entities: ENT_ISR_SOLOMON

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 entity_class to filter by kind (19 controlled values: deity, angel, demon, aeon, sefirah, spirit, monster, hero, etc.). category is free text (1,148 values) and is not a reliable filter. 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_ISR_SOLOMON Solomon   Israelite/Second Temple King / Wisdom figure Human Figure king; wisdom; temple; demon command; Solomonic tradition       A           Israelite king; son of David; builder of the First Temple in Jerusalem (1 Kings 5-8); paradigm of divine wisdom in the Hebrew Bible (1 Kings 3:5-12; wisdom greater than all others, 1 Kings 4:30-31); traditional author of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs; his reign (c. 970-930 BCE) is the peak of the United Monarchy; his foreign wives and their cults (1 Kings 11) lead to the prophetic critique of syncretism; later tradition attributes to him power over spirits and demons (Testament of Solomon, c. 1st-3rd c. CE; Islamic Sulayman who commands jinn per Quran 27:17-44) — making his name the seed of the entire Western Solomonic magic tradition ruler

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