deitydb: entities: 6 rows where entity_class = "deity" and tradition = "Aramean"

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'}

6 rows where entity_class = "deity" and tradition = "Aramean"

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entity_id ▼	canonical_name	tradition	entity_type	category	primary_domains	cult_scope	evidence_confidence	review_status	inclusion_basis	earth_association_score	chthonic_flag	serpent_flag	short_note	entity_class
ENT_ARA_ALLAT_PALMYRA	Allat of Palmyra	Aramean	Goddess	War Deity	war; protection	regional	A	candidate_verified_name	Early-antiquity fringe completion (v1.67.0)	0	0	0	Arab goddess worshipped at Palmyra in her own sanctuary, assimilated to armed Athena, attested in Palmyrene and bilingual dedications.	deity
ENT_ARA_ATARGATIS	Atargatis	Aramean	great Syrian goddess / fish goddess	Love Deity	love; fertility; sovereignty; sea and fish; divine queenship; war; prophecy		A						Atargatis ("the Syrian Goddess," Greek Dea Syria; Aramaic Atar-ata or ʿAtar-ʿAte) is the most influential Aramean deity in the broader Mediterranean world and the principal goddess of the Syrian religious tradition. Her main cult center was the great temple complex at Hierapolis-Bambyce (modern Manbij, northern Syria), which Lucian of Samosata describes in detail in De Dea Syria (c. 150 CE): a monumental temple with sacred fish-pools where fish were never caught but fed by hand, sacred doves, a golden statue of Atargatis enthroned between lions (her cult animal), surrounded by divine effigies of other deities, and served by hundreds of priests including the castrated galli who performed ecstatic self-mutilation at festivals. Her theonym is a compressed form of two divine names: Atar (= Aramaic form of Astarte, the Semitic love/war goddess) + Ata/Ate (= possibly "Anat," the Ugaritic war goddess, making Atargatis a fusion of both female divine powers). She is a "panthea" — a many-in-one all-goddess who encompasses love, fertility, sovereignty, war, and prophecy in a single figure. Her cult spread dramatically across the Hellenistic world through Syrian merchant communities: major temples on Delos (the Atargateion, 2nd c. BCE), in Athens, and in Rome (the Galli priests's festivals were observed in Rome). She is typically depicted enthroned, wearing a turreted crown and holding a scepter, with lions flanking her throne and fish at her feet. Lucian De Dea Syria (§§1-60) is the fullest primary source; Lipiński (2000) pp. 589-610.	deity
ENT_ARA_BAALSHAMIN	Baalshamin	Aramean	Lord of Heaven / sky and storm deity	High Deity	sky; storm; rain; cosmic sovereignty; divine protection; weather		A						Baalshamin ("Lord of Heaven," Aramaic Baʿal-šamayim; Greek Zeus Baalshamin) is one of the most widely attested deities of the ancient Semitic world and the dominant sky deity of the Aramean and Palmyrene traditions. As "Lord of Heaven" he presides over the cosmic sky, rain, and storm functions, and his name became nearly a theological title for the supreme divine sovereign of the heavens across Aramaic-speaking communities from Phoenicia to Arabia. His earliest significant attestation is the Aramaic inscription of Zakkur, King of Hamath (c. 800 BCE), in which Baalshamin promises victory to Zakkur over the coalition of kings besieging him — structurally parallel to Khaldi's role in Urartian royal ideology. He had a major sanctuary at Si' (in the Hauran region of southern Syria, extensive Nabataean inscriptions) and one of the two principal temples at Palmyra (the Baalshamin temple, dedicated 131 CE, well-preserved until its destruction by ISIL in August 2015). Greek-Palmyrene bilingual inscriptions consistently render "Baalshamin" as "Zeus," confirming the ancient interpretatio graeca. In the Book of Daniel (2nd c. BCE), "Baal Shamayim" ("Lord of the Heavens") is used as an ironic term for the Seleucid deity Olympian Zeus installed in the Jerusalem Temple — the "abomination of desolation" (Daniel 9:27, 11:31), preserving the Aramaic theonym in a polemical Jewish source. Lipiński (2000) pp. 577-588; Kaizer (2002) pp. 60-85.	deity
ENT_ARA_BEL_PALMYRA	Bel of Palmyra	Aramean	God	Sovereignty Deity	sovereignty; sky; cosmic order	regional	A	candidate_verified_name	Early-antiquity fringe completion (v1.67.0)	0	0	0	Head of the Palmyrene pantheon, worshipped in the great Temple of Bel (dedicated 32 CE); a Bel form assimilated to Babylonian Bel-Marduk, heading the astral triad with Yarhibol and Aglibol.	deity
ENT_ARA_HADAD_DAMASCUS	Hadad of Damascus	Aramean	storm deity / national god of Aram-Damascus	Thunder Deity	storm; thunder; rain; royal victory; national sovereignty; war		A						Hadad of Damascus (Aramaic Hadad, "thunderer"; theonym related to Ugaritic Haddu/Hadad, the proper name of Canaanite Baal) is the chief deity of Aram-Damascus, the most powerful of the Iron Age Aramean kingdoms (capital at Damascus, modern Syrian capital; the kingdom dominated Syria from c. 900 to 732 BCE). He is the Aramean national storm deity, directly continuous with the Canaanite Baal Hadad tradition but now serving as the divine patron of the Aramean state rather than the Canaanite city-states of the Bronze Age. His attestations include: the Aramaic Zakkur stele (c. 800 BCE, which invokes Baalshamin alongside Hadad's successors), the Melqart stele from Aleppo (c. 870 BCE, dedicated by Ben-Hadad of Damascus, naming Hadad and Melqart), the Tel Dan stele (c. 840 BCE, recording a victory of Hazael of Damascus citing divine favor), and repeated Old Testament references to the kings of Damascus bearing the divine name: Ben-Hadad I, II, III ("son of Hadad"), Hazael (whose name may invoke Hadad), and Hadadezer ("Hadad is my helper," 2 Samuel 8:3). The name "Hadad-Rimmon" in Zechariah 12:11 and the Assyrian practice of deporting the cult statue of "Hadad of Damascus" after the conquest of 732 BCE (Tiglath-Pileser III's annals) both confirm his central status. Lipiński (2000) pp. 567-577.	deity
ENT_ARA_RAKIB_EL	Rakib-El	Aramean	Dynastic god	Sovereignty Deity	kingship; dynastic protection	regional	A	candidate_verified_name	Early-antiquity fringe completion (v1.67.0)	0	0	0	'Charioteer of El', tutelary dynastic god of the kings of Samʾal/Zincirli, named in the 8th-c. BCE Hadad, Panamuwa and Kilamuwa inscriptions.	deity

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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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6 rows where entity_class = "deity" and tradition = "Aramean"

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