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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'}

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  • aeon 37
  • abstraction 5
  • collective 4
  • ritual 2
  • deity 1
  • realm 1

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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_VAL_ACHAMOTH Achamoth   Valentinian Lower Sophia Aeon lower wisdom; deficiency; restoration; psychic creation   Valentinian   A candidate_verified_name Valentinian core entity 2 0 0 Lower Sophia figure central to Valentinian myth. aeon
ENT_VAL_AEINOUS Aeinous   Valentinian Aeon/personification Aeon       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         Ever-mind (Aeinous), male aeon of the Dodecad, consort of Synesis. aeon
ENT_VAL_AGAPE Agape   Valentinian Aeon / personified Love Aeon love; divine charity; Dodecad; Metricos pair; cosmic love principle; Pleroma binding force       A           Agape ("Love") is one of the twelve Dodecad aeons in the Valentinian Pleroma, paired with Metricos ("Measurer"). Like Pistis, Agape personifies a theological virtue as a cosmic divine reality. In Valentinian theology, the agape that binds the Pleroma is the divine love through which all aeons are oriented toward the Father — it is the binding force of the divine fullness. The prominence of Agape in the Dodecad reflects Valentinianism's deep engagement with the Johannine tradition (1 John 4:8: "God is Agape") and Paul's hymn to love in 1 Corinthians 13. For Valentinian theologians, Paul's statement that "love never fails" (1 Cor 13:8) while knowledge and prophecy pass away supports the aeon Agape's permanent role in the Pleroma even after the Fall of Sophia and its aftermath. Irenaeus AH I.2.5; Layton (1987) pp. 299-300. aeon
ENT_VAL_AGERATOS Ageratos   Valentinian Aeon/personification Aeon       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         Never-aging (Ageratos), male aeon of the Decad, consort of Henosis. aeon
ENT_VAL_AKINETOS Akinetos   Valentinian Aeon/personification Aeon       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         Immovable (Akinetos), male aeon of the Decad, consort of Syncrasis. aeon
ENT_VAL_ALETHEIA Aletheia   Valentinian Aeon/personification Aeon truth; revelation; divine reality   Valentinian   A candidate_verified_name Valentinian core entity 0 0 0 Truth aeon, paired with Nous. aeon
ENT_VAL_ANGELS_SAVIOR Angels of the Savior   Valentinian Aeonic collective Aeonic collective       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         The (male) angels of the Saviour: the spiritual counterparts who accompany the Saviour out of the Pleroma; the spiritual seed is reunited with them in the bridal chamber, mending the broken syzygy. collective
ENT_VAL_ANTHROPOS Anthropos   Valentinian Aeon/primordial human Aeon humanity; archetypal human; divine image   Valentinian   A candidate_verified_name Valentinian core entity 0 0 0 Human/Man aeon, paired with Ecclesia. aeon
ENT_VAL_APOLYTROSIS Apolytrosis   Valentinian Ritual/devotional category Ritual category       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         Apolytrosis ("redemption"/release): the Valentinian sacrament of liberation that seals the pneumatic for ascent through the powers, closely bound to the bridal chamber (Irenaeus AH I.21). ritual
ENT_VAL_APORIA Aporia   Valentinian Personified passion Mythic process/category       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         Perplexity/bewilderment (Aporia), one of the fourfold passions of Achamoth. aeon
ENT_VAL_AUTOPHYES Autophyes   Valentinian Aeon/personification Aeon       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         Self-produced (Autophyes), male aeon of the Decad, consort of Hedone. aeon
ENT_VAL_BRIDAL_CHAMBER Bridal Chamber   Valentinian Ritual/symbolic category Ritual Collective bridal chamber; union; sacrament; restoration   Valentinian   A candidate_verified_name Valentinian ritual-symbolic entity 1 0 0 Valentinian ritual/symbolic category of union and restoration. ritual
ENT_VAL_BYTHIOS Bythios   Valentinian Aeon/personification Aeon       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         Profound (Bythios), male aeon of the Decad, consort of Mixis (Irenaeus AH I.1.2). aeon
ENT_VAL_BYTHOS Bythos   Valentinian Supreme principle/aeon Supreme Principle depth; ineffable source; primal father   Valentinian   A candidate_verified_name Valentinian core entity 0 0 0 The Depth or primal source in Valentinian theology. aeon
