.
• What is landed: Complete verbatim French→English translation of all 12 chapters + Conclusion + Appendix + Notes A–G + Table of Contents. Rendered by Claude Opus 4.7 across 29 passes from the 1861 Didier first-edition Google Books scan. All 424 pages of the source represented. At corpus/scientific/primary/maury_sommeil_reves_full_translation.md — approximately 355,000 English words. The earlier ~3,350-word partial (guillotine + nine experiments + hypnagogic-hallucinations opening) is preserved at corpus/scientific/primary/maury_sommeil_reves_partial_translation.md for reference.
• Signature contributions now in English: The full physiological theory of sleep (Ch II–III), complete hypnagogic-hallucinations chapter (Ch IV with the Aubonpriseur nason, the assignat/salsify restaurant dream, the dissolving-views self-portrait), all cross-modal dream/madness analogies (Ch V–VI including the tobacco-sneeze coq-à-l'âne, the two Meaux château brothers, the April-7-1861 Lagny-café déjà-vu-in-dream), the full hallucination theory from the 1856 Société médico-psychologique séance (Ch VII), extended somnambulism analysis including the four-degree taxonomy and the memory-theory push-back against Tandel (Ch VIII–IX), the ecstasy chapter with Iamblichus / Buddhist bhâvànà / Persian sufis / Ravaisson on habit (Ch X), the anesthetic/opium/haschich/alcohol analysis with Braid's fixation-hypnosis via Philips (Ch XI), the complete Mesmer/Puységur/Bertrand mesmerism history with Maury's own deliberate-misdirection experiments on the famous Alexis (Ch XII), the Appendix on instinct-and-intelligence with the four-orders-of-forces doctrine and the pipa/marsupial/kangaroo instinct-recapitulation catalogue, and all seven Notes (concurrence of organism-parts, liberty in sleep, suggestion including Marcus/Valentinus and Chevreul, memory-recall including the political-economy-article and Virgil-verses cases, memory-loss with the anti-phrenology doctrine, further hypnagogic observations reconciling Lélut and Baillarger, and unconscious movements with the Chevreul turning-tables synthesis).
• Path forward: Scholarly review flagged as pending before any Amazon POD publication. Same pattern as Saint-Denys / Delage / Janet / Volkelt / Augustine XII / Scherner / Schubert / Carus / Macrobius.

Hervey de Saint-Denys, Les rêves et les moyens de les diriger (1867) — ✅ LANDED (full English translation, 2026-05-10)

• Why we wanted it: First systematic Western treatise on lucid dreaming. 26-year dream journal with techniques for dream control. Freud famously desired a copy.
• What landed: Full English translation rendered from the 1867 Paris Amyot French source. Now in corpus/scientific/primary/saint_denys_reves_full_translation.md. Chapter-chunked for retrieval via the liminaut-curated-chapter parser variant. 20 chapter-level passages, 18 with Phase 4 lens extraction.
• Note: Two long appendix chapters (the hashish-dream account + one other) failed Phase 4 lens extraction on the JSON output cap; substantive translation is present and retrievable, just no structured lens summary on those two yet.

Pre-Freudian experimental psychology of dreams (framework-extending)

This is a substantial gap. Liminaut's Scientific framework currently has Maury, Saint-Denys, Myers, Ellis, and Freud. The intervening generation of experimental psychologists — who made dreams into a laboratory object before Freud — is missing entirely. All texts below are public-domain.

German-Romantic dream-theory (framework-extending; PD originals, no PD English)

Three foundational German dream-theoretical works that Jung, Freud, and Maury all engaged with. All three are PD in their original language; none had a complete PD English translation — all three (Scherner, Schubert, Carus) now LANDED as fresh translations after the 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-04 batch. The German-Romantic dream-theory triad is now complete in English for the first time.

