entities: ENT_MER_ARENSNUPHIS

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.

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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_MER_ARENSNUPHIS Arensnuphis   Meroitic Meroitic deity / syncretized with Anhur-Shu Warrior Deity companionship; sky; protection; warrior       A           Arensnuphis (also Arsnuphis, Ari-hes-nefer — "Good Companion") is a Meroitic deity extensively attested at Philae, where he had his own chapel (the Kiosk of Qertassi, and chapels on Philae island proper), and at Musawwarat es-Sufra. His name in Meroitic transliteration suggests "the beautiful (good) companion." At Philae, Arensnuphis was closely associated with the Isis cult (Philae being the principal Isis sanctuary in the Greco-Roman world) and was explicitly syncretized with Anhur/Onuris, the Egyptian war and sky deity. The syncretism is well-attested in Greek dedications from Philae: Arensnuphis Onuphris (= Onuris), making him both Meroitic and Egyptian simultaneously. He is also linked with Shu, the Egyptian air deity, through the Onuris-Shu theological complex. His iconography at Philae shows him in Egyptian style — the double-plumed crown and carrying a spear. The deity clearly represents an early phase of the Meroitic-Egyptian religious interface at the border zone of the First/Second Cataract. Török (1997) pp. 475-478. deity

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