relationship_id,subject_entity_id,relationship_type,object_entity_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status,period_id
2401,ENT_BALT_RAGANA,opposes,ENT_BALT_LAIMA,medium,"In Lithuanian folk religion and demonology, Ragana and Laima represent opposing principles of fate: Laima is the benevolent fate-goddess who determines the duration and fortune of a human life at birth, while Ragana embodies the dark, inversive principle — the witch who harms newborns, causes illness, curdles milk, and brings misfortune. This opposition is documented extensively in Lithuanian folk songs (dainos), folk tale collections, and in the post-Reformation Lithuanian ecclesiastical surveys that catalogue surviving pagan customs. The Ragana/Laima opposition is structurally parallel to the universal mythological contrast between beneficent fate goddess and malevolent death/illness spirit. Greimas, Of Gods and Men (1992) pp. 58-77.",SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN,reviewed,PER_BALT_PAGAN
2402,ENT_BALT_RAGANA,aligned_with,ENT_HECATE,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 — 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,reviewed,PER_BALT_PAGAN
5707,ENT_BALT_RAGANA,member_of,ENT_BALT_PANTHEON,high,"Ragana, witch/hag figure, belongs to the Baltic supernatural world.",SRC_GIMBUTAS_BALTS,reviewed,