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 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_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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