Entities

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.

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'}

1 row where entity_class = "prophet" and tradition = "Theosophical"

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  • Theosophical · 1 ✖

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  • prophet · 1 ✖
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_REC_MAHATMAS Mahatmas (Theosophical Masters of Wisdom)   Theosophical Revealer Revealer Figure cosmic wisdom; hidden knowledge; spiritual guidance; occult synthesis theosophy; mahatmas; masters of wisdom; blavatsky; 19th-century; modern reception; hidden teachers; revealer     A reviewed Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine (1888); Hutton, The Triumph of the Moon (1999)       Claimed semi-divine superhuman teachers in Theosophy (Theosophical Society founded 1875 by Helena Blavatsky and Henry Olcott), said to guide the Society from Tibet. In The Secret Doctrine (1888) they are cosmic adepts who have transcended ordinary human evolution and transmit occult wisdom to initiates. Hutton (The Triumph of the Moon, 1999) notes Mathers explicitly modelled the Golden Dawn's "Secret Chiefs" on the Mahatmas. Functions as a documented modern-reception parallel to traditional revealer-figure hierarchies (compare Hermes Trismegistus, Gnostic aeons). No independent ancient attestation; documented modern occult invention. prophet

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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]);