entities: ENT_COTYS

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_COTYS Cotys   Thracian Thracian goddess Mystery Deity ecstatic rites; mystery cult; orgy; night; initiation imported;thracian Greek world Archaic-Classical/Roman reception B candidate_verified_name Literary attestation in classical/mythographic tradition; cult evidence varies by entity. 1 0 0 Thracian goddess of orgiastic mystery rites; her cult (the Cotytia) spread to Athens, Corinth, and Macedon. Attested in Attic comedy (Eupolis fr. 85 Kassel-Austin), Aeschylus' lost Edoni (fr. 57, depicting Thracian ecstatic rites), and Theopompus of Chios (FGrHist 115 F 64). In Greek interpretation Cotys is equated with Rhea/Cybele as the Thracian form of the Great Mother. The Cotytia were notable for ritual transgression and licence. Confidence B: well attested but known mainly through Greek literary criticism of foreign cult practice. Archibald (1998) ch. 8; Burkert (1985) p. 177. deity

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