DeityDB

A source-traceable comparative-religion database mapping divine beings, cosmologies, and theological relationships across 136 Western traditions.

William Blake, The Ancient of Days (1794) · British Museum · Public domain

3,838 Entities

7,106 Relationships

136 Traditions

463 Sources

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🔎 Browse Search and filter every divine figure, spirit, and cosmic being. Click any card to see its relationships. ◉ Graph See how one figure connects — click to expand, click again to collapse. ✦ Connections How whole traditions link — as a heatmap or a constellation. 🕰 Timeline When each tradition's gods, spirits, and cosmologies are attested — from the Early Dynastic Nile to the modern occult revival. ⛓ Lineages Trace a source-traced reception chain across the centuries — how a figure or practice passed from one tradition into the next, antiquity to today. 🧭 Find a Path The shortest source-traced chain of relationships between any two figures — across traditions and millennia. ✸ Constellation The whole dataset as one zoomable map — every figure a star, every relationship a thread, clustered by tradition.

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★ All Cross-Tradition Links Every comparative bridge in the database — reception, syncretism, equation, and cognate links between two traditions, each with its source. 🕸️ The Cross-Tradition Web Which traditions connect, and how strongly — the tradition-to-tradition matrix. Greek and Egyptian are the great hubs. 🔄 Reception Chains Follow a figure hop-by-hop across traditions — Matar → Cybele → Magna Mater; Lugus → Lugh → Lleu. ⚖️ Cross-Traditional Parallels The explicit equation links — equated_with, identified_with, syncretized_with — where a writer or scholar called two figures the same god. ⭐ Most Connected Entities The fifty entities with the most relationships — the theological hubs of the network. 🌍 Tradition Overview All 136 traditions ranked by entity count — a one-page map of the database.

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About DeityDB

DeityDB is a source-traceable comparative-religion ontology covering 136 traditions — from Greek and Egyptian antiquity through Second Temple Judaism, Gnosticism, Islam, and medieval Jewish mysticism. Every entity and relationship traces to an academic or primary source.

Traditions covered include Greek, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Canaanite/Ugaritic, Israelite/Second Temple, Roman, Celtic, Germanic/Norse, Christian, Gnostic, Mandaean, Manichaean, Zoroastrian, Islamic (incl. Sufi and Shīʿa), Jewish mystical, Hermetic, Etruscan, Scythian, Phrygian, Baltic, Slavic, Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Thracian, Armenian, Finnish, Urartian, Meroitic, Iberian/Lusitanian, Aramean, Luwian, Elamite, and more.

github.com/jebboone/deitydb · MIT License · v2.1.12

Data & Methodology

Entities are classified by kind — gods, angels, demons, aeons, archons, prophets, saints, heroes, spirits, and cosmological realms — and never collapsed into a single category. Relationships are typed (patron_of, emanates_from, opposes, reception_of, parallel_to…) for precise ontological queries.

The full PostgreSQL schema and seed data are open-source. Every classification traces to a source record, prioritising academic editions and primary texts. Contributions are welcome via pull request on GitHub.

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