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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'}

96 rows where entity_class = "deity" and tradition = "Roman"

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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_ROM_ANGERONA Angerona   Roman Goddess Goddess of the solstice the winter solstice; relief from anguish   public   A candidate_verified_name Macrobius 1.10.7-8; Pliny NH 3.65 0 0 0 Goddess of the winter solstice and of release from anguish (angor); her statue had a bound and sealed mouth. Divalia/Angeronalia (Dec 21). deity
ENT_ROM_ANNA_PERENNA Anna Perenna   Roman Goddess Goddess of the year-cycle the year and its renewal   public   A candidate_verified_name Ovid Fasti 3.523-696 2 0 0 Goddess of the circuit and renewal of the year, feasted (Mar 15) at her grove by the Tiber. deity
ENT_ROM_APOLLO Apollo   Roman God Solar Deity prophecy; healing; music; sun   Roman/Greek reception   A candidate_verified_name Roman adopted deity 0 0 0 Apollo as received into Roman religion. deity
ENT_ROM_ATTIS Attis   Roman God Consort of the Great Mother death and rebirth; vegetation; the galli   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Cult of the Magna Mater 1 0 0 The youthful consort of the Magna Mater, whose self-castration and death the galli reenact. deity
ENT_ROM_BACCHUS Bacchus/Liber   Roman Wine/ecstatic god Mystery Deity wine; liberation; ecstasy; fertility   Roman/Greek reception   A candidate_verified_name Roman core deity 3 0 0 Roman Bacchus/Liber associated with wine, fertility, and ecstatic cult. deity
ENT_ROM_BELLONA Bellona   Roman Goddess War deity war; martial frenzy   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Roman war cult 0 0 0 The goddess of war, before whose temple foreign envoys and war-declarations were received. deity
ENT_ROM_CARDEA Cardea   Roman Functional deity Threshold deity the door-hinge   domestic   A candidate_verified_name Augustine CD 4.8, 6.7 (Varro) 0 0 0 Goddess of the door-hinge (cardo), one of the doorway triad (with Forculus and Limentinus); protects thresholds against night-spirits. The name is attested in Varro via Augustine (CD 4.8, 6.7); Ovid Fasti 6.101ff actually concerns Carna/Cranae, whom Ovid and Macrobius conflate with Cardea. Distinct from Carna. deity
ENT_ROM_CARNA Carna   Roman Functional deity Tutelary deity the vital organs; bodily health   public   A candidate_verified_name Macrobius 1.12.31-33; Tertullian 0 0 0 Goddess guarding the heart and inward (vital) organs; her festival (June 1, Kalendae Fabariae) ate beans and bacon (Macrobius 1.12; Ovid Fasti 6.101-168). Ovid/Macrobius conflate her with Cardea, the door-hinge goddess. Distinct from Cardea. deity
ENT_ROM_CERES Ceres   Roman Agrarian goddess Agrarian Deity grain; agriculture; fertility; plebeian cult   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Roman core deity 5 0 0 Roman goddess of grain and agriculture. deity
ENT_ROM_CONCORDIA Concordia   Roman Goddess Personified virtue civic harmony; agreement   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Roman state cult 0 0 0 The goddess of concord and civic harmony, with a temple in the Forum. deity
ENT_ROM_CONDITOR Conditor   Roman Functional deity Agricultural indigitamentum storing the grain   priestly   A candidate_verified_name Servius ad Georg. 1.21 3 0 0 One of the twelve Fabius Pictor farming gods: god of storing the grain (condere), not a "founder". deity
ENT_ROM_CONSUS Consus   Roman God God of stored grain the storehouse; counsel   public   A candidate_verified_name Varro LL 6.20-21; Livy 1.9 3 1 0 God of the grain-store and of counsel, with a subterranean altar in the Circus Maximus; the Consualia (Aug 21, Dec 15). deity
ENT_ROM_CONVECTOR Convector   Roman Functional deity Agricultural indigitamentum carting in the crop   priestly   A candidate_verified_name Servius ad Georg. 1.21 3 0 0 One of the twelve Fabius Pictor farming gods: god of carrying in the harvest. deity
ENT_ROM_CUNINA Cunina   Roman Functional deity Life-stage indigitamentum the infant in the cradle   priestly   A candidate_verified_name Augustine CD 4.8, 4.11 0 0 0 Goddess who protects the infant in its cradle (cunae). deity
