v_public_serpent_dragon_beings: 68
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| rowid | entity_id | canonical_name | tradition | category | serpent_flag | primary_domains | short_note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 68 | ENT_SCYTH_API | Api | Scythian | Nature Deity | earth; ground; chthonic; serpent-goddess; Gaea-equivalent; Scythian cosmology | Earth goddess; equated by Herodotus with Gaia/Ge (Histories 4.59.2). Described as wife of Papaeus (Zeus-equivalent). Name from Iranian *api (water, later earth); related to Avestan āp- (water). Represents the divine earth-mother of the Scythian cosmological pair sky-earth. Cunliffe (2019) p. 203. |