{"database": "deitydb", "table": "v_public_serpent_dragon_beings", "rows": [[71, "ENT_SABAZIOS", "Sabazios", "Thracian", "Mystery Deity", 1, "sky; thunder; mystery cult; serpent; ecstasy; protection; initiation", "Thracian (and Phrygian) sky-thunder deity received into Greek and Roman mystery religion. Attested in Athens from the 5th c. BCE: Aristophanes mocks the Sabazian cult in Wasps (422 BCE) and Birds (414 BCE); Demosthenes' On the Crown (330 BCE) alludes to Sabazian initiatory rites. Herodotus 5.7 identifies the three Thracian gods as Ares, Dionysus, and Artemis \u2014 scholarship identifies the Dionysian/ecstatic position with Sabazios. In the Roman period he appears as Zeus Sabazios (syncretism with the sky-father) in votive tablets from Rome and Anatolia. The cult's characteristic emblem is the manus Sabaziana \u2014 an open hand showing the serpent, pine cone, and other divine attributes. Archibald (1998) ch. 8; Burkert (1985) pp. 179-181."]], "columns": ["rowid", "entity_id", "canonical_name", "tradition", "category", "serpent_flag", "primary_domains", "short_note"], "primary_keys": ["rowid"], "primary_key_values": ["71"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 76.822846000141, "source": "jebboone/deitydb", "source_url": "https://github.com/jebboone/deitydb", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"}