ENT_ROM_CUPID Cupid   Roman God Love deity desire; love; the arrows of passion   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Roman love-god 0 0 0 Cupid (Amor), the boy-god of desire, son of Venus and lover of Psyche. deity
ENT_ROM_DEA_CAELESTIS Dea Caelestis   Roman Celestial sovereign goddess deity Sky/heaven, fertility, sovereignty, fortune   devotional   B candidate_verified_name Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) 0 0 0 The 'Celestial Goddess', Roman reception and official form of Carthaginian Tanit ('Tanit face of Baal'), often styled Juno Caelestis. After 146 BCE her cult was Romanized; she became the leading deity of Roman Africa (great temple at Carthage) and was promoted at Rome (notably under Septimius Severus, of African origin, and his dynasty). Associated with the moon, sovereignty, and fertility, sometimes shown riding a lion. This is the Roman cult-form; the underlying deity is the existing ENT_PHO_TANIT, to which it is wired. Discussed by Beard/North/Price. deity
ENT_ROM_DEA_DIA Dea Dia   Roman Goddess Agrarian goddess the growth of crops   priestly   A candidate_verified_name Acta Fratrum Arvalium 3 0 0 The agrarian goddess of the Arval Brethren, honoured each May with the archaic Carmen Arvale. deity
ENT_ROM_DEA_SYRIA Dea Syria   Roman Great goddess (mystery cult) deity Fertility, love, sovereignty, prophecy   devotional   B candidate_verified_name Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) 0 0 0 The 'Syrian Goddess' as a cult within Roman religion: the Roman reception of Atargatis of Hierapolis-Bambyce. Her itinerant galli-style priests, ecstatic rites, sacred fish and lions, and processions are described by Lucian (De Dea Syria) and satirized by Apuleius (Metamorphoses 8). Spread through Syrian merchant and slave communities; a temple stood on the Janiculum at Rome. This entity is the Roman cult-form; the underlying deity is the existing ENT_ARA_ATARGATIS, to which it is wired. Beard/North/Price treat Dea Syria among the oriental cults. deity
ENT_ROM_DIANA Diana   Roman Goddess Moon Deity moon; hunt; childbirth; wild places   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Roman core deity 2 0 0 Roman goddess of the hunt, moon, and childbirth. deity
ENT_ROM_DIVUS_AUGUSTUS Divus Augustus   Roman Deified emperor Imperial cult the deified Augustus; the genius of the princeps   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Imperial cult (deified human) 0 0 0 The deified Augustus, founder of the imperial cult observed across the empire. deity
ENT_ROM_DIVUS_JULIUS Divus Julius   Roman Deified emperor Imperial cult the deified Caesar; the comet-soul; state divinity   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Imperial cult (deified human) 0 0 0 The deified Julius Caesar, whose soul was seen as the sidus Iulium (the comet). deity
ENT_ROM_EDUSA Edusa   Roman Functional deity Life-stage indigitamentum the child learning to eat   priestly   B candidate_verified_name Augustine CD 4.11; Varro via Donatus 0 0 0 Goddess who enables the weaned child to eat (edere); also Educa/Edulia. Paired with Potina. deity
ENT_ROM_FEBRIS Febris   Roman Goddess Goddess of fever fever, propitiated to avert it   public   A candidate_verified_name Cicero ND 3.63; Pliny NH 2.16 0 0 0 The goddess of fever, propitiated to ward off malaria; she had three shrines in Rome. deity
ENT_ROM_FERONIA Feronia   Roman Goddess Italic nature goddess wild nature; fertility; manumission of slaves   public   A candidate_verified_name Livy 1.30, 26.11; Varro LL 5.74 2 0 0 An Italic goddess of wild places, fertility, and the freeing of slaves, with famous groves at Capena and Terracina. deity
ENT_ROM_FIDES Fides   Roman Goddess Personified virtue good faith; oaths; sworn fidelity   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Ancient Roman cult 0 0 0 The goddess of good faith and the sanctity of oaths, one of the oldest Roman cults. deity
ENT_ROM_FONS Fons   Roman God God of springs springs and fountains   public   A candidate_verified_name Varro LL 6.22; Cicero ND 3.52 3 0 0 God of springs and flowing water, son of Janus; the Fontinalia (Oct 13). deity
