v_public_wisdom_knowledge_beings: 3

Wisdom deities, scribal gods, and knowledge-bearing figures.

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rowid	entity_id	canonical_name	tradition	category	primary_domains	short_note
3	ENT_ARM_NANE	Nane	Armenian	War Deity	war; motherhood; wisdom; protection; weaving; divine justice	Goddess of war and motherhood; daughter of Aramazd. Agathangelos (§22) explicitly equates Nane with Athena: "Nane, the daughter of Aramazd, who is called Athena among the Greeks; she is the mother of virtues, the teacher of virtue, who bestows wisdom and valor." Her temple was at Tiliē. The name Nane connects with the Mesopotamian mother goddess Nana (Sumerian Nanna; also the name of a minor Zoroastrian deity) and may represent a survival of the pre-Iranian Anatolian divine mother tradition in Armenia. In Agathangelos she is the only female deity besides Anahit, taking the martial-wisdom domain while Anahit holds fertility-love-war. The pairing Aramazd-Anahit-Nane as father and two daughters is a defining feature of the Armenian divine family. Russell (1987) pp. 322-340; Agathangelos §22; Khorenatsi II.12.