entities: ENT_THRA_GEBELEIZIS

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_THRA_GEBELEIZIS Gebeleizis   Thracian Thracian sky deity Thunder Deity sky; thunder; lightning; storm; the Getae       B           Sky and thunder deity of the Getae; attested once, in Herodotus 4.94 (c. 430 BCE): "When it thunders and lightnings, these Thracians [the Getae] shoot their arrows up into the sky, threatening the god [Gebeleizis], since they believe no god exists but their own." Herodotus immediately thereafter recounts the Zalmoxis tradition (4.95-96) without clearly distinguishing the two divine names. Scholars debate whether Gebeleizis and Zalmoxis are the same deity in different aspects — sky/storm (Gebeleizis) vs. afterlife/mystery (Zalmoxis) — or two distinct figures. Coman (1938) and Eliade (1970) treat them as aspects of a single Getae deity; Archibald (1998) p. 300 is more cautious. The single attestation limits certainty; confidence is B. deity

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