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 entity_class to filter by kind (19 controlled values: deity, angel, demon, aeon, sefirah, spirit, monster, hero, etc.). category is free text (1,148 values) and is not a reliable filter. 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 (934 distinct values; see entity_class for the controlled grouping)'}
category
{'description': 'Free-text functional category (1,148 distinct values, not normalised — filter on entity_class instead)'}
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'}

9 rows where tradition = "Folk Catholic"

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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_FCS_DIFUNTA_CORREA Difunta Correa   Folk Catholic Folk saint folk_saint Protection of travelers and the desperate, miraculous nourishment, intercession   devotional   B candidate_verified_name Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) 0 0 0 Argentine folk saint (Deolinda Correa), a 19th-c. woman said to have died of thirst in the San Juan desert while her nursing infant survived; major roadside shrine at Vallecito; Rome-unrecognized. saint
ENT_FCS_FOLK_SAINTS Latin American Folk Saints   Folk Catholic Saint collective collective Vernacular sanctity, popular canonization, miraculous intercession   devotional   B candidate_verified_name Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) 0 0 0 Hub for the folk-canonized (popular, Rome-unrecognized) intercessory figures of modern Latin American vernacular Catholicism; well attested ethnographically. collective
ENT_FCS_JESUS_MALVERDE Jesús Malverde   Folk Catholic Folk saint folk_saint Protection of the poor and travelers, intercession, popular justice   devotional   C candidate_verified_name Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) 0 0 0 Sinaloan (Mexico) folk saint, said to be an early-20th-c. bandit-benefactor executed c.1909; venerated at a Culiacán chapel; not recognized by Rome. Modeled neutrally as a publicly attested devotion. saint
ENT_FCS_MAXIMON Maximón (San Simón)   Folk Catholic Folk saint folk_saint Fortune, fertility, protection, intercession, bargains and vows, Maya-Catholic intercession   devotional   B candidate_verified_name Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) 0 0 0 Guatemalan Maya-Catholic syncretic figure of the highlands (esp. Santiago Atitlán, San Andrés Itzapa), publicly identified with St. Simon and an Indigenous Maya ancestral/Mam figure; an effigy receives offerings of tobacco and liquor. Only the public devotion is modeled. saint
ENT_FCS_NINO_FIDENCIO Niño Fidencio   Folk Catholic Folk saint folk_saint Healing, spirit mediumship, popular intercession   devotional   B candidate_verified_name Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) 0 0 0 José Fidencio Constantino Síntora (1898–1938), a celebrated curandero of Espinazo, Nuevo León (Mexico); posthumously venerated as a folk healer-saint with a living devotional movement (fidencistas); Rome-unrecognized. saint
ENT_FCS_SANTA_MUERTE Santa Muerte   Folk Catholic Folk saint folk_saint Death personified, protection, healing, justice, love, devotion of the marginalized   devotional   B candidate_verified_name Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) 0 0 0 Mexican folk 'saint' (Holy Death), a skeletal female personification of death venerated since at least the mid-20th c. with mass public shrines (Tepito); not recognized by Rome; imagery descends from the personified Grim Reaper / Death. saint
ENT_FCS_SAN_LA_MUERTE San La Muerte   Folk Catholic Folk saint folk_saint Death personified, protection, oaths, sudden help   devotional   B candidate_verified_name Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) 0 0 0 Argentine/Paraguayan/Guaraní-zone male folk saint of personified Death (skeletal figure); publicly venerated in the Litoral region; Rome-unrecognized; cognate of the broader Death-saint devotion. saint
ENT_FCS_SAN_PASCUALITO San Pascualito   Folk Catholic Folk saint folk_saint Death personified, healing, protection from epidemic, intercession   devotional   C candidate_verified_name Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) 0 0 0 Guatemalan/Chiapas Maya-Catholic skeletal folk saint of Death, publicly associated by name with the canonical St. Paschal Baylón but venerated as a personified-Death figure; centered at Olintepeque and Chiapas; Rome-unrecognized in this form. saint
ENT_FCS_SARITA_COLONIA Sarita Colonia   Folk Catholic Folk saint folk_saint Protection of migrants, the poor and the marginalized, intercession   devotional   B candidate_verified_name Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) 0 0 0 Sara Colonia Zambrano (1914–1940), a poor migrant woman in Callao, Peru; posthumously venerated as a folk saint of the urban marginalized; Rome-unrecognized. saint

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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]);