Entities
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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'}
29 rows where entity_class = "deity" and tradition = "Slavic"
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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 |
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| ENT_SLAV_BELOBOG | Belobog | Slavic | God | Reconstructed deity | good fortune; light; benevolence | regional | C | candidate_verified_name | European regional polytheism deepening (v1.77.0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | RECONSTRUCTED: the 'white god' posited as a benevolent counterpart to Chernobog; not attested in any medieval source, a scholarly/toponymic inference. | deity | |||
| ENT_SLAV_CHERNOBOG | Chernobog | Slavic | God | Malefic deity | misfortune; darkness; evil; the underworld | regional | B | candidate_verified_name | European regional polytheism deepening (v1.77.0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | The 'black god' of the Polabian Slavs to whom Helmold says misfortune was attributed; the only securely attested member of the often-cited black/white dualism. | deity | |||
| ENT_SLAV_DAZBOG | Dažbog | Slavic | God | Solar Deity | sun; wealth; giving; solar cycle; fate | A | Solar and wealth-giving deity; named in the AD 980 Kiev Pantheon (PVL). Name from Proto-Slavic *Daž(d)ьbogъ, meaning "Give-wealth god" (*dati, to give + *bogъ, wealth/god; cognate with Iranian *baga, divine wealth). A gloss in the Hypatian Chronicle's translation of the Chronicle of Malalas calls Dažbog son of Svarog (fire deity) and identifies him with Helios — though this is a Byzantine literary equation, not necessarily indigenous theology. Dažbog may represent the sun as the dispensing agent of divine bounty. The Lay of Igor's Campaign (Slovo o polku Igoreve, 12th c.) calls the Rus people "grandsons of Dažbog." Brückner (1918) pp. 96-105; Primary Chronicle (Cross 1953) p. 93. | deity | |||||||||
| ENT_SLAV_DEVANA | Devana | Slavic | Goddess | Hunt goddess | the hunt; wild nature; the forest | regional | C | candidate_verified_name | European regional polytheism deepening (v1.77.0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | A goddess of the hunt (Dziewanna) named by late-medieval Polish chroniclers (Długosz) who equated her with Diana; authenticity debated as a possible learned interpretatio. | deity | |||
| ENT_SLAV_JARILO | Jarilo | Slavic | God | Fertility / vegetation deity | spring; fertility; vegetation; war | regional | B | candidate_verified_name | European regional polytheism deepening (v1.77.0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | A spring fertility figure of the seasonal folk cult whose effigy was carried and ritually 'buried', reconstructed as the dying-and-rising counterpart to Marzanna. | deity | |||
| ENT_SLAV_KHORS | Khors | Slavic | Solar deity | Solar Deity | sun; solar cycle; Iranian solar tradition | B | Solar deity; named in the AD 980 Kiev Pantheon (PVL) alongside Dažbog, suggesting two distinct solar deities or aspects. Name from Old Iranian *Hvar (sun; cf. Avestan xvəng, Iranian Hurshid / Khorshid). Khors is widely held to be an Iranian-derived deity, introduced into the Rus pantheon through Alanic or Iranian contact in the Pontic steppe. His presence alongside Dažbog suggests the Kievan pantheon incorporated deities from multiple ethnic backgrounds. The Lay of Igor's Campaign (12th c.) references "the great Khors." Brückner (1918) pp. 120-125; Primary Chronicle (Cross 1953) p. 93. | deity | |||||||||
| ENT_SLAV_LADA | Lada | Slavic | Goddess | Disputed deity | love; marriage; harmony; spring | regional | C | candidate_verified_name | European regional polytheism deepening (v1.77.0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | DISPUTED: a putative goddess of love and marriage; Brückner and later scholarship argue she is a personification mistakenly derived from a wedding-song refrain ('lado'). | deity | |||
