entities: ENT_ANT_ASURAS

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 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_ANT_ASURAS The Asuras   Anthroposophy Adversarial collective Adversarial collective spirit-self corruption; egoity; destruction of the I; the most dangerous temptation   literary   B candidate_verified_name Modern-strand deepening (v1.75.0) 0 0 0 In Steiner's teaching the third and most dangerous class of adversary-beings, attacking the human spirit-self (the 'I'); the name is borrowed from the Indian asuras but designates a distinct Anthroposophical class. collective

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