{"database": "deitydb", "table": "entity_relationships", "rows": [[2400, "ENT_SLAV_ROD", "aligned_with", "ENT_ZEUS", "medium", "Rod functions as the supreme ancestral creator deity of the Slavic tradition \u2014 he governs birth, destiny, and divine ancestry \u2014 a structural role cognate with Zeus's position as sovereign sky-father. Medieval Russian ecclesiastical sources (the \"Words Against Paganism,\" 10th\u201312th century) attack the cult of \"Rod and the Rozhanitsy\" (Rod's feminine birth-fate companions) as a persistent rival to Christianity, suggesting Rod occupied the highest rung of the pre-Perun Slavic divine hierarchy. Rybakov (Yazychestvo drevnikh slavyan, 1981) identifies Rod as the primordial supreme deity of Slavic religion, whose cult was marginalized but not eliminated when Vladimir I elevated Perun to state pantheon head in 980 CE. The Zeus alignment is recognized in comparative Indo-European studies as the standard parallel for Slavic supreme creator deities. Confidence medium: the Rod alignment with Zeus is structural/comparative, not explicit in ancient sources; Rod's cult is reconstructed from anti-pagan polemical texts whose theological claims require critical filtration. Br\u00fcckner (1918) s.v. \"Rod.\"", "SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH", "reviewed", "PER_SLAV_PAGAN"]], "columns": ["relationship_id", "subject_entity_id", "relationship_type", "object_entity_id", "confidence", "rationale", "source_id", "review_status", "period_id"], "primary_keys": ["relationship_id"], "primary_key_values": ["2400"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.150430999790842, "source": "jebboone/deitydb", "source_url": "https://github.com/jebboone/deitydb", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"}