entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note ENT_KER,SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY,direct attestation,"Theogony 211-212: Ker (Violent Death, the death-fate-spirit) is born of Nyx alongside Moros; Theogony 217: the Keres (""the grim ones who pursue men"") are also daughters of Night; Hesiod provides the primary ancient genealogical placement of Ker as a personified form of violent death as opposed to the peaceful death of Thanatos" ENT_KER,SRC_HOMER_ILIAD_ODYSSEY,direct attestation,"Ker/Keres (spirits of death and doom) appear on the Shield of Achilles (Iliad XVIII.535-538): ""pale Keres, gnashing their white teeth""; they appear at battles dragging away the dead; Iliad II.302, XI.332, XVIII.535; Odyssey (several passages)" ENT_KER,SRC_THEOI_GODS,index attestation,Literary attestation in classical/mythographic tradition; cult evidence varies by entity. ENT_KER,SRC_THEOI_HOME,index attestation,"Attested in Theoi Project index (Greek gods, spirits, heroes in classical literature)."