ENT_ROM_FORCULUS Forculus   Roman Functional deity Threshold deity the door-leaves   domestic   A candidate_verified_name Augustine CD 4.8, 6.7; Tertullian 0 0 0 God of the leaves of the door (fores), one of the doorway triad with Cardea and Limentinus. deity
ENT_ROM_FORTUNA Fortuna   Roman Goddess Personified virtue fortune; chance; the destiny of persons and the state   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Major Roman cult 0 0 0 The goddess of fortune and chance, with many cults (Fors Fortuna, Fortuna Primigenia). deity
ENT_ROM_FURRINA Furrina   Roman Goddess Spring goddess springs (her function later obscure)   public   B candidate_verified_name Varro LL 6.19; Cicero ND 3.46 2 0 0 An archaic goddess (probably of springs) with her own flamen and a grove on the Janiculum; the Furrinalia (Jul 25). deity
ENT_ROM_IMPORCITOR Imporcitor   Roman Functional deity Agricultural indigitamentum ploughing into ridges   priestly   A candidate_verified_name Servius ad Georg. 1.21 3 0 0 One of the twelve Fabius Pictor farming gods: god of ploughing in broad furrows (porcae). deity
ENT_ROM_INSITOR Insitor   Roman Functional deity Agricultural indigitamentum sowing   priestly   A candidate_verified_name Servius ad Georg. 1.21 3 0 0 One of the twelve Fabius Pictor farming gods: god of sowing/setting in the seed. deity
ENT_ROM_JANUS Janus   Roman Threshold god Liminal Deity beginnings; gates; transitions; time   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Roman core deity 1 0 0 Roman god of beginnings, gates, and transitions. deity
ENT_ROM_JUNO Juno   Roman Goddess High Deity marriage; queenship; women; state protection   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Roman core deity 1 0 0 Major Roman goddess associated with marriage, women, and sovereignty. deity
ENT_ROM_JUPITER Jupiter   Roman High god High Deity sky; sovereignty; thunder; oath; kingship   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Roman core deity 0 0 0 Chief Roman sky and sovereignty god. deity
ENT_ROM_JUPITER_DOLICHENUS Jupiter Optimus Maximus Dolichenus   Roman Military/storm god deity Sky, war, military protection, iron/metal   devotional   B candidate_verified_name Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) 0 0 0 Roman imperial cult of the Baal of Doliche (a city in Commagene, eastern Anatolia), assimilated to Jupiter Optimus Maximus. Depicted standing on a bull, wearing a Phrygian cap, holding a double-axe and thunderbolt. A markedly military god whose cult spread along the limes via the army from the late 1st to mid-3rd c. CE (declining after the sack of Doliche c.253). Underlying figure is the Anatolian/Commagenian storm-god (a Baal-Hadad type) in interpretatio Romana. Attested by dolichena (sanctuaries) and dedications across the Danube, Rhine, and Britain; Beard/North/Price treat it among the oriental cults. deity
ENT_ROM_JUPITER_HELIOPOLITANUS Jupiter Heliopolitanus   Roman Solar/storm god deity Sky, sun, fertility, oracular power   devotional   B candidate_verified_name Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) 0 0 0 Chief god of the Heliopolitan triad at Baalbek (Heliopolis, Lebanon): the Romanized Baal/Hadad of Heliopolis assimilated to Jupiter Optimus Maximus. Depicted as a stiff, frontal, cuirassed figure flanked by bulls, holding a whip and ears of grain, with a calathos and busts of the planetary gods. Centre of one of the largest temple complexes of the Roman world. The triad's two other members are Venus Heliopolitana and Mercury Heliopolitanus. Attested epigraphically at Baalbek and in dedications across the empire; Beard/North/Price discuss the Heliopolitan cult. deity
ENT_ROM_LAVERNA Laverna   Roman Deity Goddess of thieves thieves; fraud; the underworld   public   B candidate_verified_name Horace Epist. 1.16.60; Varro LL 5.163 0 1 0 The goddess of thieves and the dishonest, with an altar at the Porta Lavernalis. deity
ENT_ROM_LEVANA Levana   Roman Functional deity Life-stage indigitamentum the acknowledgement of the newborn   priestly   A candidate_verified_name Augustine CD 4.11 0 0 0 Goddess who presides over the father lifting the newborn from the ground (levare) to acknowledge it. deity
