deitydb: entities: 9 rows where entity_class = "collective" and tradition = "Egyptian"

The core table — every entity in the database, spanning gods, angels, demons, aeons, prophets, saints, heroes, spirits, monsters, personified abstractions, cosmological realms, and ritual categories. Use category to filter by functional type (146 values: Underworld Deity, Hero, Adversarial Being, Revealer Figure, etc.). Use tradition to filter by tradition. The short_note column contains a scholarly description with source citations.

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entity_id: {'description': 'Stable identifier (e.g. ENT_GRK_ZEUS, ENT_EGY_OSIRIS, ENT_ISL_MUSA)'}
canonical_name: {'description': 'Primary English name used in the database'}
greek_name: {'description': 'Greek-script name, where applicable'}
tradition: {'description': 'Religious or cultural tradition of origin'}
entity_class: {'description': 'Controlled top-level kind (19 values: deity, angel, demon, aeon, sefirah, spirit, monster, hero, ruler, prophet, sage, saint, scriptural-figure, abstraction, collective, realm, ritual, title, object) — recommended for filtering by kind'}
entity_type: {'description': 'Granular free-text type descriptor (894 distinct values; see entity_class for the controlled grouping)'}
category: {'description': 'Broader functional category (146 values — recommended for filtering)'}
primary_domains: {'description': 'Primary divine domains, comma-separated'}
evidence_confidence: {'description': 'Sourcing quality: A = direct primary-text attestation; B = strong secondary; C = inference; D = speculative'}
chthonic_flag: {'description': 'True if this entity has underworld or chthonic associations'}
serpent_flag: {'description': 'True if this entity has serpent or dragon associations'}
short_note: {'description': 'Scholarly description with source citations'}

9 rows where entity_class = "collective" and tradition = "Egyptian"