ENT_VAL_DECAD Decad   Valentinian Aeonic collective / second tier of Pleroma Aeonic Collective divine emanation; second Pleroma tier; ten aeons; cosmic fullness; Logos offspring       A           The Decad is the collective name for the ten aeons emanated by the syzygy of Logos and Zoe, constituting the second tier of the Valentinian Pleroma after the primary Ogdoad. Irenaeus (AH I.2.5) names them as five male-female pairs: Bythios and Mixis, Ageratos and Henosis, Autophyes and Hedone, Acinetos and Syncrasis, Monogenes and Macaria (or Theletos and Macaria in some variants). These ten aeons collectively embody aspects of divine creativity, stability, and productive will. The Decad's significance in the Valentinian system is structural: together with the Ogdoad (first eight aeons) and the Dodecad (twelve aeons), it completes the thirty-aeon Pleroma whose fullness (plēroma) constitutes the divine realm. The crisis in the Pleroma is triggered not within the Decad but in the Dodecad (by Sophia, the 30th aeon), but the Decad's existence is the precondition for that crisis. Layton (1987) pp. 276-302. collective
ENT_VAL_DODECAD Dodecad   Valentinian Aeonic collective / third tier of Pleroma Aeonic Collective divine emanation; third Pleroma tier; twelve aeons; cosmic fullness; Sophia origin; fall       A           The Dodecad is the collective name for the twelve aeons emanated by the syzygy of Anthropos and Ecclesia, constituting the third and final tier of the Valentinian Pleroma. Irenaeus (AH I.2.5-6) names them as six male-female pairs: Paracletos and Pistis, Patricos and Elpis, Metricos and Agape, Ainos and Synesis, Ecclesiasticos and Makariotes, Theletos and Sophia. The theological significance of the Dodecad exceeds the Decad: it is within the Dodecad that the cosmological crisis originates, since Sophia — the 30th and last aeon of the entire Pleroma, paired with Theletos in the Dodecad — is seized by a "passion" to comprehend the Father (Bythos) without her consort, generating an unbounded desire (enthymesis) that, when separated from her by Horos (the boundary), becomes the lower Sophia or Achamoth. This fall of Sophia triggers the creation of the material world by the Demiurge (Yaldabaoth), whom Achamoth produces without a divine partner. The Dodecad thus functions as the point of transition from divine fullness to material creation in the Valentinian cosmological drama. Layton (1987) pp. 276-302. collective
ENT_VAL_ECCLESIA Ecclesia   Valentinian Aeon/personification Aeon church; assembly; spiritual community   Valentinian   A candidate_verified_name Valentinian core entity 0 0 0 Church/Assembly aeon, paired with Anthropos. aeon
ENT_VAL_EKKLESIASTIKOS Ekklesiastikos   Valentinian Aeon/personification Aeon       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         Ecclesiastical (Ekklesiastikos), male aeon of the Dodecad, consort of Makariotes. aeon
ENT_VAL_ELPIS Elpis (Valentinian)   Valentinian Aeon/personification Aeon       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         Hope (Elpis), female aeon of the Dodecad, consort of Patrikos. aeon
ENT_VAL_ENNOIA Ennoia   Valentinian Aeon/personification Aeon thought; conception; divine intention   Valentinian   B needs_review Valentinian aeonic entity 0 0 0 Thought/conception figure; usage varies across Valentinian accounts. aeon
ENT_VAL_ENTHYMESIS Enthymesis   Valentinian Aeon/personified passion Mythic process/category       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         The "intention" (Enthymesis) of Sophia: the formless, passion-laden offspring of her presumptuous desire to grasp the Father, separated from her by Horos and cast outside the Pleroma, where it becomes the lower Sophia, Achamoth (Thomassen, Spiritual Seed). aeon
ENT_VAL_EPISTROPHE Epistrophe   Valentinian Personified passion Mythic process/category       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         Conversion/turning (Epistrophe), the redemptive passion of Achamoth — her turning back toward the light — from which the psychic substance (and the Demiurge) is formed. aeon
ENT_VAL_HEDONE Hedone (Valentinian)   Valentinian Aeon/personification Aeon       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         Pleasure (Hedone), female aeon of the Decad, consort of Autophyes. aeon
ENT_VAL_HENOSIS Henosis   Valentinian Aeon/personification Aeon       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         Union (Henosis), female aeon of the Decad, consort of Ageratos. aeon
ENT_VAL_HOROS Horos   Valentinian Boundary principle Aeon limit; boundary; stabilization; restoration   Valentinian   A candidate_verified_name Valentinian core entity 0 0 0 Limit/boundary principle that stabilizes the Pleroma. abstraction
ENT_VAL_HYLIC Hylic   Valentinian Anthropological category Theological category       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         The material (hylic/choic) nature — the lowest class, formed from Achamoth's passions and destined to dissolution. abstraction
