entity_relationships: 1456

2,079 typed, source-backed relationships between entities. Each row records a directed relationship (subject → type → object) with a justifying source and rationale note. See relationship_types for the full controlled vocabulary of 70 relationship types. Key types: reception_of / received_as (transmission across traditions), equated_with (interpretatio graeca / analogues), parent_of (genealogy), member_of (collective membership), emanates_from (Gnostic/Neoplatonic structure).

Data license: MIT · Data source: jebboone/deitydb

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relationship_id	subject_entity_id	relationship_type	object_entity_id	confidence	rationale	source_id	review_status	period_id
1456	ENT_EGY_OSIRIS	received_as	ENT_SYN_SERAPIS	high	Serapis was deliberately created by Ptolemy I Soter (c. 286 BCE) as a syncretic fusion of Osiris and the Apis bull, supplemented with Greek attributes of Zeus, Hades, and Asclepius, to serve as a deity unifying Greek and Egyptian subjects of the new kingdom. Plutarch (De Is. ch. 28) documents the Ptolemaic invention; Tacitus (Histories 4.83) records the oracle that directed the creation. The Osirian element — resurrection, afterlife sovereignty, identification with the dead Pharaoh — is the primary Egyptian contribution to the Serapic complex. Highest-confidence Egyptian→syncretic chain in this dataset.	SRC_PLUTARCH_ISIS_OSIRIS	reviewed	PER_GRK_HELLENISTIC