entities: ENT_EGY_PAKHET

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_EGY_PAKHET Pakhet   Egyptian Lioness goddess / Hunter War Deity hunting; war; lioness; protection; night; cave sanctuary at Speos Artemidos       A           "She Who Scratches" or "She Who Tears" (Egyptian: Pꜣḫt); Middle Kingdom lioness goddess worshipped primarily at Speos Artemidos ("Cave of Artemis"), a rock-cut shrine east of Beni Hasan in Middle Egypt; her cult is principally attested from the Middle Kingdom through the New Kingdom; she is a fierce huntress who prowls the desert at night, catching prey with her claws — her name refers to this scratching/tearing action; Queen Hatshepsut enlarged the Speos Artemidos shrine and left an important inscription there; the Greeks later identified her with Artemis (hence "Speos Artemidos"), making her one of the Egyptian deities in the Greek interpretatio tradition; her function as a desert huntress and nocturnal lioness parallels Sekhmet but is distinct in character deity

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