Entities
Data license: MIT · Data source: jebboone/deitydb
- 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'}
27 rows where entity_class = "deity" and tradition = "Canaanite/Ugaritic"
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Suggested facets: entity_type, category, primary_domains, cult_scope, evidence_confidence, inclusion_basis, earth_association_score, chthonic_flag, serpent_flag
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENT_CAN_ANAT | Anat | Canaanite/Ugaritic | War/fertility goddess | War Deity | war; fertility; protection | Northwest Semitic | A | candidate_verified_name | Canaanite core deity | 2 | 0 | 0 | Warrior goddess closely associated with Baal. | deity | |||
| ENT_CAN_ARSAY | Arsay | Canaanite/Ugaritic | Goddess | Daughter of Baal | the earth; the underworld | regional | A | candidate_verified_name | Baal Cycle, KTU 1.3; KTU 1.118 | 4 | 1 | 0 | "Earthy one," the chthonic third daughter of Baal. | deity | |||
| ENT_CAN_ASHERAH | Athirat/Asherah | Canaanite/Ugaritic | Mother goddess | Fertility Deity | motherhood; sea; fertility; divine consort | Northwest Semitic | A | candidate_verified_name | Canaanite core deity | 4 | 0 | 0 | Mother goddess and consort of El. | deity | |||
| ENT_CAN_ASTARTE | Astarte | Canaanite/Ugaritic | Love/fertility goddess | War Deity | love; fertility; sexuality; sovereignty | Northwest Semitic | A | candidate_verified_name | Canaanite core deity | 2 | 0 | 0 | Major Northwest Semitic goddess related to Ishtar traditions. | deity | |||
| ENT_CAN_ATHTAR | Athtar | Canaanite/Ugaritic | God | Astral god | the morning star (Venus); irrigation | regional | A | candidate_verified_name | Baal Cycle, KTU 1.6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | The astral god (Venus) enthroned to replace the dead Baal, but too small for the throne. (Cf. the South Arabian Athtar.) | deity | |||
| ENT_CAN_BAAL | Baal Hadad | Canaanite/Ugaritic | Storm god | Storm Deity | storm; rain; fertility; kingship | Northwest Semitic | A | candidate_verified_name | Canaanite core deity | 2 | 0 | 0 | Storm and fertility god central to the Baal Cycle. | deity | |||
| ENT_CAN_DAGON | Dagon | Canaanite/Ugaritic | Grain/sky deity | Fertility Deity | grain; agriculture; fertility; rain; underworld; Philistine cult | A | Major West Semitic deity; possibly the father of Baal in Ugaritic texts (KTU 1.5 VI: "Baal son of Dagon"); grain deity whose name may derive from Semitic dagan (grain) though also connected to daganu (cloud/rain); worshipped from Ebla (c. 2400 BCE) and Mari (c. 1800 BCE) through Ugarit and into Philistine-period Ashdod and Gaza (Judges 16:23; 1 Samuel 5); the most geographically widespread West Semitic deity before the Hellenistic period | deity | |||||||||
| ENT_CAN_EL | El | Canaanite/Ugaritic | High god | High Deity | creator; kingship; divine authority; father of gods | Northwest Semitic | A | candidate_verified_name | Canaanite core deity | 1 | 0 | 0 | Senior creator deity and head of the divine council. | deity | |||
| ENT_CAN_HORON | Horon | Canaanite/Ugaritic | God | God of magic | magic; exorcism; healing; snakebite | regional | B | candidate_verified_name | KTU 1.100, 1.107 | 0 | 1 | 1 | A god of magic, exorcism and protection against snakebite (the serpent-charm myth). | deity | |||
| ENT_CAN_KOTHAR | Kothar-wa-Khasis | Canaanite/Ugaritic | Craft god | Craft Deity | craft; technology; divine craftsmanship | Northwest Semitic | A | candidate_verified_name | Canaanite core deity | 1 | 0 | 0 | Divine craftsman and builder. | deity | |||
| ENT_CAN_MOT | Mot | Canaanite/Ugaritic | Death god | Underworld Deity | death; drought; underworld | Northwest Semitic | A | candidate_verified_name | Canaanite core deity | 5 | 1 | 0 | God of death and sterility. | deity | |||
| ENT_CAN_NIKKAL | Nikkal | Canaanite/Ugaritic | Goddess | Orchard goddess | orchards; fruit; the moon-marriage | regional | A | candidate_verified_name | KTU 1.24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Goddess of orchards and fruit (from Sumerian Ningal), bride of the moon-god Yarikh. | deity | |||
| ENT_CAN_PIDRAY | Pidray | Canaanite/Ugaritic | Goddess | Daughter of Baal | light; mist | regional | A | candidate_verified_name | Baal Cycle, KTU 1.3-1.4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | "Daughter of light/mist," eldest of the three daughters of Baal. | deity | |||
| ENT_CAN_RESHEPH | Resheph | Canaanite/Ugaritic | Plague/war deity | War Deity | plague; war; death; destruction; lightning; warrior god | A | Canaanite deity of plague, pestilence, and war; name means "flame" or "lightning-bolt"; serves as gatekeeper at El's court in Ugaritic texts; adopted by Egypt as a war deity under Ramesses II (depicted with shield and axe); attested in the Hebrew Bible as a personified pestilence flanking Yahweh in Habakkuk 3:5; worshipped in Phoenician Cyprus (bilingual inscriptions) and at Ebla; the primary Levantine transmission source for the Apollo plague-deity complex in Greek religion | deity | |||||||||
