{"database": "deitydb", "table": "entities", "rows": [["ENT_ARM_ANAHIT", "Anahit", null, "Armenian", "goddess of fertility, love, and war", "Fertility Deity", "fertility; love; purity; war; water; national sovereignty; the Armenian people", null, null, null, "A", null, null, null, null, null, "The most beloved deity of the Armenian pantheon and the most widely attested. Daughter of Aramazd. Name derived from Zoroastrian Anahita (Avestan: Ar\u0259dv\u012b S\u016br\u0101 An\u0101hit\u0101) via regular sound change. Strabo (Geography XI.14.16) describes her magnificent gold cult statue at the temple at Erez (Ashtishat) \u2014 so rich that Roman soldiers melted it for gold after Antony's campaign in 36 BCE. Agathangelos (\u00a722) equates her with Artemis: \"Anahit, who is called Artemis among the Greeks; she is the glory of our nation and vivifier... mother of all chastity, benefactress of the whole human race.\" Kings of the Artaxiad and Arsacid dynasties used the epithet \"Anahit the Golden\" (\u0578\u057d\u056f\u056b \u0531\u0576\u0561\u0570\u056b\u057f). She combines domains that in Zoroastrian theology belong to Anahita (water, fertility, war-victory) with Hellenistic characteristics of Artemis (virginity, hunting) and Aphrodite (love, beauty) \u2014 the widest functional range of any Armenian deity. Russell (1987) pp. 121-250; Agathangelos \u00a722; Khorenatsi I.14.", "deity"]], "columns": ["entity_id", "canonical_name", "greek_name", "tradition", "entity_type", "category", "primary_domains", "tags", "cult_scope", "primary_period", "evidence_confidence", "review_status", "inclusion_basis", "earth_association_score", "chthonic_flag", "serpent_flag", "short_note", "entity_class"], "primary_keys": ["entity_id"], "primary_key_values": ["ENT_ARM_ANAHIT"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 73.57417500134034, "source": "jebboone/deitydb", "source_url": "https://github.com/jebboone/deitydb", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"}