entities: ENT_WEL_BRAN

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_WEL_BRAN Brân the Blessed   Celtic/Welsh Giant divine king Hero sovereignty, death, rebirth, cauldron, sacred head giant, cauldron, sacred-head, sovereignty, Welsh, Mabinogion     A reviewed primary_text       Bendigeidfran (Brân the Blessed); Second Branch; king of Britain; so giant he cannot enter a house; possessor of the magical Cauldron of Rebirth (given to him by Irish king Matholwch) which resurrects the dead; mortally wounded by a poisoned spear at the Battle of Ir Ireland; his head commands that it be carried to Gwales where it speaks and feasts for 87 years; a key figure in the insular Celtic severed-head cult deity

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