ENT_ROM_LIBERTAS Libertas   Roman Goddess Personified virtue liberty; civic freedom   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Roman cult 0 0 0 The goddess of liberty and civic freedom, with a temple on the Aventine. deity
ENT_ROM_LIMENTINUS Limentinus   Roman Functional deity Threshold deity the threshold   domestic   A candidate_verified_name Augustine CD 4.8, 6.7; Tertullian 0 0 0 God of the threshold (limen), one of the doorway triad. deity
ENT_ROM_MAGNA_MATER Magna Mater   Roman Mother goddess Great Mother the mountains; wild nature; the protection of Rome   Roman   A candidate_verified_name State cult (from 204 BCE) 1 0 0 The Great Mother (Cybele), brought to Rome in 204 BCE and served by the galli. deity
ENT_ROM_MARS Mars   Roman War/agriculture god War Deity war; agriculture; fatherhood; Roman people   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Roman core deity 3 0 0 Roman god of war and agriculture. deity
ENT_ROM_MEFITIS Mefitis   Roman Goddess Goddess of noxious vapours sulphurous and swamp gases   public   B candidate_verified_name Pliny NH 2.208; Servius ad Aen. 7.563 2 0 0 Goddess of the noxious sulphurous exhalations of the earth, worshipped at Ampsanctus and on the Esquiline. deity
ENT_ROM_MERCURY Mercury   Roman Messenger/trade god Messenger Deity commerce; travel; messages; boundaries; psychopomp   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Roman core deity 0 0 0 Roman god of commerce, travel, and mediation. deity
ENT_ROM_MERCURY_HELIOPOLITANUS Mercury Heliopolitanus   Roman Youthful/messenger god deity Trade, mediation, youthful divine son   devotional   C candidate_verified_name Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) 0 0 0 Third member of the Heliopolitan triad of Baalbek, a youthful god (often read as the divine son of the triad) assimilated to Mercury. Underlying figure is a local Syrian youth-god. Attested epigraphically alongside Jupiter and Venus Heliopolitanus at Baalbek and in scattered dedications; the least independently documented of the triad. Treated within the Heliopolitan cult by Beard/North/Price. deity
ENT_ROM_MESSOR Messor   Roman Functional deity Agricultural indigitamentum reaping   priestly   A candidate_verified_name Servius ad Georg. 1.21 3 0 0 One of the twelve Fabius Pictor farming gods: god of the harvest/reaping. deity
ENT_ROM_MINERVA Minerva   Roman Goddess Wisdom Deity wisdom; craft; strategy; arts   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Roman core deity 1 0 0 Roman goddess of wisdom, craft, and strategic skill. deity
ENT_ROM_MUTUNUS Mutunus Tutunus   Roman Fertility deity Phallic marriage god marriage; fertility; sexual potency   public   A candidate_verified_name Festus 154L; Augustine CD 6.9 0 0 0 A phallic marriage and fertility god on whose image brides were seated; an old Roman counterpart of Priapus. Attested at the sacellum Mutini Titini (Festus 154L) and among Varro's nuptial deities (Augustine CD 6.9); Lactantius Div. Inst. 1.20. deity
ENT_ROM_NEPTUNE Neptune   Roman Sea god Sea Deity sea; waters; horses   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Roman core deity 2 0 0 Roman god of sea and waters. deity
ENT_ROM_NUNDINA Nundina   Roman Functional deity Life-stage indigitamentum the naming-day of a child   priestly   B candidate_verified_name Macrobius 1.16.36 0 0 0 Goddess of the dies lustricus, the purification-and-naming day of the newborn (the ninth/eighth day). deity
ENT_ROM_OBARATOR Obarator   Roman Functional deity Agricultural indigitamentum ploughing over the sown seed   priestly   A candidate_verified_name Servius ad Georg. 1.21 3 0 0 One of the twelve Fabius Pictor farming gods: god of ploughing over the sown seed. deity
ENT_ROM_OCCATOR Occator   Roman Functional deity Agricultural indigitamentum harrowing   priestly   A candidate_verified_name Servius ad Georg. 1.21 3 0 0 One of the twelve Fabius Pictor farming gods: god of harrowing. deity
ENT_ROM_ORBONA Orbona   Roman Goddess Goddess of bereavement parents bereft of children   public   B candidate_verified_name Cicero ND 3.63; Arnobius 4.7 0 0 0 Goddess invoked by parents who had lost their children (orbus), with an altar by the temple of the Lares. deity