ENT_VAL_LOGOS Logos   Valentinian Aeon/principle Aeon word; reason; mediation   Valentinian   A candidate_verified_name Valentinian core entity 0 0 0 Word/Reason aeon in Valentinian syzygies. aeon
ENT_VAL_LYPE Lype   Valentinian Personified passion Mythic process/category       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         Grief (Lype), one of the fourfold passions of Achamoth, from which (with fear and perplexity) the material substance is formed. aeon
ENT_VAL_MACARIA Macaria (Valentinian)   Valentinian Aeon/personification Aeon       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         Blessedness (Macaria), female aeon of the Decad, consort of Monogenes. aeon
ENT_VAL_MAKARIOTES Makariotes   Valentinian Aeon/personification Aeon       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         Felicity (Makariotes), female aeon of the Dodecad, consort of Ekklesiastikos. aeon
ENT_VAL_METRIKOS Metrikos   Valentinian Aeon/personification Aeon       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         Maternal (Metrikos), male aeon of the Dodecad, consort of Agape. aeon
ENT_VAL_MIDDLE The Middle   Valentinian Cosmic realm/category Cosmological category       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         The Middle (Mesotes): the intermediate region between the Pleroma and the cosmos. Achamoth dwells in the Ogdoad/Middle, while the psychic Demiurge rules the Hebdomad below her. realm
ENT_VAL_MIXIS Mixis   Valentinian Aeon/personification Aeon       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         Mingling (Mixis), female aeon of the Decad, consort of Bythios. aeon
ENT_VAL_MONOGENES Monogenes   Valentinian Aeon / Only-begotten Aeon divine sonship; unique knowledge of the Father; only-begotten principle; Nous variant; Decad       A           Monogenes ("Only-begotten") is one of the ten Decad aeons in the Valentinian Pleroma, paired with Macaria ("Blessedness"), and produced by the syzygy of Logos and Zoe (Irenaeus AH I.2.5). He occupies a special position in some Valentinian traditions because the title "Monogenes" is also applied to Nous (the second aeon, paired with Aletheia), who alone has knowledge of the Father (Bythos): "Nous alone, which is also called Only-begotten and Father and Beginning of all things, was able to know the size of the Father" (Irenaeus AH I.2.1). This creates a theological ambiguity in Valentinianism: there is a Decad-level Monogenes (paired with Macaria in the Decad sequence) and a title Monogenes applied to the second Ogdoad aeon Nous. The term "Monogenes" is also the Greek theological term used for Christ's divine Sonship in the Gospel of John (1:14, 18; 3:16), making this concept a bridge point between Valentinian aeon theology and orthodox Christology. Layton (1987) pp. 276-302; Irenaeus AH I.2.5. aeon
ENT_VAL_NOUS Nous   Valentinian Aeon/intellect Aeon mind; only-begotten; divine intellect   Valentinian   A candidate_verified_name Valentinian core entity 0 0 0 Mind/Intellect aeon, often paired with Aletheia. aeon
ENT_VAL_PARAKLETOS Parakletos   Valentinian Aeon/personification Aeon       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         Comforter (Parakletos), male aeon of the Dodecad, consort of Pistis. aeon
ENT_VAL_PATRIKOS Patrikos   Valentinian Aeon/personification Aeon       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         Paternal (Patrikos), male aeon of the Dodecad, consort of Elpis. aeon
ENT_VAL_PHOBOS Phobos (Valentinian)   Valentinian Personified passion Mythic process/category       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         Fear (Phobos), one of the fourfold passions of Achamoth. aeon
ENT_VAL_PISTIS Pistis   Valentinian Aeon / personified Faith Aeon faith; divine trust; Dodecad; Paracletos pair; Pistis Sophia tradition; salvific trust       A           Pistis ("Faith") is one of the twelve Dodecad aeons in the Valentinian Pleroma, paired with Paracletos ("Comforter" — the Valentinian appropriation of the Johannine Paraclete concept). Produced by the syzygy of Anthropos and Ecclesia, Pistis personifies the theological virtue of faith as a cosmic, divine quality rather than a human disposition — in Valentinian theology, Pistis is the archetypal pattern of which human faith is a shadow. The figure of Pistis acquires much greater theological development in the text known as Pistis Sophia (possibly 3rd–4th c. CE), a Coptic Gnostic dialogue in which Sophia/Pistis is a fallen aeon who descends through thirteen emanations seeking rescue from the material realm — an extended narrative elaboration of the Valentinian cosmological drama. In the Pistis Sophia text, the figure named "Pistis Sophia" conflates the Dodecad aeon Pistis with the fallen Sophia, creating a hybrid narrative figure distinct from the Valentinian Decad/Dodecad structure. Layton (1987) pp. 299-300; Irenaeus AH I.2.5. aeon
