{"database": "deitydb", "table": "entities", "rows": [["ENT_DAC_DERZELAS", "Derzelas", null, "Dacian", "Chthonic deity / deity of vital abundance", "deity", "abundance; health; vital force; chthonic; Dacian/Thracian; civic cult; Odessos", null, null, null, "B", null, null, null, null, null, "Derzelas (\u0394\u03ad\u03c1\u03b6\u03b1\u03bb\u03b1\u03c2, also Darzalas, \u0394\u03b1\u03c1\u03b6\u03b1\u03bb\u03ac\u03c2) is a Dacian or Thracian-Dacian chthonic deity of vital force, health, and abundance, attested primarily through numismatic evidence from the city of Odessos (modern Varna, Bulgaria) on the Black Sea coast. Coins struck at Odessos from the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE depict a mature male figure interpreted as the local Great God (\u039c\u03ad\u03b3\u03b1\u03c2 \u0398\u03b5\u03cc\u03c2) of Odessos, widely identified in modern scholarship as Derzelas on the basis of dedicatory inscriptions from the same region. The name Derzelas may derive from a Thracian root related to vigor or vital force (compare Thracian personal names with the element Derz-/Darz- connoting \"brave, strong\"). He occupies a central role in the religious life of Odessos, functioning simultaneously as a civic protector and as a chthonic deity associated with the realm of the dead and with the renewal of vitality \u2014 a combination characteristic of the broader Thracian-Dacian religious complex. His cult shows Greek influence in iconography (he is depicted in Hellenistic style), while his name and functional domain are distinctly indigenous Thracian-Dacian. Unlike Zalmoxis (the great Dacian prophet-deity of immortality among the Getae) or Gebeleizis (the storm deity), Derzelas is primarily civic and chthonic rather than soteriological. Fol, A. and Marazov, I. (1977), Thrace and the Thracians (London); Popov, D. (1989), \"Der thrakische Gott Darzalas,\" Klio 71.2: 373-391.", "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_DAC_DERZELAS"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7630709988006856, "source": "jebboone/deitydb", "source_url": "https://github.com/jebboone/deitydb", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"}