entities: ENT_DIO_THEOSIS

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.

Data license: MIT · Data source: jebboone/deitydb

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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_DIO_THEOSIS Deification (Theosis) θέωσις Christian/Theurgic Mystical process/category Goal of hierarchy assimilation to and union with God; the goal of every hierarchy; deification   pan-Christian   A candidate_verified_name Pseudo-Dionysian corpus 0 0 0 Dionysius's stated goal of all hierarchy — "assimilation to and union with God so far as is attainable" — the Christian-theurgic deification later systematised as the Orthodox doctrine of theosis. sage

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