entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_APHRODITE,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,HH 5 (To Aphrodite): narrates how Zeus causes Aphrodite to fall in love with the mortal Anchises; she lies with him and from their union Aeneas is born; the primary text for Aphrodite's relationship with Anchises and the divine genealogy of Aeneas; also HH 6 (birth from sea-foam) and HH 10
ENT_APOLLO,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"HH 3 (To Apollo): one of the longest Homeric Hymns, in two parts; the Delian section narrates his birth on Delos from Leto; the Pythian section narrates his establishment of the oracle at Delphi and his slaying of the Python; the primary primary source for Apollo's cult foundations"
ENT_ARES,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"HH 8 (To Ares): a short but notable hymn addressing Ares as ""exceeding in strength, driving the chariot, gold-helmeted, doughty in heart, shield-bearer, savior of cities""; the most direct ancient hymnic address to Ares; possibly a late addition to the Homeric Hymn corpus"
ENT_ARTEMIS,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,HH 9 (To Artemis) and HH 27 (To Artemis): short hymns addressing Artemis as the golden-shafted huntress and twin of Apollo; she is depicted as driving golden-yoked chariots and bathing her horses in the Meles river
ENT_ASCLEPIUS,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"HH 16 (To Asclepius): the primary ancient hymn to Asclepius as a healer god; describes him as the son of Apollo and Coronis, raised by Chiron, who learned the art of healing; the hymn establishes his role as soother of harsh disease"
ENT_ASCLEPIUS_HERO,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,HH 16 (To Asclepius): see ENT_ASCLEPIUS; the hymn addresses the historical cult figure
ENT_ATHENA,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,HH 11 (To Athena) and HH 28 (To Athena): the longer HH 28 narrates her birth from Zeus's head fully armed; she shakes Olympus with her weapons; the gods are awestruck; the hymns establish her war-goddess and wisdom aspects as central cult attributes
ENT_AURAE,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite 256-275 (the mountain/tree nymphs) and Hymn 19 to Pan (the nymph-classes of spring, mountain, and woodland)."
ENT_CORYCIAN_NYMPHS,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite 256-275 (the mountain/tree nymphs) and Hymn 19 to Pan (the nymph-classes of spring, mountain, and woodland)."
ENT_CRENAIAE,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite 256-275 (the mountain/tree nymphs) and Hymn 19 to Pan (the nymph-classes of spring, mountain, and woodland)."
ENT_DEMETER,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"HH 2 (To Demeter): the longest and most theologically significant Homeric Hymn; narrates the abduction of Persephone by Hades, Demeter's grief and wandering, her sojourn at Eleusis, the famine, and the institution of the Eleusinian Mysteries; the primary foundation text for the Eleusinian Mysteries"
ENT_DIONYSUS,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"HH 1 (To Dionysus, fragmentary), HH 7 (To Dionysus: the pirates hymn), HH 26 (To Dionysus): HH 7 narrates how pirates capture a young Dionysus and he transforms the ship into a vessel of vines, turns himself into a lion, and the pirates leap overboard becoming dolphins; primary source for the Dionysus-pirates myth"
ENT_DIOSCURI,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,Homeric Hymn 33 (to the Dioscuri): the saviour twins Castor and Polydeuces; cf. Odyssey 11.298-304.
ENT_DRYADS,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite 256-275 (the mountain/tree nymphs) and Hymn 19 to Pan (the nymph-classes of spring, mountain, and woodland)."
ENT_GAIA,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"HH 30 (To Earth the Mother of All): the primary hymnic address to Gaia; ""I will sing of well-founded Earth, mother of all, eldest of all beings""; she feeds all things, gives or takes away life; the hymn is the fullest ancient poetic expression of Gaia's universal mother-goddess role"
ENT_HAMADRYADS,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite 256-275 (the mountain/tree nymphs) and Hymn 19 to Pan (the nymph-classes of spring, mountain, and woodland)."
ENT_HELEIONOMAI,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite 256-275 (the mountain/tree nymphs) and Hymn 19 to Pan (the nymph-classes of spring, mountain, and woodland)."
ENT_HELIOS,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"HH 31 (To Helios): the dedicated hymn to the Sun; Helios drives his golden chariot across the sky, his hair a blaze of light, warming the earth and the waters; born of Hyperion and Euryphaessa (= Theia); establishes his cosmic role and genealogy"
ENT_HEPHAESTUS,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"HH 20 (To Hephaestus): celebrates Hephaestus as the craftsman god who taught splendid crafts to men; ""glorious-limbed""; without him humans would live like wild animals in the mountains; establishes his culture-giver role"
ENT_HERA,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"HH 12 (To Hera): a short hymn addressing Hera as the golden-throned queen, daughter of Rhea, immortal consort of Zeus, glorious, whom all the blessed on tall Olympus revere and honor equally with Zeus"
ENT_HERACLES,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"HH 15 (To Heracles the Lion-Hearted): a short hymn celebrating Heracles as the son of Zeus and Alcmene, born at Thebes; ""most valiant of earthly men""; he wandered over all the earth performing his great labors and now dwells on Olympus with Hebe as his wife"
ENT_HERMES,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"HH 4 (To Hermes): the most narrative Homeric Hymn; narrates the infant Hermes stealing Apollo's cattle, inventing the lyre from a tortoise-shell, and eventually exchanging the lyre with Apollo to receive the caduceus and the role of messenger; the foundational text for Hermes' role as trickster, inventor, and divine intermediary"
ENT_HESTIA,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,HH 24 (To Hestia) and HH 29 (To Hestia and Hermes): Hestia receives her own dedicated hymns; HH 24 calls her guardian of the sacred precinct of far-shooting Apollo at Pytho; the hymns establish her role as the divine hearth
ENT_KOUROTROPHOS,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,Homeric Hymn 30 (to Gaia) 1-3: Gaia the all-nurturing mother of all (the Kourotrophos function).