| ENT_SLAV_MARZANNA | Marzanna | Slavic | Goddess | Death / winter goddess | death; winter; the dying and reborn year | regional | B | candidate_verified_name | European regional polytheism deepening (v1.77.0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | Goddess or personification of death and winter (Morana/Morena), whose effigy is ritually drowned or burned at winter's end in Slavic seasonal custom. | deity | |||
| ENT_SLAV_MOKOSH | Mokosh | Slavic | Goddess | Earth Deity | earth; weaving; fate; moisture; women; fertility | A | Goddess of earth, weaving, and fate; the only female deity in Vladimir I's Kiev Pantheon (AD 980 PVL entry). Name probably from Proto-Slavic *mokъ (moisture, wetness) or *mokošь; alternative etymology connects to PIE *(s)mek- (to spin, weave). Mokosh is the spinning fate-goddess who determines the thread of life; she is the guardian of women and their domestic work (spinning, weaving, shearing). Ecclesiastical prohibitions (Slovo ob idolakh, 9th-10th c.) condemn offerings to Mokosh alongside other Slavic deities, showing her worship persisted after Christianisation. She is often compared to the Greek Moirai and Baltic Laima as a weaving fate-goddess. Brückner (1918) pp. 130-138; Primary Chronicle (Cross 1953) p. 93. | deity | |||||||||
| ENT_SLAV_PERUN | Perun | Slavic | God | Thunder Deity | thunder; lightning; storm; war; oak; justice; oaths | A | Thunder and storm god; supreme deity of the East Slavic Kiev Pantheon. Named first in Vladimir I's pantheon (AD 980): "Perun of wood with a head of silver and a mustache of gold." Perun is also invoked in the Byzantine-Rus oath treaties of AD 945 and 971 alongside Veles, confirming his role as the divine guarantor of oaths. Name from Proto-Slavic *Perunъ, cognate with Baltic Perkūnas, Vedic Parjanya, and ultimately PIE *perkʷ- (thunder/oak). Perun's cosmic myth parallels Baltic Perkūnas: he battles the serpentine underworld deity Veles (who hides below the earth, in cattle, in trees) and strikes him with lightning — the standard Indo-European thunder-god-vs.-chaos-serpent narrative. Oak trees sacred to Perun. Primary Chronicle (Cross & Sherbowitz-Wetzor 1953) pp. 93-94, 162-163; Brückner (1918) pp. 67-80. | deity | |||||||||
| ENT_SLAV_PORENUT | Porenut | Slavic | God | Rugian deity | protection; tutelary cult of the Rani | regional | B | candidate_verified_name | European regional polytheism deepening (v1.77.0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | A god of the Rani at Charenza on Rügen described by Saxo as having four faces with a fifth on his chest; his functions are unrecorded. | deity | |||
| ENT_SLAV_POREVIT | Porevit | Slavic | God | Rugian deity | protection; war; tutelary cult of the Rani | regional | B | candidate_verified_name | European regional polytheism deepening (v1.77.0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | A five-headed god of the Rani worshipped alongside Rugievit at Charenza on Rügen, known only from Saxo; his specific functions are unrecorded. | deity | |||
| ENT_SLAV_RADEGAST | Radegast | Slavic | God | Tribal cult deity | war; hospitality; tribal sovereignty; fire | regional | B | candidate_verified_name | European regional polytheism deepening (v1.77.0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | The chief god of the Redarii at the temple of Rethra, named by Helmold and Adam of Bremen; often identified by scholars with Svarozhich. | deity | |||
| ENT_SLAV_ROD | Rod | Slavic | ancestral deity | Creator Deity | ancestry; birth; fate; clan; divine judgment | B | Ancestral and birth deity; attested in Old Slavic ecclesiastical prohibitions (Slovo ob idolakh, 9th-10th c.: "do not offer bread and cheese to Rod and the Rozhanitsy") and other Church admonishments. Rod is the divine ancestor and birth-fate deity, paired with the Rozhanitsy (birth goddesses). His name from Proto-Slavic *rodъ (clan, birth, kin) which is central to Slavic social organisation. Boris Rybakov proposed Rod as the supreme Slavic deity predating the Olympian-style Kiev Pantheon; most scholars consider this speculative, but Rod's function as a fate-dispensing deity at birth is secure. Brückner (1918) pp. 160-170. | deity | |||||||||
