{"database": "deitydb", "table": "v_public_cross_tradition_links", "rows": [[82, "Ragana", "Baltic", "aligned_with", "Hecate", "Greek", "medium", "Ragana and Hecate share a cluster of defining attributes that make them the clearest structural parallel across the Baltic and Greek traditions: both are nocturnal sorceress figures associated with crossroads, the moon, shape-shifting, death, and the ambiguous boundary between the living and the dead. Ragana appears in Lithuanian folklore as a shape-shifting witch who travels at night, transforms into animals (especially cats and birds), and is associated with harmful magic and infant death \u2014 parallels to Hecate as Chthonia (underworld goddess), Trioditis (crossroads deity), and the patron of witchcraft invoked in Greek magical papyri. Neither figure is a straightforward \"goddess of witches\" in her origin tradition (Hecate has a complex Titaness origin; Ragana may derive from an earlier supernatural female figure), but their convergent role in folk magic, nocturnal danger, and death boundary makes the alignment structurally sound. Confidence medium: the parallel is typological, not genetic; no direct historical connection exists between Lithuanian and Greek traditions. Greimas (1992) p. 73.", "SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN"]], "columns": ["rowid", "entity", "tradition", "relationship_type", "linked_entity", "linked_tradition", "confidence", "rationale", "source_id"], "primary_keys": ["rowid"], "primary_key_values": ["82"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 161.965216999306, "source": "jebboone/deitydb", "source_url": "https://github.com/jebboone/deitydb", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"}