entities: ENT_ARM_ANAHIT

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_ARM_ANAHIT Anahit   Armenian goddess of fertility, love, and war Fertility Deity fertility; love; purity; war; water; national sovereignty; the Armenian people       A           The most beloved deity of the Armenian pantheon and the most widely attested. Daughter of Aramazd. Name derived from Zoroastrian Anahita (Avestan: Arədvī Sūrā Anāhitā) via regular sound change. Strabo (Geography XI.14.16) describes her magnificent gold cult statue at the temple at Erez (Ashtishat) — so rich that Roman soldiers melted it for gold after Antony's campaign in 36 BCE. Agathangelos (§22) equates her with Artemis: "Anahit, who is called Artemis among the Greeks; she is the glory of our nation and vivifier... mother of all chastity, benefactress of the whole human race." Kings of the Artaxiad and Arsacid dynasties used the epithet "Anahit the Golden" (ոսկի Անահիտ). She combines domains that in Zoroastrian theology belong to Anahita (water, fertility, war-victory) with Hellenistic characteristics of Artemis (virginity, hunting) and Aphrodite (love, beauty) — the widest functional range of any Armenian deity. Russell (1987) pp. 121-250; Agathangelos §22; Khorenatsi I.14. deity

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