entities: ENT_BALT_DIEVAS

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_BALT_DIEVAS Dievas   Baltic sky god Creator Deity sky; sovereignty; cosmic order; divine society       A           Supreme sky god of the Baltic tradition; Lithuanian Dievas, Latvian Dievs. The name is cognate with Proto-Indo-European *Dyēus (Greek Zeus, Latin Deus), preserving the ancient sky-father typology. Dievas is portrayed in Lithuanian folk songs (dainos) as a farmer-king who works the sky-fields, wears a silver coat and golden belt, and descends to earth on a grey horse; he embodies cosmic and social order. In the mythological narrative cycle, Dievas and Velnias are complementary opposites: Dievas governs the upper sky-world while Velnias rules the chthonic realm; Perkūnas mediates by enforcing sky-world order. Gimbutas (1963) pp. 197-198; Greimas (1992) pp. 57-75. deity

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