entities: ENT_SABAZIOS

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_SABAZIOS Sabazios   Thracian Thracian sky-thunder god Mystery Deity sky; thunder; mystery cult; serpent; ecstasy; protection; initiation imported;syncretic;serpent Greek world Archaic-Classical/Roman reception A candidate_verified_name Literary attestation in classical/mythographic tradition; cult evidence varies by entity. 3 0 1 Thracian (and Phrygian) sky-thunder deity received into Greek and Roman mystery religion. Attested in Athens from the 5th c. BCE: Aristophanes mocks the Sabazian cult in Wasps (422 BCE) and Birds (414 BCE); Demosthenes' On the Crown (330 BCE) alludes to Sabazian initiatory rites. Herodotus 5.7 identifies the three Thracian gods as Ares, Dionysus, and Artemis — scholarship identifies the Dionysian/ecstatic position with Sabazios. In the Roman period he appears as Zeus Sabazios (syncretism with the sky-father) in votive tablets from Rome and Anatolia. The cult's characteristic emblem is the manus Sabaziana — an open hand showing the serpent, pine cone, and other divine attributes. Archibald (1998) ch. 8; Burkert (1985) pp. 179-181. deity

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