ENT_ROM_PALES Pales   Roman Deity Pastoral deity shepherds and flocks   public   A candidate_verified_name Ovid Fasti 4.721-806 3 0 0 The pastoral deity of shepherds and flocks; the Parilia (Apr 21), Rome's birthday festival, was sacred to Pales. deity
ENT_ROM_PAX Pax   Roman Goddess Personified virtue peace; the peace of the empire   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Augustan state cult 0 0 0 The goddess of peace, honoured at the Ara Pacis Augustae. deity
ENT_ROM_PICUMNUS Picumnus   Roman God God of infants and fields marriage, infancy, manuring   public   B candidate_verified_name Servius ad Aen. 9.4; Augustine CD 6.9 3 0 0 An Italic god of marriage, infants, and the fertilising of fields, paired with his brother Pilumnus. deity
ENT_ROM_PIETAS Pietas   Roman Goddess Personified virtue dutiful devotion to gods, family and state   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Roman cult 0 0 0 The goddess of pietas, dutiful devotion to the gods, the family and the fatherland. deity
ENT_ROM_PILUMNUS Pilumnus   Roman God God of infants the protection of newborns   public   B candidate_verified_name Servius ad Aen. 9.4; Augustine CD 6.9 2 0 0 An Italic god who, with his brother Picumnus, wards the newborn child from the woodland spirit Silvanus (the three-men-at-the-threshold rite, Augustine CD 6.9 via Varro; Servius ad Aen. 9.4). deity
ENT_ROM_PLUTO Pluto/Dis Pater   Roman Underworld god Underworld Deity underworld; wealth; dead; chthonic sovereignty   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Roman core deity 5 1 0 Roman underworld and wealth god. deity
ENT_ROM_POMONA Pomona   Roman Goddess Orchard deity fruit trees; orchards; the harvest of fruit   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Old Italic cult 2 0 0 The goddess of fruit trees and orchards, wooed by Vertumnus. deity
ENT_ROM_PORTUNUS Portunus   Roman God God of harbours harbours, doors, and keys   public   A candidate_verified_name Varro LL 6.19; Festus 1 0 0 God of harbours, gates, and keys, with his own flamen; the Portunalia (Aug 17). deity
ENT_ROM_POTINA Potina   Roman Functional deity Life-stage indigitamentum the child learning to drink   priestly   B candidate_verified_name Augustine CD 4.11; Tertullian 0 0 0 Goddess who enables the child to drink (potare). Paired with Edusa. deity
ENT_ROM_PROMITOR Promitor   Roman Functional deity Agricultural indigitamentum bringing out stored grain   priestly   A candidate_verified_name Servius ad Georg. 1.21 3 0 0 One of the twelve Fabius Pictor farming gods: god of bringing out and distributing stored grain. deity
ENT_ROM_PROSERPINA Proserpina   Roman Underworld goddess Underworld Deity underworld; spring; queen of dead; mystery cult   Roman/Greek reception   A candidate_verified_name Roman core deity 5 1 0 Roman underworld goddess identified with Persephone. deity
ENT_ROM_QUIRINUS Quirinus   Roman Civic god Civic Deity Roman people; civic identity; deified Romulus traditions   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Roman core deity 2 0 0 Roman civic god associated with the Roman people. deity
ENT_ROM_REPARATOR Reparator   Roman Functional deity Agricultural indigitamentum the second ploughing   priestly   A candidate_verified_name Servius ad Georg. 1.21 3 0 0 One of the twelve Fabius Pictor farming gods: god of the re-ploughing. deity
ENT_ROM_ROBIGUS Robigus   Roman Functional deity Agricultural deity averting wheat-rust/mildew   public   A candidate_verified_name Ovid Fasti 4.901-942; Varro RR 1.1.6 3 0 0 God (also Robigo, goddess) who averts wheat-rust; the Robigalia (Apr 25) sacrificed a red dog to him. deity
ENT_ROM_ROMA Roma   Roman Goddess Deified city the city and empire of Rome personified   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Imperial state cult 0 0 0 Dea Roma, the personified and deified city of Rome, central to the imperial cult. deity
ENT_ROM_RUMINA Rumina   Roman Functional deity Life-stage indigitamentum the breastfeeding of infants   priestly   A candidate_verified_name Augustine CD 4.11, 7.11 0 0 0 Goddess who presides over the suckling of infants (ruma = breast); her shrine stood by the Ficus Ruminalis. deity