ENT_VAL_PNEUMATIC Pneumatic   Valentinian Anthropological category Theological category       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         The spiritual (pneumatic) nature — the highest of the three Valentinian classes of humanity, kin to the Pleroma. Both schools agreed the pneumatic is saved; they differed on whether it is saved by nature (Eastern) or must be formed by knowledge. abstraction
ENT_VAL_PSYCHIC Psychic   Valentinian Anthropological category Theological category       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         The psychic (soul) nature — the middle class, possessing free will. The Western (Italic) school made the psychics the central target of salvation, saved by faith and works; the Eastern school subordinated them to the spiritual. abstraction
ENT_VAL_PSYCHIC_CHRIST Psychic Christ   Valentinian Savior aspect Revealer/savior       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         The psychic Christ: in the Western (Italic) school (Ptolemy, Heracleon) the Saviour assumed a psychic body furnished by the Demiurge, in addition to his spiritual nature; the Eastern (Oriental) school (Theodotus, Axionicus) held the Saviour's body to be wholly spiritual. The clearest marker of the two-school division. deity
ENT_VAL_SIGE Sige   Valentinian Aeon/personification Aeon silence; hiddenness; primal consort   Valentinian   A candidate_verified_name Valentinian core entity 0 0 0 Silence, often paired with Bythos. aeon
ENT_VAL_SOTER Soter   Valentinian Savior aeon Revealer Figure savior; restoration; redemption; pleroma   Valentinian   A candidate_verified_name Valentinian core entity 0 0 0 Savior figure involved in restoring deficiency. aeon
ENT_VAL_SPIRITUAL_SEED Spiritual Seed   Valentinian Elect collective/category Elect collective       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         The spiritual seed (sperma pneumatikon): the pneumatic element that Achamoth, beholding the Saviour and his angels, conceived and sowed into the Demiurge's creation — the elect "Church" destined to re-enter the Pleroma. The title concept of Thomassen's study. collective
ENT_VAL_STAUROS Stauros   Valentinian Boundary/cross principle Aeon cross; boundary; separation; restoration   Valentinian   B needs_review Valentinian theological entity 0 0 0 Cross/boundary figure sometimes associated with Horos. abstraction
ENT_VAL_SYNCRASIS Syncrasis   Valentinian Aeon/personification Aeon       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         Commixture (Syncrasis), female aeon of the Decad, consort of Akinetos. aeon
ENT_VAL_SYNESIS Synesis (Valentinian)   Valentinian Aeon/personification Aeon       PER_GNO_2ND_4TH A reviewed         Understanding (Synesis), female aeon of the Dodecad, consort of Aeinous. aeon
ENT_VAL_THELETOS Theletos   Valentinian Aeon / Divine Will Aeon divine will; Dodecad; Sophia pair; cosmological crisis; fall of Sophia; Pleroma limit       A           Theletos ("Will" or "Desired One") is the second-to-last of the thirty Valentinian aeons, paired with Sophia as the final male-female syzygy of the Dodecad (Irenaeus AH I.1.1-3; I.2.5). He is theologically pivotal: Sophia's fall occurs specifically because she desires to comprehend the Father without her consort Theletos — her passion/desire (enthymesis) erupts as a desire to "know" the Father directly, bypassing the proper mediation of her syzygy partner. Without Theletos, Sophia's unbounded desire cannot be contained, and it overflows the Pleroma boundary, generating the crisis that eventually produces Achamoth (Lower Sophia) and the material world. Theletos thus represents the principle of divine Will as the proper partner of Wisdom — the absence of Theletos from Sophia's creative act is precisely what makes her creation defective and material rather than spiritual. In later Valentinian theology (as preserved in the Gospel of Philip, NHC II,3), the relationship of Theletos and Sophia informs the discussion of proper spiritual pairing (the "bridal chamber" motif). Irenaeus AH I.1.1-3; Layton (1987) pp. 289-302. aeon
ENT_VAL_ZOE Zoe   Valentinian Aeon/personification Aeon life; animation; living fullness   Valentinian   A candidate_verified_name Valentinian core entity 0 0 0 Life aeon, paired with Logos. aeon

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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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