| ENT_SLAV_RUGIEVIT | Rugievit | Slavic | God | War deity | war; protection; sovereignty of Rügen | regional | A | candidate_verified_name | European regional polytheism deepening (v1.77.0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | A seven-faced war god of the Rani at Charenza (Garz) on Rügen, whose oaken idol Saxo describes being destroyed in 1168. | deity | |||
| ENT_SLAV_SIMARGL | Simargl | Slavic | guardian deity | Protective Deity | winged guardian; protection; plants; underworld boundary | B | Winged guardian deity; named in the AD 980 Kiev Pantheon (PVL) but uniquely enigmatic. Name may derive from Persian Simurgh (a mythical bird), pointing to Iranian cultural influence in the Kyiv region. In Iranian mythology the Simurgh is a giant winged dog-bird that roosts in the tree of life. Simargl's function in Slavic theology is uncertain; some scholars interpret him as a guardian of seeds and plants, others as a boundary deity between the living world and the underworld. His name is sometimes split as "Sim" and "Ergl" or interpreted as a plural. Evidence is confined to the PVL list; classified confidence B due to unclear function and possible foreign origin. Brückner (1918) pp. 111-115; Primary Chronicle (Cross 1953) p. 93. | deity | |||||||||
| ENT_SLAV_STRIBOG | Stribog | Slavic | God | Wind Deity | wind; air; weather; dispersal | A | Wind deity; named in the AD 980 Kiev Pantheon (PVL). The Lay of Igor's Campaign (12th c.) calls the winds "grandsons of Stribog." Name from Proto-Slavic *Stribogъ; the first element (*Stri-) has disputed etymology — possibly from *stьrь (to spread, disperse) or from an Iranian cognate (*Sraōsha or similar). Function as a wind deity is the most secure interpretation. Brückner (1918) pp. 106-110; Primary Chronicle (Cross 1953) p. 93. | deity | |||||||||
| ENT_SLAV_SVAROG | Svarog | Slavic | sky / fire deity | Creator Deity | sky; fire; celestial forge; divine kingship; metallurgy | B | Sky and fire deity; not named in the AD 980 Kiev Pantheon but attested in a gloss added to the East Slavic translation of the Byzantine Chronicle of Malalas (12th c.), which equates Svarog with Hephaestus and says: "Svarog, the god of fires... After him reigned his son Dažbog." The gloss thus posits a Svarog-Dažbog father-son relationship. Svarog is the celestial smith and generator of divine fire; his name may derive from PIE *swer- (sky, sun; cf. Sanskrit svarga, heaven) or from *svar- (to gleam). The Svarozhich (son of Svarog) fire deity is attested in German sources on the Rethra sanctuary among the Lutici Slavs. Brückner (1918) pp. 85-95; Hypatian Chronicle (Malalas gloss, 12th c.). | deity | |||||||||
| ENT_SLAV_SVAROZHICH | Svarozhich | Slavic | God | Fire deity | fire; sacrificial fire; the hearth | regional | A | candidate_verified_name | European regional polytheism deepening (v1.77.0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | A fire god understood as the son of Svarog; chief deity of the temple at Rethra in the West-Slavic chronicles and the personified sacred fire in East-Slavic homilies. | deity | |||
| ENT_SLAV_SVETOVIT | Svetovit | Slavic | God | War / oracular deity | war; prophecy; harvest; sovereignty; fertility | regional | A | candidate_verified_name | European regional polytheism deepening (v1.77.0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | The four-headed chief god of the great temple at Arkona on Rügen, whose white-horse oracle Saxo Grammaticus describes before the temple's destruction in 1168. | deity | |||
| ENT_SLAV_TRIGLAV | Triglav | Slavic | God | Tripartite deity | sovereignty; three realms; prophecy; oaths | regional | A | candidate_verified_name | European regional polytheism deepening (v1.77.0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | The three-headed god of Szczecin and Wolin whose heads signified rule over heaven, earth, and the underworld, reported in the Lives of Otto of Bamberg. | deity | |||
