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DeityDB Explorer

A comparative database of spiritual beings across 137 Western traditions. Choose a query below, or write your own SQL at the bottom.  ·  ← Back to overview

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Browse the Data

Start with a tradition or functional category.

Tradition OverviewAll 137 traditions with entity and relationship counts at a glance. Browse a TraditionEnter a tradition name — Greek, Egyptian, Islamic, Gnostic, Norse — to list all its entities. Browse by CategoryFilter by functional category — Underworld Deity, Hero, Adversarial Being, Wisdom Figure, etc.
Individual Figures

Entity Explorer

Investigate individual entities and how they connect.

Entity RelationshipsAll relationships for a named entity — what it rules, opposes, emanates from, or is received as. Reception ChainTrace how a figure was received and renamed across traditions, following up to 8 hops. Divine GenealogiesParent–child and sibling relationships across all traditions.
Comparative

Cross-Tradition Analysis

Find patterns that span multiple traditions.

Cross-Traditional ParallelsEntities explicitly linked across tradition boundaries via parallel_to and syncretized_with relationships. Most Connected EntitiesThe top 50 entities by total relationship count — the theological hubs of the network.
By Kind

Browse by Entity Type

Pre-filtered views for major categories across all traditions.

Angelic BeingsAngels, divine messengers, and celestial servants across Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Zoroastrian traditions. Adversarial BeingsDemons, adversaries, tempters, and powers of chaos from Mesopotamia to medieval Europe. Underworld EntitiesPsychopomps, death deities, and rulers of the realm below — Anubis to Azrael. Revealer FiguresProphets, teachers, and transmitters of divine knowledge — from Enoch to Muhammad. Wisdom & KnowledgeScribal deities, Sophia figures, and personified wisdom from Thoth to Hokhmah. Serpent & Dragon BeingsPrimordial serpents, chaos dragons, and serpent-deities — Leviathan to Apep.
Apparatus

Reference

Source materials and relationship vocabulary.

Source BibliographyAll 581 sources with citation counts — primary texts and academic references. Relationship VocabularyAll relationship types with definitions and usage counts.

Custom SQL Query

Raw Tables & Views (for researchers and contributors)
animals 20 claims 1,789 classification_audit 408 cult_centers 30 entities 4,130 entity_aliases 217 entity_animals 45 entity_citations 4,300 entity_class 19 entity_cult_centers 63 entity_duplicate_review 68 entity_epithets 27 entity_functions 664 entity_merge_log 8 entity_metals 7 entity_periods 3,932 entity_plants 29 entity_regions 429 entity_relationships 7,161 entity_scores 9,108 entity_sources 6,487 entity_tradition_tags 853 entity_type_class_map 894 epithets 27 functions 292 import_batches 1 metals 3 names 479 periods 131 places 9 plants 15 regions 28 relationship_types 70 relationships 0 rule_sets 0 semantic_relationships 408 sources 581 staging_entities 0 staging_relationships 3 tradition_profile 135 v_public_adversarial_beings 147 v_public_angelic_beings 290 v_public_class_overview 19 v_public_comparative_domains 1,546 v_public_cross_tradition_links 1,056 v_public_cross_tradition_matrix 312 v_public_domain_overview 118 v_public_entity_citations 4,300 v_public_relationship_overview 64 v_public_relationship_triples 7,161 v_public_revealer_figures 149 v_public_serpent_dragon_beings 76 v_public_tradition_overview 137 v_public_tradition_profile 135 v_public_underworld_entities 410 v_public_wisdom_knowledge_beings 259 v_release_metrics 1