ENT_ROM_SALUS Salus   Roman Goddess Personified virtue health; welfare; the safety of the state   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Roman state cult 0 0 0 The goddess of health and the welfare of the Roman state. deity
ENT_ROM_SARRITOR Sarritor   Roman Functional deity Agricultural indigitamentum hoeing and raking   priestly   A candidate_verified_name Servius ad Georg. 1.21 3 0 0 One of the twelve Fabius Pictor farming gods: god of hoeing/weeding the soil. deity
ENT_ROM_SATURN Saturn   Roman Agrarian/time god Agrarian Deity sowing; agriculture; golden age; time   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Roman core deity 4 0 0 Roman god of sowing, agriculture, and golden-age memory. deity
ENT_ROM_SEGETIA Segetia   Roman Functional deity Agricultural indigitamentum the standing crop   priestly   A candidate_verified_name Augustine CD 4.8; Pliny NH 18.8 3 0 0 Goddess who protects the standing crop above ground (seges); attested in Varro via Augustine (CD 4.8) and as Segesta with a statue in the Circus (Pliny NH 18.8). deity
ENT_ROM_SEIA Seia   Roman Functional deity Agricultural indigitamentum the seed-corn underground   priestly   A candidate_verified_name Augustine CD 4.8; Pliny NH 18.8 3 0 0 Goddess who protects the sown seed while it lies underground (sata); statue in the Circus Maximus. deity
ENT_ROM_SEMO_SANCUS Semo Sancus   Roman God God of oaths oaths; good faith; treaties   public   A candidate_verified_name Ovid Fasti 6.213-218; Livy 8.20; Varro LL 5.66 1 0 0 A Sabine-Roman god of oaths, faith, and treaties, identified with Dius Fidius (Varro LL 5.66), with a temple on the Quirinal. deity
ENT_ROM_SOL_INVICTUS Sol Invictus   Roman Solar deity Imperial sun god the unconquered sun; imperial victory   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Late imperial state cult 0 0 0 The Unconquered Sun, made a chief god of the state by Aurelian in 274 CE. deity
ENT_ROM_SOL_INVICTUS_ELAGABAL Sol Invictus Elagabal   Roman Solar god (imperial cult) deity Sun, sovereignty, imperial divine patronage   devotional   B candidate_verified_name Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) 0 0 0 The Emesene sun-god Elagabal in imperial Roman dress as 'Deus Sol Invictus Elagabal'. The emperor Elagabalus (Varius Avitus, r.218-222 CE), hereditary priest of the conical black baetyl of Emesa, brought the stone to Rome, built the Elagaballium on the Palatine, and tried to make Elagabal supreme over the traditional gods; the cult was abolished and the stone returned to Emesa after his murder. This is the short-lived Roman state cult-form; the underlying Syrian deity is the existing ENT_ARA_ELAGABAL (Elagabal of Emesa), and it is distinct from but a precursor to Aurelian's later ENT_ROM_SOL_INVICTUS. Attested on coinage and by Herodian and the Historia Augusta; Beard/North/Price discuss the episode. deity
ENT_ROM_SPES Spes   Roman Goddess Personified virtue hope   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Roman cult 0 0 0 The goddess of hope, especially hope for the harvest and for posterity. deity
ENT_ROM_STERCULIUS Sterculius   Roman Functional deity Agricultural deity manuring of the fields   priestly   B candidate_verified_name Augustine CD 18.15; Macrobius 1.7.25 3 0 0 God of the manuring of fields (stercus); also Stercutus/Sterquilinus, linked as a byname of Saturn. deity
ENT_ROM_SUBRUNCINATOR Subruncinator   Roman Functional deity Agricultural indigitamentum weeding   priestly   A candidate_verified_name Servius ad Georg. 1.21 3 0 0 One of the twelve Fabius Pictor farming gods: god of weeding out. deity
ENT_ROM_SUMMANUS Summanus   Roman God God of nocturnal thunder thunder by night   public   A candidate_verified_name Pliny NH 2.138; Ovid Fasti 6.731 0 0 0 God of nocturnal thunder, the night counterpart of Jupiter, with a temple by the Circus Maximus. deity
ENT_ROM_TELLUS Tellus   Roman Goddess Earth deity the earth; fertility; the dead   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Old Italic cult 5 1 0 Tellus Mater, the Earth goddess of fertility and the receiving ground of the dead. deity
