entities: ENT_VF_NEWAGE_ANGELS

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_VF_NEWAGE_ANGELS New Age Guardian Angels   Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion Angelic being New Age angelic devotion ['personal guidance', 'protection', 'healing', 'reassurance']   devotional   B candidate_verified_name Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) 0 0 0 Devotional engagement is documented and sincere: practitioners petition personal guardian angels by name, ask for signs, thank them, and seek their guidance through angel cards, automatic writing, and prayer. Codified in Doreen Virtue's best-selling angel literature and angel oracle decks, and earlier in Hanegraaff's account of New Age angelology. Distinct from the Christian doctrine: here every person has assignable, nameable angels reachable on demand, blended with reincarnation and the 'ascended masters.' A real historical taproot is the Zoroastrian guardian-spirit complex (fravashis / amesha spentas), widely cited as ancestral to the Judeo-Christian guardian-angel idea, hence the reception_of edges to both the Christian and Zoroastrian anchors. angel

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