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'}

9 rows where tradition = "Folk Catholic"

✎ View and edit SQL

This data as json, CSV (advanced)

Suggested facets: entity_type, category, evidence_confidence

entity_class 2

tradition 1

  • Folk Catholic · 9 ✖
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

Advanced export

JSON shape: default, array, newline-delimited, object

CSV options: 

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]);