entities: ENT_BENDIS

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_BENDIS Bendis   Thracian Thracian goddess Moon Deity moon; hunt; fire; night; mystery cult imported;thracian Greek world Archaic-Classical/Roman reception A candidate_verified_name Literary attestation in classical/mythographic tradition; cult evidence varies by entity. 2 0 0 Thracian hunting and moon goddess; the most thoroughly documented Thracian deity in Athens. Her Athenian cult was officially established by state decree by 429 BCE, making the Bendideia festival the first formally recognised foreign cult in Athens. Plato opens the Republic (327a) at the Bendideia in the Piraeus. Herodotus 5.7 lists Artemis as one of the three Thracian gods — scholarship identifies Artemis with Bendis in this context. The equation Bendis ↔ Artemis is explicit in Athenian votive inscriptions; she is also equated with Hecate in some traditions. Iconography: twin torches and hunting dress. Archibald (1998) ch. 8. deity

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