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entity_id ▼	canonical_name	greek_name	tradition	entity_type	category	primary_domains	cult_scope	evidence_confidence	review_status	inclusion_basis	earth_association_score	chthonic_flag	short_note	entity_class
ENT_EGY_75_FORMS_RE	The Seventy-Five Forms of Re		Egyptian	Litany collective	Aspects of the sun god	the invocations of the sun in the underworld	funerary	A	candidate_verified_name	Litany of Re	0	1	The seventy-five names/forms under which the sun god is invoked in the Litany of Re as he traverses the underworld — most being epithet-aspects of Ra himself rather than separate deities.	collective
ENT_EGY_DECANS	The Decans (Egyptian decanal system)	δεκανοί	Egyptian	Astronomical collective	Star-clock deities	the 36 decanal stars; the star-clock; the 10-day week	national	A	candidate_verified_name	coffin star-clocks; astronomical ceilings	0	0	The system of 36 stars/star-groups rising at ten-day intervals that ruled the Egyptian decades and divided the night into hours, attested on Middle Kingdom coffin star-clocks and the astronomical ceilings of Senenmut, Seti I, and Dendera. (Individual decan readings are largely contested, so represented as the system; later received into Hellenistic astrology as the dekanoi.)	collective
ENT_EGY_ENEMIES_OF_RA	The Enemies of Ra (the Damned)		Egyptian	Underworld collective	The condemned dead	rebellion against the sun; annihilation in the pits of fire	funerary	A	candidate_verified_name	Amduat / Book of Gates	0	1	The bound, beheaded, and burned foes of the sun god — rebels condemned to the fire-pits of the Duat, their bodies, bas, and shadows annihilated.	collective
ENT_EGY_FOUR_RACES	The Four Races of Mankind		Egyptian	Anthropological collective	Peoples of the sun	the four kinds of humanity; the equal care of Ra	funerary	A	candidate_verified_name	Book of Gates, 5th division	0	0	The four peoples shepherded by Ra/Horus in the Book of Gates — Reth (Egyptians), Aamu (Asiatics), Nehesu (Nubians), Themehu (Libyans) — all destined for the afterlife.	collective
ENT_EGY_FOUR_SONS_OF_HORUS	Four Sons of Horus		Egyptian	Funerary deity collective	Funerary Deity	canopic protection; organs; funerary rites; Horus sons	Funerary	A	candidate_verified_name	Egyptian funerary deity collective	3	1	Collective of four funerary deities protecting the organs of the deceased.	collective
ENT_EGY_OGDOAD	Ogdoad		Egyptian	Primordial deity collective	Primordial Deity	primordial waters; darkness; infinity; hiddenness; Hermopolitan creation	Hermopolitan	A	candidate_verified_name	Egyptian primordial deity collective	2	0	The Ogdoad (Egyptian: khmun, "the eight"; Greek: Ogdoas) is the Hermopolitan collective of eight primordial deities who constitute the pre-creation cosmological matrix in the theology of Hermopolis Magna (modern Ashmunein, Middle Egypt). The name of the city, Khmun (Coptic: Shmun), derives directly from the word for "eight" (ḫmn), reflecting the centrality of the Ogdoad to the city's religious identity. The eight deities are four male-female pairs, each embodying one primordial quality of the pre-creation state: Nun and Naunet (the primordial waters), Heh and Hauhet (infinity/boundlessness), Kek and Kauket (primordial darkness), and Amun and Amunet (the hidden/invisible). Together they represent the full matrix of creative potential — the totality of what existed before creation brought order, light, and differentiated being into existence. In the Hermopolitan cosmology, the Ogdoad's primordial forces are stirred (by Thoth's creative voice in some versions; by their own internal dynamic in others) to produce the primordial mound (the benben or Island of Flame) from which the creator deity (Atum-Ra, or specifically Thoth as the Hermopolitan demiurge) emerges to begin the ordered creation. The Ogdoad cosmology predates the Heliopolitan Ennead (Atum's family) as the primary Egyptian cosmological system; the two systems coexisted and influenced each other throughout Egyptian history. The Ogdoad has a notable reception in the Gnostic Ogdoad tradition (the "eighth heaven" or octadic pleroma structure), where the Hermopolitan cosmological structure of eight primordial forces was adapted into Valentinian and Sethian cosmological schemas. Thoth (Hermopolis's patron deity) is the organizing/creative intelligence within the Ogdoad system, receiving the Ogdoad's primordial energies and giving them creative direction. Pinch (2002) pp. 165-168; Wilkinson (2003) pp. 99-102.	collective
ENT_EGY_SOULS_OF_NEKHEN	Souls of Nekhen		Egyptian	Collective	Ancestral royal souls (Upper Egypt)	deceased predynastic kings of Hierakonpolis; royal ancestors; jubilation for the king	regional	A	candidate_verified_name	Predynastic / Early Dynastic / Old Kingdom Egyptian deity	0	0	Jackal-headed ancestral spirits of the predynastic rulers of Nekhen (Hierakonpolis) in Upper Egypt, paired with the Souls of Pe in the Pyramid Texts.	collective
ENT_EGY_SOULS_OF_PE	Souls of Pe		Egyptian	Collective	Ancestral royal souls (Lower Egypt)	deceased predynastic kings of Buto; royal ancestors; jubilation for the king	regional	A	candidate_verified_name	Predynastic / Early Dynastic / Old Kingdom Egyptian deity	0	0	Falcon-headed ancestral spirits of the predynastic rulers of Pe (Buto) in the Delta, invoked acclaiming the king in the Pyramid Texts.	collective
ENT_EGY_TWELVE_HOURS	The Twelve Hours of the Night		Egyptian	Tutelary collective	Goddesses of the hours	the twelve divisions of the night; guiding the solar barque	funerary	A	candidate_verified_name	Amduat / Book of Gates	0	1	The twelve goddesses personifying the hours of the night, each ruling and guiding the solar barque through her division of the Duat. (Their individual names are descriptive epithets that vary by copy, so represented here as the collective.)	collective

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CREATE TABLE "entities" (
   [entity_id] TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
   [canonical_name] TEXT,
   [greek_name] TEXT,
   [tradition] TEXT,
   [entity_type] TEXT,
   [category] TEXT,
   [primary_domains] TEXT,
   [tags] TEXT,
   [cult_scope] TEXT,
   [primary_period] TEXT,
   [evidence_confidence] TEXT,
   [review_status] TEXT,
   [inclusion_basis] TEXT,
   [earth_association_score] INTEGER,
   [chthonic_flag] INTEGER,
   [serpent_flag] INTEGER,
   [short_note] TEXT,
   [entity_class] TEXT REFERENCES [entity_class]([class_id])
);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entities_entity_class]
    ON [entities] ([entity_class]);

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9 rows where entity_class = "collective" and tradition = "Egyptian"

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