ENT_ROM_TUTILINA Tutilina   Roman Functional deity Agricultural indigitamentum stored grain   priestly   A candidate_verified_name Augustine CD 4.8; Tertullian Spect. 8 3 0 0 Goddess who guards the harvested grain in store. deity
ENT_ROM_VACUNA Vacuna   Roman Goddess Sabine goddess rest from labour; victory   public   B candidate_verified_name Horace Epist. 1.10.49; Ovid Fasti 6.307 2 0 0 An obscure Sabine goddess with a grove at Reate; her nature was already uncertain in antiquity — ancient identifications variously make her a goddess of rest from farm labour (the vacare etymology, Ovid Fasti 6.307) or of victory (Varro). Horace Epist. 1.10.49. deity
ENT_ROM_VAGITANUS Vagitanus   Roman Functional deity Life-stage indigitamentum the newborn's first cry   priestly   A candidate_verified_name Augustine CD 4.8; Gellius 16.17 0 0 0 God who opens the newborn's mouth for its first wailing cry (vagitus); attested as "Vaticanus" in Augustine CD 4.8 and Gellius 16.17, with "Vagitanus" the variant form. deity
ENT_ROM_VEIOVIS Veiovis   Roman God Chthonic god the underworld; a "young" or "anti-" Jupiter   public   A candidate_verified_name Ovid Fasti 3.429-448; Gellius 5.12 0 1 0 A chthonic god, an "anti-Jupiter" or Jupiter of the underworld, with a temple between the two groves on the Capitoline. deity
ENT_ROM_VENUS Venus   Roman Love/fertility goddess Fertility Deity love; beauty; fertility; ancestry   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Roman core deity 1 0 0 Roman goddess of love, beauty, fertility, and ancestral lineage. deity
ENT_ROM_VENUS_HELIOPOLITANA Venus Heliopolitana   Roman Fertility/sky goddess deity Fertility, love, sovereignty   devotional   C candidate_verified_name Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) 0 0 0 Female member of the Heliopolitan triad of Baalbek, the Romanized form of the local Syrian goddess (an Atargatis/Astarte type) assimilated to Venus. Consort of Jupiter Heliopolitanus and paired with Mercury Heliopolitanus in the triad. Attested in dedications and iconography (enthroned goddess) from Baalbek and the wider empire; less independently documented than the chief god. Treated within the Heliopolitan cult by Beard/North/Price. deity
ENT_ROM_VERTUMNUS Vertumnus   Roman God Deity of change the seasons; ripening; transformation   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Etrusco-Roman cult 1 0 0 The god of seasons, change and ripening, who wins Pomona by shapeshifting. deity
ENT_ROM_VERVACTOR Vervactor   Roman Functional deity Agricultural indigitamentum the first ploughing of fallow land   priestly   A candidate_verified_name Servius ad Georg. 1.21 3 0 0 One of the twelve farming gods invoked by the flamen of Ceres (Fabius Pictor via Servius): god of breaking the fallow. deity
ENT_ROM_VESTA Vesta   Roman Hearth goddess Household Deity hearth; sacred fire; household; state continuity   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Roman core deity 2 0 0 Roman goddess of the hearth and sacred fire. deity
ENT_ROM_VICA_POTA Vica Pota   Roman Goddess Victory goddess victory and mastery   public   B candidate_verified_name Cicero De Leg. 2.28; Livy 2.7.12 0 0 0 An archaic goddess of victory and mastery, a precursor of Victoria, with a shrine on the Velia. deity
ENT_ROM_VICTORIA Victoria   Roman Goddess Personified virtue victory; military triumph; the fortune of the state   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Major Roman cult 0 0 0 The goddess of victory, whose altar stood in the Senate house. deity
ENT_ROM_VIRTUS Virtus   Roman Deity Personified virtue valour; martial courage   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Roman cult 0 0 0 The deity of valour and martial courage, twinned with Honos. deity
ENT_ROM_VOLTURNUS Volturnus   Roman God River god rivers and water   public   B candidate_verified_name Varro LL 6.21; Arnobius 3.29 3 0 0 An old river/water god with his own flamen; the Volturnalia (Aug 27). deity
ENT_ROM_VULCAN Vulcan   Roman Fire/craft god Craft Deity fire; forge; destructive fire; craft   Roman   A candidate_verified_name Roman core deity 2 0 0 Roman god of fire and forge. 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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