| ENT_SLAV_VELES | Veles | Slavic | Chthonic deity | Underworld Deity | underworld; cattle; wealth; magic; oaths; poetry | A | Chthonic deity and lord of the underworld, cattle, and magic; Slavic cognate of Baltic Velnias. Veles (also: Volos) is invoked alongside Perun in the Byzantine-Rus oath treaties (AD 945, 971 PVL): "by Perun their god and Volos the god of cattle." He governs the Nav (realm of the dead) and the earthly wealth below — cattle, grain, gold. The Perun-Veles cosmic myth parallels Baltic Perkūnas-Velnias: Veles hides below the earth or in cattle and trees, Perun strikes him with lightning. In Christian-period sources Veles was demonized and assimilated to the devil. The name is cognate with Baltic Velnias and PIE *wel- (the dead). Primary Chronicle (Cross 1953) pp. 74, 87 (oath treaties); Brückner (1918) pp. 138-155. | deity | |||||||||
| ENT_SLAV_YAROVIT | Yarovit | Slavic | God | War / fertility deity | war; fertility; springtime growth | regional | A | candidate_verified_name | European regional polytheism deepening (v1.77.0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | A West-Slavic war god (Latinized Gerovitus) worshipped at Wolgast and Havelberg, equated with Mars and associated with spring fertility. | deity | |||
| ENT_SLAV_ZHIVA | Zhiva | Slavic | Goddess | Life / fertility goddess | life; fertility; vegetation | regional | B | candidate_verified_name | European regional polytheism deepening (v1.77.0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | A goddess of the Polabian Slavs (Siwa/Živa) named by Helmold, her name connected to the Slavic root for 'living', suggesting a life/fertility function. | deity | |||
| ENT_SSL_DABOG | Dabog | Slavic | God | God | sun; earth; underworld wealth | devotional | B | candidate_verified_name | Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) | 0 | 0 | 0 | South-Slavic (chiefly Serbian) reflex of the sun-god, attested in Serbian folklore as 'Dabog'/'Daba', a chthonic lord of the earth and of silver/gold often demonized in folk-Christian tradition; cognate of the East-Slavic Dažbog. | deity | |||
| ENT_SSL_PRIPEGALA | Pripegala | Slavic | God | God | orgiastic fertility; bloody sacrifice | devotional | C | candidate_verified_name | Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) | 0 | 0 | 0 | West-Slavic (Polabian) deity known only from the Magdeburg letter (c. 1108), which decries his cult of orgiastic rites and decapitated-victim sacrifice; etymology and exact function disputed (sometimes likened to Priapus/Belial by the Latin source). | deity | |||
| ENT_SSL_PROVE | Prove | Slavic | God | God | oak groves; law; justice | devotional | B | candidate_verified_name | Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) | 0 | 0 | 0 | West-Slavic (Wagrian/Polabian) god of the land of Oldenburg, worshipped in a sacred oak grove without an idol; named by Helmold of Bosau, Chronica Slavorum (c. 1170); often read as a god of law/justice (cf. Prove ~ pravo). | deity | |||
| ENT_SSL_TJARNAGLOFI | Tjarnaglofi | Slavic | God | God | war; victory; augury | devotional | C | candidate_verified_name | Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) | 0 | 0 | 0 | West-Slavic (Pomeranian) war-god whose silver-mustachioed idol was a Rani battle-talisman; named in the Knytlinga saga as captured by the Danes (1168). Norse-transmitted theonym for a Rügen-area Slavic god. | deity | |||
| ENT_SSL_VID | Vid | Slavic | God | God | sky; light; oath | devotional | C | candidate_verified_name | Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) | 0 | 0 | 0 | Reconstructed South-Slavic theonym 'Vid' surviving in Croatian toponymy and folk usage (e.g. Vidova Gora) and folk-Christianized onto St Vitus (Sveti Vid); related to the West-Slavic -vit theophoric element (Svetovit). Attestation is indirect/onomastic. | 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]);