ENT_LEIMAKIDES,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite 256-275 (the mountain/tree nymphs) and Hymn 19 to Pan (the nymph-classes of spring, mountain, and woodland)."
ENT_LIMNADES,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite 256-275 (the mountain/tree nymphs) and Hymn 19 to Pan (the nymph-classes of spring, mountain, and woodland)."
ENT_MELIAE,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite 256-275 (the mountain/tree nymphs) and Hymn 19 to Pan (the nymph-classes of spring, mountain, and woodland)."
ENT_NAIADS,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite 256-275 (the mountain/tree nymphs) and Hymn 19 to Pan (the nymph-classes of spring, mountain, and woodland)."
ENT_NAPAEAE,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite 256-275 (the mountain/tree nymphs) and Hymn 19 to Pan (the nymph-classes of spring, mountain, and woodland)."
ENT_NEPHELAE,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite 256-275 (the mountain/tree nymphs) and Hymn 19 to Pan (the nymph-classes of spring, mountain, and woodland)."
ENT_NYMPHS,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite 256-275 (the mountain/tree nymphs) and Hymn 19 to Pan (the nymph-classes of spring, mountain, and woodland)."
ENT_OREADS,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite 256-275 (the mountain/tree nymphs) and Hymn 19 to Pan (the nymph-classes of spring, mountain, and woodland)."
ENT_PAN,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"HH 19 (To Pan): the dedicated hymn to Pan; describes his birth from Hermes and a nymph, his dance-teaching role, his appearance (goat-legs, horns, beard), his haunting of mountain and forest; the primary archaic Greek text establishing Pan's character and birth story; of great antiquity in its core tradition"
ENT_PEGAEAE,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite 256-275 (the mountain/tree nymphs) and Hymn 19 to Pan (the nymph-classes of spring, mountain, and woodland)."
ENT_PERSEPHONE,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,HH 2 (To Demeter): Persephone's abduction and return from the underworld; the origin of the seasons as explained by her alternation between Hades and her mother Demeter; central figure of the hymn alongside Demeter
ENT_PLOUTON,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"Homeric Hymn to Demeter (2) 9, 17-18 (Polydegmon/Plouton, the abductor); cf. dedicated Orphic Hymn 18."
ENT_POSEIDON,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"HH 22 (To Poseidon): addresses Poseidon as the great god, holder of the earth and barren sea, shaker of the earth and fruitful lord of Helicon and wide Aegae; establishes his domains of earth-shaking, sea-ruling, and horse-taming"
ENT_POTAMEIDES,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite 256-275 (the mountain/tree nymphs) and Hymn 19 to Pan (the nymph-classes of spring, mountain, and woodland)."
ENT_PYTHON,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,Python is slain by Apollo in HH 3 (To Apollo); the hymn narrates Apollo's establishment of the Delphic oracle after killing the Python; HH 3.300-374 is the primary textual source for the Python as the guardian of the site
ENT_RHEA,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"HH 14 (To the Mother of Gods): addressed to Rhea as the Mother of Gods (Meter theon); she is described as loving gongs, kettledrums, hand-cymbals, the shouting of wolves and fierce-eyed lions; this hymn conflates Rhea with Cybele (the Phrygian mother goddess)"
ENT_SELENE,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"HH 32 (To Selene): the dedicated hymn to the Moon; she lights the sky and the earth with her golden crown; when she has bathed her beautiful body in the Ocean, she puts on her gleaming garments and harnesses her far-gleaming steeds"
ENT_SILENUS,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,Homeric Hymn 5 (to Aphrodite) 262: the Sileni who mate with nymphs in the depths of caves.
ENT_TITHONUS,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,Homeric Hymn 5 (to Aphrodite) 218-238: granted immortality without eternal youth.
ENT_TRIPTOLEMUS,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"Homeric Hymn to Demeter (2) 153, 474: the Eleusinian prince who receives Demeter's rites."
ENT_ZEUS,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,HH 23 (To Zeus): short hymn to Zeus as the greatest and most glorious of the immortals; best and greatest; who accomplishes all things with Themis who sits beside him