entities: ENT_VF_THE_UNIVERSE

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_VF_THE_UNIVERSE The Universe   Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion Personified abstraction New Thought / Law of Attraction providence ['providence', 'abundance', 'fate', 'answered desire']   devotional   B candidate_verified_name Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) 0 0 0 Genuinely petitioned, thanked, and trusted as a providential agent ('the Universe has my back,' 'thank you, Universe,' 'asking the Universe for X'). Functions as a quasi-deistic provider in Law-of-Attraction practice; Rhonda Byrne's The Secret (2006) instructs the practitioner to ask the Universe, believe, and receive, treating it as a responsive personal force. Rooted in 19th-c. New Thought, hence Modern-Folklore period; the vernacular gratitude/petition idiom is ubiquitous online. abstraction

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