DeityDB Explorer

A comparative database of spiritual beings across 136 Western traditions. Choose a query below, or write your own SQL at the bottom.  ·  ← Back to overview

Browse the Data

Start with a tradition or functional category.

🌍 Tradition Overview All 136 traditions with entity and relationship counts at a glance. 📜 Browse a Tradition Enter a tradition name — Greek, Egyptian, Islamic, Gnostic, Norse — to list all its entities. 🗂️ Browse by Category Filter by functional category — Underworld Deity, Hero, Adversarial Being, Wisdom Figure, etc.

Entity Explorer

Investigate individual entities and how they connect.

🔗 Entity Relationships All relationships for a named entity — what it rules, opposes, emanates from, or is received as. 🔄 Reception Chain Trace how a figure was received and renamed across traditions, following up to 8 hops. 🌳 Divine Genealogies Parent–child and sibling relationships across all traditions.

Cross-Tradition Analysis

Find patterns that span multiple traditions.

⚖️ Cross-Traditional Parallels Entities explicitly linked across tradition boundaries via parallel_to and syncretized_with relationships. ⭐ Most Connected Entities The top 50 entities by total relationship count — the theological hubs of the network.

Browse by Entity Type

Pre-filtered views for major categories across all traditions.

✦ Angelic Beings Angels, divine messengers, and celestial servants across Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Zoroastrian traditions. ⚔️ Adversarial Beings Demons, adversaries, tempters, and powers of chaos from Mesopotamia to medieval Europe. 🌑 Underworld Entities Psychopomps, death deities, and rulers of the realm below — Anubis to Azrael. 💡 Revealer Figures Prophets, teachers, and transmitters of divine knowledge — from Enoch to Muhammad. 📚 Wisdom & Knowledge Scribal deities, Sophia figures, and personified wisdom from Thoth to Hokhmah. 🐍 Serpent & Dragon Beings Primordial serpents, chaos dragons, and serpent-deities — Leviathan to Apep.

Reference

Source materials and relationship vocabulary.

📖 Source Bibliography All 463 sources with citation counts — primary texts and academic references. 🔤 Relationship Vocabulary All relationship types with definitions and usage counts.

Custom SQL Query

Raw Tables & Views (for researchers and contributors)
animals 20 claims 1,789 classification_audit 408 cult_centers 30 entities 3,838 entity_aliases 181 entity_animals 45 entity_citations 3,871 entity_class 19 entity_cult_centers 63 entity_duplicate_review 68 entity_epithets 27 entity_functions 664 entity_merge_log 8 entity_metals 7 entity_periods 3,922 entity_plants 29 entity_regions 429 entity_relationships 7,106 entity_scores 9,108 entity_sources 6,474 entity_tradition_tags 853 entity_type_class_map 894 epithets 27 functions 292 import_batches 1 metals 3 names 479 periods 131 places 9 plants 15 regions 28 relationship_types 70 relationships 0 rule_sets 0 semantic_relationships 408 sources 463 staging_entities 0 staging_relationships 3 tradition_profile 135 v_public_adversarial_beings 143 v_public_angelic_beings 264 v_public_class_overview 19 v_public_comparative_domains 1,546 v_public_cross_tradition_links 1,006 v_public_cross_tradition_matrix 307 v_public_domain_overview 118 v_public_entity_citations v_public_relationship_overview 64 v_public_relationship_triples 7,106 v_public_revealer_figures 143 v_public_serpent_dragon_beings 75 v_public_tradition_overview 136 v_public_tradition_profile 135 v_public_underworld_entities 410 v_public_wisdom_knowledge_beings 256 v_release_metrics