| ENT_CAN_SHAHAR | Shahar | Canaanite/Ugaritic | God | Astral twin | the dawn | regional | A | candidate_verified_name | KTU 1.23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | God of the dawn, one of the twin "gracious gods" born to El. | deity | |||
| ENT_CAN_SHALIM | Shalim | Canaanite/Ugaritic | God | Astral twin | the dusk; completion | regional | A | candidate_verified_name | KTU 1.23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | God of the dusk, twin of Shahar; his name underlies that of Jerusalem (Uru-Shalim). | deity | |||
| ENT_CAN_SHAPASH | Shapash | Canaanite/Ugaritic | Solar goddess | Solar Deity | sun; illumination; mediation | Northwest Semitic | A | candidate_verified_name | Canaanite core deity | 0 | 0 | 0 | Solar goddess and mediator between realms. | deity | |||
| ENT_CAN_TALLAY | Tallay | Canaanite/Ugaritic | Goddess | Daughter of Baal | dew; light rain | regional | A | candidate_verified_name | Baal Cycle, KTU 1.3-1.4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | "Dewy one," a daughter of Baal personifying dew. | deity | |||
| ENT_CAN_YAM | Yam | Canaanite/Ugaritic | Sea god | Sea Deity | sea; chaos; primordial waters | Northwest Semitic | A | candidate_verified_name | Canaanite core deity | 3 | 0 | 1 | Sea deity and opponent of Baal. | deity | |||
| ENT_CAN_YARIKH | Yarikh | Canaanite/Ugaritic | Moon god | Moon Deity | moon; cycles; fertility | Northwest Semitic | A | candidate_verified_name | Canaanite core deity | 0 | 0 | 0 | Lunar deity of Ugaritic religion. | deity | |||
| ENT_LEV_ADRAMMELECH | Adrammelech | Canaanite/Ugaritic | deity | deity | underworld/sacrificial deity | devotional | C | candidate_verified_name | Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) | 0 | 0 | 0 | God of Sepharvaim to whom child sacrifice ('passing through fire') was made (2 Kings 17:31). Name = 'Adad/Adar is king' or 'the king is exalted'; identity debated — linked variously to Adad, a solar/Molek-type cult, or an Aramaean/Assyrian deity. Paired with Anammelech. | deity | |||
| ENT_LEV_ANAMMELECH | Anammelech | Canaanite/Ugaritic | deity | deity | astral/sacrificial deity | devotional | C | candidate_verified_name | Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) | 0 | 0 | 0 | God of Sepharvaim receiving child sacrifice alongside Adrammelech (2 Kings 17:31). Name = 'Anu/Anath is king'; proposed links to the Mesopotamian sky-god Anu, a lunar deity, or (via 'Anath-melek') the Canaanite goddess Anat. Identity uncertain. | deity | |||
| ENT_LEV_ASHIMA | Ashima of Hamath | Canaanite/Ugaritic | deity | deity | city/tutelary deity | devotional | B | candidate_verified_name | Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) | 0 | 0 | 0 | Deity of the people of Hamath, named among the gods made by Samaria's resettled peoples (2 Kings 17:30). Plausibly connected to a NW-Semitic goddess Asham/Ashima attested at Elephantine (Anat-Ashima) and possibly to the Aramaean cult of Hamath; later rabbinic tradition imagined her as a goat/bald-figure idol. | deity | |||
| ENT_LEV_ASTRONOE | Astronoe | Canaanite/Ugaritic | deity | deity | love/healing goddess (Sidonian) | devotional | C | candidate_verified_name | Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) | 0 | 0 | 0 | Sidonian goddess known from Damascius (Life of Isidore): a mountain-mother/huntress who, on the youth Eshmun's self-mutilation, revives and deifies him. Generally read as a hellenized aspect of Astarte tied to the Eshmun healing cult at Sidon. | deity | |||
| ENT_LEV_BAAL_ZEBUB | Baal-Zebub of Ekron | Canaanite/Ugaritic | deity | deity | healing/oracle/storm-god local cult | devotional | B | candidate_verified_name | Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) | 0 | 0 | 0 | Philistine city-god of Ekron consulted as a healing oracle by King Ahaziah (2 Kings 1). Name = 'Lord of the Flies', almost certainly a Hebrew polemical distortion of an original Baal epithet ('zbl/Zebul' = 'Prince', as at Ugarit). The ORIGINAL deity behind the later Christian demon Beelzebub. Homonym note: distinct from the demon Beelzebul (ENT_CHR_BEELZEBUL), which is his reception. | deity | |||
| ENT_LEV_NIBHAZ | Nibhaz | Canaanite/Ugaritic | deity | deity | tutelary deity (obscure) | devotional | C | candidate_verified_name | Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) | 0 | 0 | 0 | God of the Avvites, named with Tartak among Samaria's resettled gods (2 Kings 17:31). Etymology obscure and possibly a scribal corruption; later Jewish tradition fancifully described a dog-shaped idol. No independent epigraphic attestation. | deity | |||
| ENT_LEV_TARTAK | Tartak | Canaanite/Ugaritic | deity | deity | tutelary deity (obscure) | devotional | C | candidate_verified_name | Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) | 0 | 0 | 0 | God of the Avvites, paired with Nibhaz (2 Kings 17:31). Etymology uncertain (possibly an Elamite/Iranian theonym or scribal corruption); rabbinic tradition imagined an ass-shaped idol. No independent attestation outside the biblical notice. | 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]);