Romantic & 19th-century dream-literature (amplificatory)

Early-modern English dream-literature (amplificatory)

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⏳ In Progress / Commissioned

Zhougong Jiemeng (Duke of Zhou's Dream Dictionary) — PRIORITY #3 COMMISSION

• Why we want it: The folk dream-dictionary register for the Chinese framework. Traditionally attributed to the Duke of Zhou (c. 1000 BCE) but textually a Tang-era compilation (7th–10th c. CE) with later accretions. Has been the most-consulted Chinese dream-interpretation manual for ~2000 years; still in active use in Chinese-speaking communities today. Without it, the Chinese framework has I Ching + Zhuangzi (philosophy/phenomenology) but is missing the symbol-by-symbol operational vocabulary most Chinese users would expect in a dream-interpretation product.
• Status: pd_no_english — original Chinese is PD. No authoritative pre-1929 English translation. Modern translations are copyrighted and of variable scholarly quality (online compilations, app content, Nikita Bushin's Purple Cloud Institute rendering).
• What we need: fresh English translation of 300–400 representative entries from a scholarly Chinese edition, ideally cross-referenced against the Dunhuang manuscript fragments for Tang-era textual anchor.
• Why AI can't do it: AI can read common Classical Chinese characters and grammatical particles, but reliably fails on: variant character forms in Tang-era manuscripts, paleographic decisions from Dunhuang manuscript images, subtle classical-grammar readings where multiple parses are defensible, specialized divinatory compound vocabulary (吉凶禍福 and similar omen-idioms with non-literal meanings), and gendered/cultural nuance in 2000-year-old folk omens. For a translation that will be published as an Amazon print-on-demand book under Liminaut's brand and cited in every Chinese-framework interpretation output, AI output would fail scholarly review and Chinese-speaking community review. A PhD-level Classical Chinese translator is the right call.
• Expected cost: $1,200–$2,000 (translation) + $250–$400 (scholarly review) = $1,450–$2,400 total.
• Timeline: ~12 weeks from contract signing to final delivery.
• Translator brief: docs/translator_briefs/03_zhougong_jiemeng.md — priority #3.

Original-language source — Zhougong Jiemeng《周公解夢》(Classical Chinese)

One Chinese text is already in the repo (corpus/chinese/sources/); other scholarly sources require external access:

• zh.wikisource.org — https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%91%A8%E5%85%AC%E8%A7%A3%E5%A4%A2 — consolidated popular edition, 24 KB, already downloaded to corpus/chinese/sources/zhougong_jiemeng_wikisource.txt. License CC BY-SA. Represents the folk-accretion layer rather than the Tang-era core.
• International Dunhuang Programme (IDP) — https://idp.bl.uk — Tang-era manuscript fragments as high-resolution images (NOT downloadable plaintext). Specific fragments: S.620, S.2222, S.5901 (British, Stein) and P.3908 (French, Pelliot). The closest-to-source material but requires paleographic reading of cursive classical script.
• Chinese Text Project (CText) — https://ctext.org — scholarly plain-text digital editions, searchable, open-access.
• Zhonghua Shuju (中华书局) and Shanghai Guji (上海古籍出版社) scholarly print editions with critical apparatus — available at academic Chinese libraries.

Format caveat for the translator: Dunhuang fragments are image-only (manuscript photos via IDP viewer); Wikisource is human-transcribed plain text (high quality); scholarly print editions are print with critical apparatus (best foundation if accessible). Recommended working combination: scholarly Chinese edition as primary + Dunhuang images as Tang-era anchor + Wikisource file as cross-reference.

Hazard: multiple online dream-interpretation apps, Chinese-dream-dictionary sites, and popularizations (Purple Cloud Institute, various app content) have produced English renderings of Zhougong Jiemeng. These are not acceptable source material — the translator must work from a Chinese source and not adapt any existing English rendering.

◯ Wanted

Zhuangzi — Burton Watson translation (1968), Brook Ziporyn translation (2009)

• Status: copyrighted. Have Legge 1891 in primary/.
• Path forward: Summary for modern readings; Legge covers our base need.

Chinese / Buddhist additional (framework-extending — Chinese / Tibetan)

◇ Open Questions — tradition-central PD (non-dream)

Default recommendation: skip Confucian Classics, Mozi (genuinely not dream-relevant).

