entities: ENT_MYC_ENYALIOS

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_MYC_ENYALIOS Enyalios   Mycenaean War deity War Deity war; battle; Ares-precursor; Mycenaean martial cult; Linear B       A           Mycenaean war deity attested as e-nu-wa-ri-jo in Linear B; critically, at Pylos tablet PY Tn 316 — the most important Mycenaean religious text, listing major deity recipients of offerings at a crisis-moment before the palace's destruction (c. 1180 BCE) — Enyalius and Ares (a-re) appear as SEPARATE recipients receiving their own offerings, establishing that in Mycenaean religion they were distinct deities, not a single deity with a title; in the Classical period Enyalios (Enyalios) survives as an epithet of Ares and as a battle-cry, but some Classical sources still distinguish the two; Pindar (Olympian 13.102) treats Enyalius as an independent deity; his identity in Mycenaean religion as a distinct war god who was later absorbed into or collapsed with Ares is one of the clearest cases of Mycenaean-to-Classical deity merger deity

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