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EGYPTIAN

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⏳ In Progress / Commissioned

Ramesside Dream Book (Papyrus Chester Beatty III) — PRIORITY #2 COMMISSION

• Why we want it: The most systematic ancient Egyptian dream-interpretation manual to survive from antiquity. Contains ~108 dream-omen entries in the format "If a man sees himself in a dream doing X — good [or bad]; it means Y," plus a taxonomic introduction classifying two types of dreamer (follower of Horus / follower of Seth), plus closing exorcism/apotropaic text. Without it, the Egyptian framework has Budge's Book of the Dead (funerary cosmology) but no native dream-interpretation primary. The current demo-summary treats Budge interpretively as "afterlife journey as dream-analogue" — defensible but a stretch. Real Ramesside text would resolve this.
• Status: pd_no_english — original hieratic is PD (c. 1250 BCE). All competent modern English translations are copyrighted or URAA-restricted:
  • Gardiner 1935 (Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum, Third Series) — URAA-restored in US until Jan 1, 2031
  • Szpakowska Behind Closed Eyes (2003) — active copyright
  • Volten 1942 (German Demotic) — active copyright (URAA-restored from German)
  • Prada articles 2010s–2020s — active copyright
• What we need: fresh English translation of the complete dream-interpretation section of the papyrus (recto columns 1–11). ~108 dream-omen entries + intro + exorcism text. Estimated ~8,000–12,000 English words total.
• Why AI can't do it: This is the hardest of the three commissions for AI. Unlike classical Arabic or Classical Chinese (where AI output is mediocre but plausible), hieratic Egyptian is close to a zero-competence situation for current LLMs. Specific limitations: AI cannot reliably read hieratic manuscript images (cursive Egyptian handwriting is a specialized paleographic skill with near-zero training exposure); AI has limited exposure to Late Egyptian grammar (the Ramesside register, distinct from Middle Egyptian taught in intro textbooks); AI cannot parse damaged papyrus passages or distinguish scribal hands; AI doesn't have reliable oneirocritical vocabulary for the period. The pool of competent translators is also the smallest of the three commissions — maybe a few hundred Egyptologists globally with hieratic paleographic competence.
• Expected cost: $1,400–$2,200 (translation — Egyptological specialist rate $200–400/hr) + $400–$600 (scholarly review) = $1,800–$2,800 total.
• Timeline: ~11 weeks from contract signing to final delivery.
• Translator brief: docs/translator_briefs/02_ramesside_dream_book.md — priority #2.
• No PD substitute until 2031. Unlike Ibn Sirin and Zhougong Jiemeng (where the translation is urgent but the Islamic/Chinese frameworks have other PD primary material to lean on), Egyptian framework has zero hieratic-period dream-interpretation primary text. Either commission now, or the framework waits until Gardiner 1935 enters US PD on Jan 1, 2031.

Original-language source — Papyrus Chester Beatty III (hieratic)

The physical papyrus is held by the British Museum (EA 10683). High-quality reference material exists, but licensing matters for the eventual book-publishing use case:

• British Museum object page: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA10683-2 — official record with scholarly provenance. BM asserts rights on reproductions. Free for non-commercial scholarly use; commercial reuse (Amazon POD book, for example) requires licensing via bmimages.com — typical rate $100–300 per image.
• Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (Berlin Academy, open-access academic): https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/object/OXI2EWMK6JBCVEB3D76O2LHBMA — scholarly hieratic→hieroglyphic transliterations with metadata. Open license, suitable for citation.
• Trismegistos database: https://www.trismegistos.org/hhp/list_all.php?p=55 — catalog entry with cross-references for textual history.
• Gardiner 1935 plates (Vol. II of Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum, Third Series): photographic reproductions — scholarly gold standard, but URAA-restricted in US until 2031. Any qualified Egyptologist will have library access.

For the translator brief: add a note that the translator should plan on either (a) academic library access to Gardiner 1935, (b) direct engagement with BM research-access photography, or (c) TLA transliterations as the primary working text. For the eventual Amazon POD book, factor in BM commercial image licensing (~$100–300/image × ~8–12 plates needed for a decent volume).

◯ Wanted

Szpakowska, Behind Closed Eyes: Dreams and Nightmares in Ancient Egypt (2003)

• Status: copyrighted.
• Path forward: Summary — essential modern scholarship on Egyptian dream practices.

◇ Open Questions — tradition-central PD (non-dream)

Default recommendation: ingest Budge Egyptian Magic (actual divination/dream content) and Petrie Egyptian Tales (Tale of Two Brothers dream passage).

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SUFI

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◯ Wanted

Ibn al-Arabi, Fusus al-Hikam (Bezels of Wisdom) — Austin translation (1980)

• Status: copyrighted — Paulist Press.
• Path forward: Summary — Ibn Arabi's ontology of the imaginal (alam al-mithal) is foundational for Sufi dream theory.

Henry Corbin, Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi (1969)

• Status: copyrighted — Princeton UP.
• Path forward: Summary — Corbin's concept of the imaginal is directly applicable to dream interpretation.

Al-Ghazali, The Revival of Religious Sciences (Ihya Ulum al-Din) — full English

• Status: pd_no_english for complete work. Have Alchemy of Happiness (1909 Field translation) in primary/.
• Path forward: Summary of the dream-relevant chapters (esp. Book of Fear and Hope).

◇ Open Questions — tradition-central PD (non-dream)

Default recommendation: ingest Attar Conference of the Birds (vision narratives useful).

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MEDICINE WHEEL / NATIVE AMERICAN

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Policy: all entries in this section are culturally_restricted regardless of PD status. No ingestion without explicit path outlined below.

⏳ Calendared + culturally gated

Black Elk Speaks (Neihardt, 1932)

• Why we want it: The single most-cited Native American autobiographical text in English. Contains Black Elk's "Great Vision" (chapter 3) — one of the most famous visionary/dream narratives in any Indigenous autobiography. Would be the foundational text for the Medicine Wheel framework if cultural-consultation gates cleared.
• Status: pd_edge_+_culturally_restricted — 1932 publication, URAA-edge (enters US PD approximately Jan 1, 2028). Regardless of legal PD status, requires Indigenous-author / elder consultation before Liminaut ingestion per the project's cultural-sensitivity policy.
• Path forward:
  1. Legal: confirm US PD status January 2028 via USCO search (URAA verification).
  2. Cultural: consultation with Oglala Sioux cultural authorities (e.g., Oglala Lakota College, Red Cloud Indian School heritage program) before any inclusion. Black Elk chose to share his vision publicly via Neihardt but the cultural-use conventions around later Lakota teachings are context-sensitive.
  3. If both cleared: ingest with explicit cultural framing in the corpus file (as documented in sourceRegistry.ts's culturalNotes field pattern).
• Without this text: Medicine Wheel framework remains intentionally empty. No substitute PD text exists.

◯ Wanted (cultural gate applies)

Hyemeyohsts Storm, Seven Arrows (1972)

• Status: copyrighted + culturally_restricted. Controversial within some Native communities; widely published.
• Path forward: Summary only, with explicit cultural context. No verbatim inclusion regardless of license.

Sun Bear & Wabun, The Medicine Wheel: Earth Astrology (1980)

• Status: copyrighted + culturally_restricted.
• Path forward: Sun Bear explicitly chose to teach non-Natives; still requires respectful summary with context, not inclusion.

Frank Waters, The Book of the Hopi (1963)

• Status: copyrighted; some material Hopi have objected to.
• Path forward: Do NOT include without Hopi Cultural Preservation Office guidance.

Jamie Sams & David Carson, Medicine Cards (1988)

• Status: copyrighted.
• Path forward: Summary with cultural framing.

What we need for the Medicine Wheel framework to launch:

1. Indigenous scholarly consultation on which teachings may be respectfully shared
2. Summaries authored by or in consultation with Indigenous practitioners
3. Explicit cultural-context framing in every interpretation output that uses this framework
4. A consent-and-citation policy document

Until 1–4 are in place, the Medicine Wheel framework should either remain selectable with a disclaimer, or be gated behind a "coming soon" state in the UI.

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AMPLIFICATORY BACKGROUND — CROSS-FRAMEWORK

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These items don't have a single tradition home — they span multiple frameworks or sit outside the 13 named traditions while remaining useful as amplificatory background. Listed here for completeness; primary tradition is noted on each.

Mesopotamian (amplificatory — Scientific / Alchemical)

Zoroastrian / Pahlavi (amplificatory — Islamic / Greek)

Japanese-Buddhist (amplificatory — Tibetan / Jungian)

Christian mystical-dream corpus (amplificatory — Alchemical / Jungian)

Anthropology of dreams (amplificatory — cross-framework / new category)

Commentary traditions (framework-extending; cross-tradition)

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SUMMARY

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Three of our 12 frameworks (Islamic, Chinese, Egyptian) have no competent PD English primary text and depend heavily on authored summaries for credibility. Commissioning fresh translations of Ibn Sirin, Zhougong Jiemeng, and the Ramesside Dream Book would be the single largest